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Joe McTyre Photograph Collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS106
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection is comprised of images taken by Atlanta Journal- Constitution journalist Joe McTyre, and images of other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs in the collection include images of prominent individuals in government, business, entertainment, sports, and others who were the subject of news events. Also included are photographs of the physical environment of Atlanta, and in rural Georgia towns. The remaining photographs relate to news coverage of events such as airplane...
Dates: 1889-1985, undated

John Cothran papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1131
Scope and Content

This collection primarily contains documents from John Cothran's military service during World War II and as a member of the Organized Army Reserve. Material includes records of service, orders and memos, and discharge papers. Additional items include family papers such as his brother James Jr.'s baby book, diplomas, and awards. Of particular note is material given to discharged soldiers after World War II to aid their return to civilian life.

Dates: 1902-1953, 1995, undated

John G. White, Jr. papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1055
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence written between John G. White, Jr., his mother Eva White, and his future wife Marbelle Ware, while he was deployed during World War II. Of particular note are cards produced specifically to send to servicemen, two Georgia Power newsletters, and a censored letter from White to his mother, dated July 27, 1943. There are also examples of ration books, newspaper clippings regarding White's marriage, and a clipping autographed by Carl Conway.

Dates: 1907-1910, 1942-1945, undated

Joseph S. Skobba military papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS563f
Scope and Content

This collection contains military related materials regarding the service of Dr. Joseph S. Skobba. Included are a leave record, a pay data card, an identification card, and a laboratory test.

Dates: 1940-1947

Kirkwood School scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS822
Scope and Content

This collection consists of seven scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, notices, and correspondence documenting the activities of Kirkwood School.

Dates: 1942-1949

Larry Benton manuscripts

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Collection number: ahc.MSS874f
Scope and Content This collection contains two autobiographical manuscripts written by Lawrence "Larry" Benton. Most of the names of people and places in the documents are pseudonyms. The first manuscript covers his education and time working as an engineer in Atlanta in the 1930s and 40s. Specifically, he writes about his time at the Georgia School of Technology with his friends George, Jack, and Fitzie; his work as an engineer at a co-op; and his many romantic interests. The second autobiography covers...
Dates: approximately 1965, 2001

Laura M. Flowers savings bond

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Collection number: ahc.MSS436f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a U.S. war savings bond that "is your contribution toward the building of the new cruiser Atlanta." It has a photograph of a drawing of the proposed U.S.S. Atlanta.

Dates: 1943

Lee R. Gandee letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS455f
Scope and Content

The collection contains a letter from Lee R. Gandee to Ruth Blair and describes Gandee's impressions traveling through the South in the 1930s and his plans to move to Atlanta, Georgia after being released from the Army and work on renovating a house called "The Old White House."

Dates: 1945 Jan. 7

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

Leonard Apostolu papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS904f
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials collected by Leonard Apostolu during his service in the United States Army and after being honorably discharged. Materials include newspaper draft notices, immunization records, United States Civil Service Commission papers, correspondence, certificates, travel orders, an Army Christmas dinner menu, and commendation papers. Other materials include an Apostolu family tree and genealogy, applications for federal employment, and a recommendation letter.

Dates: 1941-1952, undated

Margaret C. Howell WWII Ration Book

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Collection number: ahc.MSS170f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a ration book and a cookbook using Swans Down flour, How to Bake by the Ration Book. The ration book belonged to Margaret C. Howell and has four pages of stamps remaining. The cookbook includes several different types of recipes that are low in sugar, shortening, and eggs.

Dates: 1943

Margaret Whitman Lakin papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS14
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks of newsclippings and memorobilia of Atlanta.

Dates: 1919-1955

Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates: 1900-1993, undated

Mary Cawthon McIntrye papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1217
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection is short story drafts and notes written by Mary Cawthon McIntrye for her historical fiction and mystery stories. There are also three World War II ration books from her family.

Dates: 1944, 1990, undated

Mary Virginia Bryan school papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1215
Scope and Content

This collection contains documentation of Mary Virginia Davis's education. The bulk of the materials are grammar, arithmetic, and spelling workbooks from E. Rivers School in Atlanta, Georgia. Other school papers include graduation achievement documents, and an E. Rivers School 1946-1947 yearbook titled The Rivers Overflow. There is also a World War II ration book and a wedding dress invoice for Mary Virginia Brown, Bryan's great-grandmother.

Dates: 1874-1952, undated

Military Order of the World Wars documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS879f
Scope and Content

This collection contains issues of the Military Order of the World Wars' national bulletins that detail the status of American military men serving overseas, as well as the Atlanta chapter's membership rosters and a memorial service program for fallen members. Of particular note is a speech given by Military Order of the World Wars member, William R. Brewster (1921-2012), on behalf of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) on Army Day in 1945.

Dates: 1945-1965, undated

One Man's Family radio program collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS822f
Scope and Content This collection contains published material from Standards Brands Incorporated about the radio program One Man's Family. There is a large folded pamphlet titled "One Man's Family" History: In Words and Pictures; a booklet, I Believe in America, which presents "the family's" thoughts on the United States during the early 1940s through poems, quotes, and a discussion in the form of a...
Dates: 1935-1946

Photographs of the Christening of the SS John B. Gordon

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Collection number: ahc.VIS309
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the christening of the SS John B. Gordon. Included are photographs of individuals involved in the ceremony, including: Reverend G. Borthern Jones; McWhorter Milner; Annabell Allen; Miss Carl Wohlford; Frank Poole; Mrs. Charles I. Allan (spelled Allen in the captions on the photos); Mrs. Edwin L. Jones; and Ellen Beasley.

Dates: 1943 Nov. 16

Private Albert T. Davie photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS45
Scope and Content The collection contains one scrapbook documenting the military service of Private Albert Thomas Davie and one panoramic image. Most of the images are personal photographs of members of the military serving with Davie, as well as snapshots of him taken by others. All are either unidentified or identified with only a first name. Interspersed in the scrapbook are images of the family of Davie, presumably sent to him while he was in service. The panoramic image consists of a large unidentified...
Dates: approximately 1949-1952

Ransone family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS863f
Scope and Content This collection documents the lives of three generations of the Ransone family. It contains high school and college graduation programs, World War II ration documents, insurance receipts, and business cards. Also included are the books Songs of a Day by Frank L. Stanton and Around the World in Sixty Days by Robert Hecht. The collection includes pamphlets for Atlanta attractions such as Stone Mountain and the Lyric Theatre,...
Dates: 1887-1973, undated

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Atlanta Historical Society 4
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Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 4
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American Red Cross 3
Forward Atlanta Commission 3
Georgia School of Technology 3
Junior League of Atlanta 3
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Atlanta (Light cruiser : CL-51) 2
Atlanta History Center 2
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Ivan Allen-Marshall Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 2
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 2
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 2
McGill, Ralph 2
Middleton family 2
Munnerlyn family 2
National Retail Furniture Association (U.S.) 2
Piedmont Driving Club 2
Rawson family 2
Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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Adams-Cates Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016 1
Allen, Beaumont, 1951-2014 1
Allen, Daniel, 1791-1857 1
Allen, Inman (Hugh Inman) 1
Allen, Leven C. (Leven Cooper), 1894-1979 1
Allen, William Daniel 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
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Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 1
Atlanta Community Chest 1
Atlanta Crackers (Baseball team) 1
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlanta Journal (Firm) 1
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