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Herbert E. Choate papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Brannon photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS477
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection contains color slides that document buildings, street scenes, and fire incidents in downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular note are images of Atlanta Fire Department stations and firefighting scenes. Also included are photographs of local events including the Inman Park Festival, Atlanta Braves and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sporting events, and a civil rights demonstration by Atlanta University Center students in 1960. There is also a...
Dates: 1945-1996, undated

Hugh M. Dorsey, Sr. papers

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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

Hughs family papers

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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

Indian Creek Garden Club records

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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 family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS518
Scope and Contents This collection contains portraits of Inman family members and residences, including the Swan House and the Inman family's residence on 15th Street in the Ansley Park neighborhood. Also included are residences designed by Cooper and Cooper, possibly by Samuel Inman Cooper, such as residences owned by Malon Courts, Henry Grady Jr., Katherine Mitchell Howell, and Dillon Winship. Of particular note are photographs of Emily MacDougald Inman with Hugh T. Inman II and his family at the Swan House...
Dates: 1893-1980, undated

Inman Park Restoration, Inc. documents

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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

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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

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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

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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 Toy Sherard photograph collection

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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

Irene Woodruff documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS384f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a series of newspaper clippings, a letter to Irene Woodruff with a history of the Samuel Bowen Wight House located in the West End, and a copy of The Wesleyan Alumnae (Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia).

Dates: 1900-1975

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Hartsfield, William Berry 18
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 18
Atlanta Historical Society 17
Georgia Institute of Technology 15
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 14
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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 13
Rich's (Retail store) 13
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 12
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 12
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 11
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
Young, Andrew, 1932- 11
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 10
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 9
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 9
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 9
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 8
Coca-Cola Company 8
Emory University 8
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 8
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Georgia Power Company 8
Massell, Sam 8
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 7
Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Atlanta History Center 7
Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 7
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 7
Piedmont Driving Club 7
Agnes Scott College 6
American Red Cross 6
Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 6
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Atlanta Urban Design Commission (Ga.) 6
Atlanta Urban League 6
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Georgia. General Assembly 6
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 6
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 6
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 6
Slaton, John M. 6
Southeastern Fair (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Underground Atlanta, Inc. 6
Zoo Atlanta 6
Atlanta (Ga.) 5
Atlanta Art Association 5
Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 5
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Atlanta Regional Commission 5
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 5
Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
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DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 5
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
First National Bank of Atlanta 5
Forward Atlanta Commission 5
Fulton National Bank 5
Georgia School of Technology 5
Georgia State University 5
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 5
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 5
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 5
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 5
United States. Army 5
United States. Navy. 5
University of Georgia 5
Allen family 4
Atlanta (Ga.). Board of Aldermen 4
Atlanta Housing Authority 4
Atlanta Memorial Arts Center 4
Atlanta Pride Festival 4
Boy Scouts of America . National Council 4
Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Carnegie Library of Atlanta 4
Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Citizens and Southern National Bank 4
Clark College 4
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia 4
Delta Air Lines 4
Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 4
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 4
Georgia. Department of Natural Resources (1972- ) 4
Georgia. Department of Transportation 4
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