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Arnall T. Connell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1046
Scope and Content This collection consists of papers related to Arnall T. Connell's tenure as a professor in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Student papers written by Connell's graduate students form the largest portion of the collection. The papers cover a large array of Atlanta-related subjects, including neighborhoods and their histories, historic preservation of buildings and homes, renovation and repurposing ideas for historic...
Dates: 1894-1994, undated

Atkins Park Garden Club photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS259
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of homes built in the early 20th century in the Atkins Park neighborhood, Atlanta, Georgia. A variety of architectural styles are represented including Georgian Revival, American Craftsman, and English Tudor. The photographs also provide details of landscape styles as well as popular shrubs and ornamental plants used in front yard gardens. Of special note are two images of the neighborhood stone entrance gateways.

Dates: 1988

G. Eric Harkness papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1088
Scope and Content

This collection contains landscape plans, pamphlets, reports, and a directory that provide details on the career of G. Eric Harkness. Materials are from a variety of projects, including commercial, residential, and government clients. Pamphlets show a wide range of interests and topics from ornamental plants to city street planning.

Dates: 1957-2006, undated

Laura Berry Campbell's garden photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS379
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs taken by Reeves Studios of the gardens of Laura and John Bulow Campbell's property at 2958 Andrews Drive. The images highlight a boxwood terrace garden with tulips, a central pool featuring a Leda and the Swan bronze statue, garden tile, and a grassy allee flanked by dogwoods in bloom. Of special note are several millstones, popular decoration in gardens of that time period.

Dates: approximately 1941

Marion Johnson photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates: 1938-1975

Peter J. Rosendorf photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS334
Scope and Content

This collection contains images taken within Piedmont Park, and photographs displaying statues and architecture around Atlanta.

Dates: 1969-1970

Phillip “P.” Thornton Marye visual arts material

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Collection number: ahc.VIS349
Scope and Content This collection contains images and architectural designs of Marye as well as the firms Marye, Alger, and Alger, and Marye, Alger, and Vinour. Included are photographs of the Fox Theatre, the Southern Bell Telephone Building, Terminal Station, and public, commercial, and residential buildings in Atlanta and other cities. Also included are photographs of the interior of the buildings. The architectural drawings consist of Marye's plans for St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Of special note are 1970...
Dates: 1905-1970, undated

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

Robert Rothberg photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS374
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs taken by F & L Photo Service and collected by Robert Rothberg of various downtown Atlanta buildings and businesses in the early 1930s. Notable scenes include the Alonzo F. Herndon (1858-1927) Crystal Palace barber shop on Peachtree Street, the Hurt Building, the J. P. Allen & Company department store, Chevrolet Motor Company, Moline Plow Company, King Hardware Company, and the Henry Grady Hotel.

Dates: Approximately 1930-1935

Walter T. Downing letter and travel article

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Collection number: ahc.MSS689f
Scope and Content This collection contains two textual items related to the design of the Fine Arts Building for the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. The first is a two-page letter from Horace Bradley, head of the Fine Arts Department at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, to Walter T. Downing praising his design work on the Fine Arts Building. The second item is a page from a montly society and travel newspaper, The Chicago 400, with a picture of the Fine...
Dates: 1895, undated

William R. Mitchell Jr. photograph collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS222
Scope and Content

This collection consists of photographs documented and collected by William R. Mitchell, Jr that appeared in his books, lectures, and architectural studies. The photographs were taken in various Georgia cities including Atlanta, Savannah, Thomasville, Roswell, and Albany. The images are of residential homes and apartments, furnished interiors, historic buildings, parks, streetscapes, churches, and Edward Vason Jones's 19th Century America exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dates: 1889-1986, undated

William T. Baker architectural drawings

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Collection number: ahc.VIS363
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings from residential designer William T. Baker. Items within the collection feature designs for residential properties; architectural details; artist renderings; marketing schematics; and model home plans. Projects are predominantly within Atlanta and its surrounding areas, a small number in Nashville, Tennessee; Florence and Greenville, South Carolina; Highlands, North Carolina, and the United States Virgin Islands. Within the collection are...
Dates: 1986-2004, undated

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Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 2
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Georgia Institute of Technology 2
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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Terminal Station (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 1
Agnes Scott College 1
Alger, Barrett 1
Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992 1
Atkins Park Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 1
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 1
Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 1
Atlanta Historical Society 1
Atlanta Municipal Market (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta Union Mission (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta University Center (Ga.) 1
Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 1
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Baker, William T., 1956- 1
Baptist Tabernacle Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Birmingham Terminal Station (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
Bradley, Horace 1
Callaway Gardens (Pine Mountain, Ga.) 1
Campbell, John Bulow, 1870-1940 1
Campbell, Laura Berry 1
Candler, Asa Griggs, 1851-1929 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Connell, Arnall T. (Arnall Turner) 1
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Courts, Virginia Orme Campbell 1
Cox College (College Park, Ga.) 1
Crook, Lewis Edmund, Jr. 1
Crystal Palace (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Downing, W. T. (Walter Thomas) 1
East Lake Golf Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
F & L Photo Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
First National Bank of Atlanta 1
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills 1
General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Georgia School of Technology 1
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Grady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889 1
Harkness, G. Eric (George Eric) 1
Hentz, Hal, 1883-1972 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
J. P. Allen & Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Jackson, Graham Washington, 1903-1983 1
James Pharmacy (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Johnson, Marion 1
Jones, Bobby 1
Jones, Edward Vason 1
King Hardware Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 1
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.) 1
Martin, Van Jones 1
Marye, P. Thornton (Philip Thornton) 1
Masters Golf Tournament 1
Matthews, Eddie (Edwin Lee) 1
Means, James 1
Mitchell, William R. , Jr. 1
Model Cities Program (Gainesville, Ga.) 1
Moline Plow Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Morgan, Dillon & Lewis (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Morningside Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
National Bank of Georgia 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Paramount Theater (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Peachtree Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Peachtree Road Race (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Piedmont Driving Club 1
Reid, J. Neel (Joseph Neel), 1885-1926 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Rosendorf, Peter J. 1
Roswell Presbyterian Church 1
Rothberg, Robert 1
Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard) 1
Southern Bell Telephone Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 1
Trust Company of Georgia 1
Underground Atlanta, Inc. 1
United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia 1
University of Georgia 1
Veterans Administration Hospital (Decatur, Ga.) 1
Vinour, Oliver 1
William T. Baker and Associates (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Winecoff Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Zoo Atlanta 1
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