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MacDougall Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS228
Scope and Content
The Papers of Robert and Margaret MacDougall consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings and scrapbook pages, and brochures and other printed materials. Many of these papers concern MacDougall’s work as an engineer, work as an administrator of the Works Progress Administration and his activities working with the city of Atlanta, particularly in the development of the expressways through the city and the bond issues to finance the projects. A second portion of these papers concern the...
Dates:
1924-1977
Mackle Construction Company Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS159
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains images of residential, commercial, and governmental property most likely built by the Mackle Construction Company in Atlanta, Chamblee, and Augusta, Georgia, and in South Carolina. The collection contains photographs of schools, hotels, apartments, stores, an office building, and a military base. Among the photographs of buildings in Atlanta are images of the J. P. Allen Building on Whitehall Street, the Cecil Hotel on Luckie Street, the F. J. Cooledge and Sons...
Dates:
1916-1920
Major General Marion Williamson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS851
Scope and Content
This collection contains Georgia National Guard Annuals; a National Guard register; an army Staff Officer's field manual; a Georgia statistical register; and a United States Army Register of Retired Personnel. There are also awards and certificates that Williamson received during his education, military career, and career in the Georgia Department of Labor. In addition, there are membership and identifications cards from various civic and federal organizations; a certificate to the Georgia...
Dates:
1924-1983, undated
Manning, Selvage, and Lee Forward Atlanta Campaign Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS113
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of public relations photographs contains images of the city of Atlanta that were created for the Forward Atlanta campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and were meant to showcase the city. Some images were probably taken in support of other public relations activities of Bell and Stanton, but are not identified as such. Included are aerial views of downtown Atlanta, Midtown, and the Peachtree Center area, which highlight the city’s skyline and infrastructure. Other...
Dates:
circa 1960-1970
Map collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS290
Scope and Content
This collection includes city maps of Atlanta and its suburbs, as well as plat maps drawn to facilitate the purchase of new homes in neighborhoods and subdivisions in Fulton, DeKalb and Cobb counties. The maps illustrate the physical growth of the city of Atlanta and the creation of neighborhoods in and around the city in the latter half of the 19th century through the late 20th century.
Dates:
1853-1991, undated
Margaret Clarke papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS69
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to the Civil War, Confederate veterans, and the general history of Atlanta. Included is an 1864 edition of the Atlanta Intelligencer and an issue of Confederate Veteran.
Dates:
1864-1908
Margaret Mitchell Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS146
Scope and Content
The Margaret Mitchell collection is comprised of material pertaining to the life of Atlanta author Margaret Mitchell, including correspondence, newspaper articles, and other printed materials. The correspondence – originals and copies of cards, letters, postcards, notes, and telegrams – provides detail into Mitchell’s professional relationships with fans and publishers, as well as her involvement with the Atlanta Historical Society. The Baugh (secretary to Stephens Mitchell, brother and...
Dates:
1863-1971
Margaret Mitchell House Archives
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content
The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1848-2002, undated
Margaret Whitman Lakin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14
Scope and Content
This collection contains scrapbooks of newsclippings and memorobilia of Atlanta.
Dates:
1919-1955
Marian Josephine Bateman Hulsey photograph | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS10
Scope and Content
This collection consists of one cased image of Marian Josephine Bateman Hulsey. The image is hand colored and printed on a waxed paper with a piece of milk glass behind. The case contains an oval glass opening which allows viewing without opening the case.
Dates:
approximately 1860
Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates:
1900-1993, undated
Marion Johnson photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content
This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates:
1938-1975
Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content
This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.
Dates:
1895-1905
Martin Padgett visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS416
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials used by Martin Padgett in research for his book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution. Items include photos of staff and drag performers, primarily John Greenwell (1950- ) as Rachel Wells, at Sweet Gum Head, a prominent drag and gay bar at 2284 Cheshire Bridge Rd. NE, Atlanta, Georgia, from 1971 to 1981; a poster promoting the Phoenix Affair II, a charity show...
Dates:
1972-1983
Martin Stupich Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS115
Scope and Contents of the Records
The photographs in this collection were created during two survey grants sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The images in the first grant documented the development of Atlanta’s rapid transit system (MARTA) from 1977- 1978, and photographs from the second grant (1979-1981) illustrate Atlanta’s role as a center of transportation. The photographs from the first NEA project depict downtown Atlanta prior to the construction of MARTA, employees involved in the creation of...
Dates:
1955 – 1981, bulk 1977-1981
Mary Connally Spalding papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS46
Scope and Content
These papers consist of scrapbooks, financial records, newspaper clippings, genalogy material, scholarly articles, and correspondence of Mary Connally Spalding and her family.
Dates:
1867-1967, undated
Mary Cooper collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS272
Scope and Content
This collection contains one lineage book prepared by Sally Eugenia Brown for Mary Pope Cooper.
Dates:
1905
Mary H. Blanchard Examination Booklet and Memorium
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS34f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a booklet of Mary Blanchard’s term examinations from 1876 to 1877 from Girls High School. The term examinations cover a variety of topics including: Geometry; English Literature, French, Latin and Chemistry. Also included is a booklet titled In Memoriam. In Memoriam is a tribute to the memory of Mary Blanchard written by the Browning Society at Girls High School and read on September 10, 1877. It includes condolences to her family and a poem about her life....
Dates:
1876-1877
Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.
Dates:
1993
Mary Margaret Carr records from the Child Service and Family Counseling Center
Collection
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
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 122
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 83
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 53
- Atlanta (Ga.) 47
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 44
- Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 42
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 33
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 33
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 32
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 31
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 31
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 28
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 28
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 25
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 23
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 22
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 20
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Georgia -- Politics and government 18
- Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
- Midtown (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
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- Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15
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- Sports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15
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- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 14
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- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 14
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions 9
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- Chastain Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
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- Historic districts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9 + ∧ less
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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
- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 13
- Rich's (Retail store) 13
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024 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, 1880-1965 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
- 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
- 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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