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African American visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS68
Scope and Content This collection contains various types of visual images, including photographs, lithoghraphs, posters, and prints from periodicals, pertaining to African Americans. Included in the collection are stereotypical racist pictures and postcards; photographs of African Americans working as domestics, agricultural laborers, musicians, streetcar conductors, etc.; portraits of African American women, men, and children; prints depicting significant events, such as the Fort Pillow Massacre and the...
Dates: 1860-1957, undated

Agatha Sheehan photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS359
Scope and Content

The collection contains images of former enslaved people and elderly African Americans who lived at the E.R. Carter Home for the Elderly. Named in honor of Reverend Edward Randolph Carter (1856-1944), the pastor spearheaded an extensive housing ministry and directed the construction of a home for the aged, which was operated by Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The home was later demolished.

Dates: approximately 1900, undated

Bazoline E. Usher papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates: 1921-2005, undated

Grace Towns Hamilton maps and photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS35
Scope and Content The collection contains images of Grace Towns Hamilton, her family, special events, and other public officials. The bulk of the collection features Hamilton posed with public officials including: Governor Jimmy Carter, U.S. Congressman Andrew Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, Coretta Scott King, Atlanta University President Benjamin E. Mays, and U.S. Congressman Julian Bond. Also included are photographs of Atlanta homes of the 1960s; African-American Navy yard workers (1940s); the...
Dates: 1882-1984, undated

Graham W. Jackson visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS34
Scope and Content This collection contains 1,668 images. The images depict Graham Jackson, his family, and Jackson's performances at various events and locations. Also featured are photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Little White House in Warm Springs and theLife magazine photograph by Ed Clark. Other images of politicians include President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, and President Jimmy Carter. The majority of the photographs are...
Dates: 1913-1981

Kuhns family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS319
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the Kuhn's Photography Studio, including photographs of both the Kuhns family and clients. Many of the images are identified, however most of the tintypes remain unidentified.

Dates: approximately 1860-1929

Luckie family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS20
Scope and Content

This collection documents four generations of the Luckie family, very early members of Atlanta's free African American community.

Dates: 1860-1940, undated

Utopian Literary Club documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1120
Scope and Content

This collection consists of historical sketches written about the club, biographies highlighting members, and a proclamation from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners honoring the club. There are also programs for events and special projects, yearbooks documenting past club members, meeting minutes, financial reports, and meeting agendas.

Dates: 1927-2003, undated

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 2
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Hartsfield, William Berry 2
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 2
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Abbey, Lucile 1
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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project 1
Atlanta Public Schools 1
Atlanta Urban League 1
Barrett, Lizzie 1
Blackshear of Macon, photography 1
Boatenreiter, Gertrude 1
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 1
Brooks, Carrie 1
Brown, John 1
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 1
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Carter, Edward Randolph 1
Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 1
Colley, Van Buren 1
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Creighton, Maude 1
Cunningham, Nancy, 1820-1910 1
Dobbs, Annie Ruth 1
Draper, Jesse 1
E. R. Carter Home for the Elderly (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ellis, Clyde 1
Emory University 1
Fannie Renfroe 1
First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fletcher, Harry 1
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 1
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Garliff, Clara 1
Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Gresham, Martha 1
Gresham, Thomas G. 1
Gross, Dora 1
Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992 1
Hanye, Eloise 1
Hanye, Margaritte 1
Hanye, May 1
Harrington, Harry 1
Harris, Jessie 1
Harris, Joe Frank 1
Haygood, Martha 1
Henderson, Alma 1
Herndon, Alonzo, 1858- 1
Holderby, Lena 1
Holderby, Mattie 1
Holderby, May 1
Hollingsworth, Charles 1
Hollingsworth, Lon 1
Hughes Spalding Pavilion (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Jackson, Gerald Wayne, 1958- 1
Jackson, Graham Washington, 1903-1983 1
Jackson, Graham, Jr., 1954- 1
Jackson, Helen Balton 1
Jackson, James M. 1
Johnson, Lena 1
Jones, Emma 1
Kelly, Andrew T. 1
Kester, Elizabeth Harris 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Kuhns, Charles 1
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Kuhns, Sophia 1
Kuhns, William A. 1
Kuhns, William Theodore 1
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.) 1
Luckie, Solomon 1
Lupo, Lillian 1
Lydell, Jennie 1
Madison, J.W., Mrs. 1
Mann, John 1
Mann, Tilla 1
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984 1
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McDonald, Ida 1
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McKinley, William 1
McMillan, Ramy 1
McPheeters, Anne L. 1
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