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Irene Woodruff documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS384f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a series of newspaper clippings, a letter to Irene Woodruff with a history of the Samuel Bowen Wight House located in the West End, and a copy of The Wesleyan Alumnae (Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia).

Dates: 1900-1975

Iris Garden Club photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS253
Scope and Content This collection contains photographic prints and negatives that document the social and civic activities of the club. Meetings, floral arrangements, and garden scenes are part of the material. Some of the floral arrangements were from club members' participation in local flower shows. Also included are photographs of the club's landscaping project at the Iris Garden and Woodland Glen in Winn Park, Atlanta. Of special interest are photographs of the club's Orchard Terrace project at the...
Dates: approximately 1930-1963, undated

Iris Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS669
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks, yearbooks and minutes which document the club's social and civic activities. Also part of the collection are landscape plans for the Orchard Terrace of the Thornton House project. Several scrapbooks focus on the Iris Garden and Woodland Glen that the club created in Winn Park of the Ansley Park neighborhood.

Dates: 1928-2009, undated

Ivan Allen, Sr. papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS25
Scope and Content

These papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and guide books, books, reports pertaining to the Atlanta historical Society, and documents relating to the civil projects of Ivan Allen, Sr.

Dates: 1854-1969, undated

J. Forsythe Gordy papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS492
Scope and Content

This collection contains newsletters and materials pertaining to the growth and development of the City of Atlanta, Georgia. There are also pamphlets, copies of legislation, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1951-1981, undated

J. M. Alexander & Company documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1175
Scope and Content

This collection contains business documents from the J. M. Alexander & Company hardware store. Materials include structural agreements; purchases made by Julia Touro Alexander; and client orders. Also included in the collection is correspondence from Frank Reagan, the company's treasurer, and company receipts. There is also a ledger of tenants recorded by R. B. Mitchell from the early 1890s. The relation of this document to the J. M. Alexander & Company has not been established.

Dates: 1891-1933, undated

J. Richardson Jones film Film

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Collection number: ahc.VIS179
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection, in its original format, contains a series of sixty-five reels of primarily silent black and white nitrate film commissioned by Eugene M. White to promote the prosperous African-American communities in Atlanta during the 1930s. The footage documents a variety of activities including sporting events, homecoming, golf, motorcycle racing, occupational activities, and baseball. Included in the footage is the Atlanta Black Crackers baseball team playing a game at Ponce De Leon Park...
Dates: circa 1938

J. Thomas Hutcheson scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS793
Scope and Content

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and programs of the Atlanta Philharmonic Society and some musical events in Atlanta.

Dates: 1930-1933

Jack Etheridge Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS109
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta, and images taken on the ground depicting the path of the interstate.

Dates: 1961-1962

Jack Spalding collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS360
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of scrapbooks that contain columns written by Jack Spalding as editor of The Atlanta Journal.

Dates: 1934-1978, undated

Jackson P. Dick papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS255
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, certificates, and ephemeral materials pertaining to the Dick family. Included in the collection is newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous programs.

Dates: 1890-1972

James Brandt Vietnam War protest papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS961f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Atlanta counter-culture, satirical zines collected by James Brant that document protests against the Vietnam War. Zines include The Grope, The Atlanta Urinal and Atlanta Constipation, and A Winews Letter. The collection also includes event flyers, a pamphlet, and a poster about Vietnam War protest efforts.

Dates: 1968-1973, undated

James Edward Jordan Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS565
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection concerns the many business activities of James Edward Jordan. Although much of this collection is of a general business nature, there are some records specific to his beauty and barber supplies, photographic sales, movie production, and real estate businesses. Of particular importance, within the Business— Photographic/Cinemagraphic file is correspondence showing Mr. Jordan’s interest in producing commercials and movies. Some business cards in the collection...
Dates: 1947-1963

James Edward Jordan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS44
Scope and Content

The collection contains portrait prints all presumably taken by James Edward Jordan. The images include portraits of unidentified children, men, and women, predominently posed in a studio setting with painted decorative backgrounds. Of note is one strip of custom postage stamps of an unidentified man.

Dates: approximately 1947-1970

James Kolloch Hines Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS767
Scope and Content

This collections includes a diary, newspaper clippings, legal papers, and letters.

Dates: 1873-1967

James M. Wright Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS211
Scope and Content The bulk of the James M. Wright papers, circa 1964, consists of handwritten research on note cards, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of his book, The License System of the City of Atlanta (1964). Box 4 contains subject files containing articles, pamphlets, reports, surveys, and other printed material related to public utilities, taxation, religion, slavery, and transportation. Information about Wright’s background in education and employment is contained in the folder...
Dates: 1896-1964

James P. Wickersham letter and biographical sketch

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Collection number: ahc.MSS373f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from James P. Wickersham on July 17, 1881 to his wife Emerine written during a train ride to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He wrote that the trip took 34 hours, including a 5 or 6 hour delay because of engine failure. He speaks of Atlanta as "beautiful and thrifty" compared to the city as he saw it in 1866 as it lay in ruins.

Dates: 1881, undated

Jane Cooper newsclippings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS406f
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings about the social life of Jane Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1913

J.E. Mellett Jr. photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahcVIS369
Scope and Content

This collection contains black and white photographs of construction scenes in downtown Atlanta by J.E. "Ned" Mellett Jr. They were submitted to the 1949 Atlanta Historical Society Historical Photographic Exhibition in partnership with the Dixie Camera Club under the category "construction." Additional photographs include scenes of Atlanta Zoo and activities such as tennis, baseball, and swimming in Piedmont Park, Grant Park, and Lakewood Park.

Dates: 1949-1950

Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS171
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographic images previously owned by Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs. The first part of the collection features images of Askew's family and friends at various social functions including holiday and costume parties, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Photographs of Atlanta-native and actress Jane Withers, actor John Bromfield and his wife Mary Ellen Tillotson Bromfield, the Dobbs family, Billy Jones, and Dennis Machett are also included. Images from Guy Dobbs's...
Dates: 1946 - circa 1978, bulk circa 1955

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 120
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Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 34
Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 30
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Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
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Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 24
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Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
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Atlanta Campaign, 1864 11
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Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
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Chattahoochee River 9
Church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 9
Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
Marietta Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Political campaigns -- Georgia 9
Portraits, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
Schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
Scrapbooks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 9
Stone Mountain (Ga.) 9
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World War, 1939-1945 9
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Broad Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) -- History 8
Chastain Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
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Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 8
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Fulton County (Ga.) 8
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Names
Hartsfield, William Berry 18
Atlanta Historical Society 17
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 15
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 13
Rich's (Retail store) 13
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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 12
Georgia Institute of Technology 12
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 12
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 11
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 11
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 10
Young, Andrew, 1932- 10
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 9
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 9
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 8
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 8
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 8
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Coca-Cola Company 8
Emory University 8
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 8
Georgia Power Company 8
Massell, Sam 8
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 7
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 7
Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Atlanta History Center 7
Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 7
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Piedmont Driving Club 7
Agnes Scott College 6
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 6
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 6
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 6
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Slaton, John M. 6
Southeastern Fair (Atlanta, Ga.) 6
Underground Atlanta, Inc. 6
Zoo Atlanta 6
Atlanta (Ga.) 5
Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 5
Atlanta Public Schools 5
Atlanta Regional Commission 5
Atlanta Urban League 5
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
Democratic Party (Ga.) 5
DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 5
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 5
First National Bank of Atlanta 5
Forward Atlanta Commission 5
Georgia School of Technology 5
Georgia State University 5
Georgia. General Assembly 5
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 5
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 5
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 5
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 5
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 5
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 5
United States. Navy. 5
University of Georgia 5
Allen family 4
American Red Cross 4
Atlanta (Ga.). Board of Aldermen 4
Atlanta Art Association 4
Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 4
Atlanta Housing Authority 4
Atlanta Memorial Arts Center 4
Atlanta Pride Festival 4
Atlanta Urban Design Commission (Ga.) 4
Boy Scouts of America . National Council 4
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 4
Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Delta Air Lines 4
Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 4
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 4
Georgia. Department of Transportation 4
Grant family 4
Inman, Edward H., 1881-1931 4
Junior League of Atlanta 4
Key, James Lee, 1867-1939 4
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Lakewood Fairgrounds (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 4
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 4
Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Miller, Zell, 1932-2018 4
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