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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Azalea Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1078
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook that details the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, and programs. Of special interest are photographs of members' gardens from the Emory University area neighborhood. Additional loose photographs of Eatonton and Griffin, Georgia, from approximately 1938, are found at the end of the scrapbook.

Dates: 1938-1963; Majority of material found within 1959 - 1963

Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS444
Scope and Contents This collection includes copies of watercolors of a variety of locations around Atlanta, including the First National Bank of Atlanta, the commissioner of the work; Georgia Capitol; Grady Memorial Hospital; Piedmont Park; Emory University; Peachtree Street; Muse's Department Store; First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia; and the Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia. Also included are interleaving pages for each painting with descriptive information. Please note this collection contains...
Dates: 1959

Delta Air Lines Public Relations Department Photographs of Atlanta, Georgia

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS107
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection is comprised of images taken by Delta Airlines corporate photographers and utilized for promotional purposes by the company. The photographs are of geographic locations in the metropolitan Atlanta region, but most of the images are of downtown Atlanta. Included are aerial views and cityscapes of downtown Atlanta, street scenes, parks, churches, shopping districts, private residences, hotels, colleges and universities, and Atlanta landmarks. Buildings include the Atlanta City...
Dates: 1953-1972

Dr. Reid McCarty ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS861f
Scope and Content

This collection contains Reid McCarty's business ledger. In the front half of the ledger, McCarty documented income received from patients, business partners, and Emory University. In the back of the ledger, he kept tables for incoming and outgoing funds, loan repayments, and monthly bank balances.

Dates: 1936-1941, undated

Durice Dickerson Hanson and James Butler Hanson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS358
Scope and Content This collection primarily consists of materials collected by Durice Dickerson Hanson during her education and career as a nurse, specifically information regarding the profession and public health; Grady Memorial Hospital and its nursing schools; and various nursing associations. Materials include booklets, pamphlets, event programs, rosters, newsletters, and annual reports. The collection also includes James Butler Hanson's military papers, booklets and a map related to his Zone Oil...
Dates: 1907-1973, undated

Governor and Mrs. John M. Slaton visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS209
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs, albumen prints, notecards, and a platinotype collected by Governor Slaton and his wife. Images include portraits of Howell Cobb, Cary B. Wilmer, Julia King (Mrs. Henry) Grady, and James W. English, Jr. Other images include Marechal Foch and Charles Loridaus of France and Thomas Whipple Connally. There is a view of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton in the attire she wore when presented at the court of King George V and Queen Mary. There are portraits of four...
Dates: 1887, 1921-1930, undated

Grace Towns Hamilton maps and photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS35
Scope and Content The collection contains images of Grace Towns Hamilton, her family, special events, and other public officials. The bulk of the collection features Hamilton posed with public officials including: Governor Jimmy Carter, U.S. Congressman Andrew Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, Coretta Scott King, Atlanta University President Benjamin E. Mays, and U.S. Congressman Julian Bond. Also included are photographs of Atlanta homes of the 1960s; African-American Navy yard workers (1940s); the...
Dates: 1882-1984, undated

Harriette Speer Parker photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS353
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of scenes in Atlanta, Georgia, taken by Harriette Speer Parker and her father, Eustace Asbury Speer. Of special note are photographs of the Great Fire of Atlanta in 1917, the Festival of Old Atlanta in the late 1960s, and negatives of aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta. The photographs taken by Eustace Asbury Speer include images of the State Revenue Department personnel in 1927, Piedmont Park, and the Atlanta skyline. Also featured are family...
Dates: 1917-1970, undated

J. Franklin Huss papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS180f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents related to a loan to J. Franklin Huss; bills for street improvements; an abstract of title; and diplomas from Emory University and Atlanta Medical College.

Dates: 1894-1925, undated

John E. McClelland papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS151
Scope and Content

This collection contains business records, ephemera, and newspaper clippings pertaining to John E. McClelland's association with J. H. Hilsman and Company, Boys' High School, Emory University, and Bass Junior High School.

Dates: 1902-1946

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates: 1922-1993, undated

Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates: 1820-1993, undated

Rick Beard papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS730
Scope and Content

These papers consist of research for the dissertation correspondence.

Dates: 1890-1980, undated

Roland M. Frye papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1222
Scope and Contents

This collection contians letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and emphemera that document Roland Mushat Frye Sr's work integrating schools and universities in Atlanta, Georgia. The bulk of the collection focuses on his work with Help Our Public Education (HOPE) and the Southern Presbyterian Church.

Dates: 1954-2022, undated

Ruth and Ethel Cockrell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1184
Scope and Content This collection includes high school annuals, printed materials, diplomas, and correspondence concerning the Cockrells' personal education and their careers in education. The majority of the materials focus on Ethel Cockrell. The two annuals, from Roosevelt High School and Girls' High School, were dedicated and inscribed by Ethel Cockrell's students. Emory University materials include transcripts, commencement programs, the 1933 commencement address, and newspaper clippings concerning...
Dates: 1913-1976, undated

Samuel Russell and Julia Colquitt Bridges papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1165
Scope and Content

This collection contains genealogy records, letters, programs, and newspaper clippings about the Bridges family, primarily Samuel Russell, Jr. Included are the military papers of Samuel Russell Bridges from World War II. Of particular note is Mrs. Bridges' guest book which was signed by President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).

Dates: 1907-1991, 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

Wiley Albert Cash papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1216
Scope and Contents This collection documents Wiley A. Cash’s finances, state records, legal contracts, and family correspondence. Financial records include household and business expenses, especially with Evens Implement Company, Wofford Oil Company, and C.P. Suber General Merchandise; legal records include documentation about a family dispute about estate inheritance and a land contract with neighbor George McIntosh. The collection also contains a genealogy of the Cash family and a 1928 Emory University...
Dates: 1899-1978, undated

William H. Trimble papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS249
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, and class notes. Correspondence with family members includes letters from his mother, Lina; his wife, Grace; and his sister, Florence. The letters date 1910-1945 and include his school years through his military service in North Africa during World War II. There are newspaper clippings on topics such as his childhood in rural Hogansville, Georgia; novelist Corra Harris and her home in Bartow County, Georgia;...
Dates: 1909-1945, undated

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Archival Record 1
 
Subject
Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
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Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Art festivals 2
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 2
Botanical illustration 2
Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Education -- Pennsylvania 2
Express highways -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Flowers in art 2
Fulton County (Ga.) 2
Interior decoration 2
Lakes -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
School integration -- Georgia 2
Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Vine City (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Aerial views -- 1940-1950 1
Aerial views -- 1950-1960 1
Aerial views -- 1960-1970 1
African American civic leaders -- Georgia 1
African American legislators -- Georgia 1
African American musicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American politicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American soldiers 1
African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Agriculture -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Airports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Architect-designed houses 1
Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Architectural drawing -- Georgia 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Southern States 1
Art museums -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Arts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions 1
Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) 1
Birmingham (Ala.) 1
Book collecting -- Georgia 1
Book collectors 1
Book donations 1
Bookplates 1
Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Butler Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Camellias 1
Cattle -- Showing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Chattahoochee River 1
Children -- Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Cityscapes -- 1960-1970 1
Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 1
Clothing & dress -- 1890-1900 1
Commercial buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Community health services -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Counterculture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
County courts -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Dairy farm -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
DeKalb County (Ga.) 1
Decatur (Ga.) 1
Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms 1
Decorative arts -- Georgia 1
Demonstrations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Economic development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
England 1
Entertainers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Entertainment events -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Etchings 1
Express highways -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1950-1960 1
Farm equipment -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Farm supplies -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Farmers -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Fashion -- History -- 19th century 1
Festivals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Finance, Personal -- Georgia 1
Fires -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Flowers 1
Forsyth Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fort McPherson (Ga.) 1
Fulton County (Ga.) -- Rural conditions 1
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