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Maria Helena Dolan papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1196
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials collected by Maria Helena Dolan that document her work in LGBTQ+ and feminist organizations, her personal life, events she attended, her work at MARTA, as well her various other interests, including gardening, arts, and travel. Specific causes documented include AIDS awareness and safe sex, domestic violence, civil rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Organizations represented include Atlanta History Center, Charis Books & More, Pride, ACLU, and Atlanta Lesbian...
Dates:
1970-2007, undated
Maria Helena Dolan photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS423
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials collected by Maria Helena Dolan that document her personal life and Atlanta LGBTQ+ community activist meetings and events such as Black Pride, sponsored by In The Life Atlanta (ITLA). Of special note are images related to a Forsyth County protest in response to the Ku Klux Klan's attack on civil rights marchers a week earlier during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Also included is an image of Ray Kluka, Chris Hagen, and Gil Robison as recipients...
Dates:
1954-2003, undated
Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates:
1900-1993, undated
Marietta Council of Garden Clubs records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1266
Scope and Contents
This collection includes scrapbooks, minutes, and membership records that provide details of the civic and social activities of the Marietta Council of Garden Clubs. Council scrapbooks provide photographs, newsletters, programs, and yearbooks that hightlight the council's activities such as beautifying historic downtown Marietta, maintaining the Marietta Educational Garden Center and Library, fundraising for member clubs' civic projects, and participating in flower shows. Also a part of the...
Dates:
1928-1999, undated
Marion Johnson photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content
This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates:
1938-1975
Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content
This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.
Dates:
1895-1905
Martha Lumpkin Compton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS139
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks, a diary, correspondence, newspaper clippings, Atlanta Board of Aldermen resolutions, and a recipe book. The two scrapbooks contain poems, genealogical notes, letters, greeting cards, and notes from family members and friends including “Cousin Naomi,” Augustus Alden, “Sister Anna L. A.,” Danny Boykins, Allie Alden, and Wilson Lumpkin. There are newspaper clippings on topics such as the 1888 Southern Baptist Convention, a 50th anniversary article on...
Dates:
1840-1959, undated
Martin Padgett visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS416
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials used by Martin Padgett in research for his book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution. Items include photos of staff and drag performers, primarily John Greenwell (1950- ) as Rachel Wells, at Sweet Gum Head, a prominent drag and gay bar at 2284 Cheshire Bridge Rd. NE, Atlanta, Georgia, from 1971 to 1981; a poster promoting the Phoenix Affair II, a charity show...
Dates:
1972-1983
Martin Stupich Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS115
Scope and Contents of the Records
The photographs in this collection were created during two survey grants sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The images in the first grant documented the development of Atlanta’s rapid transit system (MARTA) from 1977- 1978, and photographs from the second grant (1979-1981) illustrate Atlanta’s role as a center of transportation. The photographs from the first NEA project depict downtown Atlanta prior to the construction of MARTA, employees involved in the creation of...
Dates:
1955 – 1981, bulk 1977-1981
Mary and Jay Hambidge Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS962
Scope and Content
Through personal papers, subject files, and printed material and publications, the collection documents the life of Mary Crovatt Hambidge from her childhood in Brunswick, Georgia to the establishment of the Hambidge Center, formerly the Jay Hambidge Art Foundation, and the efforts of Mary and Jay Hambidge to develop and promote the concept of dynamic symmetry. See the scope and content note of each series for expanded information.
Dates:
1806-1994, bulk 1920-1970, undated
Mary and Jay Hambidge visual materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS1
Scope and Content
Through photographic prints, negatives, designs, drawings, paintings, plates, postcards, sketches, photo albums, and maps the collection documents the life of Mary Crovatt Hambidge from her family and childhood in Brunswick, Georgia to the establishment of the Hambidge Center, formerly the Jay Hambidge Art Foundation, and the efforts of Mary and Jay Hambidge to develop and promote the concept of dynamic symmetry, from 1837-1970. See the scope and content note of each series for expanded...
Dates:
1837-1970, undated
Mary Connally Spalding papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS46
Scope and Content
These papers consist of scrapbooks, financial records, newspaper clippings, genalogy material, scholarly articles, and correspondence of Mary Connally Spalding and her family.
Dates:
1867-1967, undated
Mary Connally Spalding photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS339
Scope and Content
This collection contains image of the family and friends of Mary Connally Spalding. Included are photographs of her travels to Ireland, France, and Egypt, as well as bridal portraits for her wedding to John Schaffner Spalding.
Dates:
1873-1932, undated
Mary H. Blanchard Examination Booklet and Memorium
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS34f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a booklet of Mary Blanchard’s term examinations from 1876 to 1877 from Girls High School. The term examinations cover a variety of topics including: Geometry; English Literature, French, Latin and Chemistry. Also included is a booklet titled In Memoriam. In Memoriam is a tribute to the memory of Mary Blanchard written by the Browning Society at Girls High School and read on September 10, 1877. It includes condolences to her family and a poem about her life....
Dates:
1876-1877
Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.
Dates:
1993
Mary J. Stafford Thompson correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS349f
Scope and Content
This collection contains copies of letters from and to Mary J. Stafford Thompson with individuals in Georgia such as Washington, Rome, Oakland, Milledgeville, Dalton, Greensboro, and Decatur.
Dates:
1846-1864
Mary Margaret Carr records from the Child Service and Family Counseling Center
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1259
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records that Mary Margaret Carr collected during her tenure as executive director of the Child Service and Family Counseling Center. It documents the history and management of the organization as well as some of its programs and initiatives, such as the DeKalb County Task Force on Teenage Pregnancy, the Employee Assistant Program, and Maternity Homes. Record types represented include meeting agendas, project planning documents, conference materials, memos and...
Dates:
1956-1993, undated
Mary Shelton Felt papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS265
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection is education related materials. Some examples include memory books, compositions books, and progress reports.
Dates:
1920-1934
Mathews and Joor family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS219f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of personal letters from Ann (Mathews) Joor, the daughter of John Mathews, about the death of "Edward" and from William Joor about a troublesome slave. There are receipts from William Joor and Jonathan Cooper about the transfer of the slave from Savannah, Georgia, to Charleston, South Carolina. Also included are business letters between John Mathews and his cousin, Optimus Hughes, about the sale of James Island.
Dates:
1816-1848, undated
Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates:
1947-1949
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