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Edgar Poe McBurney photographs

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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

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Collection number: ahc.MSS782
Scope and Content

These papers consist of Edith Cason's graduation book and diploma.

Dates: 1915

Edmund W. Hughes photographs

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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

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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

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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 recordings

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Collection number: ahc.MSS852f
Scope and Content

This collection contains an essay written by Eleanor Hand entitled "A Re-Viewing of Peoplestown" and taped interviews with Peoplestown residents Henry Phipps, Olivia Parks, and Grace Barksdale. In the essay Hand presents a history of Peoplestown'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.

Dates: 1994, undated

Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

English Speaking Union Records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS516
Scope and Contents of the Records

The bulk of this collection consists of meeting minutes, financial records, annual reports, membership lists, correspondence, publications, and scholarship fund information. Publications include English Speaking Union News and The Branch Officer’s Bulletin. Also included are the dissertations of Ph.D. students awarded grants from the Atlanta Branch’s scholarship funds to help them pursue their research in England.

Dates: 1940-2000, undated

Episcopal Church, Diocese of Atlanta collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS444
Scope and Content

This collection contains church journals.

Dates: 1928-1945

Ernest W. Sills Tullie Smith House photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS338
Scope and Content

This collection contains images taken of the Tullie Smith House in its original location at 2890 North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1940

Esther Garrett Wynne papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS796
Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal papers of Esther Garrett Wynne, including correspondence with her brother, Franklin Garrett. Other documents are invitations, newspaper clippings, correspondence with others, memorabilia, and garden club yearbooks. There are also eight scrapbooks, which highlight Mrs. Wynne's activities throughout her life, including her first marriage, her time in the Red Cross, travels, and her social activities.

Dates: 1926-1972, undated

Ethel Taylor Snipes scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS321f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Ethel Taylor Snipes at Girls High School. Included are autographs of those attending the 50th class reunion in 1972. Also included are photos, clippings, programs, an official list of textbooks, Red Cross certificates, and report cards.

Dates: 1922-1925

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Hartsfield, William Berry 18
Atlanta Historical Society 17
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 15
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 13
Rich's (Retail store) 13
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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 12
Georgia Institute of Technology 12
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 11
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 10
Young, Andrew, 1932- 10
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 9
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 9
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Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 9
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 8
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 8
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 8
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 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.). Fire Department 7
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
Piedmont Driving Club 7
Agnes Scott College 6
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, 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
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 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
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Georgia. General Assembly 5
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 5
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 5
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 5
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 5
United States. Navy. 5
University of Georgia 5
Allen family 4
American Red Cross 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
Atlanta Urban Design Commission (Ga.) 4
Boy Scouts of America . National Council 4
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 4
Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 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 Transportation 4
Grant family 4
Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 4
Junior League of Atlanta 4
Key, James Lee, 1867-1939 4
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Lakewood Fairgrounds (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 4
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 4
Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Miller, Zell, 1932-2018 4
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