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The holdings were then transferred to the
University Library. By the 1920s, Dr. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, a professor of history was corresponding about the idea of creating "a great library of Southern human records." Hamilton began traveling the South, in his "faithful Fords," seeking out and
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The North
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The
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which document the culture and history of the
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The collections held in the
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is a repository of distinct archival collections at the
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