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Ella May Powell scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS467f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook and scrapbook fragments. Materials collected in the scrapbook include poetry, newspaper clippings, speeches, DeGive's Opera House programs, an 1885 edition of the Sunny South, and documentation about the life of Powell's father, Fielding Travis Powell. Of particular note are documents on Powell's advocacy of Confederate Monuments and the suffragist movement, two medicine recipes, and an image of the Georgia College of...
Dates:
1847-1962, undated
Ellet, Cabell, and Hopkins families photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS29
Scope and Content
This collection consists of portraits of members of the Ellet, Cabell, and Hopkins families. The portrait of Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell (VIS 29.8) was produced by Marcus Aurelius Root (1808-1888), a well-known daguerreian, who worked primarily in Philadelphia and New York. Some of the albumen cards were produced by Linnie Condon, a late nineteenth century female photographer working in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1880, undated
Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS814f
Scope and Content
This collection contains Emily Jane Winkler Bealer's diary in which she reflects on domestic life as an impoverished widow during Reconstruction in Atlanta. Topics include raising and educating her children, financial and business affairs, and social and church life. The collection also includes a typed transcript and biographical notes written by Bealer's great-granddaughter, Emily Bealer Calhoun II. These notes contain research on people and businesses referenced in the diary.
Dates:
1876-1886, approximately 1975
Emma Jacqueline Slade Prescott booklets
Collection
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 papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS86
Scope and Content
Material related to the Eberhart family, including a scrapbook of late 19th Century advertisements, cards and magazine clippings, and one of newspaper clippings (which includes a history of Grady Hospital); and numerous items relating to apartment rental in Atlanta.Material related to the Eberhart family, including a scrapbook of late 19th Century advertisements, cards and magazine clippings, and one of newspaper clippings (which includes a history of Grady Hospital); and numerous items...
Dates:
1856-1970, undated
Fed R. Thomas bridge construction scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1260
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a scrapbook that documents Fed R. Thomas’ engineering career with the City of Atlanta. The scrapbook includes bridge construction proposals, architectural specifications, and blueprints of bridges. Proposals include Peachtree Creek Bridge and Forsyth Street Bridge and detail bridge length, materials, and weight capacity alongside correlating city regulations. Of particular note is a copy of Atlanta Mayor James Calhoun's (1811-1875) recollection of the city’s...
Dates:
1885-1980
Finley Family papers
Collection
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
Florence Bryan Ansley family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS246
Scope and Content
This collection consists of family photographs of Mrs. Bonneau Ansley (Florence Bryan). Included are images of her parents Judge and Mrs. Shepard Bryan; great-grandmother Sally Addison Cobb Jackson (1847-1915); mother-in-law Florence King Jackson; and Sister Mary Bryan Benedict. Most of the images in the collection are informal photographs of family members taken in the home of Florence Bryan. Of special note is a photo of Florence Bryan and Judge Shepard Bryan standing before a plaque...
Dates:
approximately 1880 - 1958
Frances A. Pici visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS418
Scope and Contents
This collection contains color slides and videos of LGBTQ+ activist events, performances, and sports. Included are images of two Atlanta lesbian softball teams, the Lorlei Ladies and the Tower Hotshots, as well as materials related to the Red Dyke Theatre and Lucina's Music performance venues. Also included are two activist events related to the Equal Rights Amendment (labeled as a picnic) and a gay rights march, both in Atlanta, Georgia. The videos depict performances by members of the Red...
Dates:
approximately 1975-1990
Francis DeGress Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS998
Scope and Content
The collection primarily contains materials pertaining to the activities of Captain Francis DeGress during and after the Civil War. Some of the documents include personal accounts of battle activities by Captain DeGress, field reports, military certificates, correspondence, official records of DeGress' Battery, and ledgers documenting clothing accounts for soldiers under his command. Of special interest is a letter from Theodore Davis to Mrs. Francis DeGress describing Captain DeGress'...
Dates:
1862-1917, undated
Francis DeGress Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS195
Scope and Content
The collection contains five photographs of Francis DeGress. Most are portrait shots with the exception of one which is a group shot of eight gentlemen in uniform.
Dates:
1864, undated
Francis Lawton Mobley Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1008
Scope and Content
The bulk of the collection is a series of letters from Lt. Francis Lawton Mobley to his wife, Rhoda Gaskins Mobley during his time of service in the Civil War. Lt. Mobley illustrates daily camp life for his wife and reports on his general health and well-being. In most letters he reports his current location and the various ailments afflicting the men in his regiment. The most common ailments mentioned were "Brain" fever, chills, measles, mumps, and diarrhea as well as battle field...
Dates:
1861-1916, undated; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1862
Gardens and cultural landscapes of Black America visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS400
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs, postcards, stereographs, and slides that document Black American residential gardens, cultural landscapes, and farms, in both urban and rural areas. Also a part of the collection are photographs and postcards of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Southeast. These images provide details such as garden and campus design, plant choices, farming methods, and land use as well as social and economic conditions in Black communities....
Dates:
approximately 1880-2021, undated
George Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS453
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 22 prints of Barnard’s photographs as he traveled with General Sherman's United States Army. Battlegrounds featured in the collection include Kennesaw, Atlanta, Resaca, Allatoona, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The prints were included in a larger collection published in Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign.
Dates:
1864
George Hewitt Daniel civil war correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS85f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains five letters written by George Hewitt Daniel to his daughters, Emmaret and Virginia. These letters were written between January 24, 1862 and July 3, 1864 both before and during Daniel’s service in the 8th Georgia Infantry (St. Guards) Company I. Adj. The first letter in the collection was written prior to Daniel’s enlistment and includes details on his visit to the battlefield during the battle of Chickasaw Bayou2. With this letter he also includes a copy of the...
Dates:
1862-1864
George Mason Coleman scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1233
Scope and Contents
This collection contains scrapbooks that document George Mason Coleman’s career as a journalist in Atlanta. The bulk of the material is newspaper clippings of his work at Atlanta Daily World including cartoons, poems, articles, and photographs about the Civil Rights Movement, the African American community in Atlanta, legal affairs, and race relations. In addition, there is a scrapbook of correspondence from corporations and individuals praising his work as...
Dates:
1947-2006, undated
Georgia Chamber of Commerce collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS436
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of travel information pertaining to various cities throughout Georgia. Travel materials include books, pamphlets, postcards, tour maps, correspondence, and press releases. There are also organizational materials such as periodicals, publications, and special event programs.
Dates:
1957-1978, undated
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
Hastings Family Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS174
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection contains portraits of H. G. Hastings and Pearl M. Freeborn Hastings. A group photograph of a United States delegation to Mexico includes H. G. Hastings, Pearl M. Freeborn Hastings and their three sons. Louise Brown Hastings appears in a group photograph of the 1961 Women of the Year. A photograph documenting an autographing event for The Southern Garden Book features Louise Brown Hastings, Donald M. Hastings, Sr. and their daughter, Mary...
Dates:
ca. 1905-1961, undated
Hayden family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1183
Scope and Content
This collection contains scrapbooks from Julius Hayden and Evelyn Whitner, Julius' granddaughter. Julius' scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the presidential election of 1860 as well as the first year of the American Civil War. Evelyn's scrapbook contains image clippings mostly of women, children, and animals. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1861-1946, undated
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