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J. Forsythe Gordy papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS492
Scope and Content

This collection contains newsletters and materials pertaining to the growth and development of the City of Atlanta, Georgia. There are also pamphlets, copies of legislation, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1951-1981, undated

J. M. Alexander & Company documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1175
Scope and Content

This collection contains business documents from the J. M. Alexander & Company hardware store. Materials include structural agreements; purchases made by Julia Touro Alexander; and client orders. Also included in the collection is correspondence from Frank Reagan, the company's treasurer, and company receipts. There is also a ledger of tenants recorded by R. B. Mitchell from the early 1890s. The relation of this document to the J. M. Alexander & Company has not been established.

Dates: 1891-1933, undated

J. Richardson Jones film Film

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS179
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection, in its original format, contains a series of sixty-five reels of primarily silent black and white nitrate film commissioned by Eugene M. White to promote the prosperous African-American communities in Atlanta during the 1930s. The footage documents a variety of activities including sporting events, homecoming, golf, motorcycle racing, occupational activities, and baseball. Included in the footage is the Atlanta Black Crackers baseball team playing a game at Ponce De Leon Park...
Dates: circa 1938

J. Thomas Hutcheson scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS793
Scope and Content

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and programs of the Atlanta Philharmonic Society and some musical events in Atlanta.

Dates: 1930-1933

Jack Etheridge Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS109
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta, and images taken on the ground depicting the path of the interstate.

Dates: 1961-1962

Jack Spalding collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS360
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of scrapbooks that contain columns written by Jack Spalding as editor of The Atlanta Journal.

Dates: 1934-1978, undated

James Brandt Vietnam War protest papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS961f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Atlanta counter-culture, satirical zines collected by James Brant that document protests against the Vietnam War. Zines include The Grope, The Atlanta Urinal and Atlanta Constipation, and A Winews Letter. The collection also includes event flyers, a pamphlet, and a poster about Vietnam War protest efforts.

Dates: 1968-1973, undated

James Edward Jordan Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS565
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection concerns the many business activities of James Edward Jordan. Although much of this collection is of a general business nature, there are some records specific to his beauty and barber supplies, photographic sales, movie production, and real estate businesses. Of particular importance, within the Business— Photographic/Cinemagraphic file is correspondence showing Mr. Jordan’s interest in producing commercials and movies. Some business cards in the collection...
Dates: 1947-1963

James Edward Jordan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS44
Scope and Content

The collection contains portrait prints all presumably taken by James Edward Jordan. The images include portraits of unidentified children, men, and women, predominently posed in a studio setting with painted decorative backgrounds. Of note is one strip of custom postage stamps of an unidentified man.

Dates: approximately 1947-1970

James Kolloch Hines Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS767
Scope and Content

This collections includes a diary, newspaper clippings, legal papers, and letters.

Dates: 1873-1967

James M. Wright Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS211
Scope and Content The bulk of the James M. Wright papers, circa 1964, consists of handwritten research on note cards, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of his book, The License System of the City of Atlanta (1964). Box 4 contains subject files containing articles, pamphlets, reports, surveys, and other printed material related to public utilities, taxation, religion, slavery, and transportation. Information about Wright’s background in education and employment is contained in the folder...
Dates: 1896-1964

J.E. Mellett Jr. photographs

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Collection number: ahcVIS369
Scope and Content

This collection contains black and white photographs of construction scenes in downtown Atlanta by J.E. "Ned" Mellett Jr. They were submitted to the 1949 Atlanta Historical Society Historical Photographic Exhibition in partnership with the Dixie Camera Club under the category "construction." Additional photographs include scenes of Atlanta Zoo and activities such as tennis, baseball, and swimming in Piedmont Park, Grant Park, and Lakewood Park.

Dates: 1949-1950

Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS171
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographic images previously owned by Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs. The first part of the collection features images of Askew's family and friends at various social functions including holiday and costume parties, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Photographs of Atlanta-native and actress Jane Withers, actor John Bromfield and his wife Mary Ellen Tillotson Bromfield, the Dobbs family, Billy Jones, and Dennis Machett are also included. Images from Guy Dobbs's...
Dates: 1946 - circa 1978, bulk circa 1955

Jennie Clarke photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS350
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Clarke family, images of the Atlanta Terminal Station in 1969, and a photograph of a 1940 lynching near Marietta, Georgia.

Dates: 1869-1969, undated

Jennie Meta Barker research papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates: approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967

Jessie Boynton photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS288
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the Fulton County Alms Home for African Americans; Fulton County Alms Haven Home; Boynton's farm house; and a photograph of Jessie Lee Clark.

Dates: 1977

Joe McTyre Photograph Collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS106
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection is comprised of images taken by Atlanta Journal- Constitution journalist Joe McTyre, and images of other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs in the collection include images of prominent individuals in government, business, entertainment, sports, and others who were the subject of news events. Also included are photographs of the physical environment of Atlanta, and in rural Georgia towns. The remaining photographs relate to news coverage of events such as airplane...
Dates: 1889-1985, undated

Joel Hurt Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS65
Scope and Contents of the Collection The majority of the Joel Hurt Papers consist of documents pertaining to the East Atlanta Land Company and financial transactions effected by Joel Hurt. Documents found within the collection include deeds, abstracts of title, personal and professional correspondence, financial documents related to various business interests, and an East Atlanta Land Company account book. The bulk of the deeds pertain to land transactions within Fulton County, 14th land district, land lots 51, 52, 77, and...
Dates: 1859-1920

John A. White papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS358f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a New Testament given to Lieut. John A. White while at Camp Gordon by his mother, Mrs. B. J. White, a resolution from the Atlanta City Council honoring White on his death, and a letter from Alexander Allison to Milton Allison on farming conditions in Troup County, Georgia.

Dates: 1850, 1966

John Baeder Summerhill neighborhood photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS270
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Summerhill neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, including images of houses, advertisements, landscapes, stores and businesses, hotels, and construction areas. Of special note is a photograph of the Windsor Street Coca-Cola sign.

Dates: 1963

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