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City of Atlanta Records

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Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates: 1848-2013, undated

George Hillyer papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS154f
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, genealogical papers, and newspaper clippings related to Judge George Hillyer.

Dates: 1875-1931, undated

Herbert Jenkins photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS43
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of photographs of Police Chief Herbert Jenkins and Atlanta Police Department personnel throughout Jenkins' career. Noteworthy images of Jenkins include photographs of him as a child, a portrait taken on his first day as a police officer, and a photograph of him being sworn in by Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Other images of note include a series of photographs of the Summerhill riot of 1966, pictures of the first African American patrolmen, and portraits...
Dates: 1890s-1975, undated

Kristin Oblander papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1271
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to Oblander’s career in political fundraising. Professional materials make up the bulk of the collection, including memos and other internal documents from various campaigns, financial information and donor records, fundraising event invitations, and campaign mail. Represented in the collection are Oblander Group clients, including presidential, congressional, statewide, legislative, and municipal candidates, as well as party committees and other...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-2022, undated

Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates: 1900-1993, undated

Robert Foster Jr. Maddox papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS143
Scope and Contents

This collection documents Robert Foster Jr. Maddox’s political and banking career as well as Maddox family history. The bulk of the collection are scrapbooks, many from Maddox's years as Mayor of Atlanta.

Dates: 1861-1965

Roy LeCraw papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS504
Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials removed from a group of scrapbooks and includes pamphlets, programs, invitations, political ephemera, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and some correspondence.

Dates: 1907-1973; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1949

Sam Massell photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS322
Scope and Content This collection documents the public life of former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell. The majority of the images in the collection depict his time as mayor; others document his career as a realtor and member of the City of Atlanta Board of Aldermen. The images also document Massell's ceremonial duties as mayor, including presiding over groundbreakings; presenting keys to the city to special visitors; and ceremonies involving MARTA and Delta Airlines. The collection features images of Massell...
Dates: 1954-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1974

Southwind recordings and scripts

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1118
Scope and Content This collection consists of audio recordings and scripts created for the program, Southwind.Southwind programs consisted of one to three segments that featured original reporting either by Boyd Lewis or his colleagues in public radio throughout the Southeast. Many of the segments focused on contemporary events that Lewis placed in historical context, while other segments were retrospectives of past events that featured the...
Dates: 1980-1987

William B. Hartsfield films

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Collection number: ahc.VIS194
Scope and Content The films in this collection depict the 1939 premiere of the Gone with the Wind, hosted by the City of Atlanta; Hartsfield’s 1940 mayoral campaign; Hartsfield with Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell selling war bonds in downtown Atlanta during World War II; footage highlighting his six-term career as mayor; and amateur footage of Hartsfield with unidentified individuals fishing...
Dates: approximately 1939-1960

William B. Hartsfield papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS811
Scope and Content

This collection contains newspaper clippings and magazine articles pertaining to Hartsfield. Also, there are technical publications and articles concerning the growth of the Atlanta airport as well as the city's highways. Articles on flouridation and the Chattahoochee River Basin are also included. The collection has various awards and personal effects such as greeting cards, a checkbook, the Hartsfield coat of arms, and letters.

Dates: 1943-1970, undated

William Berry Hartsfield collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS530
Scope and Content

This collection contains pages from a scrapbook; a copy of a letter addressed to "William;" a thank you card from Mrs. William B. Hartsfield; and two programs pertaining to William B. Hartsfield. Also included are newspaper clippings that cover Hartsfield's elections, activities in office, death, and funeral and memorial services.

Dates: 1938-1971

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

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Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated

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