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Davison-Paxon Company photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS205
Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty-five black and white photographs of the interior of the Davison-Paxon Company department store on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Fifteen photographs are of Christmas decorations in the toy, men's, home goods, and jewelry departments as well as at the entrance to the store and an overheard view of the main floor (1948-1954). The Christmas photographs also show children and staff members interacting with the decorations as well as the construction of...
Dates:
1948-1959
De Renne-Callaway book ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1127
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents found in books from the De Renne and Callaway collections of the Cherokee Garden Library. Materials include clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, articles, offprints, and invoices. Clippings and articles cover a wide range of topics including vegetable growing, botany, history, poetry, and William Shakespeare. In 1970, Callaway Gardens purchased a collection of De Renne books. Correspondence from these books was largely part of Augusta De Renne's...
Dates:
1891-1966, undated
Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1189
Scope and Content
This collection contains one bound scrapbook created by the Deep Dene Garden Club that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes poems, yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the club's garden interests and projects. The scrapbook clippings focus on flower arrangment and home decor.
Dates:
1940-1990; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1949
Deer Park Garden ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS832f
Scope and Content
This collection contains items that describe the garden as well as some biographical information about William H. Davidson. Material includes a garden pamphlet written by Davidson for a home and garden tour given by the Alabama Georgia Hospital Auxiliary. Also, a newspaper clipping and letter by Davidson detail the garden and its development.
Dates:
1972
DeGive family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS509
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of the DeGive family of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are portraits of family members, and scrapbooks made by Henry Leon DeGive Jr. containing photographs of family and personal travels, as well as university life. The collection also includes photographs of the family's theaters, the DeGive's Opera House (corner of Forsyth and Marietta Streets) and DeGive's Grand Opera House (157 Peachtree Street).
Dates:
1925-1965, undated
Delta Air Lines Public Relations Department Photographs of Atlanta, Georgia
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS107
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of images taken by Delta Airlines corporate photographers and utilized for promotional purposes by the company. The photographs are of geographic locations in the metropolitan Atlanta region, but most of the images are of downtown Atlanta. Included are aerial views and cityscapes of downtown Atlanta, street scenes, parks, churches, shopping districts, private residences, hotels, colleges and universities, and Atlanta landmarks. Buildings include the Atlanta City...
Dates:
1953-1972
Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chapter, scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS525
Scope and Content
This collection consists of nine scrapbooks documenting the activities of Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chapter.
Dates:
1941-1982
Democratic Party of Georgia, Fulton County Woman's Division collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS423
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of a single scrapbook that contains newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1939-1941, undated
Dessa Eubanks McElroy papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS261
Scope and Content
This collection contains the marriage certificate and bridal book of Dessa Barnette McElroy; scrapbook from the Azalea Garden Club which includes minutes, newspaper clippings, prize ribbons, reports, birthday cards, poems, pamphlets on Ida Cason Gardens, and a booklet on the Little White House, in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Dates:
1913-1950
Diane Arnold real estate data sheets and publications of Ansley Park
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1241
Scope and Contents
These records contain real estate data sheets and publications for the Ansley Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the records are data sheets on homes sold in Ansley Park from 1984 to 2015 by multiple real estate agents, including Diane Arnold, working for Harry Norman and Dorsey Alston. Data sheets contain information for homes sold, including address, listing price, sale price, contract date, closing date, days on market, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage and...
Dates:
1984-2015
Dick Rhodes photographs of the Lesbian/Gay/Transperson Pride March
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS411
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Rhodes' color photographs of the 1982 Lesbian/Gay/Transperson Pride March from Piedmont Park to Atlanta City Hall. As the final event associated with the Atlanta Pride Festival, its purpose was to demand greater representation in the state legislature and influence on legislation affecting the LGBTQ+ community. The march was also in response to Mayor Andrew Young withholding his signature on the resolution to declare June 19-29 as Gay Pride Week. Participating...
Dates:
1982
Dodson W. Hancock Photograph Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS131
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains photographs of cities located south of Atlanta, Georgia in Fulton County. Included are images of College Park, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Palmetto, Red Oak, and Union City. Many of these cities were originally part of Campbell County, a county that went bankrupt during the Great Depression and was then merged with Fulton County. Photographer Hancock follows highways 19 and 29 in a span of one month to reveal the former Campbell County cities in their 1954...
Dates:
1954
Dogwood District records of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1058
Scope and Content
This collection contains awards, publications, flower show brochures, and histories that document the social and civic history of the club. Also included in the collection are director's reports that offer annual reports, financial records, meeting minutes, and newsletters. One scrapbook provides details on The Garden Club of Georgia conventions and activities of member garden clubs.
Dates:
1948-2011, undated
Donald Windham "The Kelly Boys" short story
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS795f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of one copy of "The Kelly Boys," a short story written by Donald Windham in the form of a letter with date line "Atlanta May 1939." The story itself follows the narrator's internal observation of the eponymous Kelly boys, three brothers of "unimaginably beautiful" appearance. The story contains themes of voyeurism and homoerotic desire. Its setting is Atlanta, and it mentions local landmarks, like Peachtree Street. "The Kelly Boys" was not widely circulated; this...
Dates:
1939
Don't Worry Club collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS382
Scope and Content
This collection contains organization minutes, correspondence, and ephemeral materials.
Dates:
1911-1951
Dorothy A. Vogel photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS461
Scope and Contents
This collection contains four albums containing photographs related to Dorothy Vogel's life. Images include family, friends, school trips, stylized portraits, and travel destinations such as the Grand Canyon; Yellowstone National Park; Oregon; Miami; New York; and Ontario, Canada. Also included are photographs of Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and United Service Organization (USO) events, dances, and women's basketball, as well as summer camps such as Camp Highland in Plum Lake,...
Dates:
1917-1960, undated
Dorothy Haverty Grove papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS97
Scope and Content
The clippings, correspondence, programs, and articles in this collections, pertain primarily to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Guild, and secondarily with the Atlanta Music Club and the Atlanta Junior League. Of particular note is a signed proclamation by Mayor William B. Hartsfield that declared September, 6-13, 1954, Atlanta Symphony Week, the script of the orchestra’s tenth anniversary radio program, (which includes a history of the group), and several articles...
Dates:
1938-1956, undated
Dorothy Hodgson Jones papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS189f
Scope and Content
This collection includes correspondence, financial records, and invitations documenting the civic and personal life of Dorothy Hodgson Jones. Included are tax receipts, an invitation honoring William Howard Taft at the Capitol City Club, and a contract of sale of a lot and house at 1354 Peachtree Street.
Dates:
1877-1951, undated
Dorothy McCleskey family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS344
Scope and Content
This collection contains assorted materials relating to Tech High School and Girls High School. Included in the collection are programs, invitations, course of study records, and school newspapers.
Dates:
1938-1942
Dorothy Orr papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS166
Scope and Content
This collection contains postcards, and a typed draft of a biography of Gustavus John Orr, titled Gustavus John Orr: A Man and His Period.
Dates:
1875-1971
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- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 16
- Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
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- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 15
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- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 15
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
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- Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 13
- 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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- 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
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- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
- Jones family 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
- 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
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