Heritage Unit News
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Each month the Heritage Unit News focuses on a rare book, finding aid, historical publication, photograph, artifact, archival record, or objects. All records can be found at the Reese Library's Special Collections or the Greenblatt Library's Historical Collections & Archives.
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Item Open Access Heritage Unit News December 2020(Augusta University, 12/10/2020) Sharrock, Renee; Christy, Maranda; Augusta University LibrariesReese Library: Scrapbook from the 1950s commemorating the travels of two women. Greenblatt Library: Two artifacts from the Anatomical Model and Biospecimens record group - Anatomical Model: Brain, Carved Wood and Embryology Model by Chester Heuser, PhD.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News November 2020(Augusta University, 11/12/2020) Sharrock, Renee; Christy, Maranda; Augusta University LibrariesGreenblatt Library: The campus publication MCG Today that began in 1970 and ended as the GHSU Today magazine in 2012. Reese Library: The Four Centuries & More publication produced by the Beech Island Historical Society as a genealogy resource.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News October 2020(Augusta University, 10/15/2020) Sharrock, Renee; Christy, Maranda; Augusta University Libraries; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: The university record group RG07 - Medical College of Georgia. Reese Library: The ephemera record group of miscellaneous records.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News September 2020(Augusta University, 9/10/2020) Sharrock, Renee; Christy, Maranda; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: A set of photographs in the Alice F. Stewart Papers is one of the most intriguing of all the photographs in Historical Collections and Archives. Reese Library: The Cotton Exchange of Augusta, constructed in the 1880’s at the height of the cotton trade, is currently a branch of the Georgia Bank and Trust.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News August 2020(Augusta University, 8/13/2020) Christy, Maranda; University Libraries; Special CollectionsReese Library: The featured finding aid is “Augusta Fire Department records, 1879-1884″ (ARCHS 007) which describes records of late nineteenth century fires and associated property damage.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News June 2020(Augusta University, 6/17/2020) Miranda Christy; Renee Sharrock; University Libraries; Special Collections; Historical Collections & ArchivesReese Library: One such object is a small bell which was given as a gift to attendees of the inauguration of Augusta University President Brooks A. Keel in April 2016. Greenblatt Library: A collection of pacemakers, implantable defibrillators (ICD), and patient transmitters in 1997.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News October 2019(Augusta University, 10/17/2019) Miranda Christy; Renee Sharrock; University Libraries; Special Collections; Historical Collections & ArchivesGreenblatt Library: RG12: Faculty Publications. This record group consists of journal reprints by faculty members of the Health Sciences Campus. Reese Library: IA/08/01/001, Augusta College Faculty Wives, 1967-1979. The collection contains different types of records, but mainly scrapbooks created by the Augusta Faculty Wives club.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News May 2019(Augusta University, 5/16/2019) Kare Flynn; Renee Sharrock; University Libraries; Special Collections; Historical Collections & ArchivesGreenblatt Library: The Proceedings began in January 1951 and published quarterly by the MCG faculty. Reese Library: "A Guidebook to Augusta for the Handicapped." Published in 1967 by the Junior League of Augusta, this guidebook provides people with disabilities living in the Augusta area with information and instructions on how to access various public spaces, including: banks, cultural facilities, educational institutions, hotels, office buildings, religious institutions, and various public services.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News March 2020(Augusta University, 3/13/2020) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: Photograph of the former Faculty Pavilion that once stood where today's Critical Care Center stands as part of the Augusta University Medical Center. Reese Library: Part of the J. Louis Sayre personal papers (ARCHS 128), a collection dedicated to an Augusta musician and music teacher, is the photograph of the Augusta Community Orchestra, 1919, Directed by J. Louis Sayre.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News May 2020(Augusta University, 5/15/2020) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: One of the smallest publication collections housed in the Historical Collections and Archives is The Medical Collegian. Reese Library: "Building Augusta and the central Savannah River area," one of several books published by the Augusta Chamber of Commerce available in Special Collections & Institutional Archives at Reese Library.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News March 2019(Augusta University, 3/14/2019) Renee Sharrock; Kara Flynn; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: Photographs and RG18.02 Slides include images of current buildings and former campus buildings that are no longer standing. Reese Library: MSS 411, the Fred Parker Farrar glass plate negativesItem Open Access Heritage Unit News July 2019(Augusta University, 7/18/2019) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: The book, Interesting Chemical Exercises in Qualitative Analysis for Ordinary Schools is by George W. Rains and published in 1880. Reese Library: An etiquette book entitled The Operative's Friend, and Defense: or Hints to Young Ladies, who are Dependent on Their Own Exertions by Rev. James Porter.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News April 2020(Augusta University, 4/14/2020) Miranda Christy; Renee Sharrock; University Libraries; Special Collections; Historical Collections & ArchivesReese Library: Our institutional archives at Reese Library hold records related to the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Within that collection (IA.01.001.002) are papers written for the classes of prolific historian Dr. Edward J. Cashin. Greenblatt Library: The record group RG04.02: Commencements consists of commencement programs and invitations for the legacy institution of the Health Sciences Campus. The earliest printed program in this collection is from 1845.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News January 2020(Augusta University, 1/9/2020) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: Books gifted to the library by Dr. Leslie Wilkes, William Hunter's Gravid Uterus and the four-volume plus atlas set The Works of John Hunter, F.R.S. John Hunter. Reese Library: The Knightly Legends of Wales, published in 1884, is a compilation of Arthurian legends.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News June 2019(Augusta University, 6/13/2019) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsReese Library: a World War I Troop K military patch, which is a part of the Bailie family collections (MSS 001). Greenblatt Library: The Hamilton Manometer enabled Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Harry T. Harper, Jr., and Dr. Robert A. Woodbury to produce the first print recording ever made of blood pressure pulses in a human on January 30, 1935.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News November 2019(Augusta University, 11/26/2019) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: The Beeper was the official campus newspaper on the Health Sciences Campus (1980-2011). Reese Libraray: Phoenix magazine is a student-run publication of the Office of Student Life & Engagement and the Department of Communication 1994--).Item Open Access Heritage Unit News September 2019(Augusta University, 9/19/2019) Renee Sharrock; Miranda Christy; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: The IMB 1620 was the first electronic computer used by the Augusta University Health Sciences Campus in 1962. Reese Library: A portrait by photographer Lewis Hanes of a group of young workers at Enterprise Mill in Augusta, Georgia.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News April 2019(Augusta University, 4/18/2019) Kare Flynn; Renee Sharrock; University Libraries; Special Collections; Historical Collections & ArchivesReese Library: General Library includes the collection IA.15.01.02.005, Reese Library photograph albums, 1976-2006 Greenblatt Library: RG13 Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News January 2019(Augusta University, 1/25/2019) Renee Sharrock; Kara Flynn; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: The Historical Collections and Archives (HCA) has several atlases from the 18th and 19th centuries in our rare book collection, including Paolo Mascagni's Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani Historia et Echnographia, which was published in 1787. Reese Library, Edmund Dulac's Picture Book, published on behalf of the French Red Cross in 1916.Item Open Access Heritage Unit News November 2018(Augusta University, 11/15/2018) Renee Sharrock; Kara Flynn; University Libraries; Historical Collections & Archives; Special CollectionsGreenblatt Library: Bulletin of the University Hospital (1939-1948) which was written and produced by the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia. Reese Library: Bell Ringer, Augusta University's student newspaper featuring the November 16, 1962 issue.