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Agatha Sheehan photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS359
Scope and Content
The collection contains images of former enslaved people and elderly African Americans who lived at the E.R. Carter Home for the Elderly. Named in honor of Reverend Edward Randolph Carter (1856-1944), the pastor spearheaded an extensive housing ministry and directed the construction of a home for the aged, which was operated by Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The home was later demolished.
Dates:
approximately 1900, undated
Graham W. Jackson visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS34
Scope and Content
This collection contains 1,668 images. The images depict Graham Jackson, his family, and Jackson's performances at various events and locations. Also featured are photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Little White House in Warm Springs and theLife magazine photograph by Ed Clark. Other images of politicians include President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, and President Jimmy Carter. The majority of the photographs are...
Dates:
1913-1981
Harry G. Lefever photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS203
Scope and Content
This collection contains black and white photographs collected by Harry G. Lefever through his research and work as a Sociology professor. The photographs document street scenes and residents of inner-city Atlanta neighborhoods, including scenes during and after the 1917 Atlanta fire; street scenes of Baker Street, Butler Street, Chestnut Avenue, Ellis Street, Harris Street, Houston Street, and London Lane; photos of Mrs. A. B. Jefferson, Reverend William Holmes Borders, and W. A. Scott III;...
Dates:
approximately 1900s-1979, undated
Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content
The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates:
1810-1988, undated
The Atlanta Community Network magazine, fall 1987 issue
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS967f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the fall 1987 edition of The Atlanta Community Network magazine. It covers issues pertaining to Georgia State Senator Hildred W. Shumake Jr.’s constituency. Articles include the legacy of University Homes, the first public housing units in the United States for African Americans; reflections from Agnes White, a volunteer at Grady Memorial Hospital; the consequences of Georgia Power's construction of the Vogtle nuclear power plant;...
Dates:
1987
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Pictorial works 1
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- Aiken family 1
- Aiken, Lucy Rucker 1
- Aiken, Walter Henry, 1893-1965 1
- Atlanta University 1
- Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993 1
- Carter, Edward Randolph 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Clark College 1
- Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 1
- Colley, Van Buren 1
- Draper, Jesse 1
- E. R. Carter Home for the Elderly (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Fisk University 1
- Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Georgia Power Company 1
- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- H. W. Shumake Publishing Corporation (firm) 1
- Hampton Institute 1
- Jackson, Gerald Wayne, 1958- 1
- Jackson, Graham Washington, 1903-1983 1
- Jackson, Graham, Jr., 1954- 1
- Jackson, Helen Balton 1
- Jefferson, A. B., Mrs. 1
- Jones, Emma 1
- Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Lefever, Harry G. 1
- Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.) 1
- Long family 1
- Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901 1
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 1
- Murphy Printing Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Murrell, Nancy 1
- National Association of Real Estate Brokers 1
- National Negro Business League (U.S.) 1
- Negro Young People's Christian Association 1
- Peeples, Alfred 1
- Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Republican Party (Ga.) 1
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
- Rucker family 1
- Rucker, Annie Eunice Long, 1865-1933 1
- Rucker, Henry Allen, 1852-1924 1
- Scott, W. A., III 1
- Sheehan, Agatha 1
- Shumake, Hildred, 1955-2002 1
- University Homes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Walker, Calloway 1
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1 + ∧ less
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