United States. Navy.
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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
DuBose family collection
Collection
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
Elizabeth Setze papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1119
Scope and Content
The collection contains Setze's military service records, certificates, awards, and correspondence. Also included are scrapbook pages containing poems from her fifth grade students in 1939; personal papers; a 1973 Georgia zip code directory booklet; a 1997 directory of the Atlanta Retired Teachers association; and a booklet on survivor benefits from the Navy. There are five notebooks that Setze used as travel logs, containing information about her travel expenses as well as notes about some...
Dates:
1936-1997, undated
Larry Benton manuscripts
Collection
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
Photographs of the Christening of the SS John B. Gordon
Collection
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
U.S.S. Atlanta collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS221
Scope and Contents of the Records
The artificial collection documents through a booklet, correspondence, an invitation, programs, war savings bonds and other printed material the efforts of Atlantans, among them Margaret Mitchell, to support and commemorate the third and fourth iterations of the U.S.S. Atlanta, primarily between 1941 and 1946. To a lesser extent, the activities of these two naval cruisers are documented through a printed summary and naval communications. The collection does not contain material related to...
Dates:
1941-1946, 1979, undated
Waddell-Setze-McClatchey family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS842
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal correspondence and memorabilia of two families of two different time periods. The Waddells are the contributors of the Civil War period correspondence which demonstrate in great detail the conditions of the lives of those left at home and of the needs of the soldiers. These letters also demonstrate the role of an officer and the ability to have his wife follow his movements. The later correspondence and personal records were contributed by the Setze...
Dates:
1855-1966, undated
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 4
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 3
- Armored vessels -- United States 2
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 2
- Education, Elementary -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Genealogy 2
- Women teachers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- American diaries 1
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
- Athens (Ga.) -- History 1
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Business records -- Georgia 1
- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Clayton (Ala.) 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Cruisers (Warships) -- United States 1
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
- Georgia -- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Hippies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
- Homosexuality -- Law and Legislation 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Judges -- Alabama 1
- LGBTQ+ discrimination 1
- Land grants 1
- Lawyers -- Alabama 1
- Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Liberty ships -- United States 1
- Marietta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Mechanical engineering -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Military pensions -- United States 1
- Military uniforms 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Patriotic societies 1
- Periodicals 1
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Quartermasters -- United States 1
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Registers of births, etc. -- Georgia 1
- Rome (Ga.) -- History 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sheet music 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
- Slavery -- South Carolina 1
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 1
- Southern States -- Description and travel 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
- Teachers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- War memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Widows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Wills -- Alabama 1
- Wills -- Georgia 1
- Women in education 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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