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Musicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Albert F. Bellingrath photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS458
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Albert F. Bellingrath and members of the McMillan family. Photographs include Bellingrath with Walthall Robertson Joyner (1854-1924) and his family; Ferdinand McMillan with two other members of a Confederate military band in uniform; and William Henry McMillan. Additional photographs include Atlanta Gas Light Company operating and distribution department group portraits and a photograph of the Hunnicutt and Bellingrath Company exterior.

Dates: 1865-1943

Atlanta Community Orchestra photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS250
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Atlanta Community Orchestra (ACO) performances, rehearsals, and orchestra members. Of special note are photographs of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra first chair clarinetist, Karl A. Bevins (1915-2011), performing with the ACO.

Dates: approximately 1957-1971, undated

Atlanta Music Club photographs and video

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS245
Scope and Content The collection consists of images of club members and performers, club member meetings, and concerts and events produced by the Atlanta Music Club. A variety of images of events are represented in the collection such as color and black and white images from the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra's 26th Annual Young Artists' Concerto Concert (2000); the club's Spring Promenade (1982); the All-Star Concert Series (1985) and a fashion show (1993). There are a small number of unidentified...
Dates: 1950-2001, undated

Atlanta Music Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS404
Scope and Content This collection consists of records created by the Atlanta Music Club and its subsidiary organizations including correspondence, meeting minutes, rosters, by-laws, financial statements, and committee reports. Also included are marketing materials such as press releases, advertising contracts, correspondence regarding advertising and publicity arrangements, concert series programs, newsletters, and information about artists who performed for the club. The collection contains publications of...
Dates: 1915-2001, undated; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS452
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1920s through the 1990s. The photographs document orchestra directors, musicians, personnel, guest musicians, concerts, and activities. Locations depicted in the photographs include Peachtree Street, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Swan House at Atlanta History Center, Chastain Park, Carnegie Hall in New York, and unidentified locations.

Dates: approximately 1920-1999, undated

Edmund W. Hughes photographs

 Collection
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

Ella May Thornton Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS206
Scope and Content This collection contains personal documents of Miss Thornton’s, as well as material that reflected some of her interests later in life. Included are report cards from the Georgia Capital Female College and Conservatory of Music in 1890-1891, her passport from 1935, and a citation from the Atlanta Library Club upon her retirement in 1954. Other material consists of hand-written correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical records, and pamphlets that documented her interests in the Gate...
Dates: 1890-1973, undated (bulk 1947-1968)

Graham W. Jackson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS526
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials pertaining to the musical career of Graham Washington Jackson, including advertisements, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, musician contact records, a recital program, and a certificate for the WSBeaver Award from WSB Radio. In addition, this collection includes some of Jackson’s personal papers, such as his driver’s license, some postcards, birth announcements, business and membership cards, and event programs.

Dates: 1923-1983, undated

Mary Butt Griffith Dobbs papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS111
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials related to the Griffith family, Mary Griffith Dobbs, and the Griffith School of Music in Atlanta. Items includes articles, a scrapbook, music periodicals and booklets, and ephemera from the Griffith School of Music.

Dates: 1913-1965, undated

Mary Butt Griffith Dobbs photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS299
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Dobbs' family members, including Mary B. Griffith Dobbs and John H. Dobbs, as well as photographs of Griffith School of Music. Other photographs include images of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.

Dates: 1912-1927, undated

Mu Phi Epsilon scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS517
Scope and Content

This collection contains two scrapbooks covering the years 1972-1974 and 1980-1983, respectively. A third scrapbook, covering the years 1926-1932, was badly damaged prior to acquisition by smoke and water. Pages containing manuscript materials, programs, photographs, and ephemera were retained in their original condition; some informational content was photocopied and the originals discarded. There is also a 1928 membership directory.

Dates: 1926-1983

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

Willie May Whaley Whitten scrapbook and bible

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS325
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a single scrapbook that contains materials pertaining to Willie May's career as a singer. It also contains a Whitten family Bible.

Dates: 1909-1927, undated