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Daniel Whitehead Hicky papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1146
Scope and Content This collection primarily consists of scrapbooks containing photos, letters, and poems written by Daniel Whitehead Hicky. Most of the letters in the scrapbooks are addressed to his friend Emily Alexander Coart (1922-1996). In his letters, Hicky wrote about his eating habits and his physical weight, the difficulties he faced in publishing his work, and the 1960 presidential election. He wrote often that he did not expect Southerners to be “so bigoted” that they wouldn't vote for John F....
Dates: 1929-1983, undated

Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary

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Collection number: ahc.MSS814f
Scope and Content

This collection contains Emily Jane Winkler Bealer's diary in which she reflects on domestic life as an impoverished widow during Reconstruction in Atlanta. Topics include raising and educating her children, financial and business affairs, and social and church life. The collection also includes a typed transcript and biographical notes written by Bealer's great-granddaughter, Emily Bealer Calhoun II. These notes contain research on people and businesses referenced in the diary.

Dates: 1876-1886, approximately 1975

Florence Bryan Ansley family photographs

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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

Laurel Horton's quilting and folk dance papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1221
Scope and Contents This collection documents Laurel Horton’s research about quilting and textiles, particularly the Chattahoochee Country Dancers, later called the Chattahoochee Contra Dancers. In addition, it contains information documenting the quilting committees on which she served. Horton collected the bulk of this material researching the connection between quilting and dancing in Alaska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Papers include field notes, book chapters she authored, essays, emails,...
Dates: 1979-2003, undated

Margaret Mitchell House Archives

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Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content

The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1848-2002, undated

Myrta Lockett Avary photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS279
Scope and Content The collection contains images collected by Avary, including images of Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Memorial Association members, and portraits of Myrta Avary. Also included are exterior views of Bulloch Hall and Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia, and the Wren's Nest in Atlanta, Georgia. Of note are images of a ceremony transferring possession of the Wren's Nest from Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris to the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. Other photographs include Joel Chandler Harris...
Dates: 1870-1917, undated

Peachtree-Cherokee Trust records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS54
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials regarding the creation and management of the Peachtree-Cherokee Trust, the publication and promotion of Architecture of Neel Reid in Georgia by James H. Grady, and documents detailing the life and work of Reid. Papers include legal documents, correspondence, book reviews and publicity, financial records, research notes, articles, and clippings.

Dates: 1963-1975, undated

Sydney C. Kerksis papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS762
Scope and Content

This collection contains a number of Kersis' original manuscripts and the supporting research and correspondence as well as published copies of other articles.

Dates: 1946-1989

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