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George and Pansey Slappey scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS318
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of a single scrapbook pertaining primarily to newsworthy events in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1944
George C. Spence family photographs and silhouettes
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS231
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook of 127 images. These snapshots are mainly of the immediate family of George C. Spence, Sr. and range in date from approximately 1870 to 1945. Subjects include George C. Spence, Sr.; his mother, Cornelia; his sisters, Eudora, Mary, and Eleanor; and his brother, Nat Spence. There are several childhood photographs of George C. Spence, Jr. and his sister Maryanne, as well as photographs of his stepmother, Elizabeth Norman Spence. The images depict the...
Dates:
Approximately 1870-1942
George C. Spence papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS814
Scope and Content
This collection contains a guest book which belonged to the Spence family and George C. Spence's military health card from 1905. The guest book contains the names of the numerous people, many from Atlanta families, who visited the Spence home during the period from 1913-1918.
Dates:
1905, 1913-1918, undated
George Gilman Smith, Jr. reminiscence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS314f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a 28-page autobiography of George Gilman Smith, Jr. about his life in Antebellum Atlanta. Mr. Smith lived with his parents in Atlanta from 1847-1854.
Dates:
1910
George Hillyer papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS154f
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, genealogical papers, and newspaper clippings related to Judge George Hillyer.
Dates:
1875-1931, undated
George Jones scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS288
Scope and Content
This collection contains a single scrapbook that contains newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations, and correspondence.
Dates:
1921-1931, undated
George Mason Coleman scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1233
Scope and Contents
This collection contains scrapbooks that document George Mason Coleman’s career as a journalist in Atlanta. The bulk of the material is newspaper clippings of his work at Atlanta Daily World including cartoons, poems, articles, and photographs about the Civil Rights Movement, the African American community in Atlanta, legal affairs, and race relations. In addition, there is a scrapbook of correspondence from corporations and individuals praising his work as...
Dates:
1947-2006, undated
George Washington Collier papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS602f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a handwritten autobiography of George Washington Collier and includes Collier family history. Included is a transcription of the writings.
Dates:
1813-1903
Georgia Chamber of Commerce collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS436
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of travel information pertaining to various cities throughout Georgia. Travel materials include books, pamphlets, postcards, tour maps, correspondence, and press releases. There are also organizational materials such as periodicals, publications, and special event programs.
Dates:
1957-1978, undated
Georgia Mineral Society papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS574
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection includes: committee meeting minutes, annual reports, and treasurer’s reports, activity reports, announcements of meetings, field trip reports, and news clippings, programs and publicity files.
Dates:
1935-1992
Gil Robison papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1152
Scope and Content
This collection documents Gilmore "Gil" Robison's career fighting for LGBT rights as a political activist and elected official. Materials show his efforts to legalize gay marriage, to create the Atlanta Gay Center, to battle a law that targeting gay men by banning prostitution, and to stop police harassment of the LGBT community. Materials include official records of the Georgia Democratic Party, which contain voter registration documents and lists of representatives, as well as flyers,...
Dates:
1959-1997, undated
Gil Robison visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS422
Scope and Contents
This collection features images collected by Gil Robison related to his personal and professional life, in particular his work with the Metropolitan Gazette. Photographs include those taken by Gerald Jones for the publication, primarily of Atlanta and Georgia political leaders, as well as the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. In many of these images, Robison is seen interviewing featured individuals, who include...
Dates:
approximately 1900-2001, undated
Gladys McHugh Swords collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS864
Scope and Content
This collection contains various materials saved by Gladys Swords including newspaper clippings of weddings and miscellaneous topics of interest to her. Also in the collection are programs from several churches in Atlanta, Georgia. There are correspondence and personal papers relating to Gladys Swords as well. All of these materials were placed at random between the pages of an otherwise empty scrapbook.
Dates:
1923-1948, undated
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
Governor and Mrs. John M. Slaton visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS209
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, albumen prints, notecards, and a platinotype collected by Governor Slaton and his wife. Images include portraits of Howell Cobb, Cary B. Wilmer, Julia King (Mrs. Henry) Grady, and James W. English, Jr. Other images include Marechal Foch and Charles Loridaus of France and Thomas Whipple Connally. There is a view of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton in the attire she wore when presented at the court of King George V and Queen Mary. There are portraits of four...
Dates:
1887, 1921-1930, undated
Governor John M. Slaton letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS746f
Scope and Content
This collection contains letters, some original and some copies, written by Governor John M. Slaton. Most of the correspondence concerns the Leo Frank court case, Slaton's commutation of Frank's death sentence, and his subsequent failure to be reelected. There is also one letter written by Lucille Selig Frank, the wife of Leo Frank, to Slaton.
Dates:
1902-1930, 1976
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
Grady Hospital Student Doctors Account of the Winecoff Hotel Fire
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS92f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains a transcript of the comments of four doctors who served as student doctors under Dr. Charles Holloway at Grady Hospital. These four witnessed the fire and assisted patients both at the scene and in the emergency room. The first doctor interviewed was unnamed and arrived at the hospital emergency room at four in the morning. His account includes details on how the hospital’s lack of space and small staff made it difficult to handle the large amount of fire victims...
Dates:
1946
Grady Lee Randolph diaries
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1002
Scope and Content
The collection contains eighty-six volumes of diaries written by Grady Lee Randolph that include memoirs, observations and analysis of daily life as a Alabama farm boy and later as a school teacher and permanent resident of Atlanta, Georgia. The collection spans from 1931 to 2001, but skips the year 1943. Randolph recorded over 20,000 daily diary entries that include observations of life during the Great Depression, and events such as the Gone With the Wind premier; World War II; the...
Dates:
1931-2001
Grady Memorial Hospital Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS102
Scope and Content
This photograph collection contains images of hospital physicians, nurses, staff, patients, as well as the buildings and grounds of the institution, including Grady Memorial Hospital, the Grady Memorial School of Nursing, and Hughes Spalding Pavilion. Among the images are photographs taken during special events, such as retirement ceremonies, graduations, Christmas parties, and receptions.
Dates:
1896-1979, bulk (1950-1970), undated; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 120
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 82
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 50
- Atlanta (Ga.) 47
- Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 37
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 34
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 30
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 30
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 28
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 28
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 27
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 24
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 24
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 19
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 19
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
- Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) 14
- Georgia -- Politics and government 14
- Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 14
- Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 13
- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 13
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Religion 12
- Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 12
- Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 12
- Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 12
- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 12
- Politicians -- Georgia 12
- Sports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 12
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 12
- Airports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 11
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 11
- City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 11
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 11
- Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 11
- Midtown (Atlanta, Ga.) 11
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- Societies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 11
- Women -- Societies and clubs 11
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- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 10
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Aerial views 9
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions 9
- Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
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- Chattahoochee River 9
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- Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
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- Schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
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- World War, 1939-1945 9
- Architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Broad Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) -- History 8
- Chastain Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Express highways -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Fires -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Fulton County (Ga.) 8
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 8
- Local transit -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Streets -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Urban parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
- Vine City (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Whitehall Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 8 + ∧ less
- Names
- Hartsfield, William Berry 18
- Atlanta Historical Society 17
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 15
- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 13
- Rich's (Retail store) 13
- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 12
- Georgia Institute of Technology 12
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
- Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 11
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 10
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 10
- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 9
- Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 9
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 8
- Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 8
- Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 8
- Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Coca-Cola Company 8
- Emory University 8
- Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 8
- Georgia Power Company 8
- Massell, Sam 8
- Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 7
- Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Atlanta History Center 7
- Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 7
- Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Piedmont Driving Club 7
- Agnes Scott College 6
- Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 6
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 6
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 6
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Slaton, John M. 6
- Southeastern Fair (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Underground Atlanta, Inc. 6
- Zoo Atlanta 6
- Atlanta (Ga.) 5
- Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 5
- Atlanta Public Schools 5
- Atlanta Regional Commission 5
- Atlanta Urban League 5
- Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
- Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
- Democratic Party (Ga.) 5
- DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 5
- English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
- First National Bank of Atlanta 5
- Forward Atlanta Commission 5
- Georgia School of Technology 5
- Georgia State University 5
- Georgia. General Assembly 5
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
- Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 5
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020 5
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 5
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 5
- United States. Navy. 5
- University of Georgia 5
- Allen family 4
- American Red Cross 4
- Atlanta (Ga.). Board of Aldermen 4
- Atlanta Art Association 4
- Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 4
- Atlanta Housing Authority 4
- Atlanta Memorial Arts Center 4
- Atlanta Pride Festival 4
- Atlanta Urban Design Commission (Ga.) 4
- Boy Scouts of America . National Council 4
- Busbee, George, 1927-2004 4
- Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Delta Air Lines 4
- Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 4
- Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 4
- Georgia. Department of Transportation 4
- Grant family 4
- Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 4
- Junior League of Atlanta 4
- Key, James Lee, 1867-1939 4
- Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Lakewood Fairgrounds (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 4
- Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 4
- Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Miller, Zell, 1932-2018 4 + ∧ less
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