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 CL-51 and the CL-104, during World War II, including launch and commission events, operations and servicemen aboard the cruisers. To a lesser extent, the second and fifth vessels are documented through two lithographic prints. The collection does not contain material related to the first vessel.