Collections by Subject
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. |
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.