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Immigrant business enterprises -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on business concerns started and/or owned by immigrants. Works on business concerns started and/or owned by minorities are entered under Minority business enterprises.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Carl J. Weinmeister hotel guestbook and naturalization papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS973f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the guestbook from Hotel Weinmeister that documents the name, residence, time, and room of each guest staying at the hotel between 1898 and 1921. Also a part of the collection is a copy of Carl J. Weinmeister's 1874 naturalization papers, which he signed at the Fulton Superior Court in Atlanta as part of his United States citizenship application.

Dates: 1874-1921

Loo Suey papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1276
Scope and Contents This collection mostly contains tax return documents and receipts for services related to Loo Sang Laundry located on Houston Street (later renamed John Wesley Dobbs Avenue), and later Luckie Street and Peachtree Street. Tax documents from Chew Sam Laundry and Hai Ping of Hai Ping Laundry are also included. In addition, there are English and Mandarin periodicals including Life and China Pictorial that cover performing arts,...
Dates: 1926-1979, undated