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Boutwell Hudgins's oral history and written account of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS805f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an oral history recording of Boutwell Hudgins's recollection of the 1917 Great Fire of Atlanta, which he survived while he was a student at the Atlanta Technological High School. There is also a handwritten account of the event that he wrote as well as copy written by his daughter, Leckey.
Dates:
1995
Dr. Amey Chappell visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS46
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, prints, and postcards collected by Dr. Amey Chappell. The images depict people in Atlanta, Georgia, or unidentified areas in Georgia. Included in the collection is one printed panorama view of the May 21, 1917 Atlanta Fire; one Currier and Ives lithograph depicting the capture of Atlanta during the Civil War; one postcard depicting the Tallulah Apartment at 87 Washington Street, circa 1905; one souvenir postcard booklet of Atlanta; and twelve...
Dates:
1865-1945
Harriette Speer Parker photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS353
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of scenes in Atlanta, Georgia, taken by Harriette Speer Parker and her father, Eustace Asbury Speer. Of special note are photographs of the Great Fire of Atlanta in 1917, the Festival of Old Atlanta in the late 1960s, and negatives of aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta. The photographs taken by Eustace Asbury Speer include images of the State Revenue Department personnel in 1927, Piedmont Park, and the Atlanta skyline. Also featured are family...
Dates:
1917-1970, undated
John Terrell photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS469
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs of Atlanta Fire Department personnel, fire chiefs and assistant chiefs, fire stations, and the Fire Department Band and Drum Corps. Also featured are aerial views of Atlanta, a group portrait of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and a series of portraits of Atlanta Fire Chief John Terrell. Of particular note are images of the aftermath of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
Dates:
1875-1960, 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
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