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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

Jimmy Carter correspondence

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS768f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of correspondence written to and from Carter related to his personal life and public service. There is also a letter from a group of Atlantans endorsing Carter's 1970 gubernatorial candidacy.

Dates: 1970-1983

John Ashley Jones papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS125
Scope and Content

Ephemeral items related to the Sons of Confederate Veterans (of which Jones was the national commander), the New York Life Insurance Company, and Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta (where he served as a ruling elder). Of special interest are scripts and historical addresses from Atlanta’s Centennial Celebration in 1948 and an inscribed copy of Ivan Allen’s The Spirit of Atlanta (1948).

Dates: 1912-1948

John Keely Civil War letter and scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS196f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from Captain John Keely to John Ryan of Atlanta about the health of Captain Keely and news of friends. The collection also contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles about Keely and a diary he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865, 1881-1931, undated

John Matthew McCrary papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS152
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence between John McCrary and his wife, Mary Boyd; his brother, Robert, and mother, Nancy, during John McCrary's service in the Georgia Volunteers during the Civil War. Additional records include a contract between John McCrary and his former slaves; his furlough order; and a list of Mr. McCrary's taxable property.

Dates: 1862-1865, undated

John S. T. Hall papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS778f
Scope and Content

This collection contains military records, genealogies, and photocopies of family records written inside a bible. Of particular interest is Hall's diary (1863-1865), which contains financial records, notes, and a copy of a letter from his future wife. Also included are copies of John S. T. Hall's records in a Confederate Roll of Prisoners of War, and a copy of Hall's appointment as a notary public in 1875.

Dates: 1863-2003, undated

John Wallace Malone letter to Senators Harry F. Byrd and Walter F. George

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Collection number: ahc.MSS963f
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter that John Wallace Malone wrote to United States senators Harry F. Byrd (1887-1966) of Virginia, and Walter F. George (1878-1957) of Georgia. Both Democratic senators supported racial segregation. In the letter, Malone uses racist rhetoric to argue that "Southern people do not hate Negroes" and that the Federal government should allow states to make decisions regarding race relations. To support his argument, he references instances of supposed racial harmony...
Dates: 1948 March 1

John William Augustine Sanford, Jr. letter and Constitution Union Party of Georgia address

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Collection number: ahc.MSS497f
Scope and Content This collection contains printed copies of an address to the Constitutional Union Party of Georgia and a letter from John William Augustine Sanford Jr. to a "Dr. L. F. W. Andrews." The address to the Constitutional Union Party of Georgia was written by the executive committee, announcing the dissolution of the party. It stated that the political goals of the party had succeeded, and therefore the party no longer had a purpose. Members of the executive committee urged party members to support...
Dates: 1853 January 28, undated

Joseph E. Brown Connally photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS352
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs and a drawing relating to Joseph E. Brown Connally. Included are nine photographs of Joseph Brown Connally and unidentified family members; a drawing of the S.S. Westernland; and five images of Connally's funeral on August 29, 1920. Of special note are two photographs of a post-World War I parade of Georgia troops marching down Peachtree Street and 2 images of Captain Connally in Nice, France, after the Armistice.

Dates: 1895-1920, undated

Joseph Mackey Brown papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS41
Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence and ephemera of Joseph Mackey Brown, and also for his father, Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown. The bulk of his correspondence relates to his tenure as governor, and includes pledges of support, congratulatory letters, and requests for patronage and jobs. Campaign correspondence relates to his failed gubernatorial campaign of 1910. In addition to his gubernatorial correspondence, agriculture and farming were frequent topics, as was the Georgia...
Dates: 1846-1926, undated; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1914

Joshua Gilbert papers

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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

Julia Willet and Foreacre Family Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS89
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection is primarily genealogical documents and materials pertaining to the civic activities of Julia Willet. The Foreacre family papers include service orders for William Foreacre from the Civil War, newspaper clippings, and family histories. The scrapbook, presented to Delia Foreacre at Christmas 1962, includes newspapers clippings relating to family members and a few pieces of correspondence. The majority of the materials pertaining to Julia Willet are newspaper clippings and...
Dates: 1828-1982

J.W. Speir Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS332f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of letters from Confederate soldier J.W. Speir to his wife. He writes about camp conditions, fighting around Atlanta, hospital conditions, and their children.

Dates: 1864

Kate Hester Robson autobiographical manuscript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS291f
Scope and Content This collection contains a 1912 autobiography of Kate Hester Robson, who lived in Atlanta from 1859 until her death in 1914. Robson writes about her moving to Atlanta in 1859 where her family lived in a house on the corner of Marietta and Spring Street. During the Civil War she made a Confederate flag and presented it to General Gordon's first company. Her husband managed the coal mines of Dade County, Georgia, until the approach of Union forces in 1864. She made uniforms for soldiers and...
Dates: 1912

Katherine "Kate" Flournoy Edwards papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS490
Scope and Content

This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, diaries, awards, guest books, and materials written by Katherine Flournoy Edwards.

Dates: 1877-1980, undated

Kimble family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS785f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a history of the Butler Van Guards, a Confederate infantry unit, and Kimble family genealogy.

Dates: undated

Kontz family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS545
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, land deeds, legal documents, military documents, programs, invitations, and scrapbooks pertaining to the Kontz family. Of particular interest is an 1859 slave receipt as well as Christian Kontz' 1848 formal statement of intent to become a citizen of the United States and his 1866 certificate of citizenship. Also of interest is correspondence between Kontz and the War Department regarding the use of the Kontz residence as headquarters of the Third...
Dates: 1847-1940, undated

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

Ku Klux Klan collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1238
Scope and Contents This collection contains material generated by the national organization, as well as local chapters, primarily the Realm of Georgia, of the Ku Klux Klan. Included are periodicals such as Kourier Magazine and The Imperial Knight-Hawk; financial, business, and membership papers; flyers and notices about Klan activities; and publications about ideology. Rhetoric throughout the collection is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic,...
Dates: 1916-1998, undated

Lemuel P. Grant papers

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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

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 53
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 27
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 22
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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 16
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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 15
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Scrapbooks -- Georgia 14
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 14
Georgia -- Genealogy 12
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 10
Atlanta (Ga.) 9
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 8
Military uniforms 8
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Business records -- Georgia 7
Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 7
Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 7
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia 7
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women 7
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Confederate States of America -- History, Military 6
Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 6
Deeds -- Georgia 6
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Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta 6
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Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 5
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Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
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Horses 5
Military pensions -- United States 5
Photographers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
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Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 5
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Women -- Societies and clubs 5
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Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States 4
AIDS activists 3
Advertising -- Georgia 3
African Americans -- Georgia 3
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Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
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Charleston (S.C.) 3
Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 3
Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Civil rights 3
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 3
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Crime -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Drag shows 3
Entertainment events -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Equal rights amendments -- United States 3
Family life -- United States 3
Farm life -- Georgia 3
Finance, Personal -- Georgia 3
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Gay men -- United States 3
Governors -- Georgia 3
Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Land grants -- Georgia 3
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