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Elizabeth Meriwether landscape plan for the Botanical Gardens Park, Fulton County, Georgia

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS426
Scope and Contents This collection contains a landscape plan of the Fulton County Botanical Gardens Park (also known as the Fulton County Botanical Garden) likely drawn by the landscape architect for the botanical garden, William L. Monroe (1892-1965). The plan includes features such as an ampitheater, azalea and alpine garden, cover crop areas, cypress plantings, bog garden, school house, and Mirror Lake. Of special interest are the dimensions and boundaries of the garden including River Camp Road, Gordon...
Dates: 1941

Elizabeth Meriwether records of the Fulton County Botanical Garden Commission

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS10f
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, budgets, minutes, and a roster of members of the Fulton County Botanical Garden Commission. Correspondence includes discussion of the development of both the botanical garden and an airport in the same vicinity, now known as Fulton County Airport-Brown Field.

Dates: 1946-1952, undated

Friends of the River collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1269
Scope and Contents These records document the efforts of the environmental and educational organization Friends of the River to preserve and protect the Chattahoochee River Corridor. Included are correspondence, financial records, membership lists, newspaper clippings, agendas, minutes, pamphlets, periodicals, publications, and subject files that highlight the work of this group and members Marcia Bansley and Claude Terry. The collection also includes organizational records from other environmental groups...
Dates: 1966-2016, undated

Marion Johnson photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates: 1938-1975

Parker Lowell Photograph Collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS136
Scope and Contents of the Records

Included in this collection are photographs of Atlanta buildings and parks. Images include the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Piedmont Park, the Cyclorama building in Grant Park, the Hurt Building and Hurt Park, the Municipal Auditorium, Rich’s Department Store, and The Temple and other scenes on Peachtree Street.

Dates: 1949

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Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Fulton County Botanical Garden (Ga.) 2
Meriwether, Elizabeth, 1905-2000 2
United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia 2
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 1
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Agnes Scott College 1
Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992 1
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 1
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 1
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 1
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Bansley, Marcia (Marcia Dew) 1
Callaway Gardens (Pine Mountain, Ga.) 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Chattahoochee River Coalition 1
East Lake Golf Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First National Bank of Atlanta 1
Friends of the River (Chattahoochee River) (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fulton County (Ga.). Botanical Garden Commission 1
Fulton County Airport-Brown Field 1
Georgia Canoeing Association 1
Georgia Conservancy 1
Georgia Institute of Technology 1
Grady High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grant Field (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Jackson, Graham Washington, 1903-1983 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Johnson, Marion 1
Jones, Bobby 1
Junior League of Atlanta 1
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 1
Legacy Foundation Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.) 1
Little, Roberta P. 1
Lowell, Parker 1
Masters Golf Tournament 1
Matthews, Eddie (Edwin Lee) 1
Monroe, William L., 1892-1965 1
Morningside Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
National Bank of Georgia 1
Paramount Theater (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Peachtree Road Race (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Rich's (Retail store) 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard) 1
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 1
Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Terry, Claude, 1937-2019 1
Trees Atlanta Inc. 1
Trust Company of Georgia 1
Underground Atlanta, Inc. 1
University of Georgia 1
Veterans Administration Hospital (Decatur, Ga.) 1
Winecoff Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Zoo Atlanta 1
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