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Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS444
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of watercolors of a variety of locations around Atlanta, including the First National Bank of Atlanta, the commissioner of the work; Georgia Capitol; Grady Memorial Hospital; Piedmont Park; Emory University; Peachtree Street; Muse's Department Store; First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia; and the Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia. Also included are interleaving pages for each painting with descriptive information. Please note this collection contains...
Dates:
1959
Benjamin Conley papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS75
Scope and Content
This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, financial documents, and legal documents of Benjamin Conley.
Dates:
1826-1891, undated
Benjamin E. Mays photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS40
Scope and Content
The images consist of portraits of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, primarily at public events such as graduation ceremonies or committee meetings during his tenure as the president of Morehouse College. Other photographs consist of Mays with other individuals or groups, including faculty members. Most of the group photographs are identified by event only and include general faculty or administrators posed in cap and gown, consisting of Benjamin E. Mays; Charles E. Merrill, Chairman, Board of Trustees,...
Dates:
approximately 1947-1981
Benjamin Elliot Crane collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS341
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of essays, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript of Crane's biography.
Dates:
1849-1885
Benjamin H. Hill speech
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS460f
Scope and Content
This handwritten address to the Georgia branch of the Southern Historical Society discusses the Reconstruction period and includes reminiscences of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The speech was delivered in Atlanta on February 18, 1874.
Dates:
1874
Benjamin J. Wilson Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS208
Scope and Content
The papers of Benjamin J. Wilson consist primarily of business records from Alabama and Georgia. The bulk of the collection contains receipts and letters written as part of his business in and around Atlanta in the years 1864 and 1896. There are some personal records and family information with one folder of miscellaneous clippings collected by his wife. Other family members mentioned in these papers include his sons: John B. Wilson (1875-1881), Robert E. Wilson, Will Wilson (d. 1898) Philip...
Dates:
1850-1896
Benjamin J. Wilson Photograph and Map Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS142
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs consist of three generations of Wilson family members, including the images of grandchildren: Caverly, Bessie and Benjamin Wilson Tye; the children of Carrie Wilson Tye and John L. Tye. There are also several unidentified photos. An additional oversize file contains a map, property survey of Fulton County, near Westend, pertaining to the Riddle v. Wilson court case that is part of MSS 208.
Dates:
circa 1870-1930
Benjamin Mart Bailey papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS30
Scope and Content
These papers consist of Army documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings from General Bailey's military career, personal life, and academic and military education.
Dates:
1881-1978; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1940
Benjamin T. Hunter papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS179f
Scope and Content
This collection contains Benjamin T. Hunter's diary, in which he wrote extensively about the weather, his school, hunting, Civil War battles, drilling and camp life with the local militia, the cost of items he had purchased, and various activities he pursued in his workshop. Also included are military documents in which Hunter is ordered to arrest deserters. There are letters from J. DeWitt Burkhead regarding a teaching position in Athens, Georgia. The collection also contains papers...
Dates:
1861-1869
Benning family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS60
Scope and Content
These papers consist of correspondence between various members of the Benning family, personal documents, genealogy of the Benning family, and business papers from Hong Kong, New York and Atlanta.
Dates:
1862-1963, undated
Benning family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS343
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of the Benning family and the construction of the English-American (Flatiron) Building in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1893-1961, undated
Benton family Leo Frank papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1167
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the murder trial of Leo Frank. Newspaper articles and a dissertation describe the details of the trial and Frank's lynching as well as new witness for the case and the push for a pardon for Frank in the 1980s. Also included are genealogy papers on the Phagan family.
Dates:
1891-2015
Benton Rapid Express, Inc. freight tariff report
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS828f
Scope and Content
The collection contains a Benton Rapid Express, Inc. proportional freight tariff supplemental listing of class and commodity rates between Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1936-1938
Berman Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS28f
Scope and Content
Included in this collection is a certificate of naturalization for Augustus Berman and a reissued marriage license for Augustus and Gertrude Berman. Also included is a letter of acknowledgement to Gertrude Berman from Mrs. Abe Fitterman, President of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, for the donation of a sewing machine, and a Georgia medical license issued to Louis C. Rouglin.
Dates:
1901-1952
Bernard C. Johnson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS463f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents relating to conservation, or rationing of gasoline and civil defense during World War II; and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1943-1949
Bernard L. Solari Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS147
Scope and Contents of the Records
These photographs depict the aftermath of a fire at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta. Included are photographs of the exterior of the building, interior light fixtures, the lobby area, theatre seating, and the theatre stage area, all damaged by the fire.
Dates:
February 1978
Berry family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1024
Scope and Content
This collection contains articles, certificates, correspondence, deeds, a ledger, military records, and school assignments. The majority of the records consist of deeds dated 1832-1887 of properties purchased by John Marshall Berry in Rome, Georgia. Included are deeds for one half of a commercial lot bought by Charles H. Smith, former mayor of Rome, Georgia, and one for 22 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. There is a merchant ledger dated 1864-1869 perhaps belonging to John Marshall Berry...
Dates:
1832-1965, undated
Berry O. Pyron Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS111
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of photographs of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and include images of Terminal Station, Underground Atlanta, and Loew’s Grand Theatre. Photographs of Terminal Station were taken in 1971 shortly before it closed and include images of the front façade and architectural details. Photographs of Underground At businesses that were in the area. Photographs of Loew’s Grand Theatre were taken on the day it caught fire in 1978 and include images of the fire in progress and...
Dates:
1968-1978
Berryman Edwards Woodruff, Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS830
Scope and Content
Collection consists of financial records, personal memorabilia, marriage and divorce records, correspondence, brochures, and other printed material.
Dates:
1955 - 1972
Bertha Gossett papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS421
Scope and Content
This collection is consists of reports, programs, correspondence, invitations, and periodicals from a variety of patriotic organizations.
Dates:
1935-1985, undated
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