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African American visual arts collection

 Collection
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

Atlanta's Woman of the Year photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS455
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Atlanta's Woman of the Year awardees, sponsors, and committee chairs for each year. Of particular note is a photograph of Atlanta's Woman of the Year founder, Charles H. Jagels, in 1943, as well as photographs of Mayors William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) and Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003) with Woman of the Year awardees. Among the hundreds of women selected for Woman of the Year, notable awardees include Leila Denmark (1898-2012) in 1953, Ruth Blair...
Dates: 1943-1972

Fader, Haas, Kahn, and Sugarman family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS433
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Sugarman, Fader, Haas, and Kahn families. It primarily features identified portraits and family photographs. Of special note is a portrait silhouette of Carolyn Haas and Nathan Kahn Jr., as well as images of their wedding venue at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1875-1955, undated

Goldberg and Rich family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS456
Scope and Contents

This collection contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and cased tintypes of Goldberg and Rich family members. Featured individuals include Marcus and Rachel Goldberg, as well as their children and families. Of special note is a photograph of Rosalind and Valerie Rich as children with an unidentified African American woman, who was likely employed as a family nanny or domestic employee.

Dates: approximately 1847-1895

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

Lucinda Bunnen photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS395
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken for Movers and Shakers in Georgia by Lucinda Bunnen and Frankie Coxe. The collection includes images of notable political, business, cultural, and arts figures between 1976-1978 in Georgia. Also included are photographs of events such as Jimmy Carter's presidential election, a Decatur Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) planning meeting, the Ramblin' Raft Race on the Chattahoochee River, an Atlanta...
Dates: approximately 1976-1978

Luckie family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS20
Scope and Content

This collection documents four generations of the Luckie family, very early members of Atlanta's free African American community.

Dates: 1860-1940, undated

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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Hartsfield, William Berry 3
Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 2
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Sibley, Celestine 2
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Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 2
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Yarn, Jane Hurt, 1924- 2
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 1
Aiken family 1
Aiken, Lucy Rucker 1
Aiken, Walter Henry, 1893-1965 1
Alexander, Dorothy, 1904-1986 1
Alexander, Wellington, Jr., Rev. 1
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 1
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
Alston, Philip H., 1911-1988 1
Amos, Moses, Dr. 1
Anderson, Ann Rucker 1
Anderson, Charles W., Jr. 1
Arnett, Bill 1
Askew, Thomas E. 1
Atlanta Black Crackers (Baseball team) 1
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 1
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 1
Atlanta's Woman of the Year Organization (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Austin, Paul 1
Bedou, A. P. 1
Beene, Geoffrey 1
Bell, Griffin B., 1918-2009 1
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Blackshear of Macon, photography 1
Blair, Ruth, 1889- 1
Bleckley, Katharine Caroline, 1892- 1
Bourne, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Howard), 1909-1988 1
Brown, John 1
Bunnen, Lucinda 1
Busbee, George, 1927-2004 1
Butler Street YMCA (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Butler, Henry Rutherford, Dr. 1
Butler, Selena Sloan 1
Callaway, Virginia Hand 1
Carr, Julian Shakespeare 1
Carter, Billy 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Carter, Lillian, 1898-1983 1
Carter, Rosalynn 1
Chambers, Anne Cox, 1919- 1
Chappell, Amey, Dr. 1
Cherry, John 1
Coca-Cola Company 1
Columbians (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Counts, Charles 1
Crogman, William H., Dr. 1
Cunningham, Nancy, 1820-1910 1
Currier & Ives 1
Daughtry-Denmark, Leila, 1898-2012 1
Davis, Bessie Rucker 1
Davis, Griffith 1
Davis, John Wesley 1
Elliott's Peachtree Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fader family 1
Faulkner, William, Rev. 1
Ferst, Alvin M., Jr., 1922-2009 1
Forward Atlanta Commission 1
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 1
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Frangiamore, Roy 1
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 1
Franklin, Shirley, 1945- 1
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Gate City Drug Store (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Goldberg family 1
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Goldberg, Rachel Solomon, 1823-1910 1
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Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992 1
Hampton Institute 1
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Harper, Charles L., Dr. 1
Harper, Katryn 1
Harper, Laurence, Jr. 1
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Henderson, Edith, 1911- 1
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Herndon, Alonzo, 1858- 1
Hinton, Fanny D. 1
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Howell, Faye Sheffield 1
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