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Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.

Dates: 1895-1905

Mary Connally Spalding photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS339
Scope and Content

This collection contains image of the family and friends of Mary Connally Spalding. Included are photographs of her travels to Ireland, France, and Egypt, as well as bridal portraits for her wedding to John Schaffner Spalding.

Dates: 1873-1932, undated

Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.

Dates: 1993

Mildred Traver Coggin photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS314
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Mildred Traver Coggin and her family members and friends, including: Lilly Hill Traver, Charles Wesley Traver, Frances Traver, Raymond Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Hodge Havis, and unidentified individuals.

Dates: 1888-1944, undated

Plaster and Smith families photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates: 1835-1950, undated

Robert Carr war correspondence

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Collection number: ahc.MSS756f
Scope and Content This collection primarily contains letters from Robert Carr to his sister, Virginia (1844-1927), and his mother, Sarah. The letters document his time in the Battery F, First Ohio Light Artillery, including a firsthand account of his involvement in Civil War engagements such as the Battle of Shiloh and the United States Army’s capture of John Hunt Morgan. The collection also contains letter from Ripley, Ohio during World War II. The soldier mentioned in the letter is presumably a descendant...
Dates: 1861-1876, 1943, undated

Robert S. Paden photographs and drawing

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Collection number: ahc.VIS439
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of five generations of the Smith-Steele-Medlock-Davenport family gathered for Elizabeth Hawkins Smith's 93rd birthday. Also included is a watercolor drawing of Jasper Smith (1836), Martha Ellen Smith Paden's brother, who died during the American Civil War. Of special note are photographs of “Auntie Gracie” and Wilkes Smith, two formerly enslaved people who worked for the Smith family. Robert S. Paden took the photograph of Wilkes Smith.

Dates: approximately 1895-1925, undated

Robertson family letters

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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

Sam P. Jones photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS327
Scope and Content This collection contains portraits of Reverend Sam P. Jones, as well as his immediate and extended family. Photographs depict family and friends in front of "The Cottage," Jones' residence in Cartersville, Georgia; celebrations such as Sam Jones' 50th birthday; Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, where Jones held revival meetings. Other photographs include portraits Tom Dunham, Jones' secretary, and the Jones family cook, Mat McCoy. Of particular note is a group portrait of Foreign...
Dates: 1870-1953, undated

Samuel R. Belk diary

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Collection number: ahc.MSS878f
Scope and Content

The collection contains Samuel R. Belk's diary, which contains a page of recordings for every day of 1926. One page includes a newspaper clipping which mentions Samuel Belk by name. Entries focus mostly on everyday family life and religious matters from his work as a pastor at Trinity Church in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also notes on the memoranda pages at the end of the diary consisting of names, addresses, and times of day.

Dates: 1926, undated

Smith and Allen family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS886f
Scope and Content

This collection contains include tax returns, articles written by family members, programs, a bulletin, and newspaper clippings. Of particular note are recorded interviews with three members of the Smith family: Leroy Wingate (the uncle of Dorothy Smith Allen), Dorothy Smith Allen, and Robert Stuart Allen. The interviews detail growing up in Georgia during the Great Depression.

Dates: 1904-1997, undated

Tate family greeting cards

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Collection number: ahc.MSS765f
Scope and Content

The collection contains 31 greeting and holiday cards to and from members of the Tate family. There is also an envelope and a bank receipt from 1928.

Dates: 1928, undated

William A. Manning photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS313
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of William A. Manning, Sr and his family. It also includes images of street scenes in Atlanta.

Dates: approximately 1907-1939

William Everhart Cunningham diaries

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS830f
Scope and Content

The collection contains two diaries written by William Everhart Cunningham. In his entries he describes his participation in various sports at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), his sister's move to Agnes Scott College, and his reaction to his father's death in 1908. Also included in the collection is a postcard from his father.

Dates: 1901-1909

William McElreath Branham photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS291
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Branham family members, including: Walter McElreath at age 40; J.N. McEachern and his wife; and Emmett and May McElreath, law partner and brother of Walter McElreath. Of special note is a profile image of Robert E. Lee, believed to be signed by him.

Dates: approximately 1935, undated

Wilson and Tye family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS307
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Wilson and Tye family members, including Benjamin J. Wilson; Elizabeth H. Wilson; John L. Tye, Sr.; John L. Tye, Jr.; Carrie Wilson; and Mary Potts Wilson. Of note is a photograph of the Wilson family home at 266 Gordon Street (renamed Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1870-1890, undated

Zenobia Tye Liles family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS263
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs from the extended Cooper family, Hinton family, Liles family, McKinney family, and Tye family of Atlanta, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Missouri. Included are photographs from milestones such as graduations, weddings, and reunions, as well as baby pictures and school photos.

Dates: 1865-1992, undated

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C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Grant family 2
Grant, John Thomas, 1813-1887 2
Grant, William Daniel, 1837-1901 2
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Jones family 2
Methodist Episcopal Church, South 2
Slaton family 2
Slaton, John M. 2
Slaton, Sarah Frances Grant, 1870-1945 2
Smith family 2
Tye family 2
A. M. Robinson Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Abbey, Jessie Harris 1
Abbey, Lucile 1
Abbey, Theo 1
Adams family 1
Adams, Charles Clyde, 1900-1959 1
Adams, Charles Matthew, 1871-1945 1
Adams, Nancy Ann Holt, 1860-1942 1
Aldridge, Mamie 1
Allen family 1
Anderson, Raymond 1
Andrews, Lina 1
Andrews, Lisa 1
Bank of Commerce (Americus, Ga.) 1
Baptist Church of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Ga.) 1
Barrett, Lizzie 1
Belk, Joanna Catherine Council 1
Belk, Samuel Robinson 1
Benning family 1
Benning, A. H. (Augustus Harrison) 1
Benning, Broughton Walton, 1897-1964 1
Benning, Ella Van Nuise, 1856-1896 1
Benning, Gertrude 1
Benning, Henry, 1845-1898 1
Benning, Kathleen Petty 1
Benning, Kitty 1
Benning, Margaret Rowena Russell 1
Benning, Thomas Cobb 1
Benning, Thomas Theodore, 1835-1887 1
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Blue Ridge Hotel (Clayton, Ga.) 1
Boatenreiter, Gertrude 1
Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Bozeman family 1
Bozeman, James Fort, 1824-1877 1
Bradley family 1
Bradley, William David, 1869-1951 1
Branham, William McElreath 1
Brooks, Carrie 1
Brown, George Marion 1
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 1
Brown, Martha Fort, 1872-1907 1
Brown, Sally Eugenia, 1862-1942 1
Bryan, Frances Connally Spalding, 1908-1996 1
Buchanan, Joseph F. 1
Calhoun Street School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Calhoun, Emily Bealer 1
Carr, Robert 1
Carr, Virginia 1
Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cobb family 1
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862 1
Coggin, Mildred Traver 1
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
Connally, E. L. (Elijah Lewis) 1
Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 1
Connally, Mary Virginia Brown, 1850-1927 1
Cooper family 1
Cox family 1
Creighton, Maude 1
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Cunningham, Albert Edwin, 1896-1949 1
Cunningham, Albert Edwin, 1919-1989 1
Cunningham, Gussie Swafford 1
Cunningham, Julian 1
Cunningham, William Everhart, 1894-1977 1
Davis Sheffield, Johnnie, 1869-1944 1
Dobbs, Annie Ruth 1
Donovan, Barry 1
Duncan, David Terrell 1
Elliott's Peachtree Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ellis, Clyde 1
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fader family 1
Fannie Renfroe 1
Ferguson, John T. 1
Fitz-Randolph family 1
Fletcher, Harry 1
Fogle, Theodore T. (Theodore Turner), 1834-1864 1
Foreign Christian Missionary Society 1
Funkhouser, Sally Christian Spalding, 1910-1988 1
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Garrison, Henry C. 1
Georgia Power Company 1
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Goldberg, Marcus Rienzi, 1810-1889 1
Goldberg, Rachel Solomon, 1823-1910 1
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