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Barrie Naismith Jeffcoat vs. Professional Golfers' Association of America court records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1250
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the official legal records of the lawsuit Barrie Naismith vs. Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA). Included are affidavits, correspondence, depositions, drafts, legal research, pleadings, and PGA-published material. This collection documents the discrimination Barrie Naismith Jeffcoat faced as a female athlete who was not allowed to become a member of the PGA until pursuing legal action. She was represented by R. Lawrence Ashe (1940- ), a civil rights...
Dates:
1974-1981, undated
Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1023
Scope and Content
The collection is primarily comprised of materials generated to promote the painting and solicit attendance. Also included is correspondence and invitations to special events hosted at the Atlanta Cyclorama site. There are other materials related to reports generated in advance of the restoration project and rededication of the painting and presentations in relation to interpretation at the site.
Dates:
1886-1980, undated
Benjamin T. Hunter papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS179f
Scope and Content
This collection contains Benjamin T. Hunter's diary, in which he wrote extensively about the weather, his school, hunting, Civil War battles, drilling and camp life with the local militia, the cost of items he had purchased, and various activities he pursued in his workshop. Also included are military documents in which Hunter is ordered to arrest deserters. There are letters from J. DeWitt Burkhead regarding a teaching position in Athens, Georgia. The collection also contains papers...
Dates:
1861-1869
Benning family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS60
Scope and Content
These papers consist of correspondence between various members of the Benning family, personal documents, genealogy of the Benning family, and business papers from Hong Kong, New York and Atlanta.
Dates:
1862-1963, undated
Benning family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS343
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of the Benning family and the construction of the English-American (Flatiron) Building in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1893-1961, undated
Berry family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1024
Scope and Content
This collection contains articles, certificates, correspondence, deeds, a ledger, military records, and school assignments. The majority of the records consist of deeds dated 1832-1887 of properties purchased by John Marshall Berry in Rome, Georgia. Included are deeds for one half of a commercial lot bought by Charles H. Smith, former mayor of Rome, Georgia, and one for 22 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. There is a merchant ledger dated 1864-1869 perhaps belonging to John Marshall Berry...
Dates:
1832-1965, undated
Black and White Men Together records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS903
Scope and Content
The collection consists of: a full set of monthly BWMT/Atlanta newsletters; newsletters of the National Association of Black and White Men Together and of affiliated chapters from around the country; papers regarding steering committee business and special projects undertaken by BWMT/Atlanta; convention materials, reports and correspondence generated by the National Association and its regional conferences; miscellaneous flyers, brochures, and publications from outside organizations involved...
Dates:
1982-1996
Bomar-Killian family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS287
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of members of the Bomar and Killian family and their close friends. It also contains images of Atlanta street scenes from the early 19th and mid 20th centuries.
Dates:
1846-1921, undated
C. Mortimer Mason papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1054
Scope and Content
The bulk of the personal papers of C. Mortimer Mason pertain to a cotton claim owned by the descendants of Thomas J. and Richard R. Holmes of Hinds County, Mississippi. The collection also contains geneological research materials gathered by Newel Mason to show lineage for entry into the Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Colonial Dames. Lastly, there is a small amount of personal letters, newspaper clipping, and legal certificates and...
Dates:
1891-1960, undated
C. W. Motes photographs and drawing
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS436
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several photographs taken by Columbus Washington "C. W." Motes, as well as portraits of Motes. Additional photographs include his wife, Emma F. White, and their two daughters: Mary Motes Delbridge and Eva Motes. The collection also includes photographs, presumably of his clients, images of titled sculptures, a drawing by C. W. Motes, and a color cased image of his daughter, Mary. Of special note is an ambrotype of Motes during his time as a Confederate soldier in the...
Dates:
approximately 1862-1900, undated
Captain Evan P. Howell Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS169f
Scope and Content
This collection contains transcriptions and photostats of two Civil War letters written in Atlanta, Georgia by Captain Evan P. Howell to his wife. The first letter, written on July 28, 1864, states that there is light fighting during the day and Yankee attacks on the city each night. He also informs her that one of his grandfather’s slaves has joined him and is now taking care of him. The next letter, written on August 4, 1864, discusses the heavy fire he is experiencing, his health, and the...
Dates:
1864
Captain Francis L. and Elizabeth P. Edmondson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1109
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents that provide professional and personal details about Captain Francis and Elizabeth Edmondson and the Edmondson family. Material includes United States Navy correspondence and publications documenting Edmondson's navy career. Personal interests of Francis and Elizabeth are illustrated through Civil War history clippings, publications from civic organizations, and Cyclorama Restoration, Inc. correspondence. Also a part of the collection are Elizabeth...
Dates:
1878-2008, undated
Captain James Robert McMichael Civil War diary and letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS234f
Scope and Content
This collection includes a typed transcription of a diary of Captain James Robert McMichael written while a prisoner-of-war. The collection also contains typed transcriptions of letters received while in prison at Fort Delaware, names of units of fellow prisoners, and their signatures, a poem by Captain Jas. R. McCallum of Knoxville, Tennessee; and a tally of Confederate officers sent from Fort Delaware on board the USS Crescent to Morris Island.
Dates:
1864-1865
Captain Joseph E. Brown Connally Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS71F
Scope and Content
This collection consists of newspaper clippings, letters, notes and other ephemera pertaining to the life and death of Joseph Brown Connally. The collection includes a letter notifying Connally of his election to the Governor’s Horse Guard in 1897, his commission certificate from the Georgia State Troops in 1902, special orders from the National Guard in 1913 and from Fort McPherson in 1917. It also contains notes and poems written about the life of Joseph Brown Connally, after his death in...
Dates:
1897-1921
Charles F. Rice Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS307
Scope and Content
This collection consists of two scrapbooks kept by Charles F. Rice from 1893-1912. Topics in the books include national and international politicians, world's fairs and expositions, and elections. Information on elections includes newspaper articles from the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal about local and state-wide Democratic and Republican elections from 1902-1906. Images and printed biographies of...
Dates:
1893-1912
Charles J. Hayden photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS346
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of an army encampment or reunion (memorial) at Chickamauga which includes images of cavalry camps and tents. Photographs also depict monuments to Wisconsin cavalry and Tennessee cavalry units. Of note are images of African American regiments.
Dates:
1898, undated
Charles Stevens papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1147
Scope and Content
This collection consists of documents pertaining to the Apollo Room, interior decoration, and LGBT activism. These documents include Apollo Room travel brochures; an issue of House and Garden; and records documenting Stevens’s donations to Jerusalem House, a non-profit that housed low-income individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Of particular note is correspondence between Stevens and the Jerusalem House about building an HIV/AIDS clinic in Midtown.
Dates:
1963-2007, undated
Civil War Round Table of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS380
Scope and Content
This collection is primarily comprised of organizational records for the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta. Included in the collection is membership applications, meeting minutes, organizational documents, chapter newsletters, and correspondence.
Dates:
1950-1995
Civil Works Administration documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS794f
Scope and Content
This collection contains six Civil Works Administration documents that pertain to Atlanta, including a report of workplace injury and a daily report sheet from a project on Bell-Hill Street, an application for approval of a project on Taylor and Simpson Streets, reports for estimated project costs, and an automobile mileage report. Of special note is the scratch work and editing on several documents, as well as the subject of the injury report being an African American male noted as...
Dates:
1934
Cochran and Love family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS17
Scope and Content
This collection documents members of the Cochran and Love families of Atlanta and Cobb County, Georgia. Portraits by three Atlanta photographers, William E. Lenney; Moses M. and William H. Gardner; and Edwards & Son (Jay D. Edwards and William M. Edwards) are included. Of particular interest is a carte-de-visite of United States Senator Alexander Stephens Clay (1853-1910). Clay was a tutor for the Love children and lived with the family for a year in Austell, Georgia.
Dates:
1861-1910, undated
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