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Alston and Glenn family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975

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

DuBose family collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and professional papers of the DuBose family and the historical Civil War items they collected. The personal papers pertain to geneaology, correspondence, and DuBose Jr.'s military service in the United States Navy. Also included are manuscripts and presentations written by members of the DuBose family as well as many collected from others about the Civil War.These papers document the DuBose family's interest in the Civil War. There is...
Dates: 1782-2001, undated

DuBose family visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS198
Scope and Content This collection contains artwork, images, and maps collected by the DuBose family. The artwork pertains to Civil War historical sites and scenes and includes etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings. Much of the artwork was done by Wilbur G. Kurtz (1882-1967), a family friend, historian, writer, and artist. There are original photographs from the Civil War era in a variety of formats, such as cartes de visite, tintypes, and albumen prints. Photographic subject matter includes military...
Dates: 1783-2007, undated

Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1107
Scope and Content

Eliza Jones accumulated this collection to document the genealogy of her extended families as well that of her husband, Waldo Jones. Materials include correspondence that documents her daily life and views, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and diaries. The collection also contains papers from her and Waldo Jones's extended family. Families represented include the Woolford, Grant, Slaton, Harris, Fitz-Randolph, Martin, Waldo, Winslow, Felder, and Jackson families.

Dates: 1789-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

Francis DeGress Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS998
Scope and Content The collection primarily contains materials pertaining to the activities of Captain Francis DeGress during and after the Civil War. Some of the documents include personal accounts of battle activities by Captain DeGress, field reports, military certificates, correspondence, official records of DeGress' Battery, and ledgers documenting clothing accounts for soldiers under his command. Of special interest is a letter from Theodore Davis to Mrs. Francis DeGress describing Captain DeGress'...
Dates: 1862-1917, undated

Francis DeGress Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS195
Scope and Content

The collection contains five photographs of Francis DeGress. Most are portrait shots with the exception of one which is a group shot of eight gentlemen in uniform.

Dates: 1864, undated

Lucy Stockard photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS446
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Lucy Stockard and her activities with the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard of Atlanta, a veterans organization. There are also several photos of Ponce de Leon Park (also known as Spiller Field) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Confederate Soldiers' Home, also known as the Confederate Veterans' Home. Many of the photographs include additional information on the backside of the photos, and several were taken by Atlanta...
Dates: approximately 1910-1950, undated

Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS331
Scope and Content

This collection captures the unveiling of the O'Reilly Monument in front of the Atlanta City Hall on the corner of Washington Street and Mitchell Street. The monument was erected by the Atlanta Historical Society.

Dates: 1945 October 18

Wilbur G Kurtz, Sr. visual arts collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS197
Scope and Content This collection contains the family photographs of the Kurtz and Fuller families as well as visual materials Kurtz created and collected during the course of his career. Family photographs pertain to Kurtz and Fuller families as well as a few images from Annie Pye Kurtz prior to her marriage to Wilbur Sr. Also included are images of Wilbur Sr. and friends during his time in Chicago, Illinois. The bulk of this collection is photographic materials which support the research and field work...
Dates: 1859-1972, undated

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Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 3
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 3
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 3
Atlanta Historical Society 2
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 2
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DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
Dubose, Beverly Means 2
Georgia Institute of Technology 2
Georgia. Militia 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 2
United States. Navy. 2
Allen family 1
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
Alston family 1
Alston, A. H. (Augustus Holmes), 1847-1918 1
Alston, Anna Ott, 1845-1928 1
Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten, III), 1945- 1
Alston, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1880-1962 1
Alston, Philip H., 1911-1988 1
Alston, Robert C. (Robert Cotten), 1873-1938 1
Alston, Robert C., 1917-1979 1
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Hardage, Lucinda 1
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport 1
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Howard, Leslie 1
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