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Golf -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Bobby Jones papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS836
Scope and Content This collection documents Bobby Jones's golf career and legacy. Material includes articles and periodicals, pamphlets, golf tournament programs, and magazine and newspaper clippings. Many clippings are obituaries and memoriams in Jones's honor. In addition, the collection contains correspondence, primarily letters of condolence written to Mary Malone Jones, and donations in Bobby Jones's name. Of particular note is a letter written by Bobby Jones and sent to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on...
Dates: 1924-1990, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Bobby Jones papers

Charles R. Yates visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS298
Scope and Content

This collection contains images related to Charles R. Yates' amateur golf career, lifetime involvement with the Augusta National Golf Club, philanthropic and civic activities, family life, and business career. Many of the images focus on Yates' winning the 1938 British Amateur Tournament.

Dates: 1920-2005, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Charles R. Yates visual arts materials

Harriet Elizabeth Brown scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS317
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Harriet Elizabeth Brown's family and friends horseback riding, swimming, playing tennis, and shooting rifles. Also included are photographs of a ship voyage to Panama.

Dates: 1900-1910
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Harriet Elizabeth Brown scrapbook

Jackson P. Dick photographs of the Atkinson Family

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS428
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Atkinson family, primarily Henry M. Atkinson Sr. and May Peters Atkinson. Several of the photographs feature Henry M. Atkinson Sr. and unidentified individuals with trains, cars, and horse-drawn carriages. Also included are photographs of the Atkinson family's residences. Of special note are two images of Henry Atkinson Sr. and unidentified individuals posing with golfer Robert "Bobby" Jones (1902-1971), as well as a portrait of Richard Peters Jr.

Dates: 1902-1948, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Jackson P. Dick photographs of the Atkinson Family

Jones, Malone, and Hood family photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS227
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of Bobby Jones, Jr., his wife, Mary Malone Jones, and their three children: Clara Malone Jones Black (1925-1994); Robert Tyre Jones, III (1926-1973); and Mary Ellen Jones Hood (b. 1931). Also included are photographs of his parents, Robert Permedus Jones, Sr. (1879-1956) and Clara Merrick Thomas Jones (1881-1961), grandchildren of Bobby Jones, and acquaintances of the family. Most of the images in the collection are informal snapshots of the family taken...
Dates: approximately 1910-1980, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Jones, Malone, and Hood family photograph collection

Watts Gunn papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS960
Scope and Content

The Watts Gunn Papers, donated in his memory in 1999 by his wife, include newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to his golf career which spanned more than seven decades. Also included are programs from his many inductions into halls of fame, a rules card from Muirfield, Scotland, and certificates of achievement.

Dates: 1923-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Watts Gunn papers