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Girls High School collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS365
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of materials pertaining to Girls' High School student activities, commencements, and reunions. There is also a series of scrapbooks and issues of the school newspaper, "Girls' High Times."

Dates: 1873-1947, undated

Girls High School photograph collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS326
Scope and Content

This collection contains various photographs of class photos, faculty photos, and physical education classes, Christmas decorations and alumni of Girls High School. There is also a photo of the Board of Education committee of the Atlanta City Council.

Dates: 1875-1943, undated

Grady Lee Randolph diaries

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1002
Scope and Content The collection contains eighty-six volumes of diaries written by Grady Lee Randolph that include memoirs, observations and analysis of daily life as a Alabama farm boy and later as a school teacher and permanent resident of Atlanta, Georgia. The collection spans from 1931 to 2001, but skips the year 1943. Randolph recorded over 20,000 daily diary entries that include observations of life during the Great Depression, and events such as the Gone With the Wind premier; World War II; the...
Dates: 1931-2001

Grady Memorial Hospital Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS102
Scope and Content

This photograph collection contains images of hospital physicians, nurses, staff, patients, as well as the buildings and grounds of the institution, including Grady Memorial Hospital, the Grady Memorial School of Nursing, and Hughes Spalding Pavilion. Among the images are photographs taken during special events, such as retirement ceremonies, graduations, Christmas parties, and receptions.

Dates: 1896-1979, bulk (1950-1970), undated; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970

Helen Bivings notebook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS899f
Scope and Content This collection contains Helen Bivings's notebook from when she studied at Washington Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and at Mason Junior College and School for Girls in Tarrytown, New York. The notebook includes Bivings's written assignments for Washington Seminary along with three outlined maps filled out by Bivings. There are also three event programs; one for a Commencement Recital put on by The Mason Junior College and School for Girls in 1930, and the other two for recitals put on by...
Dates: 1929-1930, undated

Hugh Brannon papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1170
Scope and Content This collection mostly contains documents relating the Hugh Brannon's education at Technological High School, and the neighborhood in which he lived, Inman Park. Included are examples of Brannon's classwork at William A. Bass Junior High School and at Technological High School, in courses such as mathematics, science, English, and social studies. Student assignments represented in the collection sometimes touched upon the subject of war in Europe. Brannon, a lifelong resident of Atlanta's...
Dates: 1922-2007, undated

Jennie Meta Barker research papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates: approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967

Kenneth G. Matheson papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS253
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1893-1931

Kingsbery family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS794
Scope and Content The Kingsbery family papers have been arranged by family member, then further categorized by type of document, e.g., personal correspondence, business correspondence, etc. Sanford Kingsbery's personal correspondence, work and sales receipts, business records, and a license issued by the Internal Revenue Service, authorizing his occupation as a miller, are included. This collection also contains the business and personal correspondence of Edwin Kingsbery. Joseph Kingsbery's personal...
Dates: 1835-1967, undated

Kiwanis Club of Atlanta photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS249
Scope and Content This collection consists of portraits of Kiwanis Club of Atlanta members, including portraits of the club's former presidents, vice presidents, and chairmen such as: George Hunt, the first president who served in 1918; J. Sherrard Kennedy, the fifth president and Chairman of the International Committee on Community Programs; and George West, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee in the early twentieth century. Most of the photographs are in black and white. There are also group photos of...
Dates: 1918-1995, undated

Lee Street School papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS537
Scope and Content The collection includes thirty bound volumes compiled by Rusha Wesley that contain test papers, programs, invitations, Parent Teacher Association minutes, and the school newspaper, The Lee Messenger. Also included are newspaper clippings, photographs, student lists, and materials pertaining to the Lee Street School Annual Doll Show. Of particular interest are bound volumes containing newspaper clippings, letters, telegrams, and other materials from former...
Dates: 1884-1946, undated

Lee Street School photo album

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Collection number: ahc.VIS438
Scope and Contents This collection contains a bound photo album of photographs of Lee Street School students, school activities, and stylized class portraits. Some of the Lee Street School activities included 1927 National Book Week, nativity scenes, cultural dress and dances, historical recreations, a tree planting, a Thanksgiving offering, a medieval fair, and a kindergarten birthday party. Rusha Wesley and faculty completed the album in May 1946. Of special note are group portraits of students labeled...
Dates: 1926-1946

MacDougall Family Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS228
Scope and Content The Papers of Robert and Margaret MacDougall consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings and scrapbook pages, and brochures and other printed materials. Many of these papers concern MacDougall’s work as an engineer, work as an administrator of the Works Progress Administration and his activities working with the city of Atlanta, particularly in the development of the expressways through the city and the bond issues to finance the projects. A second portion of these papers concern the...
Dates: 1924-1977

Mary Shelton Felt papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS265
Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection is education related materials. Some examples include memory books, compositions books, and progress reports.

Dates: 1920-1934

Nettie Sergeant Rice letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS286f
Scope and Content

This collection includes photo copies of eight letters from Mrs. Nettie S. Rice to Miss Mattie Slaton of Atlanta, Georgia about personal matters, her reminiscences of Girls' High School during her tenure, the Atlanta Public School System and its problems during the Great Depression, and the Cotton States and International Exposition.

Dates: 1928-1940

North Avenue Presbyterian School Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS452
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, and enrollment lists.

Dates: 1898-1965, undated

O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. papers of Frances D. Green

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Collection number: ahc.MSS374
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, memoranda, and committee reports that Frances D. Green (1910-?) collected from O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. Included in the files are O.A.S.I.S. articles of association, by-laws, handwritten meeting notes, correspondence, and membership lists. The correspondence contains a description of groups and individuals identified by H.O.P.E. as distributors of “hate-literature” opposing integration. Of particular note is a letter and...
Dates: 1955-1961, undated

Plaster and Smith families photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates: 1835-1950, undated

Research Atlanta Records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS993
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection consists of the records of Research Atlanta, Inc. The records document the administrative history and research activities of the organization from its inception in 1971 to 1992. The records include correspondence, publications, clippings, research notes, and reports regarding the activities and projects in which Research Atlanta was involved. The bulk of the collection consists of the research files in Series II, which document the various topics analyzed by the organization....
Dates: 1930-1997 Bulk: 1970-1992

Roland M. Frye papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1222
Scope and Contents

This collection contians letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and emphemera that document Roland Mushat Frye Sr's work integrating schools and universities in Atlanta, Georgia. The bulk of the collection focuses on his work with Help Our Public Education (HOPE) and the Southern Presbyterian Church.

Dates: 1954-2022, undated

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Girl Scouts of the United States of America 3
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Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
American Red Cross 2
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United States. Department of State 2
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William A. Bass Junior High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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