{"id":4740,"date":"2015-07-06T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:15:52","slug":"new-collections-from-the-middle-georgia-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"New Collections from the Middle Georgia Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4748\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/gac\/ten\/pdfs\/gac-04-04-01-01.pdf \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4748\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tennille-Slave-Medical-Care-Accounts-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Francis T. Tennille slave medical care accounts, 1859-1860. Middle Georgia Archives. \" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tennille-Slave-Medical-Care-Accounts-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tennille-Slave-Medical-Care-Accounts.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis T. Tennille slave medical care accounts, 1859-1860. Middle Georgia Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are eager to announce the arrival of four new collections from our longstanding project partner, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mgaarchives.bibblib.org\/middle-georgia-archives\" target=\"_blank\">Middle Georgia Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Middle Georgia Archives, located in the Genealogy and History Room of Macon\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibblib.org\/locations\/washington-memorial-library\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Memorial Library<\/a>, serves middle Georgia as a resource center for archival and manuscript collections. Muriel Jackson, the head of the Genealogical and Historical Department at the Middle Georgia Archives, notes that their collections include materials that represent \u201cat least twenty-five Georgia counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new collections that are now available in the DLG include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/CollectionsA-Z\/ten_search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Francis T. Tennille Slave Medical Care Accounts, 1859-1860<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0This collection consists of a single journal page of expenses incurred by medical treatment of Francis T. Tennille&#8217;s slaves in Calhoun County in southwest Georgia just prior to the Civil War. The page details what medical treatment was given and to whom. The fees were incurred by Dr. Walter T. Murchison mainly for tooth extraction and delivery of children. The entries list the cost of medicine, doctor visits, and treatments.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/CollectionsA-Z\/hun_search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Henry A. Hunt Letters, 1931<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0This collection contains two letters, with enclosures, concerning Henry A. Hunt, long-time African American\u00a0educator, agriculturalist, and president of what became Fort Valley State College. The letters concern New Deal farm policies and poetry by a teacher on Hunt&#8217;s faculty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/CollectionsA-Z\/isd_search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Scott Diary<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Diary kept by Isaac Scott of Macon, Georgia. The diary comments on Macon&#8217;s economic trends, social life, the weather, and the Scott family. The diary also provides some detail on Scott&#8217;s involvement in local banking and railroads. The entries are most heavily concentrated during 1859 to 1861, and taper off between 1862 to 1864.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/CollectionsA-Z\/mac_search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Macon-Knoxville Store Ledger, 1825-1831<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Account book of a small general store based in Macon and Knoxville, Georgia covering the period from 1825 to 1831.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson hopes to see these collections ignite interest in research projects about Georgia history. She notes that the Isaac Scott Diary \u201chas some very good information on Macon history from a northern businessman who made his home in Macon\u201d and that the Francis T. Tennille Slave Medical Care Accounts are remarkable in that \u201ceven though it is only one page it is very rare to locate original documents on slaves let alone medical treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you get a chance to look through these new resources that are now available from the Middle Georgia Archives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are eager to announce the arrival of four new collections from our longstanding project partner, the Middle Georgia Archives. &nbsp; The Middle Georgia Archives, located in the Genealogy and History Room of Macon\u2019s Washington Memorial Library, serves middle Georgia as a resource center for archival and manuscript collections. Muriel Jackson, the head of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Collections from the Middle Georgia Archives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,175],"tags":[272,273,270,12,277,275,286,276,267,20,274,189,271],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-dlg-collections","category-new-collections","tag-african-american-educators","tag-businessmen","tag-calhoun-county-ga","tag-civil-war-and-reconstruction-1861-1877","tag-diaries","tag-economic-conditions","tag-georgia-homeplace","tag-ledgers","tag-letters","tag-macon-ga","tag-medical-care","tag-public-libraries","tag-slavery-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}