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J. Richardson Jones film Film

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Collection number: ahc.VIS179
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection, in its original format, contains a series of sixty-five reels of primarily silent black and white nitrate film commissioned by Eugene M. White to promote the prosperous African-American communities in Atlanta during the 1930s. The footage documents a variety of activities including sporting events, homecoming, golf, motorcycle racing, occupational activities, and baseball. Included in the footage is the Atlanta Black Crackers baseball team playing a game at Ponce De Leon Park...
Dates: circa 1938

J. Thomas Hutcheson scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS793
Scope and Content

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and programs of the Atlanta Philharmonic Society and some musical events in Atlanta.

Dates: 1930-1933

Jack Etheridge Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS109
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta, and images taken on the ground depicting the path of the interstate.

Dates: 1961-1962

Jack Spalding collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS360
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of scrapbooks that contain columns written by Jack Spalding as editor of The Atlanta Journal.

Dates: 1934-1978, undated

Jackson P. Dick papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS255
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, certificates, and ephemeral materials pertaining to the Dick family. Included in the collection is newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous programs.

Dates: 1890-1972

James Brandt Vietnam War protest papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS961f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Atlanta counter-culture, satirical zines collected by James Brant that document protests against the Vietnam War. Zines include The Grope, The Atlanta Urinal and Atlanta Constipation, and A Winews Letter. The collection also includes event flyers, a pamphlet, and a poster about Vietnam War protest efforts.

Dates: 1968-1973, undated

James Edward Jordan Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS565
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection concerns the many business activities of James Edward Jordan. Although much of this collection is of a general business nature, there are some records specific to his beauty and barber supplies, photographic sales, movie production, and real estate businesses. Of particular importance, within the Business— Photographic/Cinemagraphic file is correspondence showing Mr. Jordan’s interest in producing commercials and movies. Some business cards in the collection...
Dates: 1947-1963

James Edward Jordan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS44
Scope and Content

The collection contains portrait prints all presumably taken by James Edward Jordan. The images include portraits of unidentified children, men, and women, predominently posed in a studio setting with painted decorative backgrounds. Of note is one strip of custom postage stamps of an unidentified man.

Dates: approximately 1947-1970

James Kolloch Hines Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS767
Scope and Content

This collections includes a diary, newspaper clippings, legal papers, and letters.

Dates: 1873-1967

James L. Day Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot research materials

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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 M. Wright Papers

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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 P. Wickersham letter and biographical sketch

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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

Jane Cooper newsclippings

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Collection number: ahc.MSS406f
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings about the social life of Jane Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1913

J.E. Mellett Jr. photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

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Collection number: ahcVIS369
Scope and Content

This collection contains black and white photographs of construction scenes in downtown Atlanta by J.E. "Ned" Mellett Jr. They were submitted to the 1949 Atlanta Historical Society Historical Photographic Exhibition in partnership with the Dixie Camera Club under the category "construction." Additional photographs include scenes of Atlanta Zoo and activities such as tennis, baseball, and swimming in Piedmont Park, Grant Park, and Lakewood Park.

Dates: 1949-1950

Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS171
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographic images previously owned by Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs. The first part of the collection features images of Askew's family and friends at various social functions including holiday and costume parties, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Photographs of Atlanta-native and actress Jane Withers, actor John Bromfield and his wife Mary Ellen Tillotson Bromfield, the Dobbs family, Billy Jones, and Dennis Machett are also included. Images from Guy Dobbs's...
Dates: 1946 - circa 1978, bulk circa 1955

Jehu Neal Carter Diary Excerpts

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Collection number: ahc.MSS54f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of three photocopied pages from Jehu Neal Carter's diary. In 1857, Carter traveled by rail car through Georgia and Tennessee. Carter records his impressions of Knoxville, Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia; and Atlanta, Georgia. While in Atlanta, he describes the town "as a city of Railroads and from all appearances of Do Nothings and loffers." [sp] He attended the First Baptist Church "preaching to the colored people."

Dates: 1857

Jennie Clarke photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

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Collection number: ahc.VIS350
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Clarke family, images of the Atlanta Terminal Station in 1969, and a photograph of a 1940 lynching near Marietta, Georgia.

Dates: 1869-1969, undated

Jennie Meta Barker research papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates: approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967

Jessie Boynton photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

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Collection number: ahc.VIS288
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the Fulton County Alms Home for African Americans; Fulton County Alms Haven Home; Boynton's farm house; and a photograph of Jessie Lee Clark.

Dates: 1977

Joe McTyre Photograph Collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS106
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection is comprised of images taken by Atlanta Journal- Constitution journalist Joe McTyre, and images of other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs in the collection include images of prominent individuals in government, business, entertainment, sports, and others who were the subject of news events. Also included are photographs of the physical environment of Atlanta, and in rural Georgia towns. The remaining photographs relate to news coverage of events such as airplane...
Dates: 1889-1985, undated

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Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 40
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Names
Hartsfield, William Berry 18
Atlanta Historical Society 17
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 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
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 12
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 10
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 10
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 10
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Young, Andrew, 1932- 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
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
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 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
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 Public Schools 5
Atlanta Regional Commission 5
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 5
Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Democratic Party (Ga.) 5
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
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 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 Falcons (Football team) 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
Grant family 4
Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992 4
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