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Julius Frank Beck Business Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS25f
Scope and Content
The documents in this collection pertain to companies owned by Julius Beck; the Troy Steam Laundry Company and the Beck Steam Laundry Company. This collection includes: J. Frank Beck’s stock certificates; articles of agreement for building the Troy Steam Laundry; contract signed by George E. Murphy and William H. Venable in which they agree to construct the Troy Steam Laundry building on Houston Street; account balance for work on laundry building signed by Walter T. Downing; accounting...
Dates:
1889, 1897
Julius G. Brown collection of poems
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS42f
Scope and Content
This collection contains poems with a connection to the Civil War. The poems were cut from newspapers. Poems include Yankee Doodle's Ride to Richmond, Now and Then, The South's Call to Arms, and God Save the South.
Dates:
1861
Julius L. Brown papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS42
Scope and Content
These paperse include documents from several court cases, and records of the Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and Investment Company. Other material includes scrapbooks about the Brown family.
Dates:
1861-1908
Junior Flower Show Association scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS414
Scope and Content
This collection contains three scrapbooks that provide details of the social activities and flower shows of the association.
Dates:
1948-1956
Junior League of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS347
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of the records of the Junior League of Atlanta. Included in the collection are scrapbooks, yearbooks, minutes, and annual reports as well as programs from events sponsored by the League. Of particular interest is the scrapbook about the Gone With the Wind Ball.
Dates:
1917-1989
Junius Hillyer memoirs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS156f
Scope and Content
This collection contains the memoirs of Junius Hillyer, a political leader and judge. In his memoirs titled Memoirs of the Early Life and Times of Judge Junius Hillyer he describes his family genealogy; his boyhood and schooling, including his years at the University of Georgia, and growing up in Georgia. He also records his opinions on slavery. He believed that slavery "is the normal condition of the negro race." He talks about the customs of his times and the...
Dates:
1937
J.W. Speir Civil War letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS332f
Scope and Content
This collection contains transcriptions of letters from Confederate soldier J.W. Speir to his wife. He writes about camp conditions, fighting around Atlanta, hospital conditions, and their children.
Dates:
1864
Karl A. Bevins scrapbooks of the Traffic Engineering Department of Atlanta
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS807
Scope and Content
These scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings and pamphlets on traffic problems and Bevin's activities as City Traffic Engineer for the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1949-1978
Karl Allquist diary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS842f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a diary kept by Karl Allquist during the final years of his life in which he recorded his dreams, emotions, and his struggle with HIV. He wrote about the decision to tell his family and friends of the diagnosis, growing tensions between him and his partner, plans to go to Key West, and doctors' visits. He also documents the presence of HIV/AIDS in the media, treatments he received, and developing Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
Dates:
1989-1991
Kate Helen Suber Thompson scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1145
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook created by Kate Thompson with materials from the Beta Chapter of the Delphian Society in Atlanta and Thompson’s daughter, Katherine. Materials include chapter documents and correspondence, as well as documents and newspaper clippings about Katherine’s education, particularly at Girls High School in Atlanta. In addition, this collection contains newspaper clippings of literary excerpts, news stories, and short pieces on motherhood. Of special note is a...
Dates:
1869-1988, undated
Kate Hester Robson autobiographical manuscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS291f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a 1912 autobiography of Kate Hester Robson, who lived in Atlanta from 1859 until her death in 1914. Robson writes about her moving to Atlanta in 1859 where her family lived in a house on the corner of Marietta and Spring Street. During the Civil War she made a Confederate flag and presented it to General Gordon's first company. Her husband managed the coal mines of Dade County, Georgia, until the approach of Union forces in 1864. She made uniforms for soldiers and...
Dates:
1912
Kate Lee Harralson sheet music collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS141f
Scope and Content
This collection contains sheet music for the song Cherokee Rose of Georgia by Kate Harralson, who was head of music for the Atlanta Public Schools. Harralson Avenue was named after her.
Dates:
1909-1919
Kate Thompson photograph collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS21
Scope and Content
This collection documents the lives of several members of the Thompson, Glover, Meriwether, and Jordan families of Madison, Georgia. Also included are photographs of individuals, probably friends and family members, many of whom are unidentified. The remaining images document buildings and houses in middle Georgia and include a scrapbook documenting land auctions sponsored by the Bowman Land Company, based in Charleston, West Virginia.
Dates:
1850-1965; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1920
Katharine Hinton Wootten scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS330
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of four scrapbooks that contain cards, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The majority of the materials pertain to Atlanta events.
Dates:
1884-1917, undated
Katherine "Kate" Flournoy Edwards papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS490
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, diaries, awards, guest books, and materials written by Katherine Flournoy Edwards.
Dates:
1877-1980, undated
Kathleen A. Clayton Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS220
Scope and Content
The Kathleen A. Clayton papers, bulk 1930-1935, consist of school newspapers and albums of assembled invitations, newspapers clippings, postcards, programs, and ticket stubs primarily related to Joseph E. Brown Junior High School and Girls High School in Atlanta. Performances and events at Agnes Scott College and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church also are documented from the same time period. Other materials in the collection include a 1953 broadside, “The Lord’s Prayer,” and a souvenir card...
Dates:
1893-1935
Kathleen Clayton interview transcription
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS313f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a transcription of an audio interview of Kathleen Clayton about the Inman family and Swan House in Atlanta, Georgia. The transcription is of an audio cassette tape identified as CT 498.
Dates:
1993
Kathleen Moon Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS129
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of images of schools, churches, farms, homes, public buildings, town squares, railroads, industrial facilities, cemeteries, rivers, stores, parks, community centers, and entertainment venues in Fulton County. The photographs were taken in the cities and towns of Alpharetta, Atlanta, Ben Hill, Cascade Heights, Campbellton, Cedar Grove, College Park, Crabapple, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Hopewell, Newtown, Ocee, Palmetto, Red Oak, Rico, Roswell, Sandtown,...
Dates:
1951-1954, undated
Kathryn T. Clark research paper
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS413f
Scope and Content
This research paper is entitled "First Methodist Church" and was written by Kathryn T. Clark, a student at Georgia State University. The church building was designed by Willis Franklin Denny II. The paper describes the architecture of the church and some of its history.
Dates:
1973
Kathryn W. Kemp photographs of the Little Five Points neighborhood
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS476
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs taken by Kathryn W. Kemp of the Little Five Points neighborhood in 1986, primarily of businesses on Euclid and Moreland Avenues. Businesses featured include the Little Five Points Pawn Shop, Major Furniture Company, Junkman’s Daughter, Wax ‘N’ Facts record store, the Eighteen Ninety Lighting Company, Sevanada Natural Foods Market, the Academy office building, and the Little Five Points Community Pub. Also included are images of the Little Five Points...
Dates:
1986
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- Young, Andrew, 1932- 14
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- Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 11
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- First National Bank of Atlanta 11
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- Junior League of Atlanta 11
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- Atlanta Music Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 10
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 10
- Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Massell, Sam 10
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 10
- Washington Seminary (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 9
- American Red Cross 9
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- Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 9
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- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 9
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- Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
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- Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 8
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- Jones family 8
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- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 8
- Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 8
- League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 8
- Olympic Games. (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Trust Company of Georgia 8
- Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
- Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
- Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Atlanta Journal (Firm) 7
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