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Emily Bourne Grigsby visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS391
Scope and Contents This collection contains images of Emily Bourne Grigsby's career as an opera singer and model, as well as her time as president of the Atlanta Music Club. Included are production stills from The Tales of Hoffman and Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, and images from the Moonlight Opera Company in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also photographs of Grigsby modeling at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia; on top of Stone Mountain; for an...
Dates: 1940-2004, undated

Emma E. Latimer scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS291
Scope and Content

This collection contains a partial scrapbook pertaining to the Latimer family. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, class rosters, and receipts.

Dates: 1867-1932

Emma Jacqueline Slade Prescott booklets

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Collection number: ahc.MSS277f
Scope and Content This collection consists of two booklets entitled "Stories of the War" and "Reminiscences of the War." In these documents Prescott wrote about "yankees" torturing a man in order to discover where his money was hidden; and how her husband was called to war in 1862 and later how he faced down thirty armed deserters who planned to kill him. She also writes about how she hid valuables from "yankee" raids; an occasion when the "yankees" broke into her home and threatened her at gunpoint; the...
Dates: 1922-1924

Emma Lou Cole photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS233
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Eberhardt family, families associated with the Eberhardts, and businesses in Atlanta, Georgia, including R.P. and J.G. Eberhardt and Company and T.L. Eberhardt Coal Company. Many of these photographs were taken by Atlanta-based photographer Linnie Condon.

Dates: 1880-1928, undated

Emmet Bondurant papers of the Atlanta Charter Commission

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1169
Scope and Content This collection includes legal records, meeting minutes, correspondence, news articles, organizational charts, draft charters, district maps, consultants' proposals, research reports, and a resolution of commendation given to Emmet Bondurant. Committee minutes and correspondence document the commission's work in creating the new charter throughout its various stages of development. The collection also documents feedback the commission received from city planners and from the public through...
Dates: 1925-1973, undated; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1973

Episcopal Church, Diocese of Atlanta collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS444
Scope and Content

This collection contains church journals.

Dates: 1928-1945

Erna Lee Mason papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1234
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an unbound scrapbook and records collected by Erna Lee Mason about her farm and the Mason family. The scrapbook includes photographs, deeds, correspondence, brochures, and ephemera. Farm records document maintenance and finances, such as acreage reports to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and tree upkeep. The collection also includes newspaper clippings about the Spanish-American War, Glover Cleveland’s presidency, and President Roosevelt’s economic policies.

Dates: 1878-1985, undated

Ernest W. Sills Tullie Smith House photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS338
Scope and Content

This collection contains images taken of the Tullie Smith House in its original location at 2890 North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia.

Dates: approximately 1940

Esther Garrett Wynne papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS796
Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal papers of Esther Garrett Wynne, including correspondence with her brother, Franklin Garrett. Other documents are invitations, newspaper clippings, correspondence with others, memorabilia, and garden club yearbooks. There are also eight scrapbooks, which highlight Mrs. Wynne's activities throughout her life, including her first marriage, her time in the Red Cross, travels, and her social activities.

Dates: 1926-1972, undated

Ethel Taylor Snipes scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS321f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Ethel Taylor Snipes at Girls High School. Included are autographs of those attending the 50th class reunion in 1972. Also included are photos, clippings, programs, an official list of textbooks, Red Cross certificates, and report cards.

Dates: 1922-1925

Evans family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS36
Scope and Content The collection of photographs consists of images documenting the life of William R. Evans and Alva C. Evans’ family in Atlanta. The images include portrait photographs of their family and friends; however, most of the images are studio portraits of unidentified people. Twelve photographs include William and Alva Evans at their family home, work, and in studio portraits. Also included is a small scrapbook with unidentified photographs. Most of the images in the scrapbook are of Alva Evans,...
Dates: approximately 1920-1970, undated

Everhart family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS82
Scope and Content This collection consists of photocopies of art by Adelaide Everhart, family bibles, books, bookplates, brochures, certificates, clippings, correspondence, employment assignments, employment records, genealogy, government records, house records, memos, a receipt, patent records, military records, and school materials. There are four books, including one unpublished work displaying Lucile Bell's interior designs. One published journal contains an essay written by George Everhart in 1950 about...
Dates: 1860-2004, undated

Exposition Cotton Mills Employee Newspapers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1009
Scope and Content The collection consists of issues ofThe Exposition, a newspaper published for the employees of the Exposition Cotton Mills. The newspaper, published semi-monthly, printed primarily information pertaining to the mill and its employees. Some issues included advertisements for the mill store and beauty shop as well as leisure activities organized by the mill. Most issues printed photographs of mill employees and their families and mill sponsored events. A...
Dates: 1919-1957; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1942

Fanning-Smalley family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS88
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and items relating to the lives of John C. Fanning and Ella Smalley Fanning. The majority of correspondence prior to 1900 was sent to Ella Smalley and relates to her education. She received numerous correspondence from J.H. Ware, Principal of Williams Creek Academy in Norwood, Georgia.

Dates: 1871-1940, undated; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1909

Fanny Clarke letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS536f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter that contains a marriage proposal to Miss Fanny Clarke from an individual identified only as "Frank" written on April 2, 1845 in Augusta, Georgia.

Dates: 1845

Fine Arts Forum scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS800
Scope and Content

This collection consists of two scrapbooks covering the period 1949-1981. The scrapbooks contain photographs, notices, and yearbooks documenting the activities of the Fine Arts Forum.

Dates: 1949-1981

Finley Family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS853
Scope and Content This collection is divided into two series. Series I is primarily correspondance, both business and personal, spanning from the 1770s into the 1880s. Included are indentures, land grants, surveys, store accounts, a scrapbook and a funeral notice. Series II is from the twentieth century and is the collected mementos of Robert S, Lowrence from Atlanta, Georgia. Included are scrapbooks, photograph albums, diplomas, certificates, correspondence, church bulletins, music programs,...
Dates: 1778-1992

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1124
Scope and Content

This collection includes newsletters, brochures, and handbooks of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, documenting its ministry and membership. The handbooks list outreach programs as well as its organizational structure. The collection also includes annual reports detailing the church's activities throughout the year and bulletins that detail celebrations for the church's 150th anniversary.

Dates: 1977-2001, undated

Fitzhugh Knox, Sr. papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS201f
Scope and Content This collection contains one bound volume. Inside are two letters to Miss Ruth Blair, the Executive Secretary of the Atlanta Historical Society, dated March 11, 1938 and March 18, 1938, both from Fitzhugh Knox, Sr. Also included is a short manuscript titled “My Reminiscences From 1883”. The first part of the manuscript is a memoir which mentions many prominent citizens, such as Joel Chandler Harris, Carroll Payne, and Henry W. Grady; businesses, like the Merchants Bank of Atlanta, J....
Dates: 1938

Ford Motor Company photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS457
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of automobiles manufactured by Ford Motor Company between 1896 and 1955. In addition, there are photographs of Ford backhoe models and Philco-Ford Corporation’s Space and Re-Entry Systems Division with attached press releases. Also included are portraits of Ford Motor Company executives. Of special note is a conceptual plan of the Atlanta Assembly Plant at Hapeville and a photograph of Henry and Clara Bryant Ford (1866-1950) seated in the first Ford...
Dates: 1941-2005, undated

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