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Atlanta Historical Society

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history transcriptions

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS994
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection is comprised of eleven interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original audio recordings for each interview, and a CD access copy of each. The interviews with Billy Jones and Ginny Boyd are part of the Maria Helena Dolan collection (1999.142)

Dates: 1997, 2004-2005

DuBose family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and professional papers of the DuBose family and the historical Civil War items they collected. The personal papers pertain to geneaology, correspondence, and DuBose Jr.'s military service in the United States Navy. Also included are manuscripts and presentations written by members of the DuBose family as well as many collected from others about the Civil War.These papers document the DuBose family's interest in the Civil War. There is...
Dates: 1782-2001, undated

Series III: Personal and business papers, 1889-1993, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents This series contains materials compiled by Harvey Smith Jr. about his personal and professional life. Included are certificates, correspondence, personal and professional financial records, invitations, papers from his service in the united States Marine Corps before and after World War II, and educational records. Additionally there are plays, poems, article clippings, event programs, donation records, real estate deeds, unfinished memoirs, and personal inventories. The series also contains...
Dates: 1889-1993, undated

U.S.S. Atlanta collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS221
Scope and Contents of the Records The artificial collection documents through a booklet, correspondence, an invitation, programs, war savings bonds and other printed material the efforts of Atlantans, among them Margaret Mitchell, to support and commemorate the third and fourth iterations of the U.S.S. Atlanta, primarily between 1941 and 1946. To a lesser extent, the activities of these two naval cruisers are documented through a printed summary and naval communications. The collection does not contain material related to...
Dates: 1941-1946, 1979, undated

U.S.S. Atlanta visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS76
Scope and Contents of the Records The artificial collection, ranging from 1891 to 1982, documents the efforts of prominent Atlantans, among them Margaret and Stephens Mitchell and Mayor William B. Hartsfield, to support and commemorate various iterations of the U.S.S. Atlanta, primarily during the early 1940s, through photographic and albumen prints, lithographs, and a postcard. The bulk of the collection contains visual materials (black and white photographs, one lithograph, and one postcard) related to U.S.S. Atlanta, the...
Dates: 1891-1982, bulk 1944

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  • Subject: World War, 1939-1945 X

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Collection 4
Archival Record 1
 
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 3
New Orleans (La.) 2
Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Segregation 1
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American diaries 1
Armored vessels -- United States 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 1
Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) 1
Book collecting -- Georgia 1
Book collectors 1
Book donations 1
Bookplates 1
Botanical illustration 1
Business records -- Georgia 1
Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Chattahoochee River 1
Civil rights 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Cruisers (Warships) -- United States 1
Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Decorative arts -- Georgia 1
Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
Florida 1
Flowers in art 1
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
Genealogy 1
Georgia -- Genealogy 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
Indians of North America 1
Interior decoration 1
Invitation cards -- Georgia 1
Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
Midway, Battle of, 1942 1
Military pensions -- United States 1
Military uniforms 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Periodicals 1
Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 1
Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
Quartermasters -- United States 1
Race relations 1
Religion 1
Savannah (Ga.) 1
Scrapbooks 1
Sheet music 1
Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 1
Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
Textile fabrics -- History 1
Tortola (British Virgin Islands) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 1
Upholstery 1
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
War memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Widows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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