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Bill Smith papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS735f
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials relating to the life and work of Atlanta gay rights activist, Bill Smith. Materials include correspondence with his friend, Diane Hughes, one flier for an event sponsored by the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, and fliers and a newsletter from local activists memorializing Smith's death in 1980. Of particular note is a letter written by the executive director of the Atlanta Community Relations Commission addressing Smith's work in the community and his...
Dates:
1970-1980
Bill Wilson photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS99
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of original negatives, copy prints, and copy negatives created by Bill Wilson and other artists and photographers, whose works were collected by Wilson. The collection offers important documentation on a wide variety of personalities, events, and geographic locations both in Atlanta and throughout Georgia. Most of the material is captured on acetate film and color transparencies.
Dates:
1938-1984, undated
Billy Jones papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1106
Scope and Content
This collection contains magazine and news clippings collected by Mr. Jones that relate to Atlanta's gay clubs, performers, and members of the LGBTQ community. Some clippings more directly reflect Jones's participation in the community, including his judging of drag pageants. The collection also contains correspondence, personal documents, and travel brochures created and collected by Jones.
Dates:
1928-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1995
Billy Jones visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS419
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photos of the LGBTQ+ community, events at LGBTQ+ bars and drag venues, drag queens, female impersonators, performers, male actresses, bar owners, and others. Also included are autographed photographs of actors, many of which are inscribed to Jones. Of special note are photographs of Billy Jones as Phyllis Killer and Shirley Temple Jones, the Phyllis Killer Oscar Awards, and Jones at the Atlanta Pride Parade. Locations are unknown unless otherwise noted; however,...
Dates:
approximately 1950-2002, undated
Bird Isaac Moon ledger
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS407f
Scope and Content
This ledger of cabinet maker Bird Isaac Moon in Harmony Grove, Georgia, contains the names of customers, type of item made for them, and the price of the item. The collection also contains clippings of poems, recipes, and obituaries.
Dates:
1874 June 17 - 1877 December 30
Black and White Men Together records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS903
Scope and Content
The collection consists of: a full set of monthly BWMT/Atlanta newsletters; newsletters of the National Association of Black and White Men Together and of affiliated chapters from around the country; papers regarding steering committee business and special projects undertaken by BWMT/Atlanta; convention materials, reports and correspondence generated by the National Association and its regional conferences; miscellaneous flyers, brochures, and publications from outside organizations involved...
Dates:
1982-1996
Blair family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS914
Scope and Content
This collection consists of papers on various Blair families. Most of the items donated by the Blair Society for Genealogical Research are books and can by found in the card catalog of the SAR Genealogy Room.
Dates:
1987-1994
Blair Society scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1025
Scope and Content
This collection contains three scrapbooks documenting the activities of the Blair Society for Genealogical Research (BSGR) from 1984 to 1998 and items about the history of the Blair surname in the United States, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Items cover subjects including locations with the Blair name, famous people with the Blair surname, Blair genealogical information, cemeteries, images of Blair family members and descendants, and BSGR conventions. Images in...
Dates:
1856-1998, undated
Blanchard family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS283
Scope and Content
This collection consists of portrait images of Blanchard family members, including Waid Hill Blanchard; Martha Lane Hill; Mary Anne Hill; Moses C. Blanchard; and Mary Blanchard.
Dates:
approximately 1870
Bleckley family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS18
Scope and Content
This collection includes correspondence of Harrison Bleckley, an Atlanta attorney. Correspondence includes documentation of his work in establishing Bleckley Plaza in Atlanta and other civic improvements in the city of Atlanta, and his membership in the Georgia chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Also included is feasibility report to the mayor and general council of the city of Atlanta about the plan to erect a plaza over the railroad gulch in downtown Atlanta that became known...
Dates:
1882-1965
Blount Carriage & Buggy Company documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS502f
Scope and Content
This collection contains price lists, illustrated catalogs and brochures, and correspondence directed to Denham Cason, of Jewell, Ga.
Dates:
1911-1914
Board of Managers minutes
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS574f
Scope and Content
This collection contains the minutes of two meetings of this unidentified group, appearing to be May and June of 1924. One set of minutes are signed by a Mrs. Harris (or Mrs. Harrison?). The minutes in part discuss the Community Chest and placing two girls with the Monroe School.
Dates:
1924
Bobby Jones papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS836
Scope and Content
This collection documents Bobby Jones's golf career and legacy. Material includes articles and periodicals, pamphlets, golf tournament programs, and magazine and newspaper clippings. Many clippings are obituaries and memoriams in Jones's honor. In addition, the collection contains correspondence, primarily letters of condolence written to Mary Malone Jones, and donations in Bobby Jones's name. Of particular note is a letter written by Bobby Jones and sent to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on...
Dates:
1924-1990, undated
Bolling family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS886
Scope and Content
The collection consists of genealogy lists, scrapbooks (1890), newspapers, correspondence, and essays.
Dates:
1880-1994, undated
Bomar-Killian family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS760
Scope and Content
These papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1837-1926, undated
Bomar-Killian family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS287
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of members of the Bomar and Killian family and their close friends. It also contains images of Atlanta street scenes from the early 19th and mid 20th centuries.
Dates:
1846-1921, undated
Bonneau Ansley property documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS594f
Scope and Content
This collection contains information about Land Lot 113, 17th District when it was purchased by Bonneau Ansley and Mrs. Florence Bryan Ansley in 1938. Included are an Abstract of Title, a Security Deed, and a Survey of Property.
Dates:
1938
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
Bowen family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS38
Scope and Content
The collection of photographs encompasses images of the Bowen family. The bulk of the photograph collection consists of images of studio poses and bust portraits of Reverend Bowen and his second wife, Irene Smallwood Bowen, and of John Wesley Edward Bowen, Jr., including Bowen, Jr. in a class photograph. Other images are unidentified studio poses and a postcard with an image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which shows King enjoying a joke by comedian Joey Adams at a benefit for the Southern...
Dates:
approximately 1889-1963
Boxwood House photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS503
Scope and Contents
This collection contains color and black and white photographic prints of the Boxwood House. Images include a set of twelve photographic prints by Reeves Studios, featuring views of the house exteriors and gardens from the 1930s. The collection also contains a photo album with a reprinted excerpt from The Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933; reprints of historic photographs of the home; and color photographs of the gardens and interiors from the 1990s.
Dates:
approximately 1930-1999
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