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E. Earl Patton, Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS804
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings from political activities from 1965 to 1981, political memorabilia, and family information.
Dates:
1960-1981, undated
Early Edgewood-Candler Park BiRacial History Project documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1180
Scope and Content
This collection contains research materials from the Early Edgewood-Candler Park BiRacial History Project. Materials document the history of African American residents in the Edgewood-Candler Park area, such as deeds, city directories, neighborhood histories, and maps. Of particular note are theses written by Georgia State University students and papers about the neighborhood written by the project's founder, Amy Meyer Burns, about the neighborhood.
Dates:
1880-2011, undated
East Atlanta Primitive Baptist Church Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS185
Scope and Content
This collection contains record books, a financial ledger, and a one page history of the church as well as a Bible and a hymn book. There are four records books (1876-1988) that contain minutes of the church organization's regular meetings and annual lists of members. These record books also include information on founding members such as short biographies and assorted obituaries. The last record book also includes financial notes in addition to the minutes and rosters. The financial...
Dates:
1875-1989
East Lake Garden Club historical summary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS763f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a history of the club written by Pauline C. Franklin, club historian. The history provides details of the club's civic and social activities for the first 25 years of its existence. Highlighted in the summary are the club's projects and neighborhood beautification work. Of special interest is the description of the club's involvement with Atlanta's flower and tulip shows.
Dates:
1959
Edda A. Cole scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS267
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to Atlanta, Georgia and the Civil War. Includes information on Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis.
Dates:
1898
Edgar Poe McBurney photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS312
Scope and Content
This collection contains interior and exterior views of the Edgar Poe McBurney's residence at 1300 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia. One photograph shows a view of a formal dinner party held at McBurney's home in celebration of his birthday. Of special note are images of Villa Nelili, McBurney's Memorial Gardens.
Dates:
1909-1929
Edith Lucretia Cason papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS782
Scope and Content
These papers consist of Edith Cason's graduation book and diploma.
Dates:
1915
Edmund W. Hughes photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS186
Scope and Content
This collection contains images that document the metropolitan Atlanta region and photographs illustrating social events in the city. Bell and Stanton Public Relations used these photographs documenting the Atlanta area as promotional images. Most of the images were taken in the late 1960s and include the Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, First Federal Savings and Loan building, Hartford Insurance building, Peachtree Center, and the Trust Company of Georgia. The collection...
Dates:
1958-1968
Edward H. Inman, Jr. oral history transcription
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS665f
Scope and Content
The Edward H. Inman Jr. Oral History Transcription, conducted by Atlanta History Center staff members Bill Bomar and Andy Ambrose in May 1997, includes Inman’s early memories of the house, its furnishings, and events that occurred while he lived there. Relatives Louise Richardson Allen and Suzanne Inman also participated in the interview, interjecting their memories at appropriate times.Topics covered include the construction of Swan House, his father’s cars and automobile...
Dates:
1997
Effie Ward letters to Josephine Heyman
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS969f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters from Effie Ward to Josephine Heyman (1901-1993), the president of the DeKalb County League of Women Voters. In the first letter, Ward expresses her gratitude to the League for promoting equal education and services for Black children and briefly comments on the welfare of the Black community. She also offers to sew a dress for Heyman’s daughter. In the second letter, Ward writes about social conditions and challenges facing Atlanta’s Black community from...
Dates:
1946 February
Eleanor Hand Peoplestown neighborhood essay and interviews with Henry Phipps and Grace Barksdale
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS852f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an essay written by Eleanor Hand entitled "A Re-Viewing of Peoplestown" in which she presents a history of Peoplestown, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Specifically, she analyses it’s geographical development in relation to the railroad tracks, housing trends, racial prejudice against its residents, the Civil Rights Movement, and her hope for the future of the neighborhood. The collection also has two recordings in which Eleanor Hand interviews Henry Phipps and...
Dates:
1994
Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1107
Scope and Content
Eliza Jones accumulated this collection to document the genealogy of her extended families as well that of her husband, Waldo Jones. Materials include correspondence that documents her daily life and views, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and diaries. The collection also contains papers from her and Waldo Jones's extended family. Families represented include the Woolford, Grant, Slaton, Harris, Fitz-Randolph, Martin, Waldo, Winslow, Felder, and Jackson families.
Dates:
1789-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970
Elizabeth P. Ruddiman's records of Midtown Neighborhood Association
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1243
Scope and Contents
This collection contains administrative files of the Midtown Neighborhood Association. Included are association by-laws, city ordinances, correspondence, financial statements, and receipts, meeting minutes, membership rosters, traffic and rezoning reports, and community events. The annual Midtown Tour of Homes is documented by posters, pamphlets, and programs advertising the event. Of particular note, there are early planning materials for the Midtown Story...
Dates:
1971-1995, undated
Emily Bourne Grigsby papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1201
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents from Emily Bourne Grigsby's career as an opera singer and model, as well as her time as president of the Atlanta Music Club and her association with the Atlanta Opera Arts Association. Included are opera show programs from her performances with the San Francisco Opera chorus, the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, and Moonlight Opera Company in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also newspaper clippings of Grigsby's modeling career and her involvement in the 1954 "Feast of...
Dates:
1943-2004, undated
Emily Bourne Grigsby visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS391
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images of Emily Bourne Grigsby's career as an opera singer and model, as well as her time as president of the Atlanta Music Club. Included are production stills from The Tales of Hoffman and Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, and images from the Moonlight Opera Company in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also photographs of Grigsby modeling at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia; on top of Stone Mountain; for an...
Dates:
1940-2004, undated
Emma E. Latimer scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS291
Scope and Content
This collection contains a partial scrapbook pertaining to the Latimer family. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, class rosters, and receipts.
Dates:
1867-1932
Emma Lou Cole photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS233
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of the Eberhardt family, families associated with the Eberhardts, and businesses in Atlanta, Georgia, including R.P. and J.G. Eberhardt and Company and T.L. Eberhardt Coal Company. Many of these photographs were taken by Atlanta-based photographer Linnie Condon.
Dates:
1880-1928, undated
Emma Muse Warren reminiscences
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS363f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a photocopy of a typed letter from Emma Muse Warren (Mrs. R. H. Warren) to her brother in 1942 in which she writes about family life in Atlanta from shortly after the Civil War through the 1940s.
Dates:
1942
Emmelyn Gregg Carter Harrison scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS269
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of one scrapbook.
Dates:
1940-1942
Emmet Bondurant papers of the Atlanta Charter Commission
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1169
Scope and Content
This collection includes legal records, meeting minutes, correspondence, news articles, organizational charts, draft charters, district maps, consultants' proposals, research reports, and a resolution of commendation given to Emmet Bondurant. Committee minutes and correspondence document the commission's work in creating the new charter throughout its various stages of development. The collection also documents feedback the commission received from city planners and from the public through...
Dates:
1925-1973, undated; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1973
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 123
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- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 36
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 31
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 30
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 28
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 28
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 28
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 28
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 24
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 24
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 22
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 19
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
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- Hartsfield, William Berry 18
- Atlanta Historical Society 17
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 15
- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 14
- Georgia Institute of Technology 13
- Rich's (Retail store) 13
- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 12
- Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 12
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 10
- Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 10
- Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 9
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 9
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 8
- Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 8
- Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 8
- Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 8
- Coca-Cola Company 8
- Emory University 8
- Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 8
- Georgia Power Company 8
- Massell, Sam 8
- Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Atlanta History Center 7
- Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 7
- Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Piedmont Driving Club 7
- Agnes Scott College 6
- American Red Cross 6
- Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Atlanta Urban Design Commission (Ga.) 6
- Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
- Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 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 (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 5
- Atlanta Public Schools 5
- Atlanta Regional Commission 5
- Atlanta Urban League 5
- Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 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
- Georgia School of Technology 5
- Georgia State University 5
- Georgia. General Assembly 5
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
- Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 5
- 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 Art Association 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
- Busbee, George, 1927-2004 4
- Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Carnegie Library of Atlanta 4
- Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia 4
- Delta Air Lines 4
- Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 4
- Fulton National Bank 4
- Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 4
- Georgia. Department of Natural Resources (1972- ) 4
- Georgia. Department of Transportation 4
- Grant family 4
- Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 4
- Junior League of Atlanta 4
- Key, James Lee, 1867-1939 4
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