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The Liesendahl Archival/Library Collection

LB2002.013

Provenance:  Denise Liesendahl donated these records in 2002

(Accession MS.2002.013). Her late husband, James Liesendahl collected these archival materials from 1969 – 1996.  Single photocopies may be made for research purposes for a small fee.  Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Director of Library/Archives.

Sallie E. Loy processed these papers in November 2002.

Size:  3 linear feet

Arrangement:

Series 1.      Civil War Times Magazines
                       Man At Arms Magazines – Stored in Artifacts Storage-See
                       Mike Bearrow, Registrar
                      
Gun Reports Magazines – Stored in Artifacts Storage – See                        Mike Bearrow, Registrar
                      
Gun Report 25Year Index 1955-1980 – Stored in Artifacts
                       Storage – See Mike Bearrow, Registrar
                      
Civil War Price Catalogs/Trading Catalogs/Civil War – Stored                        in Artifacts Storage
                       – See Mike Bearrow, Registrar
                      
Collector Magazines – Stored in Artifacts Storage – See                        Mike Bearrow, Registrar

Series 2.       Miscellaneous Publications

Series 3.       Lateral Files of Archival/Research Materials

Series 4.       Archival Materials Transferred to Artifacts Department

                  7 September 2004

History of the Liesendahl Archival Collection

Description:  The Archival Collection has been organized into four series.  The first series contains Civil War Times, Man at Arms, Gun Reports, and various other magazines/price catalogs/trading catalogs, and collector magazines.  The second series contains miscellaneous publications, and the third series contains lateral files of archival/research materials.  The fourth series  contains 5 Patriotic Union Envelopes and the Star Spangled Banner Sheet Music, published in 1861 and stored in the Artifacts Storage Area.

Liesendahl Archival Collection
Magazines/Periodicals
LB2002.013
Series 1

Box File Contents
   

Battleground Antiques, Inc., Catalog #3, 1998

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 - complete one year issues

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1973 (Missing Novemberand December issues)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1974 (Missing August andSeptember issues)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978 -complete one year issues

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1979 (Missing October issue)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1980 – 1981- complete one year issues

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1982 (Missing January issue)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1983 (Missing February issue)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1984 (Missing March issue)

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989 - complete one year issues

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1990 – April issue only

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1994 – September/October issue only

Magazines – Civil War Times – 1996 – complete one year issues

Magazine – Civil War Times Illustrated Special Edition: Andersonville: Penetrating views from men who were thereand from modern scholars, Articles by various authors, reissued 1983

Magazine – Civil War Times Illustrated Special Edition: The Campaign for Atlanta, 1964

Magazine – Civil War Times Illustrated Special Edition: Gettysburg, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1963

Magazines – Gun Reports – 51 issues

Magazines – Man At Arms – 29 issues

American Society of Arms Collectors – Bulletin,

Cumulative Index – Numbers 1 – 18, Fall 1955 – Fall 1968

American Society of Arms Collectors – Bulletin, No. 11, Spring – 1965

American Society of Arms Collectors – Bulletin, No. 21, Spring – 1970

American Society of Arms Collectors – Bulletin No. 25, Spring – 1972

The American Society of Arms Collectors at New Orleans, Bulletin No. 41, Fall  - 1979

The American Society of Arms Collectors at Sarasota, Florida, Bulletin No. 42, Spring – 1980

The American Society of Arms Collectors at Orlando, Florida, Bulletin No. 56, April 8-12, 1987

Antique & Modern Weapons, 1968 Catalog, Heritage FireArms Co., Wilton, CT

Civil War Collector’s Price Guide, 6th Edition, ISBN 0-942365-03-8, Sydney C. Kerksis,

Stanley S. Phillips, Thomas S. Dickey, and Dr. Francis A. Lord, Editors, Publisher’s Press, Orange, VA, 1993

Conestoga Auction Company, Inc. – The William A. Bond Collection, July 4 – 5, 1994

Conestoga Auction Company, Inc. – C. Meade Patterson Collection, November 11, 1999

Conestoga Auction Company, Inc. – Collection of Hugh Benet, Jr and R.L. Moore, Jr., M.D., June 22, 2000

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 81, Gettysburg, PA

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 89, Scottsdale, AZ

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 91, Gettysburg, PA

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 98, Gettysburg, PA

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 103, Gettysburg, PA, Handwritten Aug. 91 – 90?

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 106, Scottsdale, AZ, Handwritten Jan. 92

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 115, Gettysburg, PA

Dale C. Anderson Co., Catalogue 124, Scottsdale, AZ, Handwritten 12/94

Dale C. Anderson Coompany’s Volume No. 140 Catalogue Of Arms and Military Goods, Guns & Swords, Uniforms, Accoutrements, Handwritten Nov. 97

David Condon, Inc., Dealing in fine antique firearms since 1957, Volume IV, No. 2A

David Condon, Inc., Dealing in fine antique firearms since 1957, September 1993

First Corps Books, Catalog #3-00

First Corps Books, Catalog #4-00

Merrill Single-Shot Breech-Loading Percussion Carbines From the Collection of William D. Moore, Jr.

Military Arms and Equipments and Ordnance Stores Price List No. 35

Military Arms and Equipments and Ordnance Stores Price List No. 49

Military Collector & Historian: Journal of the Company of

Military Historians, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, Spring 1984

Military Collector & Historian: Journal of the Company of

Military Historians, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Fall, 1985

Military Collector & Historian: Journal of the Company of

Military Historians, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter, 1985

Military Collector & Historian: Journal of the Company of

Military Historians, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1987

Military Images Magazine, Vol. V, No. 2, September – October 1983

Military Images Magazine, Vol. V, No. 4, January – February 1984

Military Images Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 2, September – October 1984

Military Images Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 3, November – December 1984

Military Images Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 6, May – June 1985

Military Images Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3, November – December 1985

N. Flayderman & Co., Inc.: Purveyors of Military & Nautical Antiquities, Catalog No. 116

N. Flayderman & Co., Inc.: Purveyors of Military & Nautical Antiquities, Catalog No. 117

N. Flayderman & Co., Inc.: Purveyors of Military & Nautical Antiquities, Catalog No. 118

North South Trader: Artifacts & History of the American Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. XI, No. 2, January – February 1984

North South Trader, Vol. XIV, No. 2, January – February 1987

North South Trader: The Magazine For Civil War Historians - Relic Hunters – Collectors, Vol. V, No. 3, March – April 1987

North South Trader: The Magazine For Civil War Historians – Relic Hunters – Collectors, Vol. V, No. 4, May – June 1978

North South Trader: Special Edition, Civil War Collectors - 1979- Price Guide, January 1979

North South Trader: The Magazine For Civil War Historians - Relic Hunters – Collectors, Vol. Vii, No. 6, September – October 1980 – 2 volumes

North South Trader: Artifacts & History of the American Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. XI, No. 1, November  - December 1983

Sumter Military Antiques: C S Investment Grade Civil War Antiques

The Georgia Arms Collector, Spring 1972

The Georgia Arms Collector, Fall 1972

The Georgia Arms Collector, Fall 1973

The Manual of Arms, Catalog No. 18, 1996

The Manual of Arms, Catalog No. 19, 1997

The Manual of Arms, Catalog No. 20, 1998

The Manual of Arms, Catalog No. 22, 2000

The Manual of Arms, Catalog No. 23, 2001

The Powder Horn Gunshop, Inc., Catalog No. 2, March 1995

The Powder Horn Gunshop, Inc., Catalog No. 5, September 1995

The Union: A Price List of Historical Civil War Memorabia Collected by Gary Hendershott, March 1998, Sale 96

Woody Summerlin: Choice Handguns, Bullet Molds, Flasks, Cartridges and Accessories From My Personal Collection, List “GC”

Liesendahl Archival Collection
Miscellaneous Publications
LB2002.013
Series 2

Box File Contents
   

A Feasibility Study For The Selection of Civil War Battlefield Sites: Dallas, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill, Allatoona Pass, prepared for Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Division, December 15, 1972, Prepared by Environmental Planning and Engineering, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Abstract, Review and Notes Regarding Principal Sword Contractors During The American Civil War, Leonard J. Garigliano, Limited edition – No. 26 of a limited edition of 500 copies and signed by the author, Leonard J. Garigliano.

Days of Glory: A Gentleman’s Chronicle, Illustrated by Marshall Ausburn, Paint Box Studio Press, Marietta, GA, 1992, ISBN: 0-9613287-4-6

Naval Operations on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, 1861 – 1865, Maxine Turner, Reprinted by Permission from The Alabama Historical Quarterly  XXXVI, Fall and Winter, 1974-1975

The Story of Confederate Carbines, reproduction/ photocopy by John M. Murphy, M.D.

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY Official Records of The American Civil War: A Researcher’s Guide, USMA  Library Bulletin No. 11A, Alan Conrad Aimone, July 1977

Liesendahl Archival/Library Collection
Lateral Files of Archival/Research Materials
LB2002.013
Series 3

File Contents
1

An Introduction to Collecting Confederate Firearms by Bill Bellinger

Receipt (Consignment) for C.S. cap box, net value $350.00, dated 2/10/94

Rifle Making in Antebellum Georgia by Richard N. Kennedy, Jr. KRB


The above documents are stored in the back pocket of the Liesendahl Collection Finding Aid Notebook stored on the back shelf of the archives stacks.

Liesendahl Archival/Library Collection
Lateral Files of Archival/Research Materials
LB2002.013
Series 4

These items have been transferred  the Artifacts Dept. as of 7 September 2004.                       

L2002.0013 D142      5 Patriotic Union Envelopes

L2002.0013.0143       Star Spangled Banner Sheet Music, published 1861

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