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Board of Managers minutes

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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

Brookwood Hills Garden Club photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS276
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the park in Brookwood Hills including the playground, picnic and pool areas during restoration work by the club. Images show playground structures, picnic tables, planters, stone steps, as well as trees, shrubs, and other plants. Also a part of the collection are photographs of the club's Christmas decorations inside Rhodes Memorial Hall, Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are club members and children shown during park workdays and events.

Dates: 1974-1982, undated

Burns Club of Atlanta documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS433
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of records pertaining to the organization and administration of the Burns Club of Atlanta and the Ladies' Burns Club of Atlanta. Records include legal documents, correspondence, membership lists, program information, and pamphlets. Topics include the construction of the Burns Cottage, the Annual Anniversary Dinner, club operations, and poetry written by club members.

Dates: 1900-1985, undated

C. W. Motes photographs and drawing

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Collection number: ahc.VIS436
Scope and Contents This collection contains several photographs taken by Columbus Washington "C. W." Motes, as well as portraits of Motes. Additional photographs include his wife, Emma F. White, and their two daughters: Mary Motes Delbridge and Eva Motes. The collection also includes photographs, presumably of his clients, images of titled sculptures, a drawing by C. W. Motes, and a color cased image of his daughter, Mary. Of special note is an ambrotype of Motes during his time as a Confederate soldier in the...
Dates: approximately 1862-1900, undated

Cascade Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1087
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Materials include clippings, correspondence, histories, minutes, and yearbooks. Scrapbooks offer more details on programs, projects, and club interests on a wide variety of gardening topics. Of special interest are scrapbook images of Cascade Road from approximately 1939.

Dates: 1933-2001, undated

Cherokee Garden Club visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS370
Scope and Content The collection contains images that detail the civic and social history of the Cherokee Garden Club. Included in the collection are photographs of the club's civic projects, flower show arrangements, and needlework. Also a part of the collection are images of club members attending the Garden Club of America Zone VIII meetings and working at fundraising events such as Potlatch and Gardener's Delight. A video and photographs of the Cherokee Garden Library document the early years of the...
Dates: approximately 1935-2014

Chris Mastin photographs of protest marches

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Collection number: ahc.VIS399
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital images taken by Chris Mastin of the March for Science Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally in Atlanta, and the Women's March on Washington. Photographs in this collection depict protesters holding signs and marching in downtown Atlanta and Washington D.C. The Women's March on Washington photographs also include images of protesters traveling on a charter bus from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.

Dates: 2017-2018

Church Women United in Atlanta records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS928
Scope and Content The records include by-laws, constitution, correspondence, newsletters, handbooks, meeting minutes, and materials documenting the social welfare projects. The meeting minutes include records of executive board meetings, annual meetings, and board of managers meetings. General minutes of the organization contain information on some of the social and welfare projects dealing with the youth of Atlanta. The group's involvement with the Savannah Street Neighborhood House is particularly...
Dates: 1958-1980

Colonial Dames, Atlanta Chapter, minute books

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Collection number: ahc.MSS520f
Scope and Content

This collection includes minute books that record membership lists, financial records, and the society's activities between 1898-1901 and 1919-1931. It also includes information on Georgia State Society activities including purchase of the Andrew Low House in Savannah, Ga.

Dates: 1898-1931

Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1189
Scope and Content

This collection contains one bound scrapbook created by the Deep Dene Garden Club that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes poems, yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the club's garden interests and projects. The scrapbook clippings focus on flower arrangment and home decor.

Dates: 1940-1990; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1949

Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chapter, scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS525
Scope and Content

This collection consists of nine scrapbooks documenting the activities of Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chapter.

Dates: 1941-1982

Dr. Louis Elsas 1996 Olympic Games gender verification records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1213
Scope and Contents This collection contains records from Dr. Louis J. Elsas testing of female athletes in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, that the International Olympic Commitee required to verify gender. The bulk of material is testing and survey results, some of which include comments by the tested athletes. The purpose of these tests was to exclude cisgender males from female-only competition while preserving the dignity and careers of intersex and transgender female athletes. Other...
Dates: 1988-2002, undated

East Lake Garden Club historical summary

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Collection number: ahc.MSS763f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a history of the club written by Pauline C. Franklin, club historian. The history provides details of the club's civic and social activities for the first 25 years of its existence. Highlighted in the summary are the club's projects and neighborhood beautification work. Of special interest is the description of the club's involvement with Atlanta's flower and tulip shows.

Dates: 1959

Elizabeth Grisham Brown scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS37
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a scrapbook and papers gathered during trips abroad.

Dates: 1883-1896

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

Evans family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS36
Scope and Content The collection of photographs consists of images documenting the life of William R. Evans and Alva C. Evans’ family in Atlanta. The images include portrait photographs of their family and friends; however, most of the images are studio portraits of unidentified people. Twelve photographs include William and Alva Evans at their family home, work, and in studio portraits. Also included is a small scrapbook with unidentified photographs. Most of the images in the scrapbook are of Alva Evans,...
Dates: approximately 1920-1970, undated

Evergreen Garden Club scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS655
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks that detail the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes photographs, clippings, and correspondence that provide insight into the club's interests and programs. A large portion of the material is devoted to gardening tips and cultivation. Of special note are photographs and clippings relating to first president Betty (Elizabeth) Faust and her husband and dahlia expert Conrad E. Faust.

Dates: 1936-1958

Every Saturday Club photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS261
Scope and Content

This collection documents the members and activities of the Every Saturday Club, including an exhibit at the Atlanta Historical Society in the 1940s and regular meetings held between 1979 and 1987 at the homes of several members. Of particular note are images of author Anne Rivers Siddons and World Health Organization delegate Virginia Schneider at meetings.

Dates: approximately 1945, 1979-1987, undated

Expressway Beautification Association records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS654
Scope and Content

This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.

Dates: 1949-1956, undated

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Hartsfield, William Berry 5
Atlanta Dogwood Festival 3
Atlanta Music Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 3
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Coca-Cola Company 3
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 3
Peachtree Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Poole, Paul 3
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 3
Women's Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta 3
Yarn, Jane Hurt, 1924- 3
Young, Andrew, 1932- 3
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 2
Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 2
American Federation of Musicians 2
Ansley Park Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Atlanta History Center 2
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 2
Atlanta Tulip Flower Show Association 2
Atlanta Urban League 2
Atlanta's Woman of the Year Organization (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Bedard, L'Ella Griffith 2
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Brady, Auverne Harper, 1908-2010 2
Burns Club of Atlanta (Ga.) 2
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 2
Cherokee Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Cherry, John 2
Colonial Flower Shop (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 2
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Dobbs, Mary Butt Griffith 2
Emory University 2
Flower Arrangers Club of Georgia 2
Fort, Marie Johnson 2
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 2
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Garden Club of Georgia. 2
Gardens for Peace (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Griffith School of Music (Atlanta, Ga) 2
Griffith, Mary Burke 2
Griffith, William Butts 2
Grigsby, Emily Bourne, 1922-2020 2
Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992 2
Harper family 2
Harper's Flowers (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Harper, Adelle Bartlett, 1885-1974 2
Harris, Joe Frank 2
Hatcher, Thurston 2
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984 2
Nicholson, Marie S. 2
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Reid, J. Neel (Joseph Neel), 1885-1926 2
Rich's (Retail store) 2
San Francisco Opera 2
Second Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Shutze, Philip Trammell 2
Sibley, Celestine 2
Spelman College 2
Swan Woods (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Tuskegee Institute 2
Woodberry Hall School for Girls (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 1
Abbey, Jessie Harris 1
Abbey, Lucile 1
Abbey, Theo 1
African Association of Georgia 1
Aiken family 1
Aiken, Lucy Rucker 1
Aiken, Walter Henry, 1893-1965 1
Aldredge, John 1
Aldridge, Mamie 1
Alexander Gallery (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Alexander, Dorothy, 1904-1986 1
Alexander, Judith, 1931-2004 1
Alexander, Wellington, Jr., Rev. 1
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 1
Almand, Ed, Mrs. 1
Almon, Leroy 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Tau Omega Chapter (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 1
Alston, Philip H., 1911-1988 1
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States 1
American Institute of Architects 1
Amos, Moses, Dr. 1
Anderson, Ann Rucker 1
Anderson, Charles W., Jr. 1
Anderson, Linda 1
Andrews, Lina 1
Andrews, Lisa 1
Arnett, Bill 1
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