Spelman College
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bazoline E. Usher papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates:
1921-2005, undated
Gardens and cultural landscapes of Black America visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS400
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs, postcards, stereographs, and slides that document Black American residential gardens, cultural landscapes, and farms, in both urban and rural areas. Also a part of the collection are photographs and postcards of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Southeast. These images provide details such as garden and campus design, plant choices, farming methods, and land use as well as social and economic conditions in Black communities....
Dates:
approximately 1880-2021, undated
Grace Towns Hamilton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS597
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondences, reports, certificates, scrapbooks, bills, memorandums, proposals, speeches, newspaper clippings, resolutions, publications, and minutes documenting the life and career of Grace Towns Hamilton. The bulk of the collection is comprised of papers documenting Hamilton’s time as a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly and her participation in various government commissions, committees, and subcommittees. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1928-1988, undated
John Pattillo visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS463
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs collected by John Patillo of Atlanta buildings and street scenes, schools, churches, residences, and portraits. Buildings and residences include Atlanta City Hall, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, First National Bank, Georgia State Captiol, the Carnegie Library, as well as residences in the Peachtree Park neighborhood. Also in the collection are images of churches such as St. Marks Methodist Episcopal Church and the Cathedral of St. Philip; and...
Dates:
approximately 1852-1970, undated
Lucinda Bunnen photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS395
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs taken for Movers and Shakers in Georgia by Lucinda Bunnen and Frankie Coxe. The collection includes images of notable political, business, cultural, and arts figures between 1976-1978 in Georgia. Also included are photographs of events such as Jimmy Carter's presidential election, a Decatur Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) planning meeting, the Ramblin' Raft Race on the Chattahoochee River, an Atlanta...
Dates:
approximately 1976-1978
Millie J. McCreary diary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS226f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a diary of Millie J. McCreary, a teacher at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary (later Morehouse College). She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1858. She married another of the teachers, William P. Manguse. The diary mentions several fellow teachers and the activities of Atlanta Baptists, the Colored Baptist Mission Society convention in Atlanta, Spelman College, and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
Dates:
1895-1896
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- Abortion -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- East Point (Ga.) 1
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- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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