African Americans -- Georgia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Florence W. Brine manuscripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS515f
Scope and Content
This collection contains three manuscripts: "Arrogant Atlanta" retells a British newspaper account of a visit to Atlanta around 1880; "Atlanta's Heart" discusses the building of the Georgia Railroad Depot in 1864 and the activities of the Beethoven Society which was located in the building; and "David Howard" a profile of a former enslaved man and his entrepreneurial activities in post-bellum Atlanta.
Dates:
approximately 1935
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles documents for Tom Stark
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS984f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a Certificate of Parole and a Monthly Supervision Report that the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles issued for Tom Stark, who was convicted of assault with intent to murder in Butts County, Georgia. The certificate includes the parole start date; the maximum sentence expiration date; the names and addresses of Stark’s parole supervisor and employer; the parole conditions; and the signatures of Stark, the prison warden, and the Board’s Chief Supervisor, Henry...
Dates:
1948 March 17
Hale family visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS381
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of Frank Sheffield Hale's family, including members of the Bradley, Davis, Fogle, Harrold, Long, and Sheffield families and their residences. Of special note are photographs of the Hale family farm in Marengo County near Uniontown, Alabama, and the Long family farm in Russell County, Alabama, as well as the Long family's 1984 reunion in Uchee, Alabama. Locations in the collection are unknown unless otherwise noted; however, several of the individuals...
Dates:
1850-2018, undated
Jennie Meta Barker research papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content
These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates:
approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967
Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell family visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS211
Scope and Content
This collection consists of photographs, postcards, greeting cards, ambrotypes, tintypes, daguerreotypes, albumen prints, cyanotypes, and negatives of the Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell families. Also included are images of related families including the Benedicts, the Middletons, the Seamans, the Hunnicutts, the Sweets, and the Deakins. There are images from family trips to St. Simons Island, Georgia, and Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as well as images from El Paso, Texas, where Jessie and Russell...
Dates:
1883-1963, undated
Mrs. Beaufort Mathews Williams scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS327
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of two scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings pertaining primarily to southern topics. The scrapbooks were compiled by a 90 year old friend of Mrs. Williams.
Dates:
1870-1930, undated
Myrta Lockett Avary photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS279
Scope and Content
The collection contains images collected by Avary, including images of Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Memorial Association members, and portraits of Myrta Avary. Also included are exterior views of Bulloch Hall and Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia, and the Wren's Nest in Atlanta, Georgia. Of note are images of a ceremony transferring possession of the Wren's Nest from Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris to the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. Other photographs include Joel Chandler Harris...
Dates:
1870-1917, undated
Perry family correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS174
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence between the Perry family and extended family members including the Carters and the Chisolms. Transcription is available for the letters dated between 1852 and 1869. The topics include the experiences of the Perry children in school in Monroe, Georgia, as well as plantation and farming life after the Civil War. Other topics include difficulties with freedmen after the Civil War, failing banks in Georgia, poor health, and development in Atlanta.
Dates:
1852-1901, undated
Private Albert T. Davie photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS45
Scope and Content
The collection contains one scrapbook documenting the military service of Private Albert Thomas Davie and one panoramic image. Most of the images are personal photographs of members of the military serving with Davie, as well as snapshots of him taken by others. All are either unidentified or identified with only a first name. Interspersed in the scrapbook are images of the family of Davie, presumably sent to him while he was in service. The panoramic image consists of a large unidentified...
Dates:
approximately 1949-1952
Wilbur G Kurtz, Sr. visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS197
Scope and Content
This collection contains the family photographs of the Kurtz and Fuller families as well as visual materials Kurtz created and collected during the course of his career. Family photographs pertain to Kurtz and Fuller families as well as a few images from Annie Pye Kurtz prior to her marriage to Wilbur Sr. Also included are images of Wilbur Sr. and friends during his time in Chicago, Illinois. The bulk of this collection is photographic materials which support the research and field work...
Dates:
1859-1972, undated