From the Special Collections & Institutional Archives: A recently finished finding aid in Reese Library’s Special Collections is MSS 025 (Cumming family correspondence), which contains letters written by Thomas Cumming that date as far back as 1794. The collection spans…
From Historical Collections and Archives (HCA): Medicos was the name of the MCG’s football team in the early 20th century. Yes, the Medical College of Georgia had a football team for various years between 1907 and 1920. The HCA has…
This month we’ll be highlighting finding aids for manuscript collections from both Reese Library’s Special Collections & Institutional Archives, and Greenblatt Library’s Historical Collections & Archives. Finding aids are tools that that help researchers determine whether a manuscript collection will…
Dr. and Mrs. Leslie L. Wilkes recently gave the Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library three medical artifacts, several books, and other medically-related published texts. Dr. Wilkes graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1965 and practiced orthopedic surgery in…
The Historical Collections and Archives Room was recently given a small renovation. The walls received a new coat of paint and the exhibit of portraits was re-hung in a more aesthetic and chronological manner. The portraits represent esteemed faculty members…
by Renée Sharrock The descendants of Kilpatrick Cross, M.D., recently donated his medical bag and two copies of his 1910 class photograph to the Historical Collections and Archives of the Greenblatt Library. Four members of the Cross family were present…
The photograph collection in the Historical Collections and Archives of the Greenblatt Library includes class photographs of the Medical College of Georgia. Some of the earliest class photos included an essential character to the history of MCG, Grandison Harris, the…
Women’s History Month is the perfect time to highlight one of Reese Library’s largest holdings in Special Collections: the League of Women Voters of Augusta, 1940-1997. An international celebration, Women’s History Month is celebrated every March in the United States,…
The Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library began in 1834 when Dr. Louis A. Dugas, one of the founding faculty members of the Medical College of Georgia, was sent by his colleagues to Europe to purchase books for a library to…
Who Was Dr. Greenblatt? You have seen his name above the entrance to the Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library. You have passed by the bronze bust of Dr. Greenblatt as you entered the Library. But who was Dr. Robert B.…