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Joseph Clayton Logan papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS137
Scope and Content This collection contains genealogical research, records of the Atlanta Chapter of the Associated Charities, manuscripts on a myriad of topics, and newspaper clippings. There is genealogical research on the Grant and Logan families gathered by Margaret Laing for her book, The Ten Years, 1905-1915, a history of the Atlanta Branch of the Associated Charities. Also included is correspondence that Laing received regarding her research from family members and...
Dates: 1903-1949, undated

Joseph E. Brown Connally letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS530f
Scope and Content

This collection contains 25 letters (including copies and transcripts) many of the men in his Regiment wrote to Joe Brown Connally's mother, Mary Virginia Brown Connally, in Atlanta, Georgia, in thanks for her and her husband's hospitality.

Dates: 1918-1919

Joseph E. Brown Connally photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS352
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs and a drawing relating to Joseph E. Brown Connally. Included are nine photographs of Joseph Brown Connally and unidentified family members; a drawing of the S.S. Westernland; and five images of Connally's funeral on August 29, 1920. Of special note are two photographs of a post-World War I parade of Georgia troops marching down Peachtree Street and 2 images of Captain Connally in Nice, France, after the Armistice.

Dates: 1895-1920, undated

Joseph E. Brown papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS40
Scope and Content

These papers consist of correspondence and legal and financial documents of Joseph E. Brown.

Dates: 1846-1911, undated

Joseph E. Brown Sales Journal

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Collection number: ahc.MSS30f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a sales journal of land lots by Thomas L. Bishop, attorney at law, for Joseph E. Brown, of the "Brown Annex," which was located in District 22 (14th District) land lot 112, near the Exposition Cotton Mills. The sales journal lists the date of sale, a description of the land lot sold, the buyer's name, the amount paid by the buyer, and the expenses due in commission to Thomas L. Bishop. Near the end of the journal there are several transactions that pertain to...
Dates: 1892-1894

Joseph F. Buchanan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS292
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of unidentified Atlantans posed in and around their homes.

Dates: approximately 1895

Joseph Hogan papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS159f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from Atlanta citizen Joseph W. Hogan to Thomas K. Scott, General Manager of the Georgia Railroad Company about the progress of his improvements in smoke consuming furnaces. The collection also includes a patent issued by the United States Commissioner of Patents to Hogan for "useful improvements in...Smoke Consuming Furnaces."

Dates: 1896, undated

Joseph M. Body airplane tickets

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Collection number: ahc.MSS445f
Scope and Content

This collection contains tickets owned by Atlanta citizen Joseph Body he collected as a boy for plane rides at Candler Field (later the site of the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport) for the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Blevins Aircraft Corporation, and Georgia Flying Service.

Dates: 1931-1935

Joseph Mackey Brown papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS41
Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence and ephemera of Joseph Mackey Brown, and also for his father, Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown. The bulk of his correspondence relates to his tenure as governor, and includes pledges of support, congratulatory letters, and requests for patronage and jobs. Campaign correspondence relates to his failed gubernatorial campaign of 1910. In addition to his gubernatorial correspondence, agriculture and farming were frequent topics, as was the Georgia...
Dates: 1846-1926, undated; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1914

Joseph S. Reynolds Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS203
Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence and financial documents involving Joseph S. Reynolds and his family. Reynolds correspondents mostly included mortgage brokers, attorneys, property managers, and insurance agents in Georgia and several Southeastern and Midwestern states. The content of these typed letters relate to the maintenance, finance, and sale of Mr. Reynolds properties. Included among the letters is a business proposition from H.A. Etheridge of Atlanta, who was seeking investors...
Dates: 1911-1923, undated

Joseph S. Skobba military papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS563f
Scope and Content

This collection contains military related materials regarding the service of Dr. Joseph S. Skobba. Included are a leave record, a pay data card, an identification card, and a laboratory test.

Dates: 1940-1947

Joseph Victor Llorens papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS72
Scope and Content

This collection includes daily cost and progress reports created during the construction of the diorama of the Cyclorama and other pertinent documents.

Dates: 1928-1984, undated

Joshua Gilbert papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS776f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a letter from Joshua Gilbert to his family, a description of United States Army prisoner of war camps in the Civil War, one deed to a cemetery plot, and one clipping from the Atlanta Constitution with Gilbert's obituary.

Dates: 1855-1889

Joshua M. Mitchell collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS240f
Scope and Content

This collection contains photocopies of Civil War documents of Joshua M. Mitchell, including furlough papers; list of persons at Johnson's Island prison in Ohio, requisition papers, service records, appointment papers; a marriage contract of Joshua Mitchell and V. T. Rundle; poems, death notices of Thomas H. Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell; list of children of Thomas and Ruth Mitchell; and letters from the Department of Confederate Pension and Records.

Dates: 1861-1867, 1957, 1960

Josiah Scrutchin "slave deed"

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Collection number: ahc.MSS853f
Scope and Content

This collection contains one handwritten "slave deed" from Sumter County, Georgia. The deed states that Josiah Scrutchin bequeathed a woman named Lettice and her child to his son, Samuel Scrutchin. The collection also includes a short Scrutchin genealogy recorded by Josiah Scrutchin's descendant, Elaine Tyler of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1849

J.P. Stevens Engraving Company records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS362
Scope and Content This collection primarily contains engraving and stationery samples from J.P. Stevens Engraving Company. Included are invitations for noteworthy events in Atlanta's history, such as an invitation to the fiftieth anniversary convention for the Coca-Cola Fountain Sales Corporation and an invitation to the opening of the Ponce de Leon Park. In addition, this collection contains documentation from the personal finances of J.P. Stevens including estate settlement documents such vouchers and...
Dates: 1894-1975, undated

Judge and Mrs. Charles W. Smith visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS25
Scope and Content

This collection consists of four images: one ambrotype of Judge Charles Whiteford Smith and one ambrotype of Fannie Hurt Wright, both as very young children. There is also a charcoal drawing of each ambrotype.

Dates: 1860-1865

Judge B. C. Lamdell ledger

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Collection number: ahc.MSS585f
Scope and Content

This folder contains one sheet from a handwritten ledger. The document states the name Judge B. C. Lamdell, the date 1839, and his account with the Sinwa Company.

Dates: 1839

Judge George Hillyer papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS906
Scope and Content This collection consists of the papers of the Hillyer family. It is divided into seven different series, keeping the papers of each individual in a separate series. Series I is Judge George Hillyer's materials, and it is divided into five subseries consisting of legal papers and court cases, publications, civic duty and railroads, speeches, and personal papers. Series II is of Judge Joseph W. Fields. Series III belonged to Junius Hillyer. Series IV is the correspondence of the Hillyer...
Dates: 1835-1985, undated

Judge Thomas L. Camp papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS916
Scope and Content Much of the collection consists of newspaper articles and clippings relating to Judge Camp’s professional life and the personal life of him and his relatives. Letters, programs, financial records, and postcards comprise a portion of the collection. Also included are three Camp family scrapbooks, one scrapbook for the Joseph Habersham chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Thomas Camp’s diploma from George Washington University. The oldest item in the collection is a...
Dates: 1884-1997

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 123
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African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
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Atlanta Historical Society 31
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 31
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 26
Hartsfield, William Berry 24
Georgia Institute of Technology 23
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Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 21
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 19
Coca-Cola Company 19
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 19
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 18
Emory University 18
Rich's (Retail store) 18
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 17
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 16
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
University of Georgia 16
Atlanta History Center 15
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 15
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Garden Club of Georgia. 15
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 15
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
United States. Army 15
Young, Andrew, 1932- 14
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 13
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 12
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 12
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 12
Atlanta Public Schools 12
Georgia Power Company 12
Georgia School of Technology 12
Piedmont Driving Club 12
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 12
Agnes Scott College 11
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 11
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 11
Atlanta Water Works (Ga.) 11
First National Bank of Atlanta 11
Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 11
Junior League of Atlanta 11
United States. Navy. 11
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Atlanta Music Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 10
Inman family 10
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
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Atlanta Pride Committee 9
Atlanta Pride Festival 9
Commercial High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 9
Democratic Party (Ga.) 9
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 9
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 9
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 9
Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
United Daughters of the Confederacy 9
American Red Cross 8
Atlanta Art Association 8
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 8
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 8
Georgia. Militia 8
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
Jones family 8
Jones, Bobby 8
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
Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Atlanta Journal (Firm) 7
Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 7
Atlanta Public Library 7
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 7
Confederate States of America. Army 7
Daughters of the American Revolution 7
English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Garrett, Franklin M. (Franklin Miller), 1906-2000 7
Georgia State University 7
Georgia. General Assembly 7
Henry Grady Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
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