Scope and Contents This collection contains physical material collected by the Atlanta History Center that documents the early moments of the COVID-19 pandemic. Papers include correspondence, public health information, periodicals, event invitations, and other ephemera. There are menus from Manuel's Tavern and Southern Belle that adjusted their policies to accommodate new public health guidelines, and neighborhood newsletters and correspondence that show how the shutdown affected Atlantans. Of particular note...

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This collection contains a transcription of a lecture titled "The South's Readmission to the Union," given at the Atlanta Historical Society, in which Arnall recounted his anti-trust action concerning railroad freight rates in the south and west, and analyzed the results of this action on the economy of Georgia.

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This collection consists of personal and business correspondence; copies and original newspaper and magazine clippings; house blueprints; and a World War II dated events map.

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This collection consists of one printed item with the title "To the Land Owners of Georgia" by G.W. Adair, an Atlanta real estate agent. The article points out that natural resources, agricultural production and railroads were reasons why people should come to Georgia and live and why Georgians should welcome these Europeans and Northerners.

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The collection contains a letter from Lee R. Gandee to Ruth Blair and describes Gandee's impressions traveling through the South in the 1930s and his plans to move to Atlanta, Georgia after being released from the Army and work on renovating a house called "The Old White House."