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Georgia -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Southline Press, Inc. photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS158
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains images of people, places, and events, most of whom were represented in news stories and other features in Southline. Images of people include political and civic leaders, religious leaders, professionals, entertainers, journalists and authors, athletes, and the general public. Among the photographs are images of Marvin Arrington, Roy Barnes, Julian Bond, Mike Bowers, Bill Campbell, Shirley Franklin, Pierre Howard, Maynard Jackson, Joseph Lowry, Billy McKinney,...
Dates: circa 1985-1989, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Southline Press, Inc. photographs

Tom Watson Brown ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1110
Scope and Content

This collection contains material collected by and about Tom Watson Brown. There are reviews and critiques of the television documentary The Murder of Mary Phagan that aired on NBC in 1988; speeches given by Brown at the Confederate Memorial Day service in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1978, and about the Leo Frank trial, given in 1982; and an assortment of tickets from sporting and entertainment events primarily from the Atlanta area.

Dates: 1933-2002, undated; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1996
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Tom Watson Brown ephemera

Union Democratic Convention proceedings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS448f
Scope and Content

This collection contains the printed proceedings from the Atlanta Intelligencer in a Special Edition. The content concerns an attempted reconciliation in Georgia between the Union wing of the Democratic Party and the Southern Rights wing of the Democratic Party proposed by the Union Democratic Convention held in Atlanta Sept. 17, 1852. This was an attempt to unify the Democratic Party in Georgia behind Franklin Pierce in the presidential election of 1852.

Dates: 1852 Sept. 18
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Union Democratic Convention proceedings

Western and Atlantic Railroad report

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS503f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one published report, a United States Senate version of an 1837 survey report by Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), Chief Engineer of the W&A. The survey includes detailed maps of north Georgia and information about construction costs.

Dates: 1837
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Western and Atlantic Railroad report

William Henry Fleming letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS921
Scope and Content This collection consists of 32 letters and part of a 33rd letter written by Alexander H. Stephens to William "Willie" Henry Fleming. Stephens was serving in the House of Representatives when many of these letters were written, and politics is the topic of many of these letters, such as the nominations of Samuel Jones Tilden and General Ulysses S. Grant, an incident with General Gordon over a nomination, the Texas Pacific Railroad, and his own nomination as Governor of Georgia. ...
Dates: 1877-1882, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William Henry Fleming letters

William Jonathan Northen papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS259f
Scope and Content

This collection includes telegrams, speeches, and research papers by William Jonathan Northen. Included are speeches on race relations in the South, the teaching profession, agriculture, religion, immigration, and other topics. Also included is a telegram from Booker T. Washington about a speaking engagement.

Dates: 1856-1907, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William Jonathan Northen papers

William W. Brewton unpublished manuscript Mr. Atlanta: A Life Story of Robert F. Maddox

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS804f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a 19 chapter manuscript of the unpublished Mr. Atlanta: A Life Story of Robert F. Maddox, written by William W. Brewton. Of special note are handwritten edits throughout the manuscript and calculations of the cost of printing the book in 1956.

Dates: 1956, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William W. Brewton unpublished manuscript Mr. Atlanta: A Life Story of Robert F. Maddox

Wilson Lumpkin letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS543f
Scope and Content

This collection contains four letters and transcriptions written to Annis Hopkins by Wilson Lumpkin during their courtship. In the letters Lumpkin discussed issues in the legislature and his ideas on marriage.

Dates: 1820
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Wilson Lumpkin letters