African Americans -- 1930-1940
Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bazoline Usher visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS481
Scope and Contents
This collection contains portraits of Bazoline Usher, her father, and her siblings. It includes images related to Bazoline Usher’s career as an educator and director and supervisor of Atlanta Public Schools’ African American schools, including images of a Georgia Teachers and Education Association Meeting, and Atlanta Public Schools African American Supervisors and Principals meetings. Of special note are photographs of Usher receiving the Iota Phi Lambda Bronze Woman of the Year Award, and...
Dates:
approximately 1895-1991
Long, Rucker, and Aiken family photographs and lithographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS32
Scope and Content
The collection documents the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social life of members of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families from 1859 through the 1970s. The images document three generations of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families and visually chronicles their rise from slavery to social and political influence. It also provides visual documentation of African American life from Reconstruction to the late 20th century.
Dates:
1859-1979, undated
William B. Hartsfield films
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS194
Scope and Content
The films in this collection depict the 1939 premiere of the Gone with the Wind, hosted by the City of Atlanta; Hartsfield’s 1940 mayoral campaign; Hartsfield with Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell selling war bonds in downtown Atlanta during World War II; footage highlighting his six-term career as mayor; and amateur footage of Hartsfield with unidentified individuals fishing...
Dates:
approximately 1939-1960