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Atlanta's Woman of the Year Organization (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta's Woman of the Year photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS455
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Atlanta's Woman of the Year awardees, sponsors, and committee chairs for each year. Of particular note is a photograph of Atlanta's Woman of the Year founder, Charles H. Jagels, in 1943, as well as photographs of Mayors William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) and Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003) with Woman of the Year awardees. Among the hundreds of women selected for Woman of the Year, notable awardees include Leila Denmark (1898-2012) in 1953, Ruth Blair...
Dates: 1943-1972

Atlanta's Woman of the Year records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS415
Scope and Content

This collection consists of organizational records that document activities leading up to the annual dinner and awards ceremony. Also included are agendas, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings. There are scrapbooks that contain photographs and newspaper clippings regarding the awards ceremony.

Dates: 1943-1973, undated

Harper family photographs and maps

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS366
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs and maps that provide details about the Harper family. Most of the images depict Adelle Harper in her numerous roles as businesswoman and florist, author, genealogist, and mother. Also included are photographs of her husband, John, their children, and other family members at school settings, family gatherings, and in front of their various Atlanta residences. Of special note are images of Adelle and Auverne Harper at a Woman of the Year award...
Dates: 1905-1975

Hastings Family Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS174
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection contains portraits of H. G. Hastings and Pearl M. Freeborn Hastings. A group photograph of a United States delegation to Mexico includes H. G. Hastings, Pearl M. Freeborn Hastings and their three sons. Louise Brown Hastings appears in a group photograph of the 1961 Women of the Year. A photograph documenting an autographing event for The Southern Garden Book features Louise Brown Hastings, Donald M. Hastings, Sr. and their daughter, Mary...
Dates: ca. 1905-1961, undated

Thomas Gibson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1185
Scope and Content

The collection contains records from the Atlanta Historical Society, the Rotary Club of Atlanta, and the Yaarab Temple of Atlanta. Items include biographies of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Warren Harding, a short story titled "The Poppies of Wu Fong," and newspaper clippings, mostly about Ruth Blair (1889-1974) being named as Woman of the Year in 1956.

Dates: 1914-1967, undated

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Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 2
Autographing -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1940-1950 1
Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1