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Albertype Company Atlanta souvenir album

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS213
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photogravures of locations in and around Atlanta during the early 20th century, including the Georgia State Capitol; Piedmont Hotel; Ansley Hotel; Winecoff Hotel; Second Baptist Church of Atlanta; Carnegie Library; First Baptist Church; and the First United Methodist Church.

Dates: approximately 1915

Constance Knowles Draper Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS968
Scope and Contents of the Records The Constance Knowles Draper Collection includes images of Mrs. Draper’s home and garden on Cherokee Road. The collection also contains Mrs. Draper’s lecture to the Peachtree Garden Club on Ferrell Gardens in LaGrange, Georgia. The bulk of the collection includes images of these gardens; Mrs. Draper used many of these in her Peachtree Garden Club lecture. In addition, the collection contains material documenting the landscape work that Edith Harrison and Constance Draper completed for Cason...
Dates: 1921-1939

Dr. Amey Chappell visual arts collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS46
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs, prints, and postcards collected by Dr. Amey Chappell. The images depict people in Atlanta, Georgia, or unidentified areas in Georgia. Included in the collection is one printed panorama view of the May 21, 1917 Atlanta Fire; one Currier and Ives lithograph depicting the capture of Atlanta during the Civil War; one postcard depicting the Tallulah Apartment at 87 Washington Street, circa 1905; one souvenir postcard booklet of Atlanta; and twelve...
Dates: 1865-1945

Ernest W. Sills Tullie Smith House photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS338
Scope and Content

This collection contains images taken of the Tullie Smith House in its original location at 2890 North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1940

Henry Burr Green real estate photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS308
Scope and Content This collection contains black-and-white photographs accumulated by Henry Burr Green in the process of conducting real estate business for Cheves-Green Enterprises, the mortgage loan, real estate, property management, and insurance company of which he was President. Most photos were taken by commercial photographer Walter M. Wright, and depict residential homes and office buildings in Atlanta, College Park, Decatur, East Point, and Marietta. Highlights include the Healey Building, Henry...
Dates: 1928-1947, undated

Ivy Garden Club photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS396
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs that document the social and civic activities of the club. Photographs include unidentified members attending social and civic events, field trips, and garden tours. Of special interest are images of historic homes and an unidentified cemetery in Georgia.

Dates: 1985-1986, undated

Lenox T. Thornton photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS442
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Georgia county courthouses used for Georgia counties: a fact-book on Georgia's counties featuring photographs by the author of all 159 Georgia courthouses. Most photographs are accompanied by descriptions detailing the county and the courthouse’s history, or the building’s architecture. Also included are photographs of former Ashby, Inman Park, and Virginia Avenue street car barns in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1920-1976, undated

Margaret Mitchell House Archives

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Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content

The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1848-2002, undated

Marietta Council of Garden Clubs records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1266
Scope and Contents This collection includes scrapbooks, minutes, and membership records that provide details of the civic and social activities of the Marietta Council of Garden Clubs. Council scrapbooks provide photographs, newsletters, programs, and yearbooks that hightlight the council's activities such as beautifying historic downtown Marietta, maintaining the Marietta Educational Garden Center and Library, fundraising for member clubs' civic projects, and participating in flower shows. Also a part of the...
Dates: 1928-1999, undated

Midtown Historic District photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS265
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of images of the historic Midtown area in Atlanta, Georgia. The photographs were taken for draft nomination on the National Register of Historic Places for Midtown. Included are photos of churches, Henry Grady High School, stores and businesses, street scapes, apartments, and homes in the Midtown area. Types of homes photographed vary among bungalows, duplexes, row houses, carriage houses, alley dwellings, and cottages. Of special interest are photographs of the...
Dates: 1997

Mrs. Crawford Barnett photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS281
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of historic buildings: the Georgia State Capitol and Second Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia; a group on the veranda of the National Hotel in Dalton, Georgia; and a group posing near Tallulah Falls. Other images feature Mr. and Mrs. Amory Brown of Macon, Georgia; a wedding cake trimmed by Mrs. Amory Brown; Brown Park in Canton, Georgia; and several images of the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama painting.

Dates: approximately 1870-1912, undated

Myrta Lockett Avary photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS279
Scope and Content The collection contains images collected by Avary, including images of Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Memorial Association members, and portraits of Myrta Avary. Also included are exterior views of Bulloch Hall and Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia, and the Wren's Nest in Atlanta, Georgia. Of note are images of a ceremony transferring possession of the Wren's Nest from Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris to the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. Other photographs include Joel Chandler Harris...
Dates: 1870-1917, undated

Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates: 1820-1993, undated

Poppy Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS942f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains items that document the club's efforts to support the Tullie Smith House and Farm. Included in the collection are writings about the Tullie Smith House, correspondence about the publication of the Tullie Smith House booklet, and Atlanta Historical Society (later Atlanta History Center) publications and newsletters. Of special interest are notes for a Yule Log slide presentation.

Dates: 1978-1979

Postcard collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS93
Scope and Contents This collection contains postcards that depict scenes in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. Most of the images are of man-made structures in Atlanta including Agnes Scott College, Atlanta Municipal Airport (now Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport), Biltmore Hotel, Booker T. Washington High School, Bulloch Hall, Candler Building, Capitol City Club, City Hall, Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), Atlanta Cyclorama at Grant Park, English-American (Flatiron) Building, Fort...
Dates: 1899-1990, undated

Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS375
Scope and Content This collection contains images and architectural drawings of buildings designed or renovated by Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers, and the earlier iteration of the firm, Burge and Stevens. Also included are drawings from other firms collected by Stevens & Wilkinson, most notably Abreu & Robeson, Inc. Of special note are photographs and drawings of the Piedmont Driving Club, Techwood Homes, Georgia Baptist Hospital and the William-Oliver building. Also included are...
Dates: approximately 1919-2005, undated

Susie Flynn Hughs photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS306
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of buildings constructed for the Cotton States International Exposition in Piedmont Park approximately 10 years after the fair. Other images include photographs of downtown Atlanta and two family members.

Dates: approximately 1905

The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Historic Landscape and Garden Grant Fundraiser records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1026
Scope and Content This collection contains materials that document the history of the annual pilgrimages (and later other types of fundraisers such as lectures and tours) of the GCG since 1996. Brochures, flyers, maps, clippings, and correspondence are included in the collection. These items also provide histories of historic garden sites that are on the pilgrimages in Georgia and detail garden club activities relating to the pilgrimages, lectures, or tours. Financial and fundraising documentation are also...
Dates: 1996-

The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Historic Landscape and Garden Grant Program records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1076
Scope and Content This collection contains grant applications, reports, and supporting evidence, which document organizations seeking funds to assist with restoration and preservation projects of historic landscapes and gardens. Project follow-up reports are included where available. Of special interest are applications for multiple restoration projects at Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery. Also part of the collection are program materials that provide details of the grant program committee including chairman's...
Dates: 1996-2014

Virginia Twinam Smith slides

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Collection number: ahc.VIS397
Scope and Contents This collection contains slides of a wide variety of identified plants including herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, native shrubs, vegetables, vines, and trees of the Southeastern States. Also a part of the collection are photographs of public gardens, such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Callaway Gardens, Chattahoochee Nature Center, and the gardens of the Tullie Smith House at the Atlanta History Center. Other images in the Smith collection depict downtown Atlanta, skylines,...
Dates: 1978-2003

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Price, Francis E. 2
Reid, J. Neel (Joseph Neel), 1885-1926 2
Rich's (Retail store) 2
Second Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Abreu and Robeson, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Adler, Rudolph Satorius 1
Agnes Scott College 1
Albertype Co. 1
American Institute of Architects 1
Ansley Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Atlanta Public Library 1
Atlanta Public Schools 1
Avary, Myrta Lockett 1
Barnett, Crawford, Mrs. 1
Barrington Hall (Roswell, Ga.) 1
Benzur, Gabriel 1
Brown, Amory 1
Brown, Elijah Alexander, Sr. 1
Bulloch Hall (Roswell, Ga.) 1
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Callaway, Cason J. (Cason Jewell) 1
Candler Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Candler, Asa Griggs, 1851-1929 1
Carnegie Library of Atlanta 1
Carnegie, Andrew 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 1
Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Chappell, Amey, Dr. 1
Chase, William J. J. 1
Cheves-Green Enterprises, Inc (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Citizens and Southern National Bank 1
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Crook, Lewis Edmund, Jr. 1
Currier & Ives 1
Downing, W. T. (Walter Thomas) 1
Draper, Constance Knowles 1
Draper, Jesse 1
E. Rivers School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Edee, Allen Barnett 1
Edith Harrison and Constance Draper, Office of Landscape Architecture 1
Elks (Fraternal order) 1
Emory University 1
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First Methodist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Flower Garden Club (Marietta, Ga.) 1
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Fourth National Bank Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fratelli Alinari 1
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Georgia Baptist Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Georgia Power Company 1
Georgia. Department of Natural Resources (1972- ) 1
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Georgian Terrace Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889 1
Green, Henry Burr 1
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 1
Healey Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Henderson, Edith, 1911- 1
Henry Grady High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hentz and Reid (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hentz, Adler, and Shutze (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hentz, Reid, and Adler (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hughs, Lucile Smith 1
Hughs, Susie Flynn 1
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ivy Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Jones, Edward Vason 1
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 1
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Latham, Harold 1
Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, Inc. 1
Marietta Council of Garden Clubs (Marietta Ga.) 1
Marietta Garden Club (Marietta, Ga.) 1
Marsh, John R. (John Robert) 1
Martin, Van Jones 1
McGill, Ralph 1
Means, James 1
Menaboni, Athos, 1895-1990 1
Miller School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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