Examples of Primary Sources from the CSU Archives

The CSU Archives is always working to increase our digital presence. A sample of our digital holdings are linked below. However, due to limited staff and other resouces the vast majority of our holdings will mostly likely never be digitized. A sample of our print holdings can also be found below. This is a very small sample of our holdings but represent a good selection of items for an introduction to analyzing primary souces.

Digital

• Crime in Phenix City Poster
• Images from the Historical Photograph Collection
• Letters of Augusta Jane Evans to Henry Benning (pre-Civil War)
• Music Sheets of Blind Tom (1860 and 1866)
• Prohibition Discussed by Columbus Doctor
• Slave Newspaper Ads

Print

• American Archives 1774-1776, located in A.H. Chappell Rare Book Collection
• Anne Fannie Gorham Civil War Diary (digital typescript)
• Columbus City Directories
• Columbus Gazeteer (pre-Civil War)
• Daniel Cram Letter to Clementina James, 1856, in Lawton Gratham Collection
• De Bow's Review
• Hatcher-McGehee Slave Ledger
• James Thompson Civil War Letters
• John C. Fremont's 1845 (1st Edition) Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and California
• Laurence Eugene O'Keefe Letters (1861-Letters from a soldier at war home to Columbus)
• Lloyd's List of Steamboats on the Western Waters
• Maps of Columbus, 1845 (est.) and 1861
• Maps of Georgia, 1747, 1795, 1846, 1856
• National Portrait (pre-Civil War period) located in A.H. Chappell Rare Book Collection
• North American Review (pre-Civil War period) located in A.H. Chappell Rare Book Collection.
• Papers of Seaborn Jones & Henry Benning (pre-Civil War)
• Raphael J. Moses Autobiography
• Rhodes Browne and J. Rhodes Browne Papers
• Robert A. Hardaway Diary, located in the Columbus Museum Collection
• Ruddy Quillian World War II Letters
• Soil of the South, Agricultural periodical printed in Columbus, 1851-1856, located on microfilm in Archives.
• Thomas Blanchard Diary, 1860-1861, located in Columbus Museum Collection
• T.J. Peddy Collection, Creek Letters and Steamboat on the Chattahoochee Lists