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Urban Studies Institute records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS951
Scope and Content
The records are organized into two series, which best represent the Institute's research agenda. The more recent documents have been organized in the first series, which contains the application to the national community building project introduced by President Bill Clinton. The application and information regarding community building are followed by the City of Atlanta's 1993 strategic plan, which won Atlanta the title of Empowerment Zone and funding. The second series chronologically...
Dates:
1953-1995
Ursula Adelaide Adkins papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS882
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a memory book belonging to Ursula Adelaide Adkins, kept during her senior year at Girls' High School and her Girls' High diploma with diploma tie.
Dates:
1929-1932, undated
USLTA Clay Court Championships collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS357
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of scrapbook material retained by Natalie Cohen and two scrapbooks assembled by others. Included are newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, a players pass, pamphlets regarding the championships, participant brackets, and score cards.
Dates:
1955-1959
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
Utopian Literary Club documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1120
Scope and Content
This collection consists of historical sketches written about the club, biographies highlighting members, and a proclamation from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners honoring the club. There are also programs for events and special projects, yearbooks documenting past club members, meeting minutes, financial reports, and meeting agendas.
Dates:
1927-2003, undated
Valentine family Bible
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS478
Scope and Content
This collection contains a single family Bible that includes a family record.
Dates:
1821
Van Buren Colley Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS149
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs includes pictures of Atlanta and rural areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region, including Adamsville, and Alpharetta, and other areas of Fulton County. Included are street scenes in downtown Atlanta, and private residences, such as the interior of the home of Civil War collector Beverly DuBose on 2737 Peachtree Street, the home of Lemuel P. Grant in Grant Park, and farmland on Dunwoody Road. The collection is comprised of photographs of churches, including the...
Dates:
circa 1873-1970, undated, bulk 1953-1970
Variola Hospital ledger
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS797f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of one ledger containing records on the patients of a smallpox hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The records list dates the patients entered the hospital, their name, the type of smallpox they had contracted, notes about quarantine or treatment, and the date of discharge or death. In addition, the ledger lists employees who became patients, recording the same information collected about regular patient's in addition to their occupation at the hospital before contracting...
Dates:
1894
Verna Trammell Brown family bible
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS49
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a Bible containing handwritten notes on the Ruff family. The Bible belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Ruff Mitchell, ancestress of Verna Trammell Brown.
Dates:
1815
Veterans History Project oral history collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1010
Scope and Content
This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews as well as documents, photographs, and other materials related to the service of veterans and civilians interviewed as part of the Veterans History Project. Also included are documents created during the interview process, such as biographical data forms and audio-video recording logs. Materials in the collection include originals and reproductions of service records and military correspondence, photographs, newspaper...
Dates:
1914-2021, undated; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1973
Vicki Vara papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS730f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents, correspondence, and advertisements relating to Vicki Vara's management of Backstreet Atlanta. There are also full length LGBTQ publications, most of which contain ads for Backstreet.
Dates:
1977-2005, undated
Vincent A. Irick photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS39
Scope and Content
The collection provides excellent documentation of African Americans in rural Georgia and Florida, and is composed of 90 black and white and cyanotype photographs. Featured are scenes of Spencer’s farm and farm activities, and images of Irick’s friends and family. The bulk of the collection consists of images of African-Americans who lived and worked on the farm, including many depictions of children. The majority of the photographs are in excellent condition; the cyanotypes in particular...
Dates:
undated
Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content
The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
1988-1989
Vineville Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1218
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles, clippings, correspondence, newsletters, and yearbooks that provide details of the civic and social activities of the Vineville Garden Club. Also included in the collection are programs and yearbooks from other garden clubs and organizations as well as Bibb County Flower Show schedules. Scrapbooks highlight the club members' gardens and horticultural interests. Scrapbooks from first president, Mrs. Thomas J. (Ann "Octavia" Burden) Stewart, and former...
Dates:
1922-2015, undated
Virginia Avenue Garden Club scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1079
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks that detail the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, and garden club programs. Of special interest are photographs of the Carnegie Branch Library at the Samuel M. Inman School (now Inman Middle School) in Virginia Highland.
Dates:
1934-1951
Virginia Broome Waterer papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS940
Scope and Content
This collection includes documents from the education, personal life, and career of Virginia Marion Broome Waterer. Materials include report cards; school certificates and programs; newspaper clippings; membership cards; church bulletins; newsletters; a plan for the Virginia-Highland Civic Association; a history of the residence at 900 Arlington Place; and programs from the New Era Study Club. Of particular note are papers regarding her work in the Women's Service Pilots (WASP) during World...
Dates:
1912-1999, undated
Virginia Conrad Ribble scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1171
Scope and Content
The collection contains a copy of The Congressional Globe published in 1847 that Virginia Conrad Ribble used as a scrapbook. The book covers proceedings and debates of the twenty-ninth United States Congress. Ribble pasted newspaper clippings throughout the book to document the major events of the Civil War throughout the United States.
Dates:
1847-1868, undated
Virginia Lou Pirkle scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS847
Scope and Content
This collection contains one memory book kept by Virginia Lou Pirkle during her senior year. Included in the book are autographs from teachers and classmates, newspaper clippings, photos, dance cards, and various materials from neighboring school during 1928.
Dates:
1928
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- Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
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- Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 13
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- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
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- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
- Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 12
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- First National Bank of Atlanta 11
- Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 11
- Junior League of Atlanta 11
- United States. Navy. 11
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- Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 10
- Inman family 10
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 10
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 10
- Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Massell, Sam 10
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 10
- Washington Seminary (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 9
- American Red Cross 9
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- Atlanta Pride Committee 9
- Atlanta Pride Festival 9
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- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
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- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 8
- Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 8
- League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 8
- Olympic Games. (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Trust Company of Georgia 8
- Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
- Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Atlanta Journal (Firm) 7
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- Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Carnegie Library of Atlanta 7
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