Showing Names: 41 - 60 of 108
Hugh Anderson Haralson Letterbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS110
Scope and Content
The collection consists of an indexed letter book of Hugh A. Haralson and correspondence addressing personal and professional topics. Author name and corresponding page number arrange the letter book index alphabetically. The collection documents issues concerning the average Southern citizen during the antebellum years. Some issues discussed include agriculture in Coweta County, Georgia, pension laws, states’ rights, land claims, Indian affairs, legislation, land grants and sales, slavery,...
Dates:
1849 - 1850
Hugh Brannon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1170
Scope and Content
This collection mostly contains documents relating the Hugh Brannon's education at Technological High School, and the neighborhood in which he lived, Inman Park. Included are examples of Brannon's classwork at William A. Bass Junior High School and at Technological High School, in courses such as mathematics, science, English, and social studies. Student assignments represented in the collection sometimes touched upon the subject of war in Europe. Brannon, a lifelong resident of Atlanta's...
Dates:
1922-2007, undated
James L. Bryant Civil War letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS652f
Scope and Content
This collection contains one letter dated June 8, 1864. It was written from James L. Bryant to his parents from his position outside Marietta, Georgia. He writes that the Federal Army does not yet have control of Marietta, but they expect to take the city before they continue marching towards Atlanta, Georgia. He describes talking with Confederate soldiers at the picket lines and explains their strange way of speaking by quoting their conversations briefly. He writes that the land in Georgia...
Dates:
1864 June 8
James L. Mitchell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS840
Scope and Content
The James L. Mitchell collection contains .25 cubic feet of papers in thirteen folders. The greater part of the collection consists of reproductions of articles, memoirs, letters, newsclippings and maps. Some original correspondence of James L. Mitchell is included, but the bulk of the pre-1950 material is photocopied.
Dates:
1861-1985, undated; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1900
James Lile Lemon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1275
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the military career of Captain James Lile Lemon. It includes the first and third volume of a three-set diary that details his military engagements and experiences. Of particular note Vol. 1 includes a rose pressed into the cover. In addition, there are copies of Lemon’s memoir in which he detailed his recollections of the war. The collection also contains transcripts of all three diaries and parts one and two of the memoir, wartime maps, newspapers, letters from...
Dates:
1850-2005, undated
James P. Wickersham letter and biographical sketch
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS373f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter from James P. Wickersham on July 17, 1881 to his wife Emerine written during a train ride to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He wrote that the trip took 34 hours, including a 5 or 6 hour delay because of engine failure. He speaks of Atlanta as "beautiful and thrifty" compared to the city as he saw it in 1866 as it lay in ruins.
Dates:
1881, undated
James W. Cole papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS693f
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, military records, and pension records for James W. Cole and John B. Cole. The bulk of the papers relate to bounties and pensions paid to heirs of James W. Cole, as well as details of James' military service during the Civil War. There are two letters from John B. Cole and Aaron Shaw written to James during their service. There is also a letter and blank form from the law offices of Harvey Spalding and Sons soliciting cases for claims of pensions or...
Dates:
1862-1941, undated
Jesse R. Griffin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS858
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a scrapbook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related documents. The scrapbook was kept by Jesse R. Griffin's wife about him and his topics of interest, which included the Civil War, veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, President McKinley, religion, and Carrollton, Georgia.
Dates:
1880-1946, undated
John J. Eagan papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS71
Scope and Content
This collection includes personal correspondence, biographical sketches, news clippings, business records, personal financial records, and property records of John Eagan.
Dates:
1846-1977, undated
John White Geary letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.mss55
Scope and Content
These papers consist mainly of photocopies (and some transcriptions) of letters written by John W. Geary to his second wife, Mary Geary, while he served in the Union Army during the Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Some letters predate the war, and others are written by John's son, Edward R. Geary, and sent to his stepmother Mary. The collection also includes an index of correspondence and information on the corps that Geary led.
Dates:
1858-1865, 1977, undated; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1865
Joshua Gilbert papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS776f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a letter from Joshua Gilbert to his family, a description of United States Army prisoner of war camps in the Civil War, one deed to a cemetery plot, and one clipping from the Atlanta Constitution with Gilbert's obituary.
Dates:
1855-1889
King family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS753
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence between various members of the King family and payment receipts on the accounts of many of the family members.
Dates:
1858-1918
Kristin Oblander papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1271
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to Oblander’s career in political fundraising. Professional materials make up the bulk of the collection, including memos and other internal documents from various campaigns, financial information and donor records, fundraising event invitations, and campaign mail. Represented in the collection are Oblander Group clients, including presidential, congressional, statewide, legislative, and municipal candidates, as well as party committees and other...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980-2022, undated
Lemuel P. Grant papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS100
Scope and Content
This collection contains letters to and from Grant regarding construction of railroads in Pennsylvania and throughout the southeastern United States; the defense of Atlanta during the Civil War; and personal matters. Other items in the collection include Grant’s personal diaries from 1843, 1844, and 1845, as well as account books covering railroad land transactions; railroad costs; and cash accounts. Additional items include a report on the condition of railroads around Atlanta, Georgia,...
Dates:
1838-1869
Lin family correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS849
Scope and Content
This collection consists of seventy-two letters written among the various members of the Lin family of Atlanta and their extended relatives during the Civil War. Many of the letters are to Charles B. "Bud" Lin from his mother, Amanda M. Lin, and his three sisters: Mary Ann, Susan B., and Georgia, while he was attending the Georgia Military Institute. Common topics of the letters include the latest news of different relatives serving as soldiers, the hiring of substitutes, conscription of...
Dates:
1859-1887
Lollie Belle Wylie ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS387f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a manuscript titled "Author's Grove" an account of author, Lollie Belle Wylie's, part in establishing the grove in Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, Georgia; newspaper clippings of a series called "Sketches of Pioneer Women", by Mrs. Wylie; sheet music; and letters.
Dates:
1887-1944
Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content
The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates:
1810-1988, undated
Margaret Clarke papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS69
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to the Civil War, Confederate veterans, and the general history of Atlanta. Included is an 1864 edition of the Atlanta Intelligencer and an issue of Confederate Veteran.
Dates:
1864-1908
Margaret Mitchell Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS146
Scope and Content
The Margaret Mitchell collection is comprised of material pertaining to the life of Atlanta author Margaret Mitchell, including correspondence, newspaper articles, and other printed materials. The correspondence – originals and copies of cards, letters, postcards, notes, and telegrams – provides detail into Mitchell’s professional relationships with fans and publishers, as well as her involvement with the Atlanta Historical Society. The Baugh (secretary to Stephens Mitchell, brother and...
Dates:
1863-1971
Margaret Mitchell House Archives
Collection
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
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 107
- Archival Record 1
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 30
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 28
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 19
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 17
- Atlanta (Ga.) 13
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 11
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 10
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 10
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 9
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 8
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 8
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 8
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 7
- Georgia -- Genealogy 6
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 6
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction 6
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 5
- Business records -- Georgia 5
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
- Deeds -- Georgia 5
- Marietta (Ga.) -- History 4
- Military maneuvers -- Georgia 4
- Military pensions -- United States 4
- Military uniforms 4
- Monuments & memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 4
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States 4
- Advertising -- Georgia 3
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Agriculture 3
- Agriculture -- Georgia 3
- Allatoona (Ga.) 3
- American diaries 3
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 3
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Aerial views 3
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Description and travel 3
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Newspapers 3
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 3
- Charleston (S.C.) 3
- Crime -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Education -- Georgia 3
- Entertainment events -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
- Horses 3
- Journalism 3
- Kennesaw (Ga.) -- History 3
- Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 3
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 3
- Locomotives -- Georgia 3
- Macon (Ga.) 3
- Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- New York (N.Y.) 3
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
- Police -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Political campaigns -- Georgia 3
- Savannah (Ga.) 3
- Slavery -- Georgia 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 3
- United States -- Politics and government 3
- Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States 2
- AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation -- United States 2
- AIDS activists 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Actresses -- Georgia 2
- African American politicians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- African Americans -- Georgia 2
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 2
- African Americans -- Politics and government 2
- Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Athens (Ga.) -- History 2
- Automobiles -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Battlefield monuments -- Georgia -- Chickamauga 2
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Businessmen -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Charlotte (N.C.) 2
- Chattanooga (Tenn.) 2
- Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 2
- Chickamauga (Ga.) 2
- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Civil rights 2
- Civil rights demonstrations 2
- Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 2
- Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 2
- Cobb County (Ga.) 2
- Columbus (Ga.) 2
- Confederate States of America -- History, Military 2
- Discrimination in employment 2
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Elections -- Georgia 2
- Farm life -- Georgia 2
- Fire fighters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Floyd County (Ga.) 2 + ∧ less
∨ more