Hartsfield, William Berry
Person
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Allen family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1014
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, awards and ceremony programs, and scrapbooks collected by the Allen family. The bulk of the collection pertains to Ivan Allen, Sr. and Ivan Allen, Jr.'s business, civic, and political affairs. Ivan Allen, Sr.'s state senate campaign and election, and Ivan Allen, Jr.'s mayoral campaign and election, and both father and son's work with various charities and civic minded associations are included. Of note are the numerous...
Dates:
1899-2004, undated
Allen Family Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS104
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection consists of images of family members and friends of the Allen, Inman, Richardson, and Grant families of Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the photographs of family members consist of images of Ivan Allen, Sr. and Ivan Allen, Jr. Included are photographs of Ivan Allen, Sr. at business meetings, civic and social events, and with friends and family. Photographs of Ivan Allen, Jr. include those from his childhood throughout his career as a businessman and mayor of Atlanta. Also included...
Dates:
1840-1990, undated
Atlanta Department of City Planning records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1268
Scope and Contents
This collection contains meeting minutes from the Atlanta Department of City Planning and its boards and committees, including the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board, Board of Zoning Adjustment, Zoning Review Board, and the Planning and Development Committee. The minutes include summaries from public hearings and executive meetings about decisions pertaining to zoning requests and discussions about city-wide redevelopment. Specifically, the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board,...
Dates:
1920-1997, undated
City of Atlanta Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content
This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates:
1848-2013, undated
Edmund W. Hughes photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS186
Scope and Content
This collection contains images that document the metropolitan Atlanta region and photographs illustrating social events in the city. Bell and Stanton Public Relations used these photographs documenting the Atlanta area as promotional images. Most of the images were taken in the late 1960s and include the Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, First Federal Savings and Loan building, Hartford Insurance building, Peachtree Center, and the Trust Company of Georgia. The collection...
Dates:
1958-1968
Gladys Palmer Hobgood Camp papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS68
Scope and Content
Lists of personnel of the civil court of Fulton County, a series of publications titled Railroad Stories, by H. A. Couch; inaugural invitations for President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a letter from Mayor William Hartsfield on the annexation of Buckhead and Druid Hills.
Dates:
1916-1978
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
Helen Bullard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS58
Scope and Content
These papers pramarily relate to Helen Bullard's work with the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA). Records include memoranda, minutes, membership information, agendas, reports, training material, surveys, resolutions, program materials, financial and budget records, and correspondence. Other materials pertain to political campaigns that Bullard handled between 1970 and 1976, including election reports that she collected between 1967 and 1977, and papers from her work with Judge Alexander...
Dates:
1968-1977, undated
Henry L. Taylor visual arts materials of Atlanta Transit System, Inc.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS382
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and blueprints from the Atlanta Transit System, Inc. (ATS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are photographs and schematics of buses, streetcars, and trolleys used by ATS, as well as images of ATS staff. Of special note are photographs of Governor Lester Maddox (1915-2003) with William P. Maynard, president of ATS, signing a sales tax relief bill, which removed sales taxes on passenger fares. Also included is an image of Governor Maddox signing a proclamation...
Dates:
1923-1975, undated
Herbert Jenkins photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS43
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of photographs of Police Chief Herbert Jenkins and Atlanta Police Department personnel throughout Jenkins' career. Noteworthy images of Jenkins include photographs of him as a child, a portrait taken on his first day as a police officer, and a photograph of him being sworn in by Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Other images of note include a series of photographs of the Summerhill riot of 1966, pictures of the first African American patrolmen, and portraits...
Dates:
1890s-1975, undated
Jennie Meta Barker research papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content
These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates:
approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967
National Jewish War Veterans' presentation ceremony photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS282
Scope and Content
This collection consists of images from the September 12, 1954 ceremony in which the National Jewish War Veterans' members presented a portrait of Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of War, to the City of Atlanta.
Dates:
1954 September 12
Southeastern Fair Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1159
Scope and Content
This collection contains material that documents the creation, activities, and dissolution of the Southeastern Fair Association, later called the Atlanta Fair and Exposition Center, Inc. Records include bylaws, charter contracts, lease agreements with the City of Atlanta, meeting minutes, accounts, and other administrative documents that illustrate the structure, function, and operations of the organization. The collection also contains correspondence between various members of the board of...
Dates:
1915-1978, undated
Subseries I: Bureau of Planning records, 1909-1979, undated
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
Bureau of Planning records document the efforts of the City of Atlanta government and Metropolitan Planning Comnmission (later named Atlanta Regional Commission) to peacefully integrate Atlanta neighborhoods in the 1950s and 1960s as African Americans sought to purchase homes in neighborhoods occupied by white residents. In 1952, Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield set up the West Side Mutual Development Committee (WSMDC), a bi-racial citizens committee that worked with civic groups, real...
Dates:
1909-1979, undated
William B. Hartsfield films
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS194
Scope and Content
The films in this collection depict the 1939 premiere of the Gone with the Wind, hosted by the City of Atlanta; Hartsfield’s 1940 mayoral campaign; Hartsfield with Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell selling war bonds in downtown Atlanta during World War II; footage highlighting his six-term career as mayor; and amateur footage of Hartsfield with unidentified individuals fishing...
Dates:
approximately 1939-1960
William B. Hartsfield papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS811
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings and magazine articles pertaining to Hartsfield. Also, there are technical publications and articles concerning the growth of the Atlanta airport as well as the city's highways. Articles on flouridation and the Chattahoochee River Basin are also included. The collection has various awards and personal effects such as greeting cards, a checkbook, the Hartsfield coat of arms, and letters.
Dates:
1943-1970, undated
William Berry Hartsfield collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS530
Scope and Content
This collection contains pages from a scrapbook; a copy of a letter addressed to "William;" a thank you card from Mrs. William B. Hartsfield; and two programs pertaining to William B. Hartsfield. Also included are newspaper clippings that cover Hartsfield's elections, activities in office, death, and funeral and memorial services.
Dates:
1938-1971
Women's Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS398
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images and items related to the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta's outreach activities and members. Included are photographs, negatives, and slides of annual events and contests, as well as WCC members and officers, meetings, and committees. Also included are materials related to activities conducted in partnership with the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce. All images were taken in Atlanta, Georgia, unless otherwise...
Dates:
approximately 1948-1981, undated
WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates:
1977-1980, undated
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- Subject: Atlanta (Ga.) X
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- Collection 18
- Archival Record 1
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 9
- Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 4
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 4
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions 3
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 3
- City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Police -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- African American police -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- African American politicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Air -- Pollution 2
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Atlanta (Ga.) 2
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Charities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 2
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Economic development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Fires -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Fulton County (Ga.) 2
- Fulton County (Ga.) -- Politics and government 2
- Fund raising -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Georgia -- Politics and government 2
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Kirkwood (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Land use -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Local transit -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Municipal government -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Musicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Police training -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Political campaigns -- Georgia 2
- Politicians -- Georgia 2
- Public housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Public housing -- Resident satisfaction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Public relations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Strikes and lockouts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Summerhill (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Women teachers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- 10th Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- 4-H Clubs -- Georgia 1
- Actresses -- Georgia 1
- Adair Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Adamsville (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Aerial views -- 1960-1970 1
- Aerial views -- 1970-1980 1
- Affirmative action programs -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American baseball players 1
- African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American civic leaders -- Georgia 1
- African American household employees -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American legislators -- Georgia 1
- African American musicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American soldiers 1
- African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- 1930-1940 1
- African Americans -- Georgia 1
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Agricultural exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Agriculture -- Georgia 1
- Agriculture -- Societies, etc. 1
- Airports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Art festivals 1
- Arts fund raising -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Maps 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Automobiles -- 1910-1920 1
- Automobiles -- 1930-1940 1
- Automobiles -- 1940-1950 1
- Automobiles -- 1950-1960 1
- Automobiles -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Baseball teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Beauty contests -- Georgia 1
- Bedford Pine (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Birthday parties -- 1950-1960 1
- Blues (Music) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Bridges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Broad Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Buses -- 1950-1960 1
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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