Guide to the George Petrie Papers, RG 192
Date Span: 1849-1945
Scope / Content: Family, personal, and professional papers of three generations of male Petries. Organized into 3 subgroups: Subgroup 1: George Hollinshead Whitefield Petrie Papers (1849-1883); Subgroup 2: George Laurens Petrie Papers (1854-1939); and Subgroup 3: George Petrie Papers (1871-1945). Subgroup 3 contains materials on William Lowdnes Yancy, Alabama secessionist orator.
Biographical Sketch: Alabama historian. Petrie was appointed professor of history at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, in 1887. He served as academic dean from 1908 to 1921 and as graduate dean from 1921 until his retirement in 1942. Petrie wrote extensively on Alabama and Southern history, focusing on secession and the Civil War. Petrie's father, George Laurens Petrie, was minister of the Charlottesville (Va.) Presbyterian Church from 1872 to 1928. His grandfather, George Hollinshead Whitefield Petrie, preached in several churches in South Carolina and Georgia before becoming minister of the Montgomery (Ala.) Presbyterian Church, 1857-1885.
SUBGROUP 1: GEORGE H. W. PETRIE PAPERS: Includes family and professional correspondence (1849-1880) and sermons (1828-1883) written or collected by George H.W. Petrie.
SUBGROUP 2: GEORGE LAURENS PETRIE PAPERS: Includes family and professional correspondence (1854-1928); and sermons and sermon notes (1858-1939) written or collected by George L. Petrie.
SUBGROUP 3: GEORGE PETRIE PAPERS: Includes family and professional correspondence (1871-1945); research material, including notes, clippings and pamphlets; history research papers (1903-1933) written by Petrie's students; lecture notes and history department material (1893-1945); essays and speeches (1888-1943) of Petrie; and scrapbooks (1824-1898)
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| Box 17 | |
| ff 423 | 1) Hard - Roosevelt and the Japanese-American Crisis, 8-16-41
2) Williams - Roosevelt and The Trusts 3) Williams - Economic Relations of Canada and the U.S., 1845-1941 |
| ff 424 | Author ? Unamuno, The Spanish Carlyle |
| ff 425 | Allen , "History of Andrew College" |
| ff 426 | 1) Caldwell"Plans and Specifications for Hughes Ferry Road, Elmore
County, Alabama,"
2) Corgill and Mixoce "Franchise in the Reconstruction Constitutions of the Southern States 1867 and 1868," 3) Bowen and Samford "The Alabama State Constitutional Convention of 1865" |
| ff 427 | 1) Holdman "The Southern Boundary Line of Alabama,
2) Alvis "Arthur Lee," 3) McLane "The Commercial Interests of Jews in Pensacola" |
| ff 428 | 1) David "How the U.S. Obtained Oregon,
2) Hollifield "The Oxford Reformers, Colet, Erasmus, and the Mob" |
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| ff 430 | 1) Pruitt "The Colonial Precedents for Certain Striking Features in
the Constitution of the U.S.,"
2) Flowers "Roosevelt, The Kaiser, and Venezuela," 3) Smith "Early Baptists of Alabama," 4) Smith, General Survey of Metals |
| ff 431 | 1) McGhee "Coosa Canal",
3) Williams "Dixon H. Lewis" |
| ff 432 | 1) Grimmets, Leigh, Hare, Edmond, and Rodgers "History of Tuskegee,"
2) Perry "Woodrow Wilson's Policies and Methods in Legislation," 3) Cotton and Zard "The Black Codes" |
| ff 433 | 1) Schomburg and Floyd "A Short History of Railroads of America,"
2) Denson "Slavery Laws in Alabama |
| ff 434 | 1) Thach, Grady, and Brewer "Kansas-Nebraska Act,"
2) Tanton, Wood "Alabama's Attitude Toward Nullification in South Carolina |
| ff 435 | 1) Rutland "Leisler's Rebellion,"
2) Ross and Ross "History of the Southern Industrial Institute at Camp Hill, AL," 3) "Auburn Baptist Church," 4) "Proposed Addition to the Water Supply of Auburn, AL |
| ff 436 | 1) Beasley "New England Immigrants and Society,
2) McWhorter "Forsyta--Samford Discussion," 3) Tisdale "The Cotton Industry in Alabama Before the War" |
| ff 437 | 1) no date or author |
| ff 438 | 1) Halsey "The Versatile Talent of Helen Keller,"
2) Thom "History of the Child Labor Laws in Alabama" |
| ff 439 | 1) Child's "Effects of the John Brown Raid on the South,"
2) Sullivan "Andrew Jackson in Alabama" |
| ff 440 | 1) Hodnette "Slavery at Loachapoka,"
2) Orr, "The Early History of Wetumpka" |
| ff 441 | 1) Nixon "Ante Bellum Political Orators in Alabama,"
2) Meador and Waits "The Increased Cost of Living in Auburn in the last 25 Years," 3) Wilk's "Hampton Roads Conference" |
| ff 442 | 1) Brittain and Zeiglar "Manufacturing in Alabama Before The War,"
2) Stephens "History of Camp Meetings in Alabama" |
| ff 443 | 1) McCranie and Smith "The Influence of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad on the Upbuilding of Pensacola, FL |
| ff 444 | 1) Campbell "Industrial and Economic History of the City of Birmingham,"
2) Lawton, Tucker, and Turner "Land Tenure Around Auburn," 3) Cooper "Free Negroes in Alabama before 1863" |
| ff 445 | 1) Dowdell "Cotton and Hosiery Mills in Alabama,"
2) Hodges "County Development in Alabama," 3) Moore and Hodges "6th District Agriculture School" |
| ff 446 | 1) Killebrew "The Russian Peasant,"
2) Hollifield "The Life of Southern Women in Revolutionary Times" |
| ff 447 | 1) "A Description of the Institution of Negro Slavery as it Existed
in and Near Collinsville from 1850-1860,"
2) Wright and Harlan "The Visit of LaFayette to Alabama in April 1825" |
| ff 448 | 1) Bland "Slavery Conditions and Large Slave Owners in Dallas County,"
2) Mathews "A History of Cleburne County" |
| ff 449 | 1) Sherard "The Relation of Cotton Production to Low and High-Grade
Fertilizers and to Soil Compositions,"
2) Fortier "The Mexican Peon," 3) Fortier "Article on Siberia" |
| ff 450 | 1) Tompkins "Colonel William Byrd of Westover,"
2) Martin and Steagall "History of the South East Alabama Agricultural School" |
| ff 451 | 1) Blasingame "The Panama Progress,"
2) Salter "A History of Kilby Prison" |
| ff 452 | 1) Ridgely "The Design of a Fifty Foot Reinforced Concrete Arch Highway
Bridge,"
2) Nixon "Alexander Beaufort Meek" |
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| ff 453 | 1) Sequeire "Intercostal Canal,"
2) Elgin "Woodrow Wilson and The Columbian Treaty," 3) Moon and Snuggs "History of the Development of the Graphite Industry in Alabama" |
| ff 454 | 1) Lisenby "A Brief Resume of Reconstruction in Alabama and Its Overthrow,"
2) Bett's "Early History of Huntsville" |
| ff 455 | 1) Brooks, "Geographical Influences in the Early Settling of Alabama,"
2) Davis "A History of Helpers Impending Crisis and A Discussion of its Economic and Sociological Doctrine" |
| ff 456 | 1) Shaffer and Meriwhether "Washington's and Jefferson's Contribution
to the Monroe Doctrine,"
2) Whitaker "Growth of Historic Towns of Alabama |
| ff 457 | 1) Lovelass, Rabb, and Taylor "Negro Recollections of Slavery,"
2) Beasley and Crymes "Public Sentiment Toward State Railroads During the Administration of Gov. Collier" |
| ff 458 | 1) Williams "First Constitutional Conventions of Alabama,"
2) Dowdell and Newman "Fort Mitchell" |
| ff 459 | 1) Hodnette "The Peace Convention of 1861,"
2) Walker "The African Slave Trade in Alabama," 3) Cotton and Timmerman "History of Elmore County," 4) Stoves "The Influence of Mobile on the Formation and the Development of the Public School System of Alabama" |
| ff 460 | 1) Noble "Design of Reinforced Concrete Beam Bridge,"
2) Thos. "Report on the Location of a Bridge Over Tallapoosa or Alabama River Between Elmore and Montgomery Counties for the Committee on the Selection of Bridge Site" |
| ff 461 | 1) Caton and South "Blountsville Agricultural School,"
2) Holston and Barker "A History of Fort Toulouse," 3) Renfroe "Electrical Coal Mine Haulage" |
| ff 462 | 1) Boyd "Lopez's Expedition to Cuba" |
Box 19
| ff 463 | 1) "An Auburn Foresome," and "This Historic Spot,"
2) Wallace "Thomas Jefferson, The Farmer, Educator, and Democrat," 3) Clark "For My Children," 4) Milner "Autobiography of Willis Julian Milner," 5) Morrow "Reminiscences of the War of the Confederacy," 6) Daughette "Reminiscences of General John H. Forney by Aunt Emma Rutledge Forney" |
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SERIES: Addresses, Speeches, Lectures, Essays (Files arranged
alphabetically by subject)
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