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C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

African American visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS68
Scope and Content This collection contains various types of visual images, including photographs, lithoghraphs, posters, and prints from periodicals, pertaining to African Americans. Included in the collection are stereotypical racist pictures and postcards; photographs of African Americans working as domestics, agricultural laborers, musicians, streetcar conductors, etc.; portraits of African American women, men, and children; prints depicting significant events, such as the Fort Pillow Massacre and the...
Dates: 1860-1957, undated

C. W. Motes photographs and drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS436
Scope and Contents This collection contains several photographs taken by Columbus Washington "C. W." Motes, as well as portraits of Motes. Additional photographs include his wife, Emma F. White, and their two daughters: Mary Motes Delbridge and Eva Motes. The collection also includes photographs, presumably of his clients, images of titled sculptures, a drawing by C. W. Motes, and a color cased image of his daughter, Mary. Of special note is an ambrotype of Motes during his time as a Confederate soldier in the...
Dates: approximately 1862-1900, undated

Caroline M. Clarke photographs of the Candler family

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS376
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of the Candler family, who were related to Caroline M. Clark on her mother's side. This collection includes a photograph of Martha Candler with seven of her sons: Milton (1837-1909), Ezekiel (1838-1915), Noble (1841-1887), William (1847-1928), Asa (1851-1929), Warren (1857-1941), and John (1861-1941). Another photograph features Asa Candler with his wife, Lucy (1878-1919), and their children: Asa Jr. (1880-1953), Lucy (1883-1962), William (1890-1936),...
Dates: Approximately 1840-1890

Constance Spalding Anderson photographs of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS429
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families and their friends. It primarily features identified portraits of women. Of special note is an image of Rand Peacock (possibly 1835-?), a man who was enslaved by the Connally family. Also included in the collection are signed photographs of actress Emma Abbott (1850-1891).

Dates: 1870-1918, undated

Daisy Frances Daves Smith photographs of the Wright family

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS432
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of the Wright family, primarily Ralph Edward Wright. Also included are images of Charles Whitefoord Smith’s residences. Of special note is a photograph of a surrey attached to a horse, as well as an image of unidentified individuals standing in front of the First Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia.

Dates: 1869-1912, undated

Florence Bryan Ansley family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS246
Scope and Content This collection consists of family photographs of Mrs. Bonneau Ansley (Florence Bryan). Included are images of her parents Judge and Mrs. Shepard Bryan; great-grandmother Sally Addison Cobb Jackson (1847-1915); mother-in-law Florence King Jackson; and Sister Mary Bryan Benedict. Most of the images in the collection are informal photographs of family members taken in the home of Florence Bryan. Of special note is a photo of Florence Bryan and Judge Shepard Bryan standing before a plaque...
Dates: approximately 1880 - 1958

Goldberg and Rich family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS456
Scope and Contents

This collection contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and cased tintypes of Goldberg and Rich family members. Featured individuals include Marcus and Rachel Goldberg, as well as their children and families. Of special note is a photograph of Rosalind and Valerie Rich as children with an unidentified African American woman, who was likely employed as a family nanny or domestic employee.

Dates: approximately 1847-1895

Governor and Mrs. John M. Slaton visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS209
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs, albumen prints, notecards, and a platinotype collected by Governor Slaton and his wife. Images include portraits of Howell Cobb, Cary B. Wilmer, Julia King (Mrs. Henry) Grady, and James W. English, Jr. Other images include Marechal Foch and Charles Loridaus of France and Thomas Whipple Connally. There is a view of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton in the attire she wore when presented at the court of King George V and Queen Mary. There are portraits of four...
Dates: 1887, 1921-1930, undated

Grant and Slaton family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS449
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of members of the Grant and Slaton families. It also includes images of residences belonging to George W. Connor, John Thomas Grant, William Daniel Grant, John W. Grant Sr., John Marshall Slaton, and Hugh T. Inman. Of special note are portraits of Emily MacDougald (Mrs. Edward H. Inman) in her wedding dress. Locations are unknown unless otherwise noted.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955, undated

Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell family visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS211
Scope and Content This collection consists of photographs, postcards, greeting cards, ambrotypes, tintypes, daguerreotypes, albumen prints, cyanotypes, and negatives of the Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell families. Also included are images of related families including the Benedicts, the Middletons, the Seamans, the Hunnicutts, the Sweets, and the Deakins. There are images from family trips to St. Simons Island, Georgia, and Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as well as images from El Paso, Texas, where Jessie and Russell...
Dates: 1883-1963, undated

Powell family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS8
Scope and Content

This collection contains fifteen images documenting three generations of the Powell family. George T. Powell and Ned T. Powell are also represented. The carte-de-visite and cabinet cards were produced by C. W. Motes and Kuhns, both post-Civil War Atlanta photographers.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955

Ross Ingram Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS165
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains snapshots of various neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia as well as portraits of members of the Weaver and Drake families as well as some of their extended families. Most of the snapshots of Atlanta were taken in the 1960s, but the family portraits are from an earlier period, and were evidently purchased by Mr. Ingram. The neighborhoods included in this collection are Ansley Park, Buttermilk Bottoms, Grant Park, Inman Park, Lower Midtown, Pittsburgh, and West End. The...
Dates: circa 1885-1969, undated, bulk 1964-1969

Sally Spalding Funkhouser photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS380
Scope and Content This collection contains portrait photographs of the Spalding and Foster families, including Sally Funkhouser's father, John Schaffner Spalding, Spalding Foundry Company president and deacon of Atlanta's Second Baptist Church. Of note is a portrait of her grandfather, Albert Theodore Spalding (1831-1921), who was deacon of the Second Baptist Church prior to John. Included are portraits of relatives and friends, such as Ellen Rinhoff, John Spalding's cousin, and Tom McGuire. There is also a...
Dates: approximately 1865-1895, undated

Susie Flynn Hughs photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS306
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of buildings constructed for the Cotton States International Exposition in Piedmont Park approximately 10 years after the fair. Other images include photographs of downtown Atlanta and two family members.

Dates: approximately 1905

Wilson and Tye family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS307
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Wilson and Tye family members, including Benjamin J. Wilson; Elizabeth H. Wilson; John L. Tye, Sr.; John L. Tye, Jr.; Carrie Wilson; and Mary Potts Wilson. Of note is a photograph of the Wilson family home at 266 Gordon Street (renamed Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1870-1890, undated

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Subject
Portrait photography 5
Portraits, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 3
Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
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African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Clothing and dress -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Actresses 1
African American agricultural laborers 1
African American businesspeople -- Georgia 1
African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American construction workers 1
African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American farmers 1
African American household employees -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American nurses 1
African American photographers 1
African American prisoners -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African American sculpture 1
African American women artists 1
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
African Americans -- Clothing -- Georgia 1
African Americans -- Georgia 1
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Ambrotypes 1
Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
Authors, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Baptist church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Bridges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Children -- 1860-1870 1
Clothing & dress -- 1860-1870 1
Clothing & dress -- 1870-1880 1
Clothing & dress -- 1880-1890 1
Clothing & dress -- 1890-1900 1
Clothing and dress -- Georgia 1
Clothing and dress -- History -- 20th century 1
Confederate States of America -- History, Military 1
Cotton pickers 1
Daguerreotypes 1
Dogs 1
Dwellings -- Georgia 1
Emancipation Proclamation 1
Factories -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Family life -- Georgia 1
Family life -- United States 1
Fashion -- History -- 19th century 1
Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864 1
Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Horse-drawn vehicles 1
Houses -- Georgia 1
Interior decoration 1
Jewish businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Jewish families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Jewish women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Judges -- Georgia 1
Linville (N.C.) 1
McClatchey Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
McDaniel Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Men's clothing 1
Military uniforms 1
Military uniforms -- History -- 19th century 1
Monuments & memorials -- Georgia 1
Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Nannies 1
Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
North Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Office buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Palmetto (Ga.) 1
Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Photographers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Pittman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Pittsburgh (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Politicians -- Georgia 1
Postmortem photographs 1
Saint Simons Island (Ga.) 1
Sculpture -- United States 1
Slavery -- Georgia 1
Stephens Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Streets -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Tallulah Falls (Ga.) 1
Tintypes 1
Wedding costume -- 1900-1910 1
Winn Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Women -- Georgia 1
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