Robertson family
Family
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John James and Mae Elizabeth Robertson Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS217
Scope and Content
The business, civic, leisure, and social activities of the Robertson’s are documented, primarily from 1945 to 1960, through correspondence, greeting cards, invitations, newspaper clippings, postcards, programs, scrapbooks, ticket stubs and travel brochures. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks relate to Mr. Robertson’s involvement in local and regional companies and organizations, including the Atlanta Real Estate Board, the Breakfast Club, the Capital City Club, the Jack T....
Dates:
1932-1966
Robertson family letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS513f
Scope and Content
This collection contains letters from the widowed Thomas B. Robertson to his mother Harriet in DeKalb County, concerning the future of his children; and letters to his children.
Dates:
1882-1950
Series I: Research records, 1692-1992, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains research on Alabama and Georgia history, Robertson and Smith family histories, the history of textiles, nineteenth century newspapers, museums and libraries, potpourri, nineteenth century pamphlets and speeches, Thomas Sheraton, and a study of pain and pleasure. The bulk of the collection are Smith’s hand-written notes and notecards on these subjects. Of particular note are eighteenth century documents about the trade of enslaved persons, an Almanac from 1730, and a...
Dates:
1692-1992, undated
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- Alabama -- Genealogy 1
- Book collecting -- Georgia 1
- Book collectors 1
- Chambers County (Ala.) -- History 1
- Enslaved persons -- Maryland 1
- Family life -- Georgia -- DeKalb County 1
- Furniture 1
- Furniture designers 1
- History -- Research -- Southern States 1
- Interior decoration 1
- New York times 1
- Potpourris (Scented floral mixtures) 1
- Rare books -- Collectors and collecting -- Georgia 1
- Slave trade 1
- Slavery 1
- Textile fabrics -- History 1
- Textile research 1
- Upholstery 1 + ∧ less
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