Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Arnall T. Connell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1046
Scope and Content
This collection consists of papers related to Arnall T. Connell's tenure as a professor in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Student papers written by Connell's graduate students form the largest portion of the collection. The papers cover a large array of Atlanta-related subjects, including neighborhoods and their histories, historic preservation of buildings and homes, renovation and repurposing ideas for historic...
Dates:
1894-1994, undated
Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS375
Scope and Content
This collection contains organizational records and histories of the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association. Also included are historical items collected by members as well as newspaper clippings, programs, and membership information. There are files pertaining to member genealogy and biographies of Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1866-1977
Bomar-Killian family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS287
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of members of the Bomar and Killian family and their close friends. It also contains images of Atlanta street scenes from the early 19th and mid 20th centuries.
Dates:
1846-1921, undated
Buford Burch Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS163
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of photographs of buildings, street scenes, and landmarks in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included is a set of images of houses, churches, and public buildings in the Druid Hills neighborhood, and another group of photographs of the Edward Peters home on 179 Ponce de Leon Avenue. Among the images of buildings are Atlanta City Hall, Atlanta Stadium, Georgia State Capitol building, Georgia State Penitentiary, Georgia Tech, Peachtree Center, and Yaarab Shriner’s Temple....
Dates:
1969-1974
Cotten Alston photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS247
Scope and Content
This collection contains aerial and street views of the Buckhead, downtown, and Midtown areas of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of Buckhead restaurants such as OK Cafe and Buckhead Diner. Also featured are the Atlanta History Center's Swan House, Lenox Square Mall, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Underground Atlanta, the Georgia Dome, The Fox Theatre, High Museum of Art, The Varsity, Piedmont Park, and Clark College (later named Clark Atlanta University). Other images include...
Dates:
1972-1998, undated
Edda A. Cole scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS267
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to Atlanta, Georgia and the Civil War. Includes information on Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis.
Dates:
1898
Joseph E. Brown Connally photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS352
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and a drawing relating to Joseph E. Brown Connally. Included are nine photographs of Joseph Brown Connally and unidentified family members; a drawing of the S.S. Westernland; and five images of Connally's funeral on August 29, 1920. Of special note are two photographs of a post-World War I parade of Georgia troops marching down Peachtree Street and 2 images of Captain Connally in Nice, France, after the Armistice.
Dates:
1895-1920, undated
Liz Throop and B. Joy Wasson visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS417
Scope and Contents
This collection contains slides and photographs related to LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Included are negatives of the Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing's (ALGHT) table at the 1993 Atlanta Pride Festival, where "The Time of Our Lives," an exhibition about LGBTQ+ history in Atlanta between the 1940s and 1990s, was on display; slides of the 1977 protest in Colony Square against Anita Bryant during the Miss National Teenager pageant after she was named as...
Dates:
1977-1993, undated
Martha Lumpkin Compton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS139
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks, a diary, correspondence, newspaper clippings, Atlanta Board of Aldermen resolutions, and a recipe book. The two scrapbooks contain poems, genealogical notes, letters, greeting cards, and notes from family members and friends including “Cousin Naomi,” Augustus Alden, “Sister Anna L. A.,” Danny Boykins, Allie Alden, and Wilson Lumpkin. There are newspaper clippings on topics such as the 1888 Southern Baptist Convention, a 50th anniversary article on...
Dates:
1840-1959, undated
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates:
1922-1993, undated
Oakland Cemetery records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS618
Scope and Content
This collection contains burial permits, interment book records, removal lists, and "record of lot owners" books which provide details of persons buried and lot ownership at Oakland Cemetery. Also a part of the collection are sexton and superintendent records of payroll, expense ledgers, annual reports, and correspondence which document the day to day operations of the cemetery. Of special interest are WPA project records that reflect a consolidation of early cemetery records as well as the...
Dates:
1848-2018, undated
Rubie Austin Acker photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS468
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images collected by Rubie Austin Acker of Confederate memorial events in Georgia, including the Battle of Jonesboro Centennial Celebration in 1964 in Jonesboro, Georgia, as well as images of the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Memorial Cemetery. Also included are group portraits of United Daughters of the Confederacy, Frankie Lyle Chapter members. Of particular note are photographs of the 100th Confederate Memorial Day event at Oakland Cemetery in 1966 in Atlanta,...
Dates:
approximately 1960-1969, undated
Sally A. Parker photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS143
Scope and Contents of the Records
The photographs in this collection depict geographic locations and people in Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia. Buildings include the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Hunter Street, the Georgia State Capitol building, Marvin Cemetery (formerly Cold Springs Cemetery), and the residences of William Cobb, Frederick Koch, Edwin W. Marsh, and Augustus Pitt. The collection includes several images of the Margaret Mitchell burial plot at Oakland Cemetery. Images of people include Fred...
Dates:
1948-1949
Thomas M. Clarke Property Deed to Cemetery Lot
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS60f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a Fulton County property deed for Oakland Cemetery lots 1 and 2 in block 3, which were paid for by Thomas M. Clarke on August 30, 1869. The document is signed by William Hulsey, Mayor of Atlanta.
Dates:
August 30, 1869
Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS956
Scope and Content
These records consist of minutes and membership lists, 1912-1917, some correspondence and financial records, history of the organization, and ephemera, 1912-1945.
Dates:
1912-1945, undated
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- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Georgia -- Genealogy 3
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
- Midtown (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Decatur (Ga.) 2
- Demonstrations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Edgewood Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Express highways -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Horses 2
- Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Parades -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Sports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Aerial photographs 1
- Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Aerial views -- 1970-1980 1
- African American musicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African American youth -- Crimes against -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Airports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Alabama Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Animals 1
- Apartment houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Apartments -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Art museums -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Arts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Athens (Ga.) 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Economic conditions 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 1
- Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Automobiles -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Baseball teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Battlefields -- Georgia 1
- Bedford Pine (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Brunswick (Ga.) 1
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Burial records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Candler Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Castleberry Hill (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Cattle -- Showing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Christmas cards 1
- Church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Concerts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Confederate Memorial Day 1
- Confederate States of America -- History -- Societies, etc. 1
- Confederate States of America -- Registers of dead 1
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Counterculture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cumberland Island (Ga) 1
- DeKalb County (Ga.) 1
- Death -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Diaries 1
- Dogs 1
- Dwellings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Earth Day 1
- East Atlanta (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- East Lake (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- East Point (Ga.) 1
- Economic development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Entertainers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Entertainment events -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fairlie-Poplar (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Farms -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1940-1950 1
- Festivals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fires -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Football -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Football teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Fort McPherson (Ga.) 1
- Gainesville (Ga.) 1
- Gay activists 1
- Gay and lesbian studies 1
- Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Hippies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Historic districts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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