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Sarah Martha Cobb Whitner scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS326
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of two scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings pertaining to Cobb and Whitner families as well as Atlanta events.
Dates:
1857-1900, undated
Scripto Pen Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1013
Scope and Content
This collection contains personnel and marketing records, and documentation of the labor strike at the Scripto Pen Company. The early personnel records include employee names, start dates, previous employment, and wage rates. Volumes of marketing publications and advertisements illustrate trade and commercial print advertisements Scripto Pen Company used for their writing instruments and disposable lighters. National and local newspaper clippings included in the collection relate to the...
Dates:
1923-1981, undated
Series V: Campbell County, 1831-1941, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains vital, financial, and court records from Campbell County before it merged with Fulton County in 1931. Departments documented include the Sheriff's office, Court of Ordinary, and Inferior Court. The bulk of the records are annual return books and minute books. Also in the series are ledgers of taxes, account audits, and funds. Vital records include a census, statistics index, ledger of paupers, pensions, and a docket of invalid soldiers. Of particular note are a sheriff’s...
Dates:
1831-1941, undated
SGM Carl L. Sharp papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS751f
Scope and Content
This collection contains one letter and envelope addressed to Sharp’s commanding officer, Captain Richard M. Barb, commending Sharp and his comrades for assisting the Atlanta Police Department with the investigation of the Jewish Temple bombing on October 12, 1958. It also contains a short biographical note on Sharp outlining his military career as well as correspondence between the AHC and Sharp's family.
Dates:
1958, 2017, undated
Shaler Hillyer papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS885
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence from and to Shaler Hillyer. Also included is his journal, along with Captain John Freeman's estate inventory and the journals of Marian (also spelled Marion) Jean Hillyer, a descendant of Shaler Hillyer's, as a young girl documenting various trips her family took in the 1880s and 1890s.
Dates:
1797-1892, undated
Sidney Root papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS908f
Scope and Content
This collection contains autobiographic and biographic materials on Sidney Root as well as transcriptions of letters and newspaper articles written by Root. Materials include the manuscripts for Root's unpublished autobiography, Memorandum of My Life and genealogy papers on the Root family. Of particular note is a manuscript of a biography of Root by Walter McElreath, one of the founders of the Atlanta Historical Society.
Dates:
1863-1897, undated
Sons of Confederate Veterans collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS385
Scope and Content
This collection contains organizational records pertaining to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Included in the collection are programs, correspondence, and invitations.
Dates:
1897-1962, undated
South-Eastern Underwriters Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS366
Scope and Content
This collection is primarily meeting reports and other documents pertaining to the organization of the South-Eastern Underwriters Association.
Dates:
1882-1971, undated
Southern Council on International and Public Affairs photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS357
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of two council meetings: a meeting held at McElreath Hall of the Atlanta Historical Society (later named Atlanta History Center) and a regional conference of the Southern Council on International and Public Affairs in Charleston, South Carolina. Images taken at McElreath Hall highlight Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's address to the Southern Council. Also included are American politicians Mayor Andrew Young (1932-), Governor Zell Miller (1932-2018),...
Dates:
1976 March 6; December 3-4
Southern Railway records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1257
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records created by Southern Railway, and records created by its predecessor railroads, railways, and companies. Records include annual financial and inspection reports, meeting minute proceedings, construction contracts, correspondence, publications, and company ephemera.The bulk of the materials are Southern Railway contracts and the predecessor records. More than 3,000 contracts illustrate the history of the company through the construction of train...
Dates:
1828-1996, undated
Southern Regional Council documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS373
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of reports and newsletters published by the Southern Regional Council about African Americans living in the South. Report topics include: voter registration and politics, health care, school desegregation, the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968, and riots and civil disorder. The collection also contains episode transcripts from Will the Circle be Unbroken: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern...
Dates:
1944-1997, undated
Southern Voice photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS415
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images used for stories published by Southern Voice newspaper. Images include businesses, individuals, organizations, demonstrations and events, and photographs related to political issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender communities. Of particular note are demonstrations associated with ACT UP and the Cobb Citizens Coalition, as well as images of the Atlanta Pride Festival and Parade and Atlanta Black Pride....
Dates:
approximately 1968-2010, bulk dates approximately 1990-2010
Southern Voice records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1016
Scope and Content
This collection contains editorial planning records and subject files for stories published by Southern Voice. These files include editorial planning meeting notes, story assignments, camera-ready art, and subject files on national and regional issues of crime, health, lifestyle, and politics concerning the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender community. The camera-ready art consists of photographs and graphics used in conjunction with published...
Dates:
1982-2007 undated
Southline Press, Inc. records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1015
Scope and Content
This collection contains corporate records of Southline Press, and includes advertising and administrative records, published articles, and research files. Advertising records include advertising copy, sales records, advertising rates, and sales invoices. Administrative records contain budgets, contracts, reader surveys, and correspondence of Southline publisher Todd Evans. The remainder of the collection consists of drafts and copies of articles published in...
Dates:
1959-1988, undated; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1988
Southwind recordings and scripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1118
Scope and Content
This collection consists of audio recordings and scripts created for the program, Southwind.Southwind programs consisted of one to three segments that featured original reporting either by Boyd Lewis or his colleagues in public radio throughout the Southeast. Many of the segments focused on contemporary events that Lewis placed in historical context, while other segments were retrospectives of past events that featured the...
Dates:
1980-1987
Suzanne Anderson photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS405
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images Suzanne Anderson took of Atlanta and metro Atlanta areas, prominent figures, and sporting events. Suzanne Anderson submitted most of the photos to Atlanta Magazine. The bulk of the images depict a two-year project in which Anderson photographed Atlanta Police Department crime scenes, patrol work, funerals, and outreach events. The collection also features photographs of major Atlanta and national figures, including Ralph David...
Dates:
1970-1999, undated
Sydney C. Kerksis papers
Collection
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
The Jewel Box Revue
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS796f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a booklet advertising The Jewel Box Revue. The booklet primarily contains photographs of the performers both in and out of drag; in one section the author encourages the reader to match fully-costumed performers to photos of their more conventionally-attired selves. Of particular note is mention that there was only one woman performer in the Revue, Storme DeLarverie.
Dates:
approximately 1960
Thomas Deaton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS951f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Thomas Deaton's financial, legal, and personal papers, the bulk of which pertain to the Civil War. Financial records include deeds of purchase for land and enslaved persons, as well as affidavits of sales. Also included is a diary he wrote while working at a Confederate hospital in which he recorded personal notes, information about meetings, records of the weather, and copied obituaries. Correspondence documents Deaton’s sale of grain to the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1838-1873, undated
Thomas M. Coleman letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS655f
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of one letter written by Coleman to his sister, possibly named Lizzie Coleman, on July 29, 1864, written from a “camp south of Atlanta.” Coleman provides a firsthand account of the Atlanta Campaign describing the charge and repulsion of the "rebels," the reclaiming of lost artillery pieces, and capture of Confederate soldiers. Below Thomas M. Coleman's signature in the same handwriting is "E. Coleman," whose identity has not been determined. A post script stating...
Dates:
1864 July 29
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