DeGive family photographs
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of the DeGive family of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are portraits of family members, and scrapbooks made by Henry Leon DeGive Jr. containing photographs of family and personal travels, as well as university life. The collection also includes photographs of the family's theaters, the DeGive's Opera House (corner of Forsyth and Marietta Streets) and DeGive's Grand Opera House (157 Peachtree Street).
Dates
- 1925-1965, undated
Creator
- Kuhns Photographic Studio (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
- Hatcher, Thurston (Person)
- Kecskemethy, Tibor (Person)
- DeGive, Henry Leon, 1832-1882 (Person)
- Gaspar-Ware Photographers, Inc. (Organization)
- Edwards & Son (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
Biographical / Historical
Henry Louis DeGive (1868-1948) was born in West Virginia to Laurent M. J. DeGive (1828-1910) and Marie Eleonore Pauline Bemelmans (1834-1912). Laurent DeGive was the owner and operator of DeGive’s Opera House (later the Bijou Theater) and DeGive’s Grand Opera House (later Loew’s Grand Theater) in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as the Belgian consul for the city. Henry Louis received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Renneslaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1888 and a master's degree in mining, metallurgy and chemistry at Columbia School of Mines in New York City. He returned to Atlanta after graduating and managed a chemical laboratory on the third floor of his father's opera house building. After the death of his brother, Paul (1867-1894), he took over managing the family's theaters. He married Katherine Ransford (1876-1958), daughter of Henry Edward Ransford (1832-1882) and Agnes Fitzgerald (1849-1881), of Clayton County, Georgia. The couple had five children: Pauline DeGive Wellborn (1904-1991), Henry Leon DeGive (1907-2001), Laurent DeGive (1908-2001), Paul DeGive (1910-2001), and Louis DeGive (1916-2010).
Extent
285 image(s) (one scrapbook containing 205 black and white photographic prints, one scrapbook containing 53 black and white photographic prints, 16 black and white photographic prints, six black and white negatives, three color negatives, one print, and one tintype)
Language
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by titles supplied by staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2015
Bias in Description
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Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2024.
- Title
- DeGive family photographs
- Subtitle
- ahc.VIS509
- Author
- Catherine Amos
- Date
- June 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository