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Chattahoochee Brick Company convict flyers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS666f
Scope and Content
This collection includes two convict flyers. Dated January 20, 1888, the first one offers a total reward of $450 for the return of two convicts and two mules to the Chattahoochee Brick Company in Atlanta, Georgia. The convicts of the Georgia Penitentiary escaped from the Chattahoochee Brick Company’s camp on the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus (C. R. & C.) Railroad on January 19, 1888. Julius K. Ward, of Floyd County, had been sentenced to seven years for voluntary manslaughter, and...
Dates:
1888
Chattahoochee Brick Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS83
Scope and Content
The Chattahoochee Brick Company documents contain business records that show the daily operation of the company through its financial, production, legal, and management operations. Most papers date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Financial documents include cash journals, reports, record books, accounts, and ledgers. Production documents include inventories, reports, and a catalogue. Legal materials include land grands, deeds, and indentures that relate to land...
Dates:
1821-1941, undated
Cherokee County land grant
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS553f
Scope and Content
Contains a land grant to Daniel Mathrin (?) of Newton, Georgia in Cherokee County, Georgia on February 12, 1833.
Dates:
1833
Cherokee Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS650
Scope and Content
This collection contains minutes, newsletters, yearbooks, histories, and president's notebooks that document the civic and social history of the club. President's notebooks include correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, financial records, and membership information. Also a part of the collection are scrapbooks which illustrate the club's many projects including two scrapbooks devoted to the "Christmas Trees Around the World" project and a scrapbook devoted to the restoration project...
Dates:
1928-2023, undated
Cherokee Garden Club visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS370
Scope and Content
The collection contains images that detail the civic and social history of the Cherokee Garden Club. Included in the collection are photographs of the club's civic projects, flower show arrangements, and needlework. Also a part of the collection are images of club members attending the Garden Club of America Zone VIII meetings and working at fundraising events such as Potlatch and Gardener's Delight. A video and photographs of the Cherokee Garden Library document the early years of the...
Dates:
approximately 1935-2014
Cherokee Garden Library postcard collection - Please note, this collection is being digitized and currently unavailable
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS264
Scope and Content
This collection contains postcards from the Southeastern United States with the majority from Georgia. Images include gardens, landscapes, residences, street scenes, parks, cemeteries, and government buildings. Postcards represent a range of styles and formats with most being in color. Of special interest are gardens, landscapes, and street scenes that document plant materials from the early 20th century.
Dates:
approximately 1893-approximately 1990s, undated
Cherokee Garden Library print collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS248
Scope and Content
This collection contains botanical prints acquired by the Cherokee Garden Library from a variety of sources. Prints include watercolors, hand-colored lithographs, hand-colored copper engravings, and hand-colored plates from books. Some of the artwork is framed and subjects include camellias, fruit trees, ornamental plants, birds, and insects. Of special interest are rare 17th century hand-colored copper engravings by German botanist and apothecary Basilius Besler (1561-1629).
Dates:
1613-2014, undated
Chester C. Covey papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS449
Scope and Content
This collection contains biographies written by Chester C. Covey for the Rotary Club magazine.
Dates:
undated
Children of the Confederacy scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS883
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook of the Children of the Confederacy of Georgia, dated 1966. Georgia chapters covered in the scrapbook include: Centennial Chapter No. 646 (Abbeville); Margaret Mitchell Chapter No. 612 (Albany); Alfred Holt Colquitt, Jr. No. 493 (Atlanta); Julia Jackson No. 1 (Atlanta); Emma Sheppard Burns No. 175 (Clarksville); Jefferson Davis No. 587 (Fitzgerald); Tara Chapter No. 385 (Jonesboro); Dixie Lee Chapter No. 446 (Macon); Dorothy Blount Lamar (Macon);...
Dates:
1966
Children's Center of Metropolitan Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS616
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from Atlanta Child’s Home (ACH) and Child Service Association, Inc. (CSA) as well as the organization they merged to form, Children’s Center of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc. (CCMA). There is also material from associated organizations such as Community Chest of Atlanta, Child Welfare League of America (CWL), Community Council of the Atlanta Area, and Family Counseling Center. The collection documents the merger, development of a group foster home, advocacy work,...
Dates:
1930-1976, undated
Children's Civic Theater playscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS22f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a playscript of a production titled East of the Sun and West of the Moon, dramatized by Edith Russell, based on stories by Hans Christian Andersen, with choreography by Lottie Hentschel. The script contains a list of the actors.
Dates:
approximately 1950
Childress-Bryant family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS56
Scope and Content
These papers document the ownership history of several tracts of land in District 14 of Atlanta, Georgia, between 1822 and 1925. Including land lots are 119, 197, 198, 231, and 232. The collection consists of land grants, deeds, and papers primarily of the Childress and Bryant families. There are also papers regarding the land transactions of the White, Thomas, Mangum, Mitchell, Wooten, Thrasher, Guyton, Willis, and Suttles families. The land stayed within the Childress and Bryant families...
Dates:
1822-1925
Child's scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS611f
Scope and Content
This collection consist of one scrapbook of pictures cut out of publications, such as advertisements and magazines. It mostly consists of printed images of children.
Dates:
undated
Choral Guild of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1251
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records that document the activities, practices, and performances of the Choral Guild of Atlanta. Included in the collection are board proceedings, financial records, chorus member handbooks, clippings and articles, organizational history, itineraries, performance announcements, schedules, and programs. Also a part of the collection are administrative binders that detail CGA's mission, history, by-laws, meeting minutes, member handbooks, budgets, timeline, and...
Dates:
1939-2018, undated
Chris Mastin photographs of protest marches
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS399
Scope and Contents
This collection contains digital images taken by Chris Mastin of the March for Science Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. March and Rally in Atlanta, and the Women's March on Washington. Photographs in this collection depict protesters holding signs and marching in downtown Atlanta and Washington D.C. The Women's March on Washington photographs also include images of protesters traveling on a charter bus from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.
Dates:
2017-2018
Church Women United in Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS928
Scope and Content
The records include by-laws, constitution, correspondence, newsletters, handbooks, meeting minutes, and materials documenting the social welfare projects. The meeting minutes include records of executive board meetings, annual meetings, and board of managers meetings. General minutes of the organization contain information on some of the social and welfare projects dealing with the youth of Atlanta. The group's involvement with the Savannah Street Neighborhood House is particularly...
Dates:
1958-1980
City of Atlanta Gender Identity Amendment
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS736f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a copy of the Gender Identity Amendment (legislation 00-O-0074), signed by Mayor Bill Campbell in 2000, as well as a certificate of authentication for the pen used to sign the amendment.
Dates:
2000
City of Atlanta income tax returns listing
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS430f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a photocopied alphabetical list of individual income tax returns with names, addresses, and amount of tax paid in 1925. It only lists those paying $25,000 and above.
Dates:
1925
City of Atlanta Limelight Day proclamation
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS819f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council announcing Monday, August 19, 1985 to be known as Limelight Day in Atlanta. Marvin S. Arrington, the president of the Atlanta City Council, and Robb Pitts, a council member, issued the proclamation in recognition of the club as a popular tourist attraction and the site of many charitable functions.
Dates:
1985
City of Atlanta Police Department log books
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1235
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two homicide log books, an Atlanta Police Training School diploma, and an issue of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine. The first homicide log book consists of summaries of homicide cases along with a list of the witnesses and officers assigned to each case, letters, reward posters, newspaper articles, and photographs of suspects. Each page has an update written years after a case was filed, most list if...
Dates:
1924-1968
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