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James L. Day Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot research materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1279
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research materials pertaining to the Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records. Included are biographical and contextual descriptions written by Day in the early 2000s about civilian contractors and Confederate officer and enlisted personnel mentioned within those records. There are also copies of webpages about these individuals and their assigned military units.
Dates:
2003-2004, undated
James L. Hunter Diary and The Gardening Book of James L. Hunter, A Southern Planter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS987
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection contains the original gardening book of James L. Hunter with diary entries from September 1845 to March 1846. The diary details the plan for Hunter’s vegetable garden, the types of vegetables planted, and best practices for successful crops. The dated entries provide a clear timeline of Hunter’s gardening activities. Incidentally, the diary contains rote French exercises and math calculations on its final pages. The collection also includes Catherine Howett’s 1996 publication,...
Dates:
1845-1996
James L. Mitchell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS840
Scope and Content
The James L. Mitchell collection contains .25 cubic feet of papers in thirteen folders. The greater part of the collection consists of reproductions of articles, memoirs, letters, newsclippings and maps. Some original correspondence of James L. Mitchell is included, but the bulk of the pre-1950 material is photocopied.
Dates:
1861-1985, undated; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1900
James L. Wilson letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS310f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two letters written by James L. Wilson. The first was written to his cousin Mollie on September 5, 1861, from Manassas, Virginia. In this letter he describes the conditions of life in the army camp and his relationships to other soldiers as their Captain. Attached to this letter is a piece of wood Wilson claims was from the gallows of the abolitionist John Brown, who was publicly hanged in Virginia on December 2, 1859. The second letter was written to James’ cousin...
Dates:
1861, 1863
James Larwood collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS84
Scope and Content
This collection contains the first twelve of a series of booklets published by the Atlanta Public Library for their exhibition of selections from Mr. Larwood’s library of Georgiana. Also included are two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings concerning the collection which is now housed at Oglethorpe University.
Dates:
1954-1957, undated
James Lile Lemon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1275
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the military career of Captain James Lile Lemon. It includes the first and third volume of a three-set diary that details his military engagements and experiences. Of particular note Vol. 1 includes a rose pressed into the cover. In addition, there are copies of Lemon’s memoir in which he detailed his recollections of the war. The collection also contains transcripts of all three diaries and parts one and two of the memoir, wartime maps, newspapers, letters from...
Dates:
1850-2005, undated
James M. Wright Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS211
Scope and Content
The bulk of the James M. Wright papers, circa 1964, consists of handwritten research on note cards, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of his book, The License System of the City of Atlanta (1964). Box 4 contains subject files containing articles, pamphlets, reports, surveys, and other printed material related to public utilities, taxation, religion, slavery, and transportation. Information about Wright’s background in education and employment is contained in the folder...
Dates:
1896-1964
James Marion Self interview transcriptions
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS570f
Scope and Content
This collection contains the transcription of an oral history of Frank Self and Sarah Self Hentosh, the children of James Marion Self, regarding the Inman Family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. The transcription is taken from two audio cassette tapes identified as CT 495 and 498.
Dates:
1993-1994
James Neuman and Tripp family Civil War correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS679f
Scope and Content
The collection consists of letter correspondence among friends, James Neuman and Hiram and Elizabeth A. Tripp. The letters indicate that Hiram Tripp was holding money for Neuman for safekeeping and would purchase tobacco and other supplies regularly to send to Neuman. The letters from Neuman describe the daily life of soldiers, his involvement in the battles leading up to the fall of Atlanta, and his desires and quests for finding tobacco. One letter, dated 21 August 1864, explains how he...
Dates:
1863-1864
James O. Wynn papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS388f
Scope and Content
This collection contains Troup County property conveyances and deeds; correspondence; Washington Seminary report cards; and bills belonging to James O. Wynn of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1876-1929
James P. Wickersham letter and biographical sketch
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS373f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter from James P. Wickersham on July 17, 1881 to his wife Emerine written during a train ride to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He wrote that the trip took 34 hours, including a 5 or 6 hour delay because of engine failure. He speaks of Atlanta as "beautiful and thrifty" compared to the city as he saw it in 1866 as it lay in ruins.
Dates:
1881, undated
James Prickett letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter written by James C. Prickett of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to F. Foreman regarding the selling of flour. The letter is written on a Philadelphia Letter Sheet Price-Current which gives the prices raw materials were bringing in the market.
Dates:
1867
James R. Cothran papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS989
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains research materials collected by James R. Cothran including seed and nursery catalogs; information regarding botanists, naturalists, landscape designers and architects, and landscape architectural firms; horticultural, gardening and landscape topics; historic gardens of the Southeast region; and professional materials including correspondence, papers authored, and awards received. The collection consists primarily of photocopies of research material including seed and...
Dates:
1744-2012, undated
James R. Cothran visual arts material
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS262
Scope and Content
This collection contains slides, photographs, and negatives taken or collected by Cothran depicting topics such as botanists, naturalists, landscape designers and architects; horticultural, gardening and landscape topics; and historic gardens of the Southeast, other regions of the United States, and Europe. Material also includes images used in Cothran's lectures and books he authored. The majority of the collection consists of images taken by Cothran on his travels or collected during...
Dates:
1932-2011, undated
James R. Crew papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS79f
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, military documents, and other personal records of James R. Crew. Correspondence includes letters Crew wrote to his wife about life in Atlanta during and after the Civil War. Crew did not date the letters but he describes contemporary war events such as battles in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He talks about the hanging of "bridge burners," referring to a group of Union spies known as Andrews Raiders. Crew...
Dates:
approximately 1860-1932, undated
James Shorter letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS307f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a copy of a letter written by James Shorter, Jr., at Yale College, to his father, James Shorter, Sr of Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky. The letter describes his trip through upper Georgia to Augusta and then to Savannah.
Dates:
1826
James Smith statement
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS317f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a statement originating in Savannah, Georgia from L. J. B. Fairchild to James Smith, Esq. executor of the estate of Mrs. Sapialo Evans, regarding dispositions from the estate.
Dates:
1854
James Stapleton ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS337f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an invoice for payment of purchase of various dry goods by William Hadden from J. and J. Stapleton; a pamphlet titled "Rules of the House of Representatives for the Session of 1865"; and invitations to the Inaugural Reception at the Kimball House in 1882.
Dates:
1859-1882
James T. McDonald deed
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS428f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a deed to James T. McDonald for a lot on Woodward Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. It is for Landlot 44, District 14.
Dates:
1892
James W. Busby papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS916f
Scope and Content
This collection contains business receipts and transactions, business cards, correspondence, sympathy cards, paint and stain swatches, work ledgers, salesman booklets, a house construction invoice, and Civil Service Commission applications.
Dates:
1897-1959, undated
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