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Leonidas William Mackey letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS215f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Leonidas William Mackey, a 1st Lieutenant in the 51st/52nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment in the Army of Tennessee, from Atlanta, Georgia, to unidentified individuals. Mackey writes that there is severe fighting on the front lines in front of Hood's and Hardee's Corps. He mentions they have lost a great many in wounded and that their army is a few miles north of the Chattahoochee river. He also lists names of acquiantances killed or...
Dates:
1864 July 5
Lesbian and Gay Pride Week proclamations
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS799f
Scope and Content
This collection contains three government-issued proclamations. The first was issued by Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, proclaiming that June 21-27, 1993 was "Lesbian and Gay Pride/Human Rights Week" in the City of Atlanta. The second was issued by Mary Davis, member of the Atlanta City Council, also proclaiming that June 21-27, 1993 was "Lesbian and Gay Pride Week" in Atlanta. She further proclaimed that June 28, 1993 was "Stonewall Anniversary Day" in the City of Atlanta. The...
Dates:
1993
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and Transgender Serial Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS991
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection contains lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) serial publications. The majority of the serials are local or regional publications and a few national publications with topics of interest pertaining to the Atlanta or Southeast LGBT community. Topics generally addressed political, social, and advocacy interests. Issues of The Advocate, Cruise, David Atlanta, ETC, and Southern Voice comprise the bulk of the collection. Cruise and David Atlanta primarily advertise arts...
Dates:
1970-2004
Lester Maddox papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1267
Scope and Contents
The collection contains records generated during Lester Maddox's time in office as governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia and his political campaigns in 1966 and 1974, subject files, booklets, correspondence, scrapbooks, and audio recordings. Campaign papers include letters of support, volunteer lists, agendas, district organization charts, and lists of contributors. Subject files include information on a 1963 grand jury investigation of the Atlanta Police Department in which Atlanta...
Dates:
1915-2003, undated
Lester Maddox Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS105
Scope and Contents of the Records
The majority of this collection is comprised of images of Lester Maddox during his tenure as governor, and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Also included are campaign events during his run for mayor of Atlanta, and governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Most of the campaign photographs were produced during his run for lieutenant governor and were taken at events in rural Georgia. There are several photographs of Maddox riding on bicycles and speaking to crowds. Many of the photographs...
Dates:
1934-2000, undated
Letcher Ogle Grice papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS923
Scope and Content
The collection contains letters written during and after World War I, mostly to his wife, but also to his family and friends. The collection also contains bank statements, receipts, army documents, newspaper clippings, letterhead, and a history of the Grice family.
Dates:
1916-1958; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1927
Lethea Turman Lochridge ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS211f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a calling card of Miss Lottie Mable; an invoice on a postcard from Hexagon Hall Poultry in South Atlanta; a newspaper clipping about Mrs. Obadiah L. Cloud; valentines made by the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lochridge; and an escort card to be presented by a man to a woman asking permission to escort her home.
Dates:
approximately 1895-1912, undated
Lethea Turman Lochridge photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS378
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of Lethea Turman Lochridge's friends and family, including her father, S.B. Turman. Of special note are photographs from the 1911 Southern International Poultry Show in Athens, Georgia, where Lethea and her siblings won an award, as well as a photograph of her Girls High School graduating class. This collection also includes a photograph taken by Edwin Lochridge Sr. of Charles and Mary Tway's residence on 212 15th Street, which neighbored the Lochridge...
Dates:
Approximately 1868-1917, undated
Letter between Frank Rowsey and Gutzon Borglum
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS295f
Scope and Content
Included is a letter between Frank Howsey and Gutzon Borglum regarding the completion of the Confederate memorial sculpture on the face of Stone Mountain.
Dates:
1938
Letter from James Ormond to Henry Ward Beecher
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS261f
Scope and Content
This typed transcription of a letter from James Ormond of Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Henry Ward Beecher is dated January 24, 1876 and is entitled "The Secret of Andersonville". The letter is a rebuttal to an article Beecher wrote in the Christian Union regarding the conditions at Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Dates:
1876
Letter to Mr. I. I. Mozley from J. Mozley
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS244f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter written in 1875 to Isiah Irwin Mozley of Douglas County, Georgia from J. Mozley containing a brief description of Toronto, Canada.
Dates:
1875
Letter to Solomon Johnson from J. M. Boring
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS186f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter from former Fulton County Coroner J. M. Boring to Solomon Johnson that contains reminicences of their time as residents of the Panthersville area of Atlanta, Georgia. He mentions names of those who were still living in the area and friends and family. He also describes the Atlanta area in terms of railroads, industrial facilities, businesses, and livestock.
Dates:
1881
Letters to Major General Andrew Jackson from J. Mc. Montgomery
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS241f
Dates:
1814
Letters to Robert Marshall Shepherd
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS677f
Scope and Content
The letters and postcards were written by Mary Hambidge to Robert Shepherd between 1948 and 1969 and reflect her interests and concerns: the effects of modernization on man and nature and the South; notions of truth and beauty; writings about Western and Eastern philosophy and religion; and dynamic symmetry. While the letters provide minimal insight into Shepherd’s life, they do address his relationship with Hannah, his wife, and work-related concerns.
Dates:
1948-1969
Levi Ballard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS750
Scope and Content
This collection contains land grants, warranty deeds, land titles, cancelled checks, and various other documents relating to land transactions and real estate in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. Also included are two tickets to President Roosevelt's Homecoming in 1935.
Dates:
1832-1935
Lewis H. Cottongim Seed Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS905f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an account book providing a history of business and personal finances of Lewis Cottongim and other family members. The book includes lists of seeds sold, income, land sales, rental payments received, records of taxes paid, and other expenses. Also a part of the collection is correspondence between Lewis and his cousin Jack Steely, a realtor in St. Petersburg, Florida, regarding property ownership. Of special interest are details of vegetable and flower seed varieties...
Dates:
1931-1963
Lida Wilson Turner scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS828
Scope and Content
This collection consists of four scrapbooks containing poetry, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and drawings.
Dates:
1925-1959, undated
Lilla Lynam Noble programs and invitations
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS254f
Scope and Content
This collection contains programs from recitals at which Lilla Lynam Noble sang. Most of the recitals occurred at Atlanta Conservatory of Music, The collection also contains recital invitations and a wedding invitation for the marriage ceremony of Lilla Lynam and Clymer Marlay Noble.
Dates:
1915-1920
LIllian Youngs Salter Franklin Delano Roosevelt inaugural collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS299f
Scope and Content
This collection contains memorabilia collected by Lillian Youngs Salter during a trip to Washington, D. C. in January 20, 1937 to witness the inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Included is an inaugural program; seat ticket for the inaugural parade; menus for inaugural dinners; two letters; three postcards; and three souvenirs.
Dates:
1937
Lin family correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS849
Scope and Content
This collection consists of seventy-two letters written among the various members of the Lin family of Atlanta and their extended relatives during the Civil War. Many of the letters are to Charles B. "Bud" Lin from his mother, Amanda M. Lin, and his three sisters: Mary Ann, Susan B., and Georgia, while he was attending the Georgia Military Institute. Common topics of the letters include the latest news of different relatives serving as soldiers, the hiring of substitutes, conscription of...
Dates:
1859-1887
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- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 10
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- Trust Company of Georgia 8
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