ms_1831.xml Finding Aid to the Bayles family scrapbook, 1875-1910 Written by Elizabeth Delmage Encoding funded by a 2008 Archives-Basic Projects grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Georgia Historical Society.
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 Encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, March 2009 Description is in English Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard MS 1831 Bayles family scrapbook 1875-1910 1 folder (.15 cubic feet) Bayles family. Collection materials are in English. Georgia Historical Society
, Savannah, Georgia.
Access restrictions

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 Subject headings

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Bayles family. Bayles, Albert, d. 1886. Bayles, Albert Sidney, b. 1877. Bayles, Alice, fl. 1875-1910. Bayles, Elizabeth B., fl. 1907-1910. Clippings (information artifacts) Invitations. Letters (correspondence) Photographs. Scrapbooks. Biographical information

Alice Bayles married Albert Bayles (d. 1886) in South Island, South Carolina in 1876. The couple had one son, Albert Sidney Bayles born in 1877. Albert Sidney Bayles was a paymaster for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and married Elizabeth Brooks Sanborn of Savannah, Georgia in 1908, where they continued to live following their wedding.

 Scope and content note

This collection contains a scrapbook that Alice Bayles made for her son, Albert Sidney and his wife Elizabeth as a way to remember their family's past. The scrapbook includes family photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, wedding invitations and other ephemera from 1875 to 1910 related to the Bayles family, particularly the life of her son, Albert Sidney Bayles.