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J.P. Stevens Engraving Company records
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Judith Alexander papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS812
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, gallery invitations, newspaper clippings, magazines, catalogues, and photographs of individual artists and their work, in addition to snapshots of gallery interiors and special events.
Dates:
1959-1989
Judith B. Tankard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1081
Scope and Content
This collection contains chiefly photocopies of articles, papers, clippings, and other research material covering a variety of landscape history topics. Also included is biographical research on women landscape architects such as Rose Ishbel Greely and Marian Cruger Coffin. Additionally, seminar materials from the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Radcliffe Seminars Program from the Landscape Institute of Harvard University provide further information on American and...
Dates:
1905-2017, undated
Judith B. Tankard visual arts material
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS410
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs, slides, and postcards that document Tankard's career in landscape history research, lecturing, and writing. Included in the collection are images of Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, owned by John Lee Pratt (1879-1975) and Lillian Thomas Pratt (1876-1947). Also a part of the collection are house and garden images documenting Tankard’s research and travels in North America and Europe. These images highlight the work of landscape architects such...
Dates:
1869-2019, undated
Judy Body papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS902
Scope and Content
This collection contains material collected by Harriet Fuller and her daughter, Judy Body. Items include sheet music relating to opera, waltzes, and sonatas. Also, newspaper and magazine reviews of operas and performing arts as well as pictures and portraits of opera and theatrical performers from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Two scrapbooks containing poems, postcards and newspaper clippings are also included. Several items relating to Atlanta are included, e.g., a newspaper from Girls...
Dates:
1890-1985, undated
Julia DuPre McNeely documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS772f
Scope and Content
This collection primarily consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, invitations, and a guest book from the Anderson-McNeely wedding in 1927. Also included are itineraries for travel in Paris, a program from the 1913 graduation ceremony of Marietta High School, and poetry.
Dates:
1913-1928, undated
Julia O. Martin Landscape Design visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS182
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of landscape plans, photographs, negatives, and slides created by Atlanta landscape designer, Julia Orme Martin, from 1971 to 1995. The collection consists of primarily landscape designs for residential properties in the neighborhoods of Ansley Park and Buckhead, in Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular note are the drawings pertaining to the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia as well as those pertaining to the Tompkins property on West Wesley Road in Atlanta, Georgia....
Dates:
1971-1995, undated
Julia O. Martin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1137
Scope and Content
The majority of this collection contains correspondence, estimates, ledgers, proposals, and planting studies that provide a history of Julia O. Martin's career as principal of Julia O. Martin Landscape Design. Martin's resume and clippings offer details of her personal and professional life. Of special note are Martin's garden design sketches included in various planting studies.
Dates:
1937-1997, undated
Julia Willet and Foreacre Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS89
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection is primarily genealogical documents and materials pertaining to the civic activities of Julia Willet. The Foreacre family papers include service orders for William Foreacre from the Civil War, newspaper clippings, and family histories. The scrapbook, presented to Delia Foreacre at Christmas 1962, includes newspapers clippings relating to family members and a few pieces of correspondence. The majority of the materials pertaining to Julia Willet are newspaper clippings and...
Dates:
1828-1982
Julian D. Lee documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS770f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of land and loan deeds, legal documents, and newspaper clippings. The deeds pertain to a parcel of land along East Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1906-1952
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
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