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Mary Jo Brownlee debutante ball photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS344
Scope and Content This collection contains images of the debutante ball at the Piedmont Driving Club December 4, 1940 on Mary Jo Brownlee's 19th birthday. Lillian Y. Salter (1920-1996) attended the ball and collected and identified most of the photographs. Included are photographs of guests, chefs, and servants in formal attire as well as decorations of the venue and food. Some of the identified attendees include Atlanta photographer Bill Wilson; Mary Virginia Adair; Betty Yopp; Connie Spalding Anderson; and...
Dates: 1940 December 4

Mary Julia Watson papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS387
Scope and Content

This collection contains military records mostly from the American Revolutionary War and a little from the American Civil War. Included in this collection are discharge papers, service records, and the like mostly from the Watson and Frazier families. There is also a family Bible containing genealogical information of the Watson family.

Dates: 1780-1918, undated

Mary Lucas Butler Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS236
Scope and Content A large portion of this collection consists of papers written about, or by, Fred Lucas and his sister Mary Lucas Butler. These papers include biographical information of Fred Lucas and college research papers written by Mary Lucas. Poetry and book reviews are also part of this collection. A particular part of the collection includes biographical and genealogical materials about Madame Sophie Sosnowski (1833-1899), an immigrant to Georgia from Poland. These papers were collected and given to...
Dates: 1833-1966

Mary Margaret Carr records from the Child Service and Family Counseling Center

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1259
Scope and Contents This collection contains records that Mary Margaret Carr collected during her tenure as executive director of the Child Service and Family Counseling Center. It documents the history and management of the organization as well as some of its programs and initiatives, such as the DeKalb County Task Force on Teenage Pregnancy, the Employee Assistant Program, and Maternity Homes. Record types represented include meeting agendas, project planning documents, conference materials, memos and...
Dates: 1956-1993, undated

Mary McDonald Camp Dixie autograph albums

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Collection number: ahc.MSS883f
Scope and Content

This collection contains autograph albums owned by Mary Gordon McDonald from Camp Dixie, a Christian summer camp located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, established by A. A. Jameson (1868-1944) in 1914. The albums were signed by attendees of the camp as well as McDonald's parents. The signees reminisce about their summer and express the hope that they will write letters to each other in the future.

Dates: 1926-1930

Mary Mimms oral history transcription

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Collection number: ahc.MSS365f
Scope and Content

This interview is largely about Ms. Mimms' recollections of the Inman family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. The cassette tape of interview is filed at CT-492.

Dates: 1990

Mary Shelton Felt papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS265
Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection is education related materials. Some examples include memory books, compositions books, and progress reports.

Dates: 1920-1934

Mary Speir Godfrey documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS590f
Scope and Content

This collection contaions a report of the death of an American citizen by the American Foreign Service in Mexico. Mary Speir Godfrey died in Mexico on January 30, 1940, of pneumonia. Her body was embalmed and shipped to the executor of the estate in El Paso, Texas. Also included is a Notice to Creditors in El Paso, Texas in the matter of the estate of the deceased.

Dates: 1940

Mary Virginia Brown Connally papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS44
Scope and Content This collection contains papers of the Connally family, including legal documents such as the last will and testament of Thomas W. Connally; a mortgage deed for a home in Oakland City, an Atlanta neighborhood; records of property sales; tax receipts; an estate inventory; grocery receipts; correspondence; and a document issued by War Department of the Confederate States of America appointing Elijah L. Connally as Assistant Surgeon. Other records include newspaper clippings and travel...
Dates: 1822-1945, undated

Mary Virginia Bryan school papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1215
Scope and Content

This collection contains documentation of Mary Virginia Davis's education. The bulk of the materials are grammar, arithmetic, and spelling workbooks from E. Rivers School in Atlanta, Georgia. Other school papers include graduation achievement documents, and an E. Rivers School 1946-1947 yearbook titled The Rivers Overflow. There is also a World War II ration book and a wedding dress invoice for Mary Virginia Brown, Bryan's great-grandmother.

Dates: 1874-1952, undated

Mary Wylie McCarty manuscript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS816f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a typed manuscript by Mary Wylie McCarty detailing the founding and early years of the Retail Credit Company, precursor of Equifax, founded by Cator Woolford (1869-1944). It includes a history of Woolford's early life on his family farm, his schooling at Maryland Agricultural College, his enlistment in the U.S. Army in order to become part of the Signal Corps, and other various jobs he held. The collection also contains a partial letter written to a Mr. Malone...
Dates: undated

Mason I. Lowance photograph collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS325
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the 1958 Harvest Ball at the Piedmont Driving Ball and is mostly of couples as they enter into the ballroom. Also included are slides from the 1962 Atlanta Art Association trip, in which 106 of the passengers were Atlanta art patrons who died in the crash as the plane was taking off. Also includes a slide of the front cover of the Atlanta Constitution for June 4, 1962.

Dates: 1958-1962

Mathews and Joor family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS219f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal letters from Ann (Mathews) Joor, the daughter of John Mathews, about the death of "Edward" and from William Joor about a troublesome slave. There are receipts from William Joor and Jonathan Cooper about the transfer of the slave from Savannah, Georgia, to Charleston, South Carolina. Also included are business letters between John Mathews and his cousin, Optimus Hughes, about the sale of James Island.

Dates: 1816-1848, undated

Matt Jorgenson sketches

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Collection number: ahc.MSS194f
Scope and Content

This collection contains sketches of scenes in European cities by Atlanta architect Matt Jorgenson.

Dates: 1966-1973, undated

Mattie Louise Aldredge papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS9
Scope and Content

These papers consist of a scrapbook kept by Mattie Louise Aldredge during her senior year at Commercial High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1929

Mattie P. Fryer autograph album

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Collection number: ahc.MSS633f
Scope and Content This collection consist of one autograph album belonging to Mattie P. Fryer, signed by friends and relatives of Fryer including her brothers, John K Fryer, of Barnesville, Georgia, and Robert C. Fryer of Talbot County, Georgia. Some of the others having signed their names or a few lines of verse include cousins Lizzie Finlayson and Blanch Shehel of Stewartville, Georgia, and friends such as Mattie Davis of Upson County, Annie Cobb of Thomaston, Georgia, Ben H. Butts of Barnesville, Georgia,...
Dates: 1882-1885

Maud Morrow Brown Civil War manuscript and letter from Margaret Mitchell

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Collection number: ahc.MSS172f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a typed copy of the diary of William Decatur Howell, a Confederate soldier of Oxford, Mississippi who served in Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign. The diary also contains a short biography of Howell. The manuscript was compiled by Howell's aunt, Maud Morrow Brown in 1931. The collection also contains a letter from author Margaret Mitchell to Ms. Brown regarding the manuscript.

Dates: 1931, 1941

Maxey family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS37
Scope and Content The collection includes photographs of Charles Lincoln Maxey, Sr., and other members of the Maxey family. The collection contains images of African American school groups at varying levels from one-room schoolhouses for elementary level children to college students. All are group photographs, primarily scenes posed before educational buildings, or graduation groups, and most are unidentified. Those identified include the Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, students at Fisk University...
Dates: 1910-1945

May Frank Chapman papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS73
Scope and Content

Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Atlanta's Civil War Centennial.

Dates: 1935-1960

McClatchey family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS222f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of correspondence and a journal written during the Civil War. There are ten letters written to and about John George McClatchey; a memorial poem written by Minerva McClatchey after the death of her son John who was a private in Company I, 7th Georgia Cavalry. He was wounded at the Battle of Trevillian Station, and died at a hospital in Gordonsville, Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1866

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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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