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Vineville Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1218
Scope and Contents This collection contains articles, clippings, correspondence, newsletters, and yearbooks that provide details of the civic and social activities of the Vineville Garden Club. Also included in the collection are programs and yearbooks from other garden clubs and organizations as well as Bibb County Flower Show schedules. Scrapbooks highlight the club members' gardens and horticultural interests. Scrapbooks from first president, Mrs. Thomas J. (Ann "Octavia" Burden) Stewart, and former...
Dates: 1922-2015, undated

Virginia Avenue Garden Club scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1079
Scope and Content

This collection contains two scrapbooks that detail the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, and garden club programs. Of special interest are photographs of the Carnegie Branch Library at the Samuel M. Inman School (now Inman Middle School) in Virginia Highland.

Dates: 1934-1951

Virginia Lou Pirkle scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS847
Scope and Content

This collection contains one memory book kept by Virginia Lou Pirkle during her senior year. Included in the book are autographs from teachers and classmates, newspaper clippings, photos, dance cards, and various materials from neighboring school during 1928.

Dates: 1928

Virginia Twinam Smith slides

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Collection number: ahc.VIS397
Scope and Contents This collection contains slides of a wide variety of identified plants including herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, native shrubs, vegetables, vines, and trees of the Southeastern States. Also a part of the collection are photographs of public gardens, such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Callaway Gardens, Chattahoochee Nature Center, and the gardens of the Tullie Smith House at the Atlanta History Center. Other images in the Smith collection depict downtown Atlanta, skylines,...
Dates: 1978-2003

Vogue, The Picture record

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Collection number: ahc.MSS899
Scope and Content This collection contains one seventy-eight revolutions per minute record which has a picture on each side. One of the songs is "Atlanta, G.A." by Skylar and Shaftel, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Jack Prince as vocalist. This side has a picture of a train, the Atlanta Limited, a young woman, and morning glories. The other side of the record is "Aren't You Glad You're You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake as...
Dates: undated

Voices Across the Color Line oral history recordings

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Collection number: ahc.VIS180
Scope and Contents of the Records The bulk of these oral histories deal with the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Specific events mentioned include the student movement centering on Atlanta University; The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR); creation and publication of the Atlanta Enquirer newspaper; the organization of the Atlanta Committee of Cooperative Action (ACCA), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and activities to desegregate city buses and restaurants. Other topics that are discussed...
Dates: 2005-2006

W. C. Sims slave receipt

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Collection number: ahc.MSS260f
Scope and Content

This collection contains two photo copies of a receipt for the "loan" of an enslaved man named George, belonging to W. C. Sims of Troup County, Georgia, to the Confederate States for military defense in the vicinity of Troup County. The receipt is dated July 2, 1864.

Dates: 1864

W. Millege White's photographs of Southern Bell Telephone Company

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Collection number: ahc.VIS345
Scope and Content

This collection contains White's photographs of the construction of the Southern Bell Telephone Company building, also known as the Ivy-Walnut Exchange building. Photographs include interior and exterior images documenting the stages of development of the second portion of the building at 27 Auburn Avenue. The building was designed by noted Atlanta architect P. Thornton Marye.

Dates: 1920 June 15 - 1921 January 15

W. T. Clinton and Moore, Marsh, and Company ledgers and scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS755
Scope and Content

This collection consists of two ledger books: one belonging to W. T. Clinton and one belonging to W. M. Moore of Moore, Marsh, and Company. Also included is a scrapbook belonging to W. T. Clinton which also contains a ledger at the back of the scrapbook.

Dates: 1876-1881, undated

Waddell-Setze-McClatchey family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS842
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal correspondence and memorabilia of two families of two different time periods. The Waddells are the contributors of the Civil War period correspondence which demonstrate in great detail the conditions of the lives of those left at home and of the needs of the soldiers. These letters also demonstrate the role of an officer and the ability to have his wife follow his movements. The later correspondence and personal records were contributed by the Setze...
Dates: 1855-1966, undated

Wallace Putnam Reed papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS280f
Scope and Content

This collection contains research papers by Reed on electricity in Atlanta and the first gun fired in the Civil War in Atlanta. The collection also includes a letter to Reed about the history of the West End neighborhood and a sketch of Confederate General Wade Hampton.

Dates: approximately 1890

Walraven family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS820
Scope and Content

This collection contains various papers including tax receipts and bills for Cobb County, Fulton County, City of Austell, and City of Atlanta. Also included are correspondence, graduation, invitations, and programs documenting the activities of the Walraven family.

Dates: 1850-1954, undated

Walter Gerald Cooper papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS498f
Scope and Content

This collection contains genealogical information on Cooper and his family, and documents surrounding the history of Fulton County.

Dates: 1934-1938, undated

Walter H. Grant scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS96
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Rose Grant, wife of Walter H. Grant. It contains clippings regarding notable Atlanta citizens and adoption papers of their daughter, Louise.

Dates: 1915-1925

Walter McElreath Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS154
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, manuscripts, handwritten notes, and pamphlets. The bulk of the collection contains McElreath's writings; research; rough drafts; a play for the Atlanta Centennial celebration; manuscripts of books and articles; and newspaper notices about his publications. Also included are notes and articles about Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw. Newspaper clippings cover topics such as the Atlanta Centennial in 1948; the...
Dates: 1879-1963, undated

Walter S. Burns civil war correspondence

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Collection number: ahc.MSS603f
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains 11 letters from Walter S. Burns to his parents living in Findlay, Ohio. He writes about living conditions in the army camps, the needs of a soldier, his business matters at home, and news such as deaths of friends and family. Burns’ letters begin in Nashville, Tennessee in 1862 and continue through 1864 from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Ringgold and Atlanta, Georgia. He records fighting outside of Atlanta and the shelling of the city in his letter written on August 20,...
Dates: 1862 – 1864

Walter T. Downing letter and travel article

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Collection number: ahc.MSS689f
Scope and Content This collection contains two textual items related to the design of the Fine Arts Building for the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. The first is a two-page letter from Horace Bradley, head of the Fine Arts Department at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, to Walter T. Downing praising his design work on the Fine Arts Building. The second item is a page from a montly society and travel newspaper, The Chicago 400, with a picture of the Fine...
Dates: 1895, undated

Warren Woodliff documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS642f
Scope and Content

The Warren Woodliff papers include a description of Cumming (Forsyth County), Georgia and an appointment of Warren Woodliff as overseer of the public road.

Dates: 1872-1875

Washington Seminary records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS28
Scope and Content

These papers consist of catalogues (organized chronologically), invitations, programs, newspaper clippings, Memories, and a history of Washington Seminary.

Dates: 1878-1978

Wayt family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS736
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, a business card, handwritten notes, school work, and church materials. Correspondence involves letters and newspaper clippings exchanged between family members. Many of the letters are to John Augustus Wayt while attending school and in the military (1914-1920). The business card belonged to John Chiles for his building materials business. School work includes John Augustus' class notes in chemistry and engineering; notes and lists include printed...
Dates: 1914-1920

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