Georgia School of Technology
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
William Daniel Allen papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS800f
Scope and Content
Most of this collection contains Allen's academic materials from his education at the Institute of Applied Science, specifically his studies on fingerprint analysis. Materials include Allen's handwritten notes, a letter from instructor T. G. Cooke, a series of examination sheets, several pages of newspaper clippings, and Allen's class binder. This collection also contains several materials concerning civilian defense during World War II, informative pamphlets from the Office of Civilian...
Dates:
1941-1942, undated
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- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Air raid wardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Camp Wheeler (Ga.) 1
- Civil defense -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clayton (Ala.) 1
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fingerprints 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Hippies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Homosexuality -- Law and Legislation 1
- Judges -- Alabama 1
- LGBTQ+ discrimination 1
- Land grants 1
- Lawyers -- Alabama 1
- Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Mechanical engineering -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Patriotic societies 1
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Registers of births, etc. -- Georgia 1
- Slavery -- South Carolina 1
- Wills -- Alabama 1
- Wills -- Georgia 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Georgia 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 1
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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