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Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Boys' High School collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS364
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of materials pertaining to the Boys High School. The bulk of the collection is newspaper clippings and class reunion documents such as programs and minutes.

Dates: 1907-1947, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Boys' High School collection

Douglas G. MacRae papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1129
Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials about MacRae's teaching career, including correspondence, manuscripts, speech transcripts, and news clippings. Of particular interest is MacRae’s critical writing against “career education,” the movement in the 1970s in the United States Department of Education away from a general education and toward training grade school and high school students for a career and vocation.

Dates: 1964-1986, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Douglas G. MacRae papers

Johnson family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS124
Scope and Contents This collection contains the Johnson family’s memorabilia and genealogical information. Material includes newspaper clippings, death certificates, and genealogical society applications. There is also school memorabilia such as a Boys High School yearbook, diplomas, scholarship awards, and certificates. Of particular note is the copy of a journal written by Basil Llewellin Neal (1837-?) when he was a prisoner of war during the Civil War and a letter that James Briscoe Neal wrote to Governor...
Dates: 1892-1974, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Johnson family papers

Lawshe Family Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS235
Scope and Content This collection spans three generations of the Lawshe Family, the bulk of the materials concentrate on John Zimmerman Lawshe. Much of the attention is given to the personal activities of John Lawshe as a graduate of Boy’s High School and the New York Homeopathic College, and his activities as a Mason in Atlanta. Documents include the commencement program for Boys’ High, 23 June 1875; and copies of obituaries and death announcements documenting John Lawshe’s activities. John’s wife, Willie...
Dates: 1875-1965
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Lawshe Family Papers

Robert E. Shivers documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS675f
Scope and Content

This collection contains directory report of alumni from Boys High School for their 50th reunion, and a newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1949, 1974
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Robert E. Shivers documents

Series III: Personal and business papers, 1889-1993, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents This series contains materials compiled by Harvey Smith Jr. about his personal and professional life. Included are certificates, correspondence, personal and professional financial records, invitations, papers from his service in the united States Marine Corps before and after World War II, and educational records. Additionally there are plays, poems, article clippings, event programs, donation records, real estate deeds, unfinished memoirs, and personal inventories. The series also contains...
Dates: 1889-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / ahc.MSS576, Harvey Smith Jr. papers

William Everhart Cunningham diaries

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS830f
Scope and Content

The collection contains two diaries written by William Everhart Cunningham. In his entries he describes his participation in various sports at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), his sister's move to Agnes Scott College, and his reaction to his father's death in 1908. Also included in the collection is a postcard from his father.

Dates: 1901-1909
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William Everhart Cunningham diaries

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Commerce 1
Beaufort County (S.C.) 1
Book collecting -- Georgia 1
Book collectors 1
Book donations 1
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Bookplates 1
Botanical illustration 1
Career education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Death certificates -- Georgia 1
Decorative arts -- Georgia 1
Education -- Administration 1
Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Education, Elementary -- Georgia -- Hapeville 1
Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Flowers in art 1
Freemasonry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Georgia -- Genealogy 1
High schools -- Georgia 1
High schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Interior decoration 1
Invitation cards -- Georgia 1
Learning and scholarship 1
Prisoners of war 1
Public schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Public schools -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries 1
Textile fabrics -- History 1
Tortola (British Virgin Islands) 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Upholstery 1
Vocational education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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