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Adams family scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS931f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a family scrapbook with photocopies of a diary kept by Nancy Ann Holt Adams from 1895-1898 documenting family life, the weather, and the death of her first child. It also includes newspaper articles about the family, certificates, photographs, and genealogical information about the Adams family.
Dates:
1895-1996, undated
Alfred Neff letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS831
Scope and Content
These files contain many of the letters E.W.S. Neff wrote his son, Alfred. These letters provide insight into life in the 1800's as well as amusing stories about Mr. Neff's adventures "on the job."
Dates:
1878-1880, undated
Atlanta Pioneer Women's Society collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS391
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence among the society's members, membership lists, biographies of some members, financial records, newspaper clippings, early recollections of Atlanta, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1909-1984, undated
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
Wilbur G. Kurtz, Sr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS130
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Wilbur G. Kurtz, Sr. The bulk of the personal papers pertain to the Kurtz and Fuller families and Wilbur's early adult life in Greencastle, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. The personal papers also contain a series of diaries written by Wilbur and correspondence between Kurtz and Fuller family members.The professional papers and research papers consist primarily of the research materials and notes compiled by Wilbur...
Dates:
1814-1993, undated
William B. Hartsfield films
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS194
Scope and Content
The films in this collection depict the 1939 premiere of the Gone with the Wind, hosted by the City of Atlanta; Hartsfield’s 1940 mayoral campaign; Hartsfield with Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell selling war bonds in downtown Atlanta during World War II; footage highlighting his six-term career as mayor; and amateur footage of Hartsfield with unidentified individuals fishing...
Dates:
approximately 1939-1960
William Richard Venable collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS435
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of one scrapbook and one funeral notice for William Richard Venable.
Dates:
1873, undated
WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates:
1977-1980, undated
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