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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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Copenhill Land Company collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS274
Scope and Content
This collection contains the stock book of the Copenhill Land Company.
Dates:
1888-1926
Cora Best Taylor Williams papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS377f
Scope and Content
This collection contains biographical information about Cora Best Taylor, who married Jesse Parker Williams. Also included are her report cards from Wesleyan Female College, her diary, newspaper clippings, and a program on the dedication and opening of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital.
Dates:
1877-1941
Cora E. Hanleiter scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS278
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of a single scrapbook that primarily contains advertising cards.
Dates:
1882
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