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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Celia Bressler's Girls' High scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS38f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook created by Girls' High School graduate Celia Bressler. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, her report cards, photographs, graduation programs, greeting cards, and handwritten notes to her from her classmates recounting events from their school days.

Dates: 1920

Charles J. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS286
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single scrapbook that contains newspaper clippings pertaining to events in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1900-1903, undated

Constance Berry Currie papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a report card from Smith College, a dance card, a letter addressed to Constance E. Berry at Agnes Scott College, a ticket for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and love letters between Constance Berry Currie and her husband, Charles J. Currie.

Dates: 1911-1922, undated

Dante's Down the Hatch documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1174
Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection is Christmas newsletters published by Dante's Down the Hatch. The newsletters detail events that occurred over the previous year with pictures of those events as well as of notable people who visited the restaurant. Also included in the collection are menus and flyers advertising the restaurant.

Dates: 1982-2011, undated

Dorothy Hodgson Jones papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS189f
Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, financial records, and invitations documenting the civic and personal life of Dorothy Hodgson Jones. Included are tax receipts, an invitation honoring William Howard Taft at the Capitol City Club, and a contract of sale of a lot and house at 1354 Peachtree Street.

Dates: 1877-1951, undated

Edda A. Cole scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS267
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to Atlanta, Georgia and the Civil War. Includes information on Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis.

Dates: 1898

Edith Lucretia Cason papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS782
Scope and Content

These papers consist of Edith Cason's graduation book and diploma.

Dates: 1915

Edmund W. Hughes photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS186
Scope and Content This collection contains images that document the metropolitan Atlanta region and photographs illustrating social events in the city. Bell and Stanton Public Relations used these photographs documenting the Atlanta area as promotional images. Most of the images were taken in the late 1960s and include the Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, First Federal Savings and Loan building, Hartford Insurance building, Peachtree Center, and the Trust Company of Georgia. The collection...
Dates: 1958-1968

Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1107
Scope and Content

Eliza Jones accumulated this collection to document the genealogy of her extended families as well that of her husband, Waldo Jones. Materials include correspondence that documents her daily life and views, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and diaries. The collection also contains papers from her and Waldo Jones's extended family. Families represented include the Woolford, Grant, Slaton, Harris, Fitz-Randolph, Martin, Waldo, Winslow, Felder, and Jackson families.

Dates: 1789-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

Emma E. Latimer scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS291
Scope and Content

This collection contains a partial scrapbook pertaining to the Latimer family. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, class rosters, and receipts.

Dates: 1867-1932

Emmelyn Gregg Carter Harrison scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS269
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of one scrapbook.

Dates: 1940-1942

Esther Garrett Wynne papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS796
Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal papers of Esther Garrett Wynne, including correspondence with her brother, Franklin Garrett. Other documents are invitations, newspaper clippings, correspondence with others, memorabilia, and garden club yearbooks. There are also eight scrapbooks, which highlight Mrs. Wynne's activities throughout her life, including her first marriage, her time in the Red Cross, travels, and her social activities.

Dates: 1926-1972, undated

Ethel Taylor Snipes scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS321f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Ethel Taylor Snipes at Girls High School. Included are autographs of those attending the 50th class reunion in 1972. Also included are photos, clippings, programs, an official list of textbooks, Red Cross certificates, and report cards.

Dates: 1922-1925

Fitzhugh Knox, Sr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS201f
Scope and Content This collection contains one bound volume. Inside are two letters to Miss Ruth Blair, the Executive Secretary of the Atlanta Historical Society, dated March 11, 1938 and March 18, 1938, both from Fitzhugh Knox, Sr. Also included is a short manuscript titled “My Reminiscences From 1883”. The first part of the manuscript is a memoir which mentions many prominent citizens, such as Joel Chandler Harris, Carroll Payne, and Henry W. Grady; businesses, like the Merchants Bank of Atlanta, J....
Dates: 1938

George Jones scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS288
Scope and Content

This collection contains a single scrapbook that contains newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations, and correspondence.

Dates: 1921-1931, undated

Gussie Parkhurst Hill ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS153f
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters, printed materials, newspaper clippings, booklets, greeting cards, and programs related to the social activities and avocations of Gussie Parkhurst Hill (Mrs. De Los Hill) of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1868-1952, undated

Harriet Elizabeth Brown scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS317
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Harriet Elizabeth Brown's family and friends horseback riding, swimming, playing tennis, and shooting rifles. Also included are photographs of a ship voyage to Panama.

Dates: 1900-1910

Harvey Johnson scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS287
Scope and Content

This collection contains a series of three scrapbooks primarily containing newspaper clippings. Some of the articles include topics such as the Lewis Redwine case, General E. Kirby Smith, Judge Lumpkin, and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

Dates: 1889-1893, undated

Haverty family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS904
Scope and Content This collection documents the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. The papers consist of business correspondence, family letters, financial records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, travel journals, and writings. Included in the collection are speeches from Haverty's and American Retail Federation meetings and conventions, as well as first person narratives from Rawson Haverty Sr. highlighting his travels to Europe and family...
Dates: 1810-2007, undated

Haverty family visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS367
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs, negatives, and maps that document the Haverty family, Haverty's Furniture Company, and associated professional organizations. Included in the collection are images of J. J. Haverty, Clarence Haverty, and Rawson Haverty Sr.'s children, as well as the weddings of Clare Haverty to Frank Ridley Jr., Betty Haverty to Alex Smith, and Rawson Haverty to Margaret Munnerlyn. Photographs feature J. J. Haverty's home Villa Clare, along with Clarence and Elizabeth...
Dates: 1842-2006