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Childress-Bryant family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS56
Scope and Content
These papers document the ownership history of several tracts of land in District 14 of Atlanta, Georgia, between 1822 and 1925. Including land lots are 119, 197, 198, 231, and 232. The collection consists of land grants, deeds, and papers primarily of the Childress and Bryant families. There are also papers regarding the land transactions of the White, Thomas, Mangum, Mitchell, Wooten, Thrasher, Guyton, Willis, and Suttles families. The land stayed within the Childress and Bryant families...
Dates:
1822-1925
Chris Mastin photographs of protest marches
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS399
Scope and Contents
This collection contains digital images taken by Chris Mastin of the March for Science Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally in Atlanta, and the Women's March on Washington. Photographs in this collection depict protesters holding signs and marching in downtown Atlanta and Washington D.C. The Women's March on Washington photographs also include images of protesters traveling on a charter bus from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.
Dates:
2017-2018
Church Women United in Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS928
Scope and Content
The records include by-laws, constitution, correspondence, newsletters, handbooks, meeting minutes, and materials documenting the social welfare projects. The meeting minutes include records of executive board meetings, annual meetings, and board of managers meetings. General minutes of the organization contain information on some of the social and welfare projects dealing with the youth of Atlanta. The group's involvement with the Savannah Street Neighborhood House is particularly...
Dates:
1958-1980
City of Atlanta Gender Identity Amendment
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS736f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a copy of the Gender Identity Amendment (legislation 00-O-0074), signed by Mayor Bill Campbell in 2000, as well as a certificate of authentication for the pen used to sign the amendment.
Dates:
2000
City of Atlanta Limelight Day proclamation
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS819f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council announcing Monday, August 19, 1985 to be known as Limelight Day in Atlanta. Marvin S. Arrington, the president of the Atlanta City Council, and Robb Pitts, a council member, issued the proclamation in recognition of the club as a popular tourist attraction and the site of many charitable functions.
Dates:
1985
City of Atlanta Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content
This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates:
1848-2013, undated
City of Atlanta Treasurer's report
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS6f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a report from the Treasurer for the city of Atlanta for the quarter ending September 30, 1864. The report lists several categories of spending including public buildings, relief programs, stationary, incidentals, and interest.
Dates:
1865
Clair McLeod Muller papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1244
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers of city council member Clair Muller during her time in office from 1990-2009. Included are planning materials for the Atlanta BeltLine, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Georgia State Route 400, environment and sustainability efforts, and community outreach. These papers were generated by her work on subcommittees for the Atlanta Department of Transportation, Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta Regional Commission, and the...
Dates:
1980-2012, undated
Clifton Road Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS651
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials that document the civic and social activities of the Clifton Road Garden Club. Scrapbooks comprise the majority of the collection and detail the club's monthly meetings, beautification projects, and flower show awards earned by members of the club. Garden publications offer more insight into the club's interests including victory gardens, conservation, and flower arranging.
Dates:
1938-1949, undated
Collins, Holbrook and Collins photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS537
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of residences built by Collins, Holbrook and Collins (later C. R and Turner Collins) builders and contractors. The bulk of the images depict residences in Atlanta, as well as some in Macon and Sea Island. Photographs include property features such as driveways, gardens, and landscapes. Of special interest are photographs of the Little Shop in the Davison-Paxon Company department store on Peachtree Street. Included with the images are copies of the...
Dates:
approximately 1920-1941
Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS7
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection consists of over 700 typed pages of information about residents of the Confederate Soldier’s Home of Georgia. The list of inmates represented in this collection is not comprehensive. The information was copied from three registers kept at the Home between 1901 and 1941 and each page contains vital records and history of military service. Information about each veteran includes name, date and place of birth, unit and rank, date of capture, surrender, or injury, date of entry...
Dates:
undated
Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates:
1859-1865, undated
Connally family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS831f
Scope and Content
This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera pertaining to members of the Connally family and the First Methodist Church. Content includes land deeds signed by A.A. Sells, cemetery plot contracts belonging to Charles Price Connally, Sr., and a book of poetry. Of particular note is a history of the First Methodist Church. Also included is a program for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil Court of Fulton County, which mentions Luther Z. Rosser,...
Dates:
1861-1987, undated
Constance Berry Currie papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83f
Scope and Content
This collection includes a report card from Smith College, a dance card, a letter addressed to Constance E. Berry at Agnes Scott College, a ticket for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and love letters between Constance Berry Currie and her husband, Charles J. Currie.
Dates:
1911-1922, undated
Cora Best Taylor Williams papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS377f
Scope and Content
This collection contains biographical information about Cora Best Taylor, who married Jesse Parker Williams. Also included are her report cards from Wesleyan Female College, her diary, newspaper clippings, and a program on the dedication and opening of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital.
Dates:
1877-1941
Cornelia Cunningham Schoolcraft Huffer drawings
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS224
Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty-four original pencil sketches on drawing board by Cornelia Cunningham Schoolcraft Huffer that she used for her book, Atlanta: City of To-Day, published in 1933. The drawings include Atlanta landmarks, street scenes, and prominent buildings and houses in the city.
Dates:
1933
Cortland F. Luce, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS114
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs is comprised of images of geographical locations, events, and people in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Included are images of office buildings, government buildings, shopping centers, sports facilities, airports, monuments, churches and homes in downtown Atlanta, Buckhead, Roswell, Marietta, Alpharetta, and Stone Mountain. The collection also includes photographs of events and activities such as the Southeastern Fair at Lakewood Park, and other arts and...
Dates:
circa 1948-1988, undated
Cotten Alston photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS247
Scope and Content
This collection contains aerial and street views of the Buckhead, downtown, and Midtown areas of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of Buckhead restaurants such as OK Cafe and Buckhead Diner. Also featured are the Atlanta History Center's Swan House, Lenox Square Mall, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Underground Atlanta, the Georgia Dome, The Fox Theatre, High Museum of Art, The Varsity, Piedmont Park, and Clark College (later named Clark Atlanta University). Other images include...
Dates:
1972-1998, undated
Cotton States and International Exposition collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1022
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised primarily of materials created in preparation of and during the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. The bulk of the collection is programs and publications that detail daily events and highlight exposition participants. Of particular interest is a series of souvenirs collected by individuals that attended the exposition as well as postcards and a pass issued for an employee of the Atlanta Journal with his...
Dates:
1895-1896, undated
Creative Writing Group of the Atlanta Branch of the American Association of University Women scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS792
Scope and Content
This collection consists of six scrapbooks which cover the activities of the organization. These scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notices.
Dates:
1947-1985
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 122
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- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 33
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 32
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 31
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 30
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 28
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 28
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 22
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- Hartsfield, William Berry 18
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 18
- Atlanta Historical Society 17
- Georgia Institute of Technology 15
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- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 13
- Rich's (Retail store) 13
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 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
- 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
- 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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