Atlanta (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
Alvin J. Belle Isle scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS259
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings of Belle Isle family in the news.
Dates:
1916-1950
Atlanta Art Association Film
Collection
Identifier: ahc.VIS193
Scope and Content
The collection, in its original format, is one reel of black and white acetate 16mm film. The film captures some members of the tour group boarding an Air France jet in Atlanta, Georgia. Among the passengers captured boarding the plane were Tom Little, Charlotte Little, and Ruth McMillan, the trip's organizer. It is unclear from the footage if the plane is in Atlanta, Georgia or Orly Field near Paris, France. The donation records indicate the passengers are boarding the plane at Orly Field,...
Dates:
1962
Atlanta Federation of Women's Clubs records
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS393
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection is comprised of organizational scrapbooks and year books. Other materials include newspaper clippings, programs, and club organizational records.
Dates:
1898-1951, undated
Atlanta Lung Association Records
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS322
Scope and Content
The collection contains the administrative records of the association as well as documents pertaining to the association's activities and programs. The records include board of director and committee minutes, correspondence, program agendas, newsletters and bulletins as well as reports pertaining to association activities and meetings. The bulk of the collection documents the association's attempt to educate the public on the pathology of tuberculosis and the widespread implications to the...
Dates:
1906-1977, undated
Atlanta Music Club records
Collection
Identifier: 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's Unspoken Past oral history recordings
Collection
Identifier: ahc.VIS178
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection is comprised of ten interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original video recordings for each interview, and a DVD access copy of each.
Dates:
2004-2005
Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history transcriptions
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS994
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection is comprised of eleven interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original audio recordings for each interview, and a CD access copy of each. The interviews with Billy Jones and Ginny Boyd are part of the Maria Helena Dolan collection (1999.142)
Dates:
1997, 2004-2005
Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama collection
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS1023
Scope and Content
The collection is primarily comprised of materials generated to promote the painting and solicit attendance. Also included is correspondence and invitations to special events hosted at the Atlanta Cyclorama site. There are other materials related to reports generated in advance of the restoration project and rededication of the painting and presentations in relation to interpretation at the site.
Dates:
1886-1980, undated
Benjamin Elliot Crane collection
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS341
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of essays, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript of Crane's biography.
Dates:
1849-1885
Calhoun family papers
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS50
Scope and Content
The Calhoun family papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, military papers, and family history. The primary contributors to the collection are James Montgomery Calhoun and his son, William Lowndes Calhoun. Notable items in the collection include an undated Calhoun family history, a personal account of Sherman’s siege of Atlanta by Robert Henderson, a family Bible, a handwritten copy of the affidavit of James M. Calhoun regarding the surrender of Atlanta, and a floor plan of the...
Dates:
1834-1960, undated
City of Atlanta Records
Collection
Identifier: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content
This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps. ...
Dates:
1848-2009, undated
Cotton States and International Exposition collection
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS1022
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised primarily of materials created in preparation of and during the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. The bulk of the collection is programs and publications that detail daily events and highlight exposition participants. Of particular interest is a series of souvenirs collected by individuals that attended the exposition as well as postcards and a pass issued for an employee of the Atlanta Journal with his...
Dates:
1895-1896, undated
DuBose family collection
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content
This collection contains primarily the personal and professional papers of Beverly Means DuBose, Jr. The bulk of the personal papers document DuBose's military service in the United States Navy. There is an assortment of training materials and periodicals issued by a variety of military agencies. Also included in this series are a few presentations given by DuBose and materials pertaining to the anti-communism movement in the United States in the early 1960s. The professional papers...
Dates:
1802-1985, undated
English Speaking Union Records
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS516
Scope and Contents of the Records
The bulk of this collection consists of meeting minutes, financial records, annual reports, membership lists, correspondence, publications, and scholarship fund information. Publications include English Speaking Union News and The Branch Officer’s Bulletin. Also included are the dissertations of Ph.D. students awarded grants from the Atlanta Branch’s scholarship funds to help them pursue their research in England.
Dates:
1940-2000, undated
Exposition Cotton Mills Employee Newspapers
File
Identifier: ahc.MSS1009
Scope and Content
The collection consists of issues ofThe Exposition, a newspaper published for the employees of the Exposition Cotton Mills. The newspaper, published semi-monthly, printed primarily information pertaining to the mill and its employees. Some issues included advertisements for the mill store and beauty shop as well as leisure activities organized by the mill. Most issues printed photographs of mill employees and their families and mill sponsored events. A few...
Dates:
1919-1957; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1942
Francis DeGress Photographs
Collection
Identifier: ahc.VIS195
Scope and Content
The collection contains five photographs of Francis DeGress. Most are portrait shots with the exception of one which is a group shot of eight gentlemen in uniform.
Dates:
1864, undated
George C. Spence family photographs and silhouettes
Collection
Identifier: ahc.VIS231
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook of 127 images. These snapshots are mainly of the immediate family of George C. Spence, Sr. and range in date from approximately 1870 to 1945. Subjects include George C. Spence, Sr.; his mother, Cornelia; his sisters, Eudora, Mary, and Eleanor; and his brother, Nat Spence. There are several childhood photographs of George C. Spence, Jr. and his sister Maryanne, as well as photographs of his stepmother, Elizabeth Norman Spence. The images depict the family...
Dates:
Approximately 1870-1942
Harry Winster Ligon papers
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS823
Scope and Content
This collection contains patents, diagrams, papers, and correspondence related to inventions by Harry W. Ligon between 1908 and 1930. These papers include petitions and patents with accompanying diagrams for cotton ginning machines and related valves. Also included is a petition for a game or amusement device.
Dates:
1908-1930, undated
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation records
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS440
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, meeting minutes, calendar of events, and some correspondence.
Dates:
1895-1987, undated
Henry Burr Green papers
Collection
Identifier: ahc.MSS1063
Scope and Content
This collection consists of papers related to Henry Burr Green's life and family. Documents related to his military service and real estate career comprise the largest portion of the collection. The papers cover multiple facets of Green's life including his long-term involvement in the Presbyterian Church, his membership in multiple fraternities while attending Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), and his extensive involvement with the real estate community (1946-1987). Due to...
Dates:
1900-1991