Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
U.S.S. Atlanta bond subscribers signatures
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS527f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a ledger of signatures of bond subscribers for the U.S.S. Atlanta (CL- 104) in 1943.
Dates:
1943
U.S.S. Atlanta collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS221
Scope and Contents of the Records
The artificial collection documents through a booklet, correspondence, an invitation, programs, war savings bonds and other printed material the efforts of Atlantans, among them Margaret Mitchell, to support and commemorate the third and fourth iterations of the U.S.S. Atlanta, primarily between 1941 and 1946. To a lesser extent, the activities of these two naval cruisers are documented through a printed summary and naval communications. The collection does not contain material related to...
Dates:
1941-1946, 1979, undated
U.S.S. Atlanta visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS76
Scope and Contents of the Records
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...
Dates:
1891-1982, bulk 1944
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 2
- Armored vessels -- United States 1
- Cruisers (Warships) -- United States 1
- Decorative arts -- Georgia 1
- Enslaved persons -- Maryland 1
- Flowers in art 1
- Midway, Battle of, 1942 1
- Slavery 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- German 1
- Names
- Atlanta (Light cruiser : CL-104) 3
- Atlanta (Light cruiser : CL-51) 2
- Atlanta Historical Society 2
- Confederate States of America. Navy 1
- Harvey Smith Company 1
- Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806 1
- Smith family 1
- Smith, Harvey M., 1906-1994 1
- Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 1
- United States. Navy. 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more