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Reynolds family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS284f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an 1877 account book belonging to Thomas S. Reynolds, a printer in Atlanta, Georgia; an 1890 letter from Thomas Reynolds to his daughter in Brunswick, Georgia; a report card belonging to Mattie Reynolds from McDonough Street Female School; an indenture for John Reynolds to serve as apprentice in a chair making company in 1819; and other documents relating to the Reynolds family of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1819-1890
Richard Kavanaugh photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS420
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Richard Kavanaugh's personal life and professional career. The personal images are primarily in the photo albums and depict parties at Kavanaugh's residence on East Morningside Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. Albums also highlight Kavanaugh with friends, including many of them in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Many the photo albums also contain images related to Kavanaugh's professional career as an editor for ...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2007
Richards family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS176
Scope and Content
This collection contains the diaries and typewritten transcripts of the diaries of Samuel P. Richards. Journals of Irene Richards, Sarah V. Richards, and Dora Richards. There is also correspondence, family history, a Bible, and scrapbooks containing various information. These papers chronicle daily events in Atlanta and prices and availability of goods. They also describe the shelling and evacuation of the city and also the travels of S.P. Richards to New York City as a refugee in 1864, and...
Dates:
1842-1945, undated
Rich's, Inc. records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1245
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the downtown Atlanta flagship store and retail stores throughout the Southeastern United States. Included in the collection are annual reports, biographical materials of founding members and executives, business history, employee publications, employee training materials, lists of officers and directors, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, and scrapbooks, as well as materials on store openings and expansions, promotions, and special events....
Dates:
1877-1988, undated
Rick Beard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS730
Scope and Content
These papers consist of research for the dissertation correspondence.
Dates:
1890-1980, undated
Riverside West Garden Club scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS715
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook describing the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes photographs, correspondence, a yearbook, and clippings. Of special interest are documents describing the club's work to restore the grounds of the Crossroads Atlanta Primitive Baptist Church on Mount Vernon Highway and Powers Ferry Road in Sandy Springs.
Dates:
1974-1975
Robert D. Klein Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS127
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of images of buildings in the commercial district of downtown Atlanta, and in an outlying area which is presently known as Midtown. The collection includes views of the Empire Building on Broad Street (later named Citizens and Southern National Bank Building), the Hurt Building on Hurt Plaza, Rich’s Department Store on Broad Street, the Ruralist Press Building located on Hunter Street, and Peachtree Apartments (later named Hotel Peachtree Manor) located on...
Dates:
circa 1920 -1925
Robert E. Stowers letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS458f
Scope and Content
This letter describes Robert E. Stowers' recollections of life in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1920s.
Dates:
1983
Robert Foster Jr. Maddox papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS143
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Robert Foster Jr. Maddox’s political and banking career as well as Maddox family history. The bulk of the collection are scrapbooks, many from Maddox's years as Mayor of Atlanta.
Dates:
1861-1965
Robert Grady Pruitt papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS922f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a journal Robert G. Pruitt used to document his The Atlanta Constitution paper route; a book on the health center for the elderly Kingsford Atlanta Inn News from 1977 to 1979, edited by his sister, Georgia Pruitt; and a Certificate of Recognition for the Kingsford Atlanta Inn.
Dates:
1913-1979
Robert Lee Avary papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS16
Scope and Content
This collection consists of business papers, Methodist church papers, political papers, family records, and materials relating to Confederate veterans.
Dates:
1881-1958
Robert Rothberg photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS374
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs taken by F & L Photo Service and collected by Robert Rothberg of various downtown Atlanta buildings and businesses in the early 1930s. Notable scenes include the Alonzo F. Herndon (1858-1927) Crystal Palace barber shop on Peachtree Street, the Hurt Building, the J. P. Allen & Company department store, Chevrolet Motor Company, Moline Plow Company, King Hardware Company, and the Henry Grady Hotel.
Dates:
Approximately 1930-1935
Robert S. Lowrance, Jr. records of the North Fulton High School Special Choir
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS801
Scope and Content
This collection consists of scrapbooks, citations, certificates, and other materials documenting the activities of the North Fulton High School Special Choir. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, notices, brochures, and correspondence.
Dates:
1944-1985
Rosalie Howell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS119
Scope and Content
The bulk of the materials in the Rosalie Howell papers document Howell's career as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and her subsequent world travel. Items include a scrapbook; correspondence with former patients; official Red Cross documents; clippings concerning her receipt of the Croix de Guerre from the French government; and travel books, postcards, and ephemera (primarily from the United Kingdom). The collection has material about, or created by, other members of the Howell family;...
Dates:
1880-1970, undated
Rosalie Howell photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS335
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of the residence of Judge Clark Howell (Rosalie Howell's grandfather) and the Howell family. Also included are photographs of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and the Evan Park Howell School in Atlanta, Georgia. Of special note are images of Clark Howell's funeral at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta and a photo album related to Rosalie Howell's career as a Red Cross nurse during World War I.
Dates:
approximately 1880-1963
Ross Ingram Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS165
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains snapshots of various neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia as well as portraits of members of the Weaver and Drake families as well as some of their extended families. Most of the snapshots of Atlanta were taken in the 1960s, but the family portraits are from an earlier period, and were evidently purchased by Mr. Ingram. The neighborhoods included in this collection are Ansley Park, Buttermilk Bottoms, Grant Park, Inman Park, Lower Midtown, Pittsburgh, and West End. The...
Dates:
circa 1885-1969, undated, bulk 1964-1969
Roy LeCraw papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS504
Scope and Content
This collection consists of materials removed from a group of scrapbooks and includes pamphlets, programs, invitations, political ephemera, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and some correspondence.
Dates:
1907-1973; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1949
Russell Bellman Gone With the Wind Premiere Film
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS189
Scope and Content
The collection, in its original format, is a single reel of spliced 16mm black and white, and color film shot by Russell Bellman during the festivities and premiere of Gone With the Wind. The beginning of the footage captures the Atlanta Junior League Ball at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and was shot in black and white and color. Bellman shot the black and white portion from an elevated position panning the auditorium grandstands and floor area. The...
Dates:
1939
Ruth Henley photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS368
Scope and Content
This collection contains black and white photographs collected by Ruth Henley of John Willis Henley inside the Fulton County Courthouse and portraits of Atlanta Journal newspaper carriers on a trip to Washington D.C., in 1910, one of whom may be Thomas Henley.
Dates:
1906-1910
Sadie Estelle Martin Partridge papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS647f
Scope and Content
The Sadie Martin Partridge papers include a narrative reminiscence of her youth and photocopies of newsclippings from 1972. In the narrative, Sadie describes the life of a well-to-do young girl in turn-of-the-century Atlanta. She emerges as a spunky, flirtatious young woman. She also describes the millinery trade in Atlanta, social activities of the time period, and her memories of the 1906 Atlanta race riot. The newsclippings feature Sadie much later in her life, when she babysat to...
Dates:
1972-1980
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- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
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- Georgia Power Company 8
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Underground Atlanta, Inc. 6
- Zoo Atlanta 6
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- DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 5
- English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
- First National Bank of Atlanta 5
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- Georgia School of Technology 5
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- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
- Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 5
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
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- 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
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