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Phoenix Society records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS469
Scope and Content

This collection contains two yearbooks and twelve scrapbooks.

Dates: 1964-1997, undated

Photographs of substandard housing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS284
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of substandard housing and living conditions in the southwestern areas of Atlanta, Georgia, including Stewart Avenue (later named Metropolitan Parkway); Battle Hill neighborhood (later named Westview neighborhood); Vine City neighborhood; and Philadelphia Avenue. The slides feature images of residential homes, children playing, and physically deteriorating landscapes heavily populated with trash and other discarded materials.

Dates: approximately 1950-1968, undated

Photographs of the Christening of the SS John B. Gordon

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS309
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the christening of the SS John B. Gordon. Included are photographs of individuals involved in the ceremony, including: Reverend G. Borthern Jones; McWhorter Milner; Annabell Allen; Miss Carl Wohlford; Frank Poole; Mrs. Charles I. Allan (spelled Allen in the captions on the photos); Mrs. Edwin L. Jones; and Ellen Beasley.

Dates: 1943 Nov. 16

Piedmont Driving Club Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS409
Scope and Content The bulk of the records are invitations and announcements. The invitations include dinner dances with music by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Tommy Tucker, among others. Invitations for seasonal parties, including the annual Halloween Ball with presentation of the debutantes, and Christmas and Valentine's Day parties are also included. Other invitations feature After the Opera suppers, dancing classes, and a variety of other themed parties. Announcements include information about...
Dates: 1907-1998

Pierre Soule Ferris legal documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS107f
Scope and Content

This collection contains legal documents pertaining to the life of Atlantan Pierre Soule Ferris (1849-1909). Included is his will and certification of his will, a warranty deed, letters testamentary, a bond for title, and a statement to pay the balance due for property owned by Mr. Ferris in land lots 116, 141, and 142 of the 14th district in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1907-1923

Pine Tree Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS726
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials documenting the club's history. Included are minutes, scrapbooks and project reports that detail the club's civic and social activities. A significant amount of material illustrates the club's involvement in the Atlanta History Center Boxwood Memorial Garden.

Dates: 1938-2015, undated

Piromis H. Bell's photographs of Crawford W. Long

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS342
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of and about Dr. Crawford Williamson Long and his family that were compiled by Piromis H. Bell. Also included are photographs of monuments in honor of Long with his family.

Dates: 1871-1937, undated

Piromis Hulsey Bell research about Crawford W. Long

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS59
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of articles, newspaper clippings, family history, and accounts relating to Crawford Long and his use of ether as an anesthetic. It was compiled primarily by Piromis Bell, as well as Eugenia Long Harper.

Dates: 1875-1959, undated

Pitner and Beusse Merchandise Brokers pamphlet

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS825f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a pamphlet published by the Pitner and Beusse Merchandise Brokers that contains a racist humor essay by Sidney Fant Davis (1896-1993) called "The 'Colored Brother' or 'The Creator's Masterpiece." The essay was circulated in newspapers nationwide, but Pitner and Beusse Merchandise Brokers printed it separately as a pamphlet in Georgia to promote their business.

Dates: 1922

Planters Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS680
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection includes histories, minutes, yearbooks, and scrapbooks documenting the Club's membership meetings, civic and social activities, as well as special projects.

Dates: 1931-2017, undated

Plaster and Smith families photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates: 1835-1950, undated

Plume Family Bible

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS172
Scope and Content

This collection is a Bible printed by Mathew Carey in 1812. Handwritten notes on the Plume family cover the period 1731 to 1888.

Dates: 1812

Poer family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS644f
Scope and Content

The Poer Family papers include correspondence, legal documents, invitations, and newsclippings, documenting three generations of the Poer and Scott families.

Dates: 1897-1971

Police and Crime scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS306
Scope and Content

This collection consists of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings pertaining to the police and criminal activities in Atlanta, Georgia, 1901-1905.

Dates: 1901-1905

Poppy Garden Club photographs of Tullie Smith House and Farm

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS401
Scope and Contents This collection contains interior and exterior images of the Tullie Smith House and outbuildings (later Smith Family Farm) that include the farmhouse, grounds, barn, and enslaved people's cabin. A large number of images offer details of holiday decorations used to represent a 19th century Christmas on the farm. Many of the photographs were used for publicity and the club's booklet, Tullie Smith House published in 1986. Some of the images include unidentified...
Dates: approximately 1976-1980

Poppy Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS942f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains items that document the club's efforts to support the Tullie Smith House and Farm. Included in the collection are writings about the Tullie Smith House, correspondence about the publication of the Tullie Smith House booklet, and Atlanta Historical Society (later Atlanta History Center) publications and newsletters. Of special interest are notes for a Yule Log slide presentation.

Dates: 1978-1979

Postcard collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS93
Scope and Contents This collection contains postcards that depict scenes in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Most of the images are of man-made structures in Atlanta including Agnes Scott College, Atlanta Municipal Airport (now Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport), Biltmore Hotel, Booker T. Washington High School, Bulloch Hall, Candler Building, Capitol City Club, City Hall, Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), Atlanta Cyclorama at Grant Park, English-American (Flatiron) Building, Fort...
Dates: 1899-1990, undated

Powell family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS8
Scope and Content

This collection contains fifteen images documenting three generations of the Powell family. George T. Powell and Ned T. Powell are also represented. The carte-de-visite and cabinet cards were produced by C. W. Motes and Kuhns, both post-Civil War Atlanta photographers.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955

Powers family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS412f
Scope and Content

Virgil Powers was a Bibb County railroad commissioner and was married to Ann E. Jenkins of Washington County, Georgia. The papers include bills and receipts, property deeds in Washington County; land grants in Effingham County, Wilkinson County, and Chatham County; deed with abstract and title from Pulaski County; an invitation; appointment of Virgil Powers as railroad commissioner; Jenkins family genealogy; correspondence; fire insurance policy; and biographical sketch of Virgil Powers.

Dates: 1801-1897

Presbyterian Church in the United States reports

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS486f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a bound volume of annual reports of the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions; annual reports of the Committee of Publication; two reports from the Executive Committee of Sustentation; and one report from the Executive Committee of Home Missions. Each report includes information on donations from various churches and narrative descriptions of the activity of the committee.

Dates: 1876-1881

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 123
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Atlanta Campaign, 1864 74
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Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 67
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 66
Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 53
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African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 18
Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
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Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
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Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
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Names
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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