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Hugh T. Keenan's Heaven Bound papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1115
Scope and Content
This collection contains research materials for a report by Hugh T. Keenan on the religious pageant Heaven Bound, performed by choirs of Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and the impact of the production on the African-American community. Materials include articles, newspaper clippings, production programs, and fliers. The collection also contains a copy of the finished report, published in the Journal of American...
Dates:
1931-2000, undated
Hugh Wilkie certificate
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS374f
Scope and Content
This certificate is a memorial resolution of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Gate City Division 368, issued on December 8, 1828 in honor of H. S. Wilkie.
Dates:
1928
Hughes Spalding collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS454
Scope and Content
This collection contains a single scrapbook documenting the seventy-fifth birthday of Hughes Spalding. The scrapbook includes photographs, a menu, guest list, and biography.
Dates:
1961
Hughs family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS121
Scope and Content
This collection contains family histories, scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence about the Hughs family. Of particular note are three manuscripts; Lucile Smith Hughs' “My Pot Pourri of Ninety Years" about the West End area of Atlanta; Albert S. Mead's “Five Hundred Miles A-Foot” chronicling his trip through the North Georgia mountains; and Mother Mary Monica's “Some Family Memories” about Antebellum Atlanta.
Dates:
1858-1974, undated
Hunter family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS371f
Scope and Content
This collection contains minutes of the State House and Senate in Milledgeville, Georgia, for 1864 and various papers of E. A. Perkins who married into the Hunter family. The minute book ledger was kept by Ed Walker who later ran a general store in Milledgeville. The papers of Edward A. Perkins include insurance policies, patents on an insect exterminator, harness attachment, and lightning pea planter, a drawing, and a memorial resolution, among other material.
Dates:
1864-1906
Hutton Family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS945
Scope and Content
The Hutton Family papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed materials from Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, business-related items, and genealogical research materials. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Trelle Hutton to her husband Hugh from 1884-1898. The letters discuss the antics and illnesses of their children, business opportunities, and local news. They offer an account of the day-to-day activities of a middle class...
Dates:
1871-1936, undated
H.W. Santelle medical journal
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS629f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a journal kept by H. W. Santelle. It records the medical treatment of three patients he attended from 1863-1864. He notes their rank, age, regiment, company, injury, and battle where the injury was sustained. Each soldiers' health and treatment are documented, and the journal includes a post mortem examination report. The three soldiers were: Clarance L. Coulter, a twenty-four year old corporal in Company G, 123 New York Volunteers; Thomas Ruffin, a thirty-seven...
Dates:
1863-1892
Hypathia B. Ray scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS302
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a single scrapbook that contains newspaper and program clippings pertaining to theatrical events.
Dates:
1909-1970, undated
Ida Mae McDonald Perry scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS860f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a copy of The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book in which McDonald recorded her fourth year at Girls High School. The book has sections with class photographs, class officers, class prophecies, graduation invitations, graduation programs, jokes and frolics, gown photos, and press notices. McDonald used the book as a scrapbook, adding newspaper clippings, notes from friends, event programs, drawings, and photographs of her and her classmates...
Dates:
1916
Idalia Ferguson Correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS106f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains one card and three letters sent to Idalia Ferguson from family and family friends. The first item is a Christmas card sent in 1933 from Lucille in Ocala, Florida. Also included is a letter written at the William Sloan House in New York by her son Edgar on December 12, 1933. He informs his mother that he is having a good trip despite the cold weather. The next letter was written on July 7, 1961 and is from Idalia’s cousin, Kate. Her letter discusses the arrangements...
Dates:
1933, 1961, undated
Ike W. Brown railroad papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS762f
Scope and Content
This collection contains business documents found at a railroad station Covington, Georgia by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The papers appear to be collected by Ike W. Brown and primarily pertain to railroad travel. Items include an account book, correspondence, train ticket stubs, and two booklets delineating train tariffs.
Dates:
1884-1926, undated
Imogene McAfee Buder Music papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS45f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a typewritten copy of the poem “Easter on Kennesaw” (1971), the sheet music for “Walk With Me Into Paradise” (1966), and a phonograph record (45 rpm) of “Walk With Me Into Paradise” and “April in Atlanta,” performed by Joe Dickey.
Dates:
1966-1971
Improved Order of Red Men collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS701f
Scope and Content
This collection contains by-laws, capital stock certificates, a membership certificate, and correspondence about the Improved Order of Red Men. The constitution and by-laws come from the Comanche Tribe, number six, of Atlanta, Georgia, and are dated 1890. The capital stock and membership certificates are issued to M. J. Greenblatt from the Chippewa Tribe, number fifty, also of Atlanta. The correspondence includes letters between Anthony K. O'Neill and Franklin Garrett on the unknown...
Dates:
1890-1988, undated
Indian Creek Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS668
Scope and Content
This collection contains yearbooks, histories, flower show programs, and project reports that document the activities of the club. Scrapbooks provide details of meetings, social events, and numerous civic projects of the club. Of special interest is the club's history of the section of Lenox Road that was known as Indian Creek Acres by the resident members. Also of note is a report for a civic project to save the landmark Buckhead tree on which the original buck's head was hung, and gave...
Dates:
1939-1984
Inman Park Restoration, Inc. documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS650f
Scope and Content
The records include intra-neighborhood communications, minutes, by-laws, and promotional and publicity materials.
Dates:
1971-1974
International Cotton Exposition collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS697f
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of souvenir cards, invitations, and articles pertaining to the International Cotton Exposition. Also included in the collection is a picture guide to Atlanta and the exposition. Articles are from The Century Magazine, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and The Daily Graphic. They are about the significance of the exposition and summmarize the participants and...
Dates:
1880-1946
Irene Richards Sterrett baby book
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS798
Scope and Content
This baby book was kept by Natalie Taylor Sterrett. It includes photographs, notes, newspaper clippings and some school work.
Dates:
1913-1923
Irene Rose Smillie papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS193
Scope and Content
This collection consists of Irene Rose Smillie's papers and those of her parents. Included in the collection are Irene Smillie's will, as well as a codicil to that will; a Bible containing Crandell family history; and a short, handwritten Crandell family tree. The collection also includes a letter from Hety and Mary Silvey dated 1850 about the wedding day of Irene Smillie's parents, Harriet F. Crandell and Robert Thomas Smillie and an invitation addressed to Harriet and Robert Smillie to...
Dates:
1850-1950, undated
Irene Rose Smillie visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS210
Scope and Content
This collection contains cased portraits of family members of Irene Rose Smillie. There are images of Smillie's immediate family including her parents, sisters, and brother. There are also images of her mother's family including Smillie's grandfather, aunt, uncle, and cousin. The collection also contains photographs of Gibraltar, taken by Smillie during cruises across the Atlantic Ocean in 1911, as well as two watercolors painted by Smillie.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1915, undated
Irene Toy Sherard photograph collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS229
Scope and Content
This collection contains two albums of black and white photographs. The images are of Irene Sherard, her family and her friends. Most of the images are undated and are taken in outdoor settings. The subjects of the images appear to be young men and women participating in group activities in playful outdoor settings. Locations of the photographs include Brookhaven, Grant Park, Lithia Springs, and Little St. Simon's Island, Georgia. Some of the images have captions written by Irene Sherard....
Dates:
approximately 1900-1925
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- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 10
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- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 10
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- Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Trust Company of Georgia 8
- Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
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- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
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