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Atlanta Housing Authority records of the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan for the West End Area
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Collection number: ahc.MSS1043
Scope and Content
This collection consists of the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan application for the West End Area, submitted in 1960. This application documents the details for the renewal projects and includes rationales for selecting the area, descriptions of the area, lists of resources to be used to accomplish the plan, maps of the area, land use maps, and official city of Atlanta budget and planning forms. In addition to the application there are manuals detailing minimum property standards for...
Dates:
1958-1967
Atlanta Urban Design Commission records
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Collection number: ahc.MSS1272
Scope and Contents
This collection contains administrative records and documentation of the creation of AUDC through meeting minutes, reports, newspaper articles, and correspondence. The records also contain data collected about historic nominations of properties and neighborhoods, and records from the Cooperation of Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA). Historic nomination forms include the nominee's history, correspondence, meeting minutes from the commission, and nomination and acceptance packets. The bulk...
Dates:
1973-2008, undated
Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials
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Collection number: ahc.VIS443
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images, historic property surveys, and maps which depict Atlanta and its neighborhoods. AUDC generated these materials, gathered by trained volunteers and unidentified photographers, to document and study the neighborhoods and important structures to gauge their historic significance. Materials depict residences, commercial buildings, streetscapes, religious structures, schools, cemeteries, industrial sites, parks, and government buildings. Also included are city...
Dates:
1912-2005, undated (bulk 1973-1995)
Chattahoochee Brick Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83
Scope and Content
The Chattahoochee Brick Company documents contain business records that show the daily operation of the company through its financial, production, legal, and management operations. Most papers date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Financial documents include cash journals, reports, record books, accounts, and ledgers. Production documents include inventories, reports, and a catalogue. Legal materials include land grands, deeds, and indentures that relate to land...
Dates:
1821-1941, undated
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
Cotten Alston photographs
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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
Harry G. Lefever papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1011
Scope and Content
The Harry G. Lefever papers consist primarily of records Mr. Lefever kept on neighborhoods and community organizations in Atlanta, Georgia. The papers reflect his involvement in community organizing; race relations and urban renewal; Atlanta inner-city neighborhoods and associations; and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. These files contain correspondence; articles from books, magazines, and newspapers; reports; and student papers on the relationship between the community...
Dates:
1966-2009, undated
Hughs family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS121
Scope and Content
This collection contains family histories, scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence about the Hughs family. Of particular note are three manuscripts; Lucile Smith Hughs' “My Pot Pourri of Ninety Years" about the West End area of Atlanta; Albert S. Mead's “Five Hundred Miles A-Foot” chronicling his trip through the North Georgia mountains; and Mother Mary Monica's “Some Family Memories” about Antebellum Atlanta.
Dates:
1858-1974, undated
Lee Street School photo album
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS438
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a bound photo album of photographs of Lee Street School students, school activities, and stylized class portraits. Some of the Lee Street School activities included 1927 National Book Week, nativity scenes, cultural dress and dances, historical recreations, a tree planting, a Thanksgiving offering, a medieval fair, and a kindergarten birthday party. Rusha Wesley and faculty completed the album in May 1946. Of special note are group portraits of students labeled...
Dates:
1926-1946
Leila Ross Wilburn visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS72
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the prolific work of one of Atlanta’s pioneer women architects and businesswomen. It is comprised primarily of architectural plans, photographs, negatives, and slides of private residences, multi-family homes, and apartment buildings Wilburn designed during her career. Her portfolio of architectural plans in Series I includes designs of homes in Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs; in several cities and towns in Georgia, including Forsyth, McDonough, and Thomaston;...
Dates:
1920-1979
Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates:
1947-1949
Seventeenth Railway Engineers ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS304f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a regimental roster of the Seventeenth Engineers and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1917-1919
Susie Flynn Hughs photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS306
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of buildings constructed for the Cotton States International Exposition in Piedmont Park approximately 10 years after the fair. Other images include photographs of downtown Atlanta and two family members.
Dates:
approximately 1905
The Atlanta Community Network magazine, fall 1987 issue
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS967f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the fall 1987 edition of The Atlanta Community Network magazine. It covers issues pertaining to Georgia State Senator Hildred W. Shumake Jr.’s constituency. Articles include the legacy of University Homes, the first public housing units in the United States for African Americans; reflections from Agnes White, a volunteer at Grady Memorial Hospital; the consequences of Georgia Power's construction of the Vogtle nuclear power plant;...
Dates:
1987
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
West End Garden Club scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS972
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material provides details on the meetings, programs, and flower shows of the club. Photos of members' gardens are also included, as well as a photo of the club's float for the Atlanta Dogwood Festival depicting the Thimblefinger Well at the Wren's Nest.
Dates:
1929-1936
Wilson and Tye family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS307
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of Wilson and Tye family members, including Benjamin J. Wilson; Elizabeth H. Wilson; John L. Tye, Sr.; John L. Tye, Jr.; Carrie Wilson; and Mary Potts Wilson. Of note is a photograph of the Wilson family home at 266 Gordon Street (renamed Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
approximately 1870-1890, undated
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