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Fairbanks Collection, 1817-1942, Date acquired: 01/01/1966

 

Summary

Creator:
Fairbanks, George R. (George Rainsford)
Extent:
4.25 Linear Feet
2017 items other_unmapped
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Fairbanks Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-104

Background

Scope and content:

Personal, business and family correspondence, books, business records (account books), and writing materials of George R. Fairbanks. This collection contains 1473 original material items, as well as 567 items which are copies of original materials. The collection contains biographical sketches of George Rainsford Fairbanks and his family history, his will, papers about personal matters, the Civil War, St. Augustine before and during the war, sale of enslaved peoples, photographs of Fairbanks, Charles Locke Beard, Charles Massey, and sketches of places such as a church in Palatka, Florida. There is a great deal of Civil War correspondence, including persons such as Senator David Levy Yulee and James Ormond.

Select materials from the Fairbanks Collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

Born in Watertown, New York, July 5, 1820, son of Jason and Mary Massey Fairbanks, George Rainsford Fairbanks received degrees of B.A. and M.A. at Union College, Schenectady, New York and a M.A. at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Mrs. R.G. Dudney

Procured by Mr. N. Orwin Rush, Director of FSU Libraries and Dr. Joseph D. Cushman, assistant professor at FSU.

Processing information:

Processed September 1966. Addition to collection processed November 1988.

Accruals:

Addition added to collection in 1988, originally given MSS 88-15 before merged with parent collection MSS 0-104.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Patrons must use microfilm (Film 9078) in Strozier Library micromaterials section in Scholars Commons. Originals used only with authorization from Associate Dean of Special Collections & Archives.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher

Preferred citation:

Fairbanks Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-104

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA