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Gate City Drug Store (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family photographs and lithographs

 Collection
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

Moses Amos letter and article

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS744f
Scope and Content

This collection contains one letter written by Moses Amos in 1907 addressed to Charles J. Hopkins, thanking him for his regard for the African American community; one newspaper article on the Amos family's pharmaceutical work; and one letter by Louise C. Merrits, a nurse, who worked with Mrs. Irby.

Dates: 1907, 1982, 2004, undated

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African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1