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Here you can browse a listing of our collections by subject. Please note, this is not a comprehensive listing of all our collections, and please understand this is only a general idea of how you might approach these materials. Many of these collections cover many subjects with infinite possibilities depending on how you approach them. It's up to researchers to draw their own conclusions and decide how best to use our collections. Not covered here are other collections such as our vertical file collection and reference collection.

African American Studies

African-American Historic Resources Survey Collection, MC 39.

Biggs, Alfonso Collection, MC 154.

Browne, J. Rhodes and Rhodes Browne Papers, MC 201.

Cosby, Forrest L., Sr. Collection, MC 10.

Crooks, Kenneth, Jr. Collection, MC 151.

International Order of Twelve, SMC 76.

Lift Every Voice Collection, MC 205.

Lloyd, Craig-Eugene Bullard Collection MC 181.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Steering Committee Records, MC 295.

Mayor Commission on Diversity Collection, MC 168.

McClung, A.J. Papers, MC 200.

McGehee, Woodall Slave Registry, MC 88.

Metro Columbus Urban League Collection, MC 87.

Muscogee County School District Desegregation/Virginia Causey Collection, MC 121.

Penson, Merryll S. Papers, MC 78.

Ragsdale, Carol Collection, MC 187.

Rosenwald Archives Collection, SMC 23.

Southern Black Oral History Project, MC 265.

Stanton, George-Muscogee County School Board Collection, MC 95.

Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom" Sheet Music Collection, MC 169.

Business

Amos, John B., MC 159.

Bibb Manufacturing Company, SMC 82.

Bibb Mills Collection, MC 211.

Brown Cotton Gin Co. Collection, SMC 12.

Browne, J Rhodes Collection, MC 20.

Browne, Rhodes Collection, SMC 3.

Centennial Cotton Gin Photo Collection, MC 277.

City Mills Collection, MC 90.

Columbus Water Works Collection, MC 241.

Culpepper, Wallace C. Collections, MC 54.

Deigan – Kunze – Daniell Families Collection, MC 11.

Delane Cchappell Collection, MC 252.

Eagle & Phenix Mill Collection, MC 13.

HAER Collection, MC 14.

Hamburger, George S. Collection, MC 248.

Hardaway Family Collection, MC 203.

Huston, Tom Collection, MC 37.

Johnston, George "Operation Dixie" Collection, MC 272.

Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.

Kamensky, Harry Collection, MC 290.

Lummus Cotton Gin Company Records Collection, MC98.

Lupold, John S.Collection, MC 197.

Mitchell Family Papers, MC 97.

Mott, Randolph L. Collection, MC289.

Muscogee Mills Collection, MC 146.

Royal Crown Cola Collection, MC 204.

Smith, A.C. Collection, MC 34.

Swift Manufacturing Collection, MC 225.

Swift Spinning Mills Records, MC 250.

Woodruff, James W. Collection, MC 96.

Civil War History

Autry, Dolores Linwood Cemetery Collection, MC 164.

Benning, Henry L.  - Seaborn Jones Collection, MC 6.

Blackmar Family Collection, MC 91.

Brawner, William Civil War Letters, SMC 88.

Browne, Rhodes Collection. SMC 3.

Burrus, George J., III Collection, MC 130.

Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts Collection, MC 9.

Confederate Salvage Association Collection, MC 8.

Crowell-Redd Collection, MC 214.

Goetchius Family Collection, MC 292.

Gorham, Anne Fannie Diary, SMC 27.

Greene, Thomas Collection, MC 59.

Hanna, June Papers, MC 41.

Hardaway Family Collection, MC 203.

Hardaway, Robert E., Jr. Collection, MC 256.

Howard-Odom-LiFrage Collection, SMC 6.

Illges, Abraham Collection, SMC 28.

Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.

Lamar - Chappell Collection, MC 1.

Lupold, John S. Collection. MC 197.

Mahan, Joseph B. Collection, MC 32.

McGehee, Woodall Slave Registry, MC 88.

Murphy, E.D. Collection, MC 3.

Newberry, John Scrapbook Collection, MC 74.

Nuckolls and Bradley Family Collection, MC 137.

O'Keeffe, Laurence Eugene Collection, MC 218.

Schnell, Frank T. Collection, MC 25.

Smith, A.C. Collection, MC 34.

Thompson Family Collection, MC 226.

Tidwell, Benjamin Jones Collection, SMC 15.

United Confederate Veterans, Benning Camp Collection, SMC 83.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lizzie Rutherford Chapter Collection, MC 28.

Wheelus, Annie Collection, MC 216.

Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom" Sheet Music Collection, MC 169.

Woodall, W.C. Collection, MC 33.

Wynn, Private Alexander B. Civil War Letters, MC 188 

Drama/Theatre/Film

Drady, Curt H. Collection, MC 287.

International Alliance of Theatrical State Employees Moving Picture Machine Operators (IATSE) Collection, MC 20.

Henderson, Leland and Ruth Krogland Collection, MC103.

Johnson, Nunnally Collection, MC 255.

English and Literature (novel, poetry, short-story)

Banks, Erma D. Collection, MC 278.

Bradley Memorial Library-Carson McCullers Collection, MC 184.

Carr, Virginia Collection, MC 23.

Chappell, Delane D.  Collection, MC 252.

Chappell, Loretto Collection, MC 29.

DuBose, Louise Jones Collection, MC 2.

Ellis, Frances Collection, MC 193.

Gilbert, Evelyn Cargill Poetry Papers, MC 27.

Johnson, Mary Martha Collection, SMC 53.

Kyle, F. Clason Collection, MC 86.

Massee, Jordan-Carson McCullers Collection, MC 170.

McCullers, Carson Society Records, MC 192.

Mercer, Dr. Mary E. /Carson McCullers Collection, MC 296.

Petri, Margorie Cargill Collection, MC 77.

Ticknor, Francis Orray Collection, MC 19.

Sullivan, Margaret S. Papers, MC 298.

Valley Reads-Carson McCullers Heart is a Lonely Hunter Collection, MC 179.

Zeigler, John and Edwin Peacock Collection, MC 182.

French

Book Collection

Blaise Pascal. Lettres Provinciales, 1866

Nouveau dictionnaire de poche, françois, italien et anglois... 1790

Oeuvres de Boileau, avex un choix de notes des meilleurs commentateurs... 1856

Recueil choisi de traits historiques et de contes moraux, 1799

Divine comédie de Dante Alighiere/ traduite en francais.... 1859

Vie de George Washington... 1835

Livre des priérs publiques,de l'administration des sacréments... 1831

Study of modern languages. Part First. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and English, 1848

Manuscript Collections

Crawford, Edith Kyle Collection, MC 73.

Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.

Greek

Book Collection

Cornelii Schrevelii lexicon manuale græco-latinum et latino-græcum, 1818

A Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810

An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of Greece, 1824

The first six books of Homer's Iliad : with English notes, critical and explanatory, a metrical index, and Homeric glossary, 1847

Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates with English notes, 1848

Aristophanous Kōmōdiai endeka ōn ai men enna meta scholiōn palaiōn, 1607

Heliodori Aethiopicorum libri decem Graece et Latine textum recognovit, 1797

Achilleōs Tatiou Alexandreōs Erōtikōn biblia, 1792

Dionysii Longini De svblimitate : Graece et Latine, 1809

History (U.S.)
Benning, Henry L.  - Seaborn Jones Collection, MC 6.
Bentley, Hugh/ Phenix City Cleanup Collection, SMC 20.
Bibb City Historical Collection, MC 166.
Bibb City Recorder Clippings Scrapbooks 1927-1955, MC 100.
Bibb Manufacturing Company Booklets, SMC 82.
Bibb Manufacturing Company Records, MC 211.
Biggs, Alfonso Collection, MC 154.
Blackmar Family Collection, MC 91.
Blackmar Family/Mrs. Bryan Storey Collection, SMC 30.
Borncheuer, Don Collection, SMC 64.
Bradley Memorial Library-Carson McCullers Collection, MC 184.
Bradley Memorial Library Collection I, MC 47.
Bradley Memorial Library Collection II, MC 122.
Brinkley, Representative Jack Collection, MC 4.
Brinson, Cary O. Collection, MC 202.
Brooks, Ron Collection, MC 94.
Brown Cotton Gin Company Promotional Brochure, SMC 12.
Browne, Rhodes Collection. SMC 3.
Buena Vista General Store Collection, MC 222.
Burns, Lucy and Roy Collection, SMC 29.
Bussey, Nathan, Sr. Diary, SMC 74.
Byars, James A. Collection, MC 116.
Carr, Grover Property Survey Collection, MC 101.
Chapman, Paul H. Map Collection, MC 133.
Chappell, Delane D.  Collection, MC 252.
City Mills Collection, MC 90.
Civilian Conservation Corps Cookbook Collection, SMC 10.
Colquit, Miss Kate Collection, MC 131.
Columbus Business and Professional Women's Club Collection, SMC 4.
Columbus Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists Records, MC 215.
Columbus Iron Works Machine Contract, 1904, SMC 52
Columbus-Muscogee County Women's Civil Defense Letter, SMC 75.
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts Collection, MC 9.
Columbus Times Newspaper Collection, SMC 32.
Columbus Water Works Collection, MC 241.
Columbus Women's Study Clubs Collection, MC 85.
Columbus, Georgia Political Campaign Memorabilia, 1988 Collection, MC 55.
Confederate Salvage Association Collection, MC 8.
Cosby, Forrest L., Sr. Collection, MC 10.
Crawford, Edith Kyle Collection, MC 73.
Crooks, Kenneth, Jr. Collection, MC 151.
Crowell-Redd Collection, MC 214.
Culpepper, Wallace C., MC 54.
Dudley Collection, MC 209.
Eagle and Phenix Mills Collection, MC 13.
Esquiline Garden Club Collection, MC 280.
Estes Collection, MC 38.
Family Welfare Services Record Collection, MC 15.
Flowers, F.L. Diaries, MC 253.
French, Thomas L. Collection, MC 35.
Galer, Bob and Mary Jane Collection, MC 105.
Galer, Mary Jane Legislative Records, MC 195.
Garcia, Adalbelio Spanish-American War Collection, MC 119.
Gardner-Bryant Collection, MC 150.
General Oral History Collection
Gethsemane Baptist Church, Inc. Collection, SMC 40.
Gilbert, James J. Collection, MC 56
Gilbert, Stirling Price Collection, MC 7.
Gleockner, Albert and Lena Collection, MC 236.
Goetchius Family Collection, MC 292.
Gorham, Anne Fannie Diary, SMC 27.
Greene, Thomas Collection, MC 59.
Hallock, Col. Richard R. Collection, MC 284
Hammett, Louise Barfield (Biddy), MC 212.
Hanna, June Papers, MC 41.
Hardaway Family Collection, MC 203.
Hardaway, Robert E., Jr. Collection, MC 256.
Harper, Lillian Collection, MC 233. 
Hay, Bill Collection, SMC 49.
Henderson, Leland and Ruth Krogland Collection, MC103.
Heuer, Elizabeth H. Scrapbook, MC 266.
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Collection, MC 14.
Historic Columbus Foundation Collection, MC 17.
Hobbs, Blanche Collection, MC 148.
Howard-Odom-LiFrage Collection, SMC 6.
Illges, Abraham Collection, SMC 28.
International Order of Twelve, SMC 76.
Irons, Janet Collection, SMC 17.
Jenkins, S. Perry Collection, MC 76.
Johnston, George-Operation Dixie- Collection, MC 272.
Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.
King, E. M., Speech, SMC 7.
Kinnett, Betty Collection, MC 246.
Kyle, F. Clason Collection, MC 86.
Lamar - Chappell Collection, MC 1.
League of Women Voters of Columbus Collection, MC 31.
Lee, Robert Edward Collection, SMC 9.
Lloyd, Craig-Eugene Bullard Collection MC 181.
Lummus Cotton Gin Company Records, MC 198.
Lupold, John S. Collection. MC 197.
Mahan, Joseph B. Collection, MC 32.
Mayor Commission on Diversity Collection, MC 168.
McClung, A.J. Papers, MC 200.
McGehee, Woodall Slave Registry, MC 88.
McLendon, Alvin L., Jr. Collection, SMC 11.
Metro Columbus Urban league Collection, MC 87.
Mill Workers Oral History Collection, MC 109.
Mitchell Family Papers, MC 97
Murphy, E.D. Collection, MC 3.
Muscogee County School District Desegregation/Virginia Causey Collection, MC 121.
Muscogee County School District/James Burns Collection, MC 231.
Muscogee Equal Franchise League, Address by President Wilson, SMC 58.
Muscogee Mills Collection, MC 146.
Newberry, John Scrapbook Collection, MC 74.
Nisbet, Bettie Lane Whitaker, Diary, MC 220.
Nuckolls and Bradley Family Collection, MC 137.
Oglethorpe Chapter, D.A.R. Collection, MC 40.
O'Keeffe, Laurence Eugene Collection, MC 218.
One Columbus Collection, MC 282
O'Neal, Clarice Collection, MC 83.
Parks, Cecil Willard Collection, SMC 80.
Patterson, Mrs. Harman Wayne Collection, MC 157.
Peddy, Thomas J. Collection, MC 36.
Petri, Margorie Cargill Collection, MC 77.
Quillian-Ansley-Gates Collection, MC 180.
Ringgenberg, Dirk Collection, SMC 61.
Rosie the Riveter Oral History Project, MC 264.
Rothschild, Norman Collection, MC 71.
Rutledge, James M. Collection, MC 128.
Schnell, Frank T. Collection, MC 25.
School of the Americas Collection, MC 254.
Schwob, Ruth S. Collection, MC 117.
Schwob, Simon Collection, MC 163.
Shaw High School Young Historians WWII Oral History Collection, MC 245.
Shepherd, G. Testimony Collection, SMC 79.
Shorter, Edward S. Collection, MC 30.
Shutze, Philip Trammell Letter, SMC 43.
Sims, Roff, Jr. Collection, SMC 22.
Smith, A.C. Collection, MC 34.
Soroptimist Club of Columbus, Georgia Scrapbook Collection, MC 135.
Southall, Geneva Collection, SMC 66.
Southern Black Oral History Project, MC 265.
Spencer Southeastern Map Collection, MC 136 
Stansell, J.R. Central of Georgia Railway Collection, MC 124.
Stitzer, Rozie M. Collection, SMC 44.
Thompson Family Collection, MC 226.
Ticknor, Francis Orray Collection, MC 19.
Tidwell, Benjamin Jones Collection, SMC 15.
Tucker, W. Clifford and Daisy Collection, MC 251.
Tuggle, W.O. Collection, MC 21.
United Confederate Veterans, Benning Camp Collection, SMC 83.
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lizzie Rutherford Chapter Collection, MC 28.
Walton Chapter, D.A.R. Collection, MC 99.
Wheelus, Annie Collection, MC 216.
Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom" Sheet Music Collection, MC 169.
Wilson, Brady Collection, MC 45.
Woodall, W.C. Collection, MC 33.
Wynn, Private Alexander B. Civil War Letters, MC 188 

History (European)
Bradley Memorial Library Collection I, MC 47.
Crawford, Edith Kyle Collection, MC 73.
Dudley Collection, MC 209.
Estes Collection, MC 38.
Family Welfare Services Record Collection, MC 15.
Gleockner, Albert and Lena Collection, MC 236.
Goetchius Family Collection, MC 292.
Heuer, Elizabeth H. Scrapbook, MC 266.
Howard-Odom-LiFrage Collection, SMC 6.
Lloyd, Craig-Eugene Bullard Collection MC 181.
Rothschild, Norman Collection, MC 71.
Sandys, Duncan Collection, MC 285
Shutze, Philip Trammell Letter, SMC 43.
Stitzer, Rozie M. Collection, SMC 44.
Tucker, W. Clifford and Daisy Collection, MC 251.
Walton, William C. Photograph Collection, MC 113.
Whittelsey, Lyman "Boots" Collection, MC 108.

Wright Family Papers, MC 42.

History (World)
Chapman, Paul H. Map Collection, MC 133.
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts Collection, MC 9.
Garcia, Adalbelio Spanish-American War Collection, MC 119.
Garcia, Adalbelio Hispanic Oral History Collection, MC 110.

Goetchius Family Collection, MC 292.
Hallock, Col. Richard R. Collection, MC 284
Heuer, Elizabeth H. Scrapbook, MC 266.
Kyle, F. Clason Collection, MC 86.
Latin American Studies Group, Inc. Collection, MC 232.
Lloyd, Craig-Eugene Bullard Collection MC 181.
Quillian-Ansley-Gates Collection, MC 180.
Ringgenberg, Dirk Collection, SMC 61.
School of the Americas Collection, MC 254.
Wilson, Brady Collection, MC 45.

Political Science and US Government
Benning, Henry L. - Seaborn Jones Collection, MC 6.
Bradley Memorial Library Collection II, MC 122.
Brinkley, Representative Jack Collection, MC 4.
Brinson, Cary O. Collection, MC 202.
Galer, Mary Jane Legislative Records, MC 195.
Gilbert, Stirling Price Collection, MC 7.
Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.
League of Women Voters of Columbus Collection, MC 31.
McClung, A.J. Papers, MC 200.
McLendon, Alvin L., Jr. Collection, SMC 11.

Muscogee County Charter Commission Collection, MC 43.

Muscogee County Court Records 1838-1920, MC 112.
Muscogee County Tax Commissioner's Report, SMC 78.
Pate, Alice Collection, MC 221
Quillian-Ansley-Gates Collection, MC 180.

Schwob, Simon Collection, MC 163.
Smith, A.C. Collection, MC 34.

Religion
Bethel Baptist Church of Columbus Collection, MC 275.
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Records, MC 206.
Columbus Seminary Collection, SMC 51.
First African Baptist Church Collection, SMC 39.
First Presbyterian Church Records, MC 171.
Gethsemane Baptist Church, Inc. Collection, SMC 40.
Goetchius Family Collection, MC 292.
Saint Benedict the Moor Catholic Church Collection, SMC 37.
Saint James C.M.E. Church Collection, SMC 41.
Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Collection, MC 263.
Smith, A.C. Collection, MC 34.
Willoughby, Lynn Trinity Parish Church Collection, MC 145.

Wright Family Papers, MC 42.

Music

Harrison, J. Marshall Collection, MC 178.

Hawkins, Osie Collection, MC 147.

Kruger, Harry Collection, MC 89.

Mahan, Katherine H. Papers, MC 165.

Robinson, Jennie May Collection, MC 52.

Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom" Sheet Music Collection, MC 169.

Italian

Book Collection

Racconti istorici messi in lingua italiana : ad uso de giovani studiosi della medesima, 1841

Nuovo dizionario portatile italiano, inglese, e francese, 1791

The new English, French, and Italian pocket dictionary, 1792

Study of modern languages. Part First. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and English, 1848

Latin

Book Collection

Quinti Horatii Flacci opera: interpretatione et notis, 1835

Cornelii Schrevelii lexicon manuale græco-latinum et latino-græcum, 1818 Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum, cum versione Anglicana, in qua verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditur, notis quoque Anglicis, & indice locupletissimo, 1806

Longi Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloe libri iv, graece et latine; accedunt Xenophontis Ephesiacorum De amoribus Anthiae et Abrocomae , 1794

Aristophanous Kōmōdiai endeka ōn ai men enna meta scholiōn palaiōn, 1607

Heliodori Aethiopicorum libri decem Graece et Latine textum recognovit, 1798

Biblia Sacra Vulgatae editionis : juxta exemplaria ex Typographia Apostolica Vaticana Romae 1592 & 1593, 1849

Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum, cum versione Anglicana, in qua verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditur, notis quoque Anglicis, & indice locupletissimo, 1806

Longi Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloe libri iv, graece et latine; accedunt Xenophontis Ephesiacorum De amoribus Anthiae et Abrocomae, 1794

Aristophanous Kōmōdiai endeka ōn ai men enna meta scholiōn palaiōn, 1607

Heliodori Aethiopicorum libri decem Graece et Latine textum recognovit, 1798

Biblia Sacra Vulgatae editionis : juxta exemplaria ex Typographia Apostolica Vaticana Romae 1592 & 1593, 1849

Spanish

Garcia, Adalbelio Spanish-American War Collection, MC 119.

Garcia, Adalbelio Hispanic Oral History Collection, MC 110.

Jordan, G. Gunby Collection, MC 12.

Phenix City Story Lobby Card, Spanish, SMC 56.

School of the Americas Collection, MC 254.