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Haverty family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS904
Scope and Content
This collection documents the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. The papers consist of business correspondence, family letters, financial records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, travel journals, and writings. Included in the collection are speeches from Haverty's and American Retail Federation meetings and conventions, as well as first person narratives from Rawson Haverty Sr. highlighting his travels to Europe and family...
Dates:
1810-2007, undated
Haverty family visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS367
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, negatives, and maps that document the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. Included in the collection are images of J. J. Haverty, Clarence Haverty, and Rawson Haverty Sr.'s children, as well as the weddings of Clare Haverty to Frank Ridley Jr., Betty Haverty to Alex Smith, and Rawson Haverty to Margaret Munnerlyn. Photographs feature J. J. Haverty's home Villa Clare, along with Clarence and Elizabeth...
Dates:
1842-2006
Healey family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1179
Scope and Content
This collection contains a set of minutes from the Healey Real Estate and Improvement Company board of directors, two scrapbooks, and other family documents. One scrapbook records Oliver Markham Healey Sr.'s early childhood, and the other covers the wedding of Oliver Healey Sr. and Cornelia Orme Healey. Other materials include newspaper clippings about Cornelia Healey; Oliver Healy Sr.'s personal correspondence; a certificate from the Kiwanis International for Oliver Healey Sr.; stationery...
Dates:
1901-1973, undated
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS440
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, meeting minutes, calendar of events, and some correspondence.
Dates:
1895-1987, undated
Helen Bullard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS58
Scope and Content
These papers pramarily relate to Helen Bullard's work with the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA). Records include memoranda, minutes, membership information, agendas, reports, training material, surveys, resolutions, program materials, financial and budget records, and correspondence. Other materials pertain to political campaigns that Bullard handled between 1970 and 1976, including election reports that she collected between 1967 and 1977, and papers from her work with Judge Alexander...
Dates:
1968-1977, undated
Helen Prior scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS532f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook of Helen Prior who graduated from Girls High School in 1910.
Dates:
1910
Henry A. Alexander, Sr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1142
Scope and Content
This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, legal documents, and political writings, including text of speeches and letters to the editor of local newspapers that reflect Henry Alexander's activism in the Republican Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Legal and professional documents include Alexander’s affiliation with the American Bar Association, correspondence to the General Assembly and with the Fifth District of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs. ...
Dates:
1900-1973, undated
Henry Burr Green papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1063
Scope and Content
This collection consists of papers related to Henry Burr Green's life and family. Documents related to his military service and real estate career comprise the largest portion of the collection. The papers cover multiple facets of Green's life including his long-term involvement in the Presbyterian Church, his membership in multiple fraternities while attending Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), and his extensive involvement with the real estate community (1946-1987). Due...
Dates:
1900-1991
Henry Burr Green real estate photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS308
Scope and Content
This collection contains black-and-white photographs accumulated by Henry Burr Green in the process of conducting real estate business for Cheves-Green Enterprises, the mortgage loan, real estate, property management, and insurance company of which he was President. Most photos were taken by commercial photographer Walter M. Wright, and depict residential homes and office buildings in Atlanta, College Park, Decatur, East Point, and Marietta. Highlights include the Healey Building, Henry...
Dates:
1928-1947, undated
Henry L. Taylor visual arts materials of Atlanta Transit System, Inc.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS382
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and blueprints from the Atlanta Transit System, Inc. (ATS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are photographs and schematics of buses, streetcars, and trolleys used by ATS, as well as images of ATS staff. Of special note are photographs of Governor Lester Maddox (1915-2003) with William P. Maynard, president of ATS, signing a sales tax relief bill, which removed sales taxes on passenger fares. Also included is an image of Governor Maddox signing a proclamation...
Dates:
1923-1975, undated
Herbert E. Choate papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS15
Scope and Content
These papers consist of a scrapbook and research materials relative to the charter for the city of Atlanta in 1922.
Dates:
1922-1941
Herbert H. Lee Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS130
Scope and Contents of the Records
Included in this collection are slides and photographs of geographic locations, events, and transportation in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. The collection contains images of downtown Atlanta, including aerial views, government buildings, private residences, parks, street scenes, railroads, as well as photographs depicting poverty and sub-standard housing. The photographs of Herbert H. Lee are an excellent resource for those interested in the subject of urban renewal, and the post-World...
Dates:
1919- 1968, undated
Herbert Jenkins photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS43
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of photographs of Police Chief Herbert Jenkins and Atlanta Police Department personnel throughout Jenkins' career. Noteworthy images of Jenkins include photographs of him as a child, a portrait taken on his first day as a police officer, and a photograph of him being sworn in by Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Other images of note include a series of photographs of the Summerhill riot of 1966, pictures of the first African American patrolmen, and portraits...
Dates:
1890s-1975, undated
Historic newspaper collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS838
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspapers that document important historic events and aspects of local, national, and international news. The collection focuses on the following subjects: the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and special events such as the Civil War Centennial.
Dates:
1886-1993
Holton Mastin diaries
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1143
Scope and Content
This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, legal documents, and political writings, including text of speeches and letters to the editor of local newspapers that reflect Henry Alexander's activism in the Republican Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Legal and professional documents include Alexander’s affiliation with the American Bar Association, correspondence to the General Assembly and with the Fifth District of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs....
Dates:
1960-2008, undated
Howard L. Preston Chattahoochee River research materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS175
Scope and Content
This collection includes research material gathered under a grant to study Fort Peachtree at Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River. Included are notes, a copy of the Archeological Survey of Fulton and Cobb counties, and several pamphlets produced by the city of Atlanta.
Dates:
1973-1975, undated
Hubbard family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS880f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a recipe book, newspaper clippings, assorted deeds, an invitation, a photo, and a copy of Mamie Lowe Hubbard's driver's license.
Dates:
1889-1928, undated
Hugh B. Adams scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS244
Scope and Content
The images consist of photographs taken by Adams of outings of social clubs in Lenox Woods in Atlanta and Vinings, Georgia. The images are mounted in three loose scrapbooks. Of special interest are photographs taken for Miss Sallie Fannie Grant of the Everyday Tuesday Club at Vinings, in May 1887. Adams also captures some unidentified members of the Dixie Club at Vinings, in May 1889.
Dates:
1887-1891
Hugh Brannon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1170
Scope and Content
This collection mostly contains documents relating the Hugh Brannon's education at Technological High School, and the neighborhood in which he lived, Inman Park. Included are examples of Brannon's classwork at William A. Bass Junior High School and at Technological High School, in courses such as mathematics, science, English, and social studies. Student assignments represented in the collection sometimes touched upon the subject of war in Europe. Brannon, a lifelong resident of Atlanta's...
Dates:
1922-2007, undated
Hugh M. Dorsey, Sr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS279
Scope and Content
This collection contains six scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral materials. Of particular interest is a copy of the speech by Dorsey to Governor Slaton in response to the motion to dismiss filed in behalf of Leo M. Frank.
Dates:
1838-1924
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