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Elizabeth Setze papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1119
Scope and Content
The collection contains Setze's military service records, certificates, awards, and correspondence. Also included are scrapbook pages containing poems from her fifth grade students in 1939; personal papers; a 1973 Georgia zip code directory booklet; a 1997 directory of the Atlanta Retired Teachers association; and a booklet on survivor benefits from the Navy. There are five notebooks that Setze used as travel logs, containing information about her travel expenses as well as notes about some...
Dates:
1936-1997, undated
Ellis D. Robb scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS846
Scope and Content
This collection consists of 43 scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings, photographs, magazine articles, letters, and notes written by Robb. Material covers banking and business; genealogy and the Robb family; movies, theatre, and the circus; politics; World War II, celebrities; Robb’s homes in Eldora and Atlanta; and autograph collecting. Robb collected material between 1920 and 1943, but items themselves date to as early as 1863.
Dates:
1920-1943, undated
Emmelyn Gregg Carter Harrison scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS269
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of one scrapbook.
Dates:
1940-1942
Emory Cocke Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS122
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains images depicting the interior of the Exposition Cotton Mills and its employees, spinning equipment and copies of illustrations regarding the International Cotton Exposition of 1881 from Harper’s Weekly. Photographers featured in this collection include Gabriel Benzur, and Lane Brothers, of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1943 – 1948, undated
Enid Bryan and John Stephens papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS876f
Scope and Content
This collection contains material collected by Enid Bryan Stephens and John Calhoun Stephens. Items include a driver's license, diploma, certificates, ordinations, programs, stickers, and a newspaper clipping. The collection also includes a program from the Nightingale play, war maps for the European and Pacific Theaters, and a copy of "Saddler's Railroad Time Book for the Use of Engineers and Firemen."
Dates:
1930-1980, undated
Esther Garrett Wynne papers
Collection
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
Eugene A. Kurtz papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS129
Scope and Content
This collection includes correspondence, educational records, military records, and printed materials such as booklets, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and promotional materials for concerts. Correspondence makes up the majority of the collection and contains information on Eugene Kurtz's life beginning in 1941 when he entered college, his time in the military, and his life as a composer in Paris. Correspondents include his father and stepmother, Wilbur G. and Annie Pye Kurtz; his...
Dates:
1931-1988, undated
Eve F. Silver poems
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS934f
Scope and Content
This collection contains handwritten copies of poems Eve F. Silver wrote about her experience as a Holocaust survivor. Also included are photocopies of the poems printed in the Atlanta Jewish Times and photocopies of Eve F. Silver's false identification documents from her time as a member of the Polish resistance movement.
Dates:
approximately 1940, undated
Fanny D. Hinton scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS117
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook of information on the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, Ga.
Dates:
1939-1950
Gatins Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1005
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, diaries, obituaries, newspaper clippings, financial records, and official United States government documents pertaining to Gatins family members. Included among the latter are files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), court records, passport application files, and INS records. The collection also contains birth, baptism, marriage, school and death records for various family members. Also included is secondary research on significant...
Dates:
1848-2010, undated, bulk 1999-2008; Majority of material found within 1999 - 2008
General Marion Williamson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS851
Scope and Content
This collection contains papers and books belongong to General Marion Williamson. Included are three Georgia National Guard Annuals; a 1939 national Guard Register; an army Staff Officer's Field Manual; a Georgia statistical register; and a U.S. Army Register of Retired Personnel. Awards and certificates received during his college years, military career, and his career in the Georgia Department of Labor. Also included is a P.O.W. tag from 1942 from a German prisoner. A tape of an oral...
Dates:
1924-1989
Gertrude Blair Women's Army Corps paper
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1094
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of personal correspondence to and from Gertrude Blair, dated 1943-1956 that describe the daily activities of her WAC service. They include her time at Archer Field in Brisbane, Australia; Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, later renamed Jayapura (Indonesia); and Manilia, Philippines. Other documents include individual soldier records, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, military publications, event programs and a publication titled WACS...
Dates:
1943-1989; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
Gladys Palmer Hobgood Camp papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS68
Scope and Content
Lists of personnel of the civil court of Fulton County, a series of publications titled Railroad Stories, by H. A. Couch; inaugural invitations for President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a letter from Mayor William Hartsfield on the annexation of Buckhead and Druid Hills.
Dates:
1916-1978
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
Haverty family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS904
Scope and Content
This collection documents the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. The papers consist of business correspondence, family letters, financial records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, travel journals, and writings. Included in the collection are speeches from Haverty's and American Retail Federation meetings and conventions, as well as first person narratives from Rawson Haverty Sr. highlighting his travels to Europe and family...
Dates:
1810-2007, undated
Haverty family visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS367
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, negatives, and maps that document the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. Included in the collection are images of J. J. Haverty, Clarence Haverty, and Rawson Haverty Sr.'s children, as well as the weddings of Clare Haverty to Frank Ridley Jr., Betty Haverty to Alex Smith, and Rawson Haverty to Margaret Munnerlyn. Photographs feature J. J. Haverty's home Villa Clare, along with Clarence and Elizabeth...
Dates:
1842-2006
H.E. Shindelbower papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS835f
Scope and Content
This collection mostly contains periodicals and booklets from the early 1940s. Materials include several editions of Georgia Power's Kilowatt News, Southern Bell's guide to telephone etiquette, and the WSB War Review of 1942. This collection also contains a catalogue from the Home Builders Plan Service and building specification forms for a home at 3181 Sewell Rd SW, later renamed Benjamin Mays Drive, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1942-1951, undated
Historic newspaper collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS838
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspapers that document important historic events and aspects of local, national, and international news. The collection focuses on the following subjects: the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and special events such as the Civil War Centennial.
Dates:
1886-1993
Hugh Brannon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1170
Scope and Content
This collection mostly contains documents relating the Hugh Brannon's education at Technological High School, and the neighborhood in which he lived, Inman Park. Included are examples of Brannon's classwork at William A. Bass Junior High School and at Technological High School, in courses such as mathematics, science, English, and social studies. Student assignments represented in the collection sometimes touched upon the subject of war in Europe. Brannon, a lifelong resident of Atlanta's...
Dates:
1922-2007, undated
Jean Grant Walker papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS767f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a program for the 1946 Atlanta premiere of the movie Song of the South by Walt Disney productions; one ticket to a 1943 American Red Cross benefit golf match in Brookhaven, Georgia, featuring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope; and newspaper clippings of both events from Walker's scrapbook.
Dates:
1943-1946
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- United States. Navy. 7
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- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 4
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 3
- Allen, Ivan, III, 1938-1992 3
- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 3
- American Red Cross 3
- Forward Atlanta Commission 3
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- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 3
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- Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992 2
- Atlanta (Light cruiser : CL-51) 2
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- DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
- DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
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- Emory University 2
- Fielder and Allen (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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- Ivan Allen-Marshall Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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- Adams, George H. 1
- Adams-Cates Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Albert, Allen D. (Allen Diehl), 1901-1972 1
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- Allen, Inman (Hugh Inman) 1
- Allen, Leven C. (Leven Cooper), 1894-1979 1
- Allen, William Daniel 1
- Alston family 1
- Alston, A. H. (Augustus Holmes), 1847-1918 1
- Alston, Anna Ott, 1845-1928 1
- Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten, III), 1945- 1
- Alston, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1880-1962 1
- Alston, Philip H., 1911-1988 1
- Alston, Robert C. (Robert Cotten), 1873-1938 1
- Alston, Robert C., 1917-1979 1
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- Apostolu, Leonard Matthew 1
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