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Baseball teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta Baseball Corporation documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1067
Scope and Content

Collection materials consist of business and legal records, including a 1933 lease, a 1947 certificate of residence change, meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, and memos.

Dates: 1932-1951
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Baseball Corporation documents

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS854f
Scope and Content This collection contains memorabilia from the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Included are tickets from the first regular season Atlanta Braves game played in the stadium in 1966 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well as the last regular season game from 1996 against the Montreal Expos. The collection also includes a magazine, the Atlanta Stadium Special Dedication Edition, published by the City of Atlanta and Fulton County Recreation Authority. The magazine...
Dates: 1966-1996
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium collection

Braves baseball players photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS223
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of 159 baseball players who played for the Boston Braves, the Boston Bees, the Milwaukee Braves, and the Atlanta Braves baseball clubs. The majority of the images are professional publicity photographs of individual players. Included in the collection are baseball photographs of Chipper Jones as a child in the 13-year-old Babe Ruth League and at the 1989 Florida States Tournament.

Dates: 1913-1989, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Braves baseball players photograph collection

Cecil James Holleran postcards

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS305
Scope and Content

The collection contains images of men of the Georgia National Guard, Company L. Other postcards include images of cadets at Marist College.

Dates: approximately 1911-1915
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Cecil James Holleran postcards

Cotten Alston photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS247
Scope and Content This collection contains aerial and street views of the Buckhead, downtown, and Midtown areas of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of Buckhead restaurants such as OK Cafe and Buckhead Diner. Also featured are the Atlanta History Center's Swan House, Lenox Square Mall, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Underground Atlanta, the Georgia Dome, The Fox Theatre, High Museum of Art, The Varsity, Piedmont Park, and Clark College (later named Clark Atlanta University). Other images include...
Dates: 1972-1998, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Cotten Alston photographs

Mary E. Budden scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS843
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one scrapbook kept by Mary E. Budden as a young woman in Atlanta. The scrapbook mainly contains newspaper clippings from Atlanta, Georgia, area newspapers regarding the Atlanta Crackers baseball team.

Dates: 1934-1936
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary E. Budden scrapbook

McDonald Valentine papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS781f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents relating to Valentine's military and baseball coaching careers. Of particular note are newspaper articles about his tutoring programs and his former students.

Dates: 1973-1989, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / McDonald Valentine papers

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project