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Family-owned business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 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

Alston and Glenn family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975

Charlie Brown papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS881
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence to Charles "Charlie" Manley Brown, bills, receipts, campaign materials, scrapbooks, estate records of Richard N. Fickett, newspaper clippings, and materials regarding Brown's book, Charlie Brown Remembers Atlanta: Memoirs of a Public Man.

Dates: 1903-1984, undated

David Messer photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS237
Scope and Content The images in this collection consist of photographs of the construction of the Atlanta Civic Center taken by David James Messer, Sr. Photographs include black and white interior and exterior images of the auditorium of the convention center and the exhibit building for the City of Atlanta. Messer produced monthly images to document the stages of the Atlanta Civic Center's development. The collection depicts views of the initial groundbreaking in 1965 to the completion of the convention...
Dates: 1965-1968

Emma Lou Cole photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS233
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Eberhardt family, families associated with the Eberhardts, and businesses in Atlanta, Georgia, including R.P. and J.G. Eberhardt and Company and T.L. Eberhardt Coal Company. Many of these photographs were taken by Atlanta-based photographer Linnie Condon.

Dates: 1880-1928, undated

Harper's Flowers photographs and color drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS239
Scope and Content This collection consists of photographs of flower arrangements for wedding ceremonies, mainly of unidentified bridal parties, taken by various Atlanta photographers including Reeves Studios; Elliott's Peachtree Studios; Halberstadt Studios; Portraits by Lee; Ludi Studio; and Dean King of Decatur, Georgia. Photographs include interior images of religious institutions where each wedding ceremony was held as well as reception table settings. Also a part of the collection are photographs of...
Dates: 1930-1964, undated

J. Regenstein Co. pamphlet and letter

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS817f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a pamphlet titled You and Regenstein's that contains information for new employees as well as a typed letter from the J. Regenstein Co. written to Mr. L. M. King of Jonesboro, Georgia.

Dates: 1908, 1950

Kuhns family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS319
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the Kuhn's Photography Studio, including photographs of both the Kuhns family and clients. Many of the images are identified, however most of the tintypes remain unidentified.

Dates: approximately 1860-1929

Nunnally Company ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS876
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one ledger, titled "Transfer Ledger Purchase and Private," dated 1904-1909, with the transactions listed under the names of companies and individuals.

Dates: 1904-1909

William A. Manning photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS313
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of William A. Manning, Sr and his family. It also includes images of street scenes in Atlanta.

Dates: approximately 1907-1939

William K. Jenkins papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS824f
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence from William K. Jenkins' business partner, Arthur Lucas, as well as personal letters from Jenkins' daughter and mother. Topics of their letters range from issues with employees to everyday family life. The collection also includes financial documents such as checks, bank statements, and insurance certificates.

Dates: 1930-1943, undated