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Colonel Allen Phelps Julian collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS195f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of speeches and articles written by Allen P. Julian on topics about the Civil War and the Atlanta Campaign, such as Fort McAllister, Collier Mill mill stones, the Confederate flag, Confederate Memorial Day, Governor Joseph E. Brown and Joe Brown's Pikes, and the Army of Tennessee.

Dates: 1864-1960, undated

Colonel Thomas Spencer photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS459
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken by Colonel Thomas Spencer of buildings and sites related to the American Civil War, largely the Battle of Chickamauga and battlesites in the Atlanta Campaign. Most of the photographs were taken in Georgia, with some in Tennessee and Alabama. Many buildings depicted served as headquarters and hospitals of one or both armies during the Civil War. This collection also contains photographs of historical markers, maps, and confederate flags. In addition...
Dates: 1950-1954, undated

Colonial Club minute book

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Collection number: ahc.MSS521f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a minute book that record the organizational meetings of the Colonial Club held at the Kimball House Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The minute book includes membership lists, financial data, and a chronicle of the club's membership and decline.The club's purchase of the Mary F. Dougherty House at Peachtree Street and East Baker Streets in 1900 is detailed. The records were kept by Gordon F. Mitchell, secretary and treasurer.

Dates: 1899-1901

Colonial Dames, Atlanta Chapter, minute books

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS520f
Scope and Content

This collection includes minute books that record membership lists, financial records, and the society's activities between 1898-1901 and 1919-1931. It also includes information on Georgia State Society activities including purchase of the Andrew Low House in Savannah, Ga.

Dates: 1898-1931

Colonial Dames of America Oral History Project collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS891
Scope and Content

The collection contains original tapes and transcripts of six interviews.

Dates: 1986-1990

Colonial Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS722
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, flower show programs, and meeting minutes that document the civic and social activities of the club. Also part of the collection are scrapbooks that detail club activities, projects, and special interests such as the Swan House, conservation, and flower arrangement.

Dates: 1941-1986, undated

Committee to Stop the Children's Murders rally announcement

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Collection number: ahc.MSS965f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an announcement for a national rally, titled Rendezvous for Life's Sake, sponsored by the Committee to Stop the Children's Murders and organized at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. The announcement lists groups that endorsed the rally, including the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees; and the National Black Human Rights Commission.

Dates: 1981

Company B, 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry Civil War muster roll

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Collection number: ahc.MSS538f
Scope and Content This collection consists of the muster roll of Company B, 3rd Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry. It contains information on the members of Company B from April 26, 1862 to April 9, 1865. The muster roll gives a brief biography on the senior officers and basic information about the enlisted men. The captains were Reubeau B. Nisbet and John S. Reid. The 1st lieutenants were William W. Turner and William T. Reid. The 2nd lieutenants were William O'Brian; Robert A. Dennis; Reubin DeJanett;...
Dates: undated

Company D, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry muster roll

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Collection number: ahc.MSS722f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a muster roll (including pay information) for Company D, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops covering the period 31 December 1864 to 30 April 1865. The roll includes the names of three officers and seventy-two men. For each entry, the roll includes the place and date of enlistment; where, when, and by whom mustered; the last date of pay; and comments about the current status of each man. Comments include details about absences due to sickness, battle...
Dates: 1864-1865

Confederate hospital transfer order

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Collection number: ahc.MSS535f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a hospital transfer order, signed by "Jus. T. Johnson" which transferred Lieutenant James B. Wade of Echols Artillery from General Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, to General Hospital in Washington, Georgia.

Dates: 1865 April 23

Confederate officer servants passes and letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS478f
Scope and Content This collection consists of six passes for servants of Confederate officers and one letter. Five of the passes were signed by Major General James B. McPherson, an officer of the Union. These passes permitted the servants to travel across Union lines to meet officers in the 41st and 42nd Regiments of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The letter, written by Confederate soldier Joseph B. Smith on July 8, 1863, is a request to permit a servant to travel across Union lines to meet his legal owner....
Dates: 1863

Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates

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Collection number: ahc.MSS7
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection consists of over 700 typed pages of information about residents of the Confederate Soldier’s Home of Georgia. The list of inmates represented in this collection is not comprehensive. The information was copied from three registers kept at the Home between 1901 and 1941 and each page contains vital records and history of military service. Information about each veteran includes name, date and place of birth, unit and rank, date of capture, surrender, or injury, date of entry...
Dates: undated

Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates: 1859-1865, undated

Connally family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS831f
Scope and Content This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera pertaining to members of the Connally family and the First Methodist Church. Content includes land deeds signed by A.A. Sells, cemetery plot contracts belonging to Charles Price Connally, Sr., and a book of poetry. Of particular note is a history of the First Methodist Church. Also included is a program for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil Court of Fulton County, which mentions Luther Z. Rosser,...
Dates: 1861-1987, undated

Consingeniorum Literary Society minute book

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Collection number: ahc.MSS75f
Scope and Content

This minute book contains minutes of meetings of the Consingeniorum Literary Society at the Hartwell Institute in Hartwell, Georgia. The minutes are prefaced by the constitution and bylaws of the organization and a list of the founding members.

Dates: 1893-1896

Constance Berry Currie papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS83f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a report card from Smith College, a dance card, a letter addressed to Constance E. Berry at Agnes Scott College, a ticket for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and love letters between Constance Berry Currie and her husband, Charles J. Currie.

Dates: 1911-1922, undated

Constance Knowles Draper Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS968
Scope and Contents of the Records The Constance Knowles Draper Collection includes images of Mrs. Draper’s home and garden on Cherokee Road. The collection also contains Mrs. Draper’s lecture to the Peachtree Garden Club on Ferrell Gardens in LaGrange, Georgia. The bulk of the collection includes images of these gardens; Mrs. Draper used many of these in her Peachtree Garden Club lecture. In addition, the collection contains material documenting the landscape work that Edith Harrison and Constance Draper completed for Cason...
Dates: 1921-1939

Constance Spalding Anderson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS48
Scope and Content

This collection includes scrapbooks maintained by Constance Spalding Anderson, as well as school papers, an autograph book, records relating to Baptist churches in Atlanta, and invitations and greeting cards.

Dates: 1880-1972, undated

Constance Spalding Anderson photographs of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families

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Collection number: ahc.VIS429
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families and their friends. It primarily features identified portraits of women. Of special note is an image of Rand Peacock (possibly 1835-?), a man who was enslaved by the Connally family. Also included in the collection are signed photographs of actress Emma Abbott (1850-1891).

Dates: 1870-1918, undated

Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS893
Scope and Content

This collection consists of the membership applications of women wishing to join the Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars. Each application is listed under the name of the relevant ancestor of the applicant. Some ancestors may have several applicants' forms in their files. Included in each file is the genealogy and research proving relationships and confrontations between native and immigrant Americans.

Dates: 1977-1999, undated

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African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 18
Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
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Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
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Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
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African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
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Atlanta Historical Society 31
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 31
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 26
Hartsfield, William Berry 24
Georgia Institute of Technology 23
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Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 21
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 19
Coca-Cola Company 19
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 19
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 18
Emory University 18
Rich's (Retail store) 18
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 17
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 16
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
University of Georgia 16
Atlanta History Center 15
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 15
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Garden Club of Georgia. 15
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 15
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
United States. Army 15
Young, Andrew, 1932- 14
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 13
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 12
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 12
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 12
Atlanta Public Schools 12
Georgia Power Company 12
Georgia School of Technology 12
Piedmont Driving Club 12
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 12
Agnes Scott College 11
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 11
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 11
Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 11
First National Bank of Atlanta 11
Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 11
Junior League of Atlanta 11
United States. Navy. 11
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Atlanta Music Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
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
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Atlanta Pride Committee 9
Atlanta Pride Festival 9
Commercial High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 9
Democratic Party (Ga.) 9
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 9
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 9
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 9
Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
United Daughters of the Confederacy 9
American Red Cross 8
Atlanta Art Association 8
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 8
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 8
Georgia. Militia 8
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
Jones family 8
Jones, Bobby 8
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
Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Atlanta Journal (Firm) 7
Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 7
Atlanta Public Library 7
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 7
Confederate States of America. Army 7
Daughters of the American Revolution 7
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Garrett, Franklin M. (Franklin Miller), 1906-2000 7
Georgia State University 7
Georgia. General Assembly 7
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
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