United States. Navy.
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- Armored vessels -- United States 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- American diaries 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Business records -- Georgia 1
- Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Cruisers (Warships) -- United States 1
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Liberty ships -- United States 1
- Mechanical engineering -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Military pensions -- United States 1
- Military uniforms 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Periodicals 1
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Quartermasters -- United States 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sheet music 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 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 -- 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
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 1 + ∧ less
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