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Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS331
Scope and Content

This collection captures the unveiling of the O'Reilly Monument in front of the Atlanta City Hall on the corner of Washington Street and Mitchell Street. The monument was erected by the Atlanta Historical Society.

Dates: 1945 October 18

Thompson and Glover Families Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS204
Scope and Content This collection documents the activities of various members of the Thompson and Glover families who lived in Madison, Monticello, and Atlanta, Ga., primarily Catherine Thompson, Will Glover Thompson, Emily Fish Glover, Sallie [Sarah] Glover, and Eli Glover. Materials include correspondence of Sallie Glover with friends and family regarding school, sicknesses, clothes, and family visits. A few letters reference the commotion and disturbance of the Civil War. Correspondence of Catherine...
Dates: 1839-1961

Thurston Hatcher Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS135
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographs of buildings and natural scenery in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia. Photographs of Atlanta include images of City Hall, Municipal Airport, Atlantic Steel Company, Cyclorama Building, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, Municipal Auditorium, North Fulton Golf Course, and the Capitol Building. Photographs taken throughout the state of Georgia include images of Midway Congregational Church, Fort Pulaski, Brasstown Bald, the Okefenokee Swamp, Tallulah...
Dates: circa 1916, 1948-1952, undated

Tolliver Dillard diary

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Collection number: ahc.MSS93f
Scope and Content

This diary contains handwritten entries by Tolliver Dillard, a farmer in antebellum Burke County, Georgia on the weather, expenses, crops, and illnesses. Also included are entries about the Know Nothing Party, and the state penitentiary in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Dates: 1854-1857

Town and Country Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS720
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, clippings, and correspondence that document the civic and social history of the club. Included in the collection is a series of scrapbooks that further detail the programs, activities, and flower shows hosted and participated in by the club. One scrapbook is dedicated to the club's community service project landscaping the grounds of the Sandy Springs Health Center.

Dates: 1949-1980, undated

Toy Museum of Atlanta collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS801f
Scope and Content This collection contains materials from the 1986 and 1987 auctions of the Toy Museum of Atlanta's contents, including two auction catalogues, three editions of Antique Toy World magazine, and an auction staff pin. Materials also include newspaper clippings about the museum, promotional materials, stationery, and a catalogue order; as well as three stickers from protests against the construction of Presidential Parkway (the Great Park Freeway, later known as...
Dates: 1986-1987, undated

Tracy Mathewson and Walter Winn photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS430
Scope and Contents This collection contains images of infantry training and facilities at Camp Gordon in DeKalb County, Georgia, during World War I. Other highlights include sports figures, such as Georgia-born baseball players Ty Cobb, Absalom and Ivey Wingo, and John Rucker. Also included are images of an African American baptisimal ceremony in Jonesboro, Georgia, and portraits of Moina Bell Michael, a professor at Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, who conceived of the idea of using poppies to commemorate World...
Dates: 1861-approximately 1940s

Transcriptions of Norton-Towers diaries

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Collection number: ahc.MSS596f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of two diaries accompanied with annotations made by the transcriber. One is the diary of R.S. Norton and the other was written by William Towers after the war. Each details company movements & discusses significant deaths of each battle. Norton also includes comments on rising prices of various staples and dry goods.

Dates: 1861-1900

Travelers Insurance records of the 1917 Atlanta fire

 Collection — Location MSS OS Box 2.109
Collection number: ahc.MSS688f
Scope and Content This collection contains documents pertaining to the 1917 Atlanta fire and subsequent property damage suffered by Travelers Insurance policy holders. Correspondence includes letters and telegrams between Travelers Insurance and the Cliff C. Hatcher Insurance Agency and Haas & Company. This correspondence discusses insurance policies affected by the fire. There are two legal-sized lists of affected policy holders including their addresses, loan numbers, policy numbers, mortgage...
Dates: 1917, undated

Trinity Methodist Church manuscript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS505f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a manuscript assembled by Carl S. Millard on the Trinity Methodist Church. The document contains photographs, verse, church history, newspaper clippings, and an essay.

Dates: 1941

Troutman and Battey family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1074
Scope and Content

The bulk of the Troutman and Battey family papers are legal documents (many from Floyd Country) generated by those families, including deeds of indenture (many signed by Dr. Robert Battey), wills, and an abstract of title to lands in Floyd County. The collection also contains correspondence, the majority of which was sent to Colonel Hiram Bainbridge Troutman, a book of Minstrel song, and documents pertaining to Atlanta society.

Dates: 1846-1970, undated; Majority of material found within 1846 - 1939

TWFB Corporation Records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS2
Scope and Contents of the Records

These records contain legal and business papers relating to the business and property holdings in Atlanta of the TWFB Corporation.

Dates: 1957-1974

Una Rivers Glidden Tour photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS333
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs taken during the 1911 Glidden Tour from New York City to Jacksonville, Florida.

Dates: 1911 October 13-26

Underwood, Key families papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS213
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, envelopes and financial and legal documents belonging primarily to members of the Underwood family of Franklin County, and later Lithonia, Georgia. Most of the correspondence was written by William and Alvin Underwood to their parents and siblings when the pair served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1864. William sent correspondence to his family telling of his unit’s fitness and preparation, his optimism about a short war, his difficulties in...
Dates: 1827-1951 (bulk 1861-1864)

United Church Women of Atlanta scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS388
Scope and Content

This collection contains ten scrapbooks created by members of the United Church Women of Atlanta organization. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, pictures, programs, reports, correspondence, and organizational records. The correspondence includes letters from Charles L. Weltner, James A. Mackay, Richard B. Russell, Herman E. Talmadge, Robert G. Stephens, Mayor Ivan Allen, and Sargent Shriver.

Dates: 1946-1976

Upsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Theta scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS821
Scope and Content

This collection consists of thirteen scrapbooks from the Upsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Theta, containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting the activities and interests of the chapter.

Dates: 1938-1980

Ursula Adelaide Adkins papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS882
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a memory book belonging to Ursula Adelaide Adkins, kept during her senior year at Girls' High School and her Girls' High diploma with diploma tie.

Dates: 1929-1932, undated

Van Buren Colley Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS149
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection of photographs includes pictures of Atlanta and rural areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region, including Adamsville, and Alpharetta, and other areas of Fulton County. Included are street scenes in downtown Atlanta, and private residences, such as the interior of the home of Civil War collector Beverly DuBose on 2737 Peachtree Street, the home of Lemuel P. Grant in Grant Park, and farmland on Dunwoody Road. The collection is comprised of photographs of churches, including the...
Dates: circa 1873-1970, undated, bulk 1953-1970

Vincent A. Irick photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS39
Scope and Content The collection provides excellent documentation of African Americans in rural Georgia and Florida, and is composed of 90 black and white and cyanotype photographs. Featured are scenes of Spencer’s farm and farm activities, and images of Irick’s friends and family. The bulk of the collection consists of images of African-Americans who lived and worked on the farm, including many depictions of children. The majority of the photographs are in excellent condition; the cyanotypes in particular...
Dates: undated

Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts

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Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates: 1988-1989

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