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Thomas Eugene Avery papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS811f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an unpublished autobiography about Avery's grade school years in Atlanta Public Schools during the Great Depression. The text is arranged as a collection of short stories. Avery wrote about studying in segregated school, church, and everyday life in the 1930s. The collection also includes two newspaper articles; one of them outlines Avery's academic successes, and in the other Avery describes his confusion and discomfort leading up to a metastatic prostate cancer...
Dates:
1944, 1996, undated
Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS331
Scope and Content
This collection captures the unveiling of the O'Reilly Monument in front of the Atlanta City Hall on the corner of Washington Street and Mitchell Street. The monument was erected by the Atlanta Historical Society.
Dates:
1945 October 18
Toy Museum of Atlanta collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS801f
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials from the 1986 and 1987 auctions of the Toy Museum of Atlanta's contents, including two auction catalogues, three editions of Antique Toy World magazine, and an auction staff pin. Materials also include newspaper clippings about the museum, promotional materials, stationery, and a catalogue order; as well as three stickers from protests against the construction of Presidential Parkway (the Great Park Freeway, later known as...
Dates:
1986-1987, undated
Travelers Insurance records of the 1917 Atlanta fire
Collection — Location: MSS OS Box 2.109
Collection number: ahc.MSS688f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to the 1917 Atlanta fire and subsequent property damage suffered by Travelers Insurance policy holders. Correspondence includes letters and telegrams between Travelers Insurance and the Cliff C. Hatcher Insurance Agency and Haas & Company. This correspondence discusses insurance policies affected by the fire. There are two legal-sized lists of affected policy holders including their addresses, loan numbers, policy numbers, mortgage...
Dates:
1917, undated
Trinity Methodist Church manuscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS505f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a manuscript assembled by Carl S. Millard on the Trinity Methodist Church. The document contains photographs, verse, church history, newspaper clippings, and an essay.
Dates:
1941
Tuxedo Park Historic District Nomination
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS631
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material pertaining to Tuxedo Park's Historic District Nomination which the Tuxedo Park Concerned Citizens Committee submitted to the Urban Design Commission in 1989. Included are documents used to support the nomination, a copy of the amended ordinance, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1989-1990
TWFB Corporation Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS2
Scope and Contents of the Records
These records contain legal and business papers relating to the business and property holdings in Atlanta of the TWFB Corporation.
Dates:
1957-1974
Una Rivers Glidden Tour photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS333
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs taken during the 1911 Glidden Tour from New York City to Jacksonville, Florida.
Dates:
1911 October 13-26
United Church Women of Atlanta scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS388
Scope and Content
This collection contains ten scrapbooks created by members of the United Church Women of Atlanta organization. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, pictures, programs, reports, correspondence, and organizational records. The correspondence includes letters from Charles L. Weltner, James A. Mackay, Richard B. Russell, Herman E. Talmadge, Robert G. Stephens, Mayor Ivan Allen, and Sargent Shriver.
Dates:
1946-1976
Upsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Theta scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS821
Scope and Content
This collection consists of thirteen scrapbooks from the Upsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Theta, containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting the activities and interests of the chapter.
Dates:
1938-1980
Ursula Adelaide Adkins papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS882
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a memory book belonging to Ursula Adelaide Adkins, kept during her senior year at Girls' High School and her Girls' High diploma with diploma tie.
Dates:
1929-1932, undated
Van Buren Colley Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS149
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs includes pictures of Atlanta and rural areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region, including Adamsville, and Alpharetta, and other areas of Fulton County. Included are street scenes in downtown Atlanta, and private residences, such as the interior of the home of Civil War collector Beverly DuBose on 2737 Peachtree Street, the home of Lemuel P. Grant in Grant Park, and farmland on Dunwoody Road. The collection is comprised of photographs of churches, including the...
Dates:
circa 1873-1970, undated, bulk 1953-1970
Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content
The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
1988-1989
Virginia Avenue Garden Club scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1079
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks that detail the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, and garden club programs. Of special interest are photographs of the Carnegie Branch Library at the Samuel M. Inman School (now Inman Middle School) in Virginia Highland.
Dates:
1934-1951
Virginia Lou Pirkle scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS847
Scope and Content
This collection contains one memory book kept by Virginia Lou Pirkle during her senior year. Included in the book are autographs from teachers and classmates, newspaper clippings, photos, dance cards, and various materials from neighboring school during 1928.
Dates:
1928
Virginia Twinam Smith slides
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS397
Scope and Contents
This collection contains slides of a wide variety of identified plants including herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, native shrubs, vegetables, vines, and trees of the Southeastern States. Also a part of the collection are photographs of public gardens, such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Callaway Gardens, Chattahoochee Nature Center, and the gardens of the Tullie Smith House at the Atlanta History Center. Other images in the Smith collection depict downtown Atlanta, skylines,...
Dates:
1978-2003
Vogue, The Picture record
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS899
Scope and Content
This collection contains one seventy-eight revolutions per minute record which has a picture on each side. One of the songs is "Atlanta, G.A." by Skylar and Shaftel, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Jack Prince as vocalist. This side has a picture of a train, the Atlanta Limited, a young woman, and morning glories. The other side of the record is "Aren't You Glad You're You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake as...
Dates:
undated
Voices Across the Color Line oral history recordings
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS180
Scope and Contents of the Records
The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events mentioned include the student movement centering on Atlanta University; The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR); creation and publication of the Atlanta Enquirer newspaper; the organization of the Atlanta Committee of Cooperative Action (ACCA), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and activities to desegregate city buses and restaurants. Other topics that are discussed...
Dates:
2005-2006
W. Millege White's photographs of Southern Bell Telephone Company
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS345
Scope and Content
This collection contains White's photographs of the construction of the Southern Bell Telephone Company building, also known as the Ivy-Walnut Exchange building. Photographs include interior and exterior images documenting the stages of development of the second portion of the building at 27 Auburn Avenue. The building was designed by noted Atlanta architect P. Thornton Marye.
Dates:
1920 June 15 - 1921 January 15
W. T. Clinton and Moore, Marsh, and Company ledgers and scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS755
Scope and Content
This collection consists of two ledger books: one belonging to W. T. Clinton and one belonging to W. M. Moore of Moore, Marsh, and Company. Also included is a scrapbook belonging to W. T. Clinton which also contains a ledger at the back of the scrapbook.
Dates:
1876-1881, undated
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- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
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- Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 7
- Piedmont Driving Club 7
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- American Red Cross 6
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- 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
- 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
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- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 5
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- Atlanta Pride Festival 4
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- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 4
- Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 4
- Georgia. Department of Natural Resources (1972- ) 4
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