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African American visual arts collection

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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

Anderson family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS42
Scope and Content The Anderson family photographs consist of albumen prints, a cabinet card, photographic postcards, and individual and group portrait prints in studio settings and exterior snapshots around the Atlanta, Georgia area. Most of the images are unidentified men, women, and children. Identified individuals include a cabinet card of Jessie M. Anderson, a postcard image of George Ballard, and portrait prints of Alberta Adams, Alberta Anderson, and Ella Mae Matthews. Of interest is a photograph of a...
Dates: approximately 1920-1945

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

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family photographs and lithographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS32
Scope and Content

The collection documents the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social life of members of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families from 1859 through the 1970s. The images document three generations of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families and visually chronicles their rise from slavery to social and political influence. It also provides visual documentation of African American life from Reconstruction to the late 20th century.

Dates: 1859-1979, undated

Maxey family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS37
Scope and Content The collection includes photographs of Charles Lincoln Maxey, Sr., and other members of the Maxey family. The collection contains images of African American school groups at varying levels from one-room schoolhouses for elementary level children to college students. All are group photographs, primarily scenes posed before educational buildings, or graduation groups, and most are unidentified. Those identified include the Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, students at Fisk University...
Dates: 1910-1945

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Poole, Paul 3
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Aiken, Lucy Rucker 1
Aiken, Walter Henry, 1893-1965 1
Alexander, Wellington, Jr., Rev. 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Tau Omega Chapter (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Amos, Moses, Dr. 1
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Bedou, A. P. 1
Blackshear of Macon, photography 1
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brown, John 1
Butler Street YMCA (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Butler, Henry Rutherford, Dr. 1
Butler, Selena Sloan 1
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Clark Atlanta University 1
Columbians (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Crogman, William H., Dr. 1
Currier & Ives 1
Davis, Bessie Rucker 1
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Davis, John Wesley 1
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Gaines, Wesley John, Rev. 1
Gate City Drug Store (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Hampton Institute 1
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Harper, Katryn 1
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Herndon, Alonzo, 1858- 1
Hobbs, Anna 1
Hyman, L. G. 1
Jackson, James M. 1
Joint Civilian Organization Conference (Fort Benning, Ga.) 1
Jordan, James Edward 1
Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Little Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Lively Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Lomax, Alpha 1
Long family 1
Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901 1
Long, Lucinda Carhart 1
Matthews, Ella Mae 1
Matthews, William B. 1
Maxey family 1
Maxey, Alva Beatrice, 1913-2009 1
Maxey, Tina Beatrice Johnson 1
McKinley, William 1
McQueen, Butterfly 1
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Moral Re-armament Assembly (Georgia : 1957-1958) 1
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Morris Brown College 1
Morrison, Hal 1
National Association of Real Estate Brokers 1
National Builders Association 1
National Housewives League 1
National Negro Business League (U.S.) 1
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 1
Partee, Fannie H. 1
Pitts, India 1
Princess Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Redden & Vickery, photographers 1
Rucker family 1
Rucker, Annie Eunice Long, 1865-1933 1
Rucker, Hazel 1
Rucker, Henry Allen, 1852-1924 1
Rucker, Henry, Jr. 1
Rucker, Nancy Ann 1
Scurlock, Addison N. 1
Simon, Jewel W. 1
Tidwell & Lively (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
United States. Army. 371st Infantry 1
Waluhaje Hotel & Apartments (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
Welch, Constance Davis 1
West Lake Court Apartments (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
White, George H. 1
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