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Martin Padgett visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.
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
Mary Mimms oral history transcription
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS365f
Scope and Content
This interview is largely about Ms. Mimms' recollections of the Inman family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. The cassette tape of interview is filed at CT-492.
Dates:
1990
Mary Shelton Felt papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS265
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection is education related materials. Some examples include memory books, compositions books, and progress reports.
Dates:
1920-1934
Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates:
1947-1949
Meredith Zara photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS61
Scope and Content
This collection contains two prints depicting unidentified African American laborers involved in construction work on Alabama Street, between Pryor Street and Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. The other image is of the exterior of the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is now Ford Motor Lofts.
Dates:
1900-1930
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1077
Scope and Content
This collection contains business documents generated and collected by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The bulk of the material is meeting minutes created by the Chamber and its various councils. There are also publications of the Chamber, administrative and institutional records, and various documents describing the establishment of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), airports in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission. Material...
Dates:
1883-2012, undated
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates:
1922-1993, undated
Midtown Historic District photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS265
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of images of the historic Midtown area in Atlanta, Georgia. The photographs were taken for draft nomination on the National Register of Historic Places for Midtown. Included are photos of churches, Henry Grady High School, stores and businesses, street scapes, apartments, and homes in the Midtown area. Types of homes photographed vary among bungalows, duplexes, row houses, carriage houses, alley dwellings, and cottages. Of special interest are photographs of the...
Dates:
1997
Mildred Calhoun Wick manuscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS835
Scope and Content
This collection contains a manuscript titled "Living with Love, 1896-1985: An Autobiography by Mildred Calhoun Wick (Great Granddaughter of John C. Calhoun)." The manuscript was published under the title Living with Love in 1986 by Serendipity Press.
Dates:
1986
Mildred Inman Bryant interview transcription
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS399f
Scope and Content
This collection contains the transccription of an oral history regarding the Inman family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1993
Mildred Traver Coggin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS65f
Scope and Content
This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertisements and other ephemera of Mildred Traver Coggin (1888-1979).
Dates:
1890-1957
Mimosa Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS673
Scope and Content
This collection contains attendance ledgers, yearbooks, and scrapbooks that document the social and civic activities of the club. The scrapbooks include clippings, yearbooks, and flower show awards and ribbons. One scrapbook is devoted to the club's civic project landscaping the grounds of the Atlanta Speech School's new location on Northside Parkway in 1967. This scrapbook includes landscape drawings by landscape architect, William L. Monroe. Other materials include documentation on the...
Dates:
1928-2013
Minnie Hite Moody manuscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS160
Scope and Content
This collection consists of the typed original manuscript for Death is a Little Man, a novel about the Buttermilk Bottom section of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1936
Moses Amos letter and article
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS744f
Scope and Content
This collection contains one letter written by Moses Amos in 1907 addressed to Charles J. Hopkins, thanking him for his regard for the African American community; one newspaper article on the Amos family's pharmaceutical work; and one letter by Louise C. Merrits, a nurse, who worked with Mrs. Irby.
Dates:
1907, 1982, 2004, undated
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