Alston family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alston and Glenn family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates:
1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975
Alston family visual arts material
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS236
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an ambrotype, cabinet card, photographic postcard, and portrait prints of the Alston family of Georgia and Alabama. Also included is a VHS tape, "Family Name," directed by Macky Alston, and a DVD, "Slavery by Another Name." Most of the photographs are unidentified family members and all are undated. Included is an 8 x 13 inch portrait print of Philip H. Alston Sr. Of note are photographs of Philip H. Alston Sr., his wife May Lewis Alston, and their children at...
Dates:
1870-2012, undated
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- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clayton (Ala.) 1
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Hippies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Homosexuality -- Law and Legislation 1
- LGBTQ+ discrimination 1
- Land grants 1
- Patriotic societies 1
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Registers of births, etc. -- Georgia 1
- Slavery -- South Carolina 1
- Wills -- Alabama 1
- Wills -- Georgia 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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