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Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1161
Scope and Content This collection contains documents from Marie Dodd’s personal life as well as from her time working at the Ivan Allen Company. Business material includes a Fielder and Allen Co. catalogue, an Ivan Allen-Marshall Co. catalogue, the “Road to 100,000” incentive packet, company font and logo templates, and pricing manuals. There are also documents about Ivan Allen Jr., his accomplishments, and awards he received during his years as mayor of Atlanta and afterward. This collection also contains a...
Dates: 1900-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Marie Dodd Ivan Allen family collection

Marion Johnson photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates: 1938-1975
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Marion Johnson photographs

Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions

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Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.

Dates: 1895-1905
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions

Martin Padgett visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS416
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials used by Martin Padgett in research for his book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution. Items include photos of staff and drag performers, primarily John Greenwell (1950- ) as Rachel Wells, at Sweet Gum Head, a prominent drag and gay bar at 2284 Cheshire Bridge Rd. NE, Atlanta, Georgia, from 1971 to 1981; a poster promoting the Phoenix Affair II, a charity show...
Dates: 1972-1983
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Martin Padgett visual arts materials

Martin Stupich Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS115
Scope and Contents of the Records The photographs in this collection were created during two survey grants sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The images in the first grant documented the development of Atlanta’s rapid transit system (MARTA) from 1977- 1978, and photographs from the second grant (1979-1981) illustrate Atlanta’s role as a center of transportation. The photographs from the first NEA project depict downtown Atlanta prior to the construction of MARTA, employees involved in the creation of...
Dates: 1955 – 1981, bulk 1977-1981
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Martin Stupich Photographs

Mary Connally Spalding papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS46
Scope and Content

These papers consist of scrapbooks, financial records, newspaper clippings, genalogy material, scholarly articles, and correspondence of Mary Connally Spalding and her family.

Dates: 1867-1967, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Connally Spalding papers

Mary Cooper collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS272
Scope and Content

This collection contains one lineage book prepared by Sally Eugenia Brown for Mary Pope Cooper.

Dates: 1905
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Cooper collection

Mary H. Blanchard Examination Booklet and Memorium

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Collection number: ahc.MSS34f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a booklet of Mary Blanchard’s term examinations from 1876 to 1877 from Girls High School. The term examinations cover a variety of topics including: Geometry; English Literature, French, Latin and Chemistry. Also included is a booklet titled In Memoriam. In Memoriam is a tribute to the memory of Mary Blanchard written by the Browning Society at Girls High School and read on September 10, 1877. It includes condolences to her family and a poem about her life....
Dates: 1876-1877
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary H. Blanchard Examination Booklet and Memorium

Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.

Dates: 1993
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript

Mary Margaret Carr records from the Child Service and Family Counseling Center

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1259
Scope and Contents This collection contains records that Mary Margaret Carr collected during her tenure as executive director of the Child Service and Family Counseling Center. It documents the history and management of the organization as well as some of its programs and initiatives, such as the DeKalb County Task Force on Teenage Pregnancy, the Employee Assistant Program, and Maternity Homes. Record types represented include meeting agendas, project planning documents, conference materials, memos and...
Dates: 1956-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Margaret Carr records from the Child Service and Family Counseling Center

Mary Mimms oral history transcription

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Collection number: ahc.MSS365f
Scope and Content

This interview is largely about Ms. Mimms' recollections of the Inman family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. The cassette tape of interview is filed at CT-492.

Dates: 1990
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Mimms oral history transcription

Mary Shelton Felt papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS265
Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection is education related materials. Some examples include memory books, compositions books, and progress reports.

Dates: 1920-1934
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary Shelton Felt papers

Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates: 1947-1949
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays

Meredith Zara photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS61
Scope and Content

This collection contains two prints depicting unidentified African American laborers involved in construction work on Alabama Street, between Pryor Street and Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. The other image is of the exterior of the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is now Ford Motor Lofts.

Dates: 1900-1930
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Meredith Zara photographs

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1077
Scope and Content This collection contains business documents generated and collected by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The bulk of the material is meeting minutes created by the Chamber and its various councils. There are also publications of the Chamber, administrative and institutional records, and various documents describing the establishment of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), airports in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission. Material...
Dates: 1883-2012, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates: 1922-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials

Midtown Historic District photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS265
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of images of the historic Midtown area in Atlanta, Georgia. The photographs were taken for draft nomination on the National Register of Historic Places for Midtown. Included are photos of churches, Henry Grady High School, stores and businesses, street scapes, apartments, and homes in the Midtown area. Types of homes photographed vary among bungalows, duplexes, row houses, carriage houses, alley dwellings, and cottages. Of special interest are photographs of the...
Dates: 1997
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Midtown Historic District photographs

Mildred Calhoun Wick manuscript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS835
Scope and Content

This collection contains a manuscript titled "Living with Love, 1896-1985: An Autobiography by Mildred Calhoun Wick (Great Granddaughter of John C. Calhoun)." The manuscript was published under the title Living with Love in 1986 by Serendipity Press.

Dates: 1986
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mildred Calhoun Wick manuscript

MIldred Inman Bryant interview transcription

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Collection number: ahc.MSS399f
Scope and Content

This collection contains the transccription of an oral history regarding the Inman family and the Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1993
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / MIldred Inman Bryant interview transcription

Mildred Traver Coggin papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS65f
Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertisements and other ephemera of Mildred Traver Coggin (1888-1979).

Dates: 1890-1957
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mildred Traver Coggin papers

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