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Lamalco, Inc. business records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS203f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a small business administration loan form for Lamalco, Inc; a lease agreement between Perimeter Mall and Lamalco, Inc.; and four pages from the accounts payable book of Lamalco.
Dates:
1971-1972
Lambert family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS205f
Scope and Content
This collection contains financial records relating to the Lambert family in Georgia. Included is a mortgage executed in Clayton County from G. H. Harper to J. F. Lambert; receipts for purchase of mules, rents, debts, taxes, and other commodities; a "Pension for Confederate Soldiers" issued to J. F. Lambert; printed sales receipt form by J. M. Johnson, MD for selling rights to "Economizing Soap," in East Point, Georgia. Also included are laminated photocopies of a purchase order for 4500...
Dates:
1864-1903
Land lot 52, District 14 collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS464
Scope and Content
This collection includes legal and financial documents regarding land lot 52, 14th district, Fulton (formerly Henry) County, Georgia. Among the documents are warranty deeds, mortgages, insurance policies, deed to secure title, abstracts of title, quit claim deeds, tax receipts, loan account books, real estate notes, and correspondence.
Dates:
1874-1948
Landscape architectural drawings of Violet Bank
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS277
Scope and Content
This collection contains landscape drawings that provide details of the garden and landscape history at the Violet Bank estate in Griffin, Georgia. A planting plan by the C. A. Dahl Company shows the layout of the property including the house, driveway, and formal garden. Of note, this drawing erroneously cites Mrs. H. W. Barnes as Mrs. H. 'G.' Barnes. Also a part of the collection are garden sketches by an unknown landscape architect which provide plant variety names and describe trees,...
Dates:
1924-1985
Larry Benton manuscripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS874f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two autobiographical manuscripts written by Lawrence "Larry" Benton. Most of the names of people and places in the documents are pseudonyms. The first manuscript covers his education and time working as an engineer in Atlanta in the 1930s and 40s. Specifically, he writes about his time at the Georgia School of Technology with his friends George, Jack, and Fitzie; his work as an engineer at a co-op; and his many romantic interests. The second autobiography covers...
Dates:
approximately 1965, 2001
Laura Berry Campbell's garden photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS379
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs taken by Reeves Studios of the gardens of Laura and John Bulow Campbell's property at 2958 Andrews Drive. The images highlight a boxwood terrace garden with tulips, a central pool featuring a Leda and the Swan bronze statue, garden tile, and a grassy allee flanked by dogwoods in bloom. Of special note are several millstones, popular decoration in gardens of that time period.
Dates:
approximately 1941
Laura M. Flowers savings bond
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS436f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a U.S. war savings bond that "is your contribution toward the building of the new cruiser Atlanta." It has a photograph of a drawing of the proposed U.S.S. Atlanta.
Dates:
1943
Laura Thompson Chapman photograph
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS26
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an ambrotype of Laura Thompson Chapman.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1860
Laurel Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS671
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials that detail the civic and social history of the club. Included in the collection are histories, yearbooks, clippings, and program materials. Also a part of the collection are reports that highlight special projects and horticultural interests of the club and serve as applications for awards with regional and national garden club organizations.
Dates:
1946-1978
Laurel Horton's quilting and folk dance papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1221
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Laurel Horton’s research about quilting and textiles, particularly the Chattahoochee Country Dancers, later called the Chattahoochee Contra Dancers. In addition, it contains information documenting the quilting committees on which she served. Horton collected the bulk of this material researching the connection between quilting and dancing in Alaska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Papers include field notes, book chapters she authored, essays, emails,...
Dates:
1979-2003, undated
Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS866f
Scope and Content
This collection includes three legal documents pertaining to Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company: a memorandum of levels and measurements of water at Laurel Mills dam, and two indentures granting land in Roswell, Georgia, to the company from Eugene H. Wood and Isaac M. Roberts.
Dates:
1892-1898, undated
Laurens Hill Plantation collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS208f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an eight-page copy of a letter dated March 24, 1864 addressed to Miss Lucy Littell, in care of Reverend William S. Baird, Wesleyan Institute, Staunton, Virginia from A. K. The letter describes a visit to Richmond, Virginia and Laurens Hill Plantation in Laurens County, Georgia. He details the house on the plantation, food and clothing prices, salaries of servants, crops, and the style of dress and lifestyle of Orralee Troup, daughter of former Georgia Governor George...
Dates:
1864, 1976
Laurent DeGive collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS483
Scope and Content
This collection contains a certificate and document given Laurent DeGive by the Belgian government, as consul for Belgium in Atlanta, Georgia, and a gravestone rubbing.
Dates:
1853-1863
Lavender Robinson Ray papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS788f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of records from Ray's military, legal, and political career. Materials include telegrams articulating his posts and duties as a Confederate soldier, and later his activities with veteran affairs. Of particular interest is a telegram sent to President Franklin Roosevelt in gratitude for funding the erection of Confederate tombstones for prisoners of war. In addition, Ray collected southeastern railroad passes, railroad advertisements, and letters regarding the...
Dates:
1866-1939, undated
Lawrence H. Lassiter collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS207f
Scope and Content
This collection contains news articles and a paper about 18th century clocks, and sheet music by C. H. Van DerHey.
Dates:
1760-1761, 1971-1972, undated
Lawshe Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS235
Scope and Content
This collection spans three generations of the Lawshe Family, the bulk of the materials concentrate on John Zimmerman Lawshe. Much of the attention is given to the personal activities of John Lawshe as a graduate of Boy’s High School and the New York Homeopathic College, and his activities as a Mason in Atlanta. Documents include the commencement program for Boys’ High, 23 June 1875; and copies of obituaries and death announcements documenting John Lawshe’s activities. John’s wife, Willie...
Dates:
1875-1965
Lawshe family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS323
Scope and Content
This collection contains portraits of Er Lawshe's wife, children, brother, and daughter-in-law. Of special note is one carte de visite of his jewelry business at 47 Whitehall Street.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1904
League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS394
Scope and Contents of the Records
Through correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications and printed material, the collection documents the activities the League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County and its relationships to national and state leagues, from 1917-1982. Subject files, the bulk of the collection, document the efforts of the group to promote political participation among the citizens of Atlanta and covers topics ranging from segregation to juvenile delinquency, as well as various city ordinances....
Dates:
1917 – 1982
Leander Newton Trammell interview recording and transcript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS808f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an audio recording containing an interview between Trammell and his friend, Van Hall, as well as the interview transcript. In the interview, Trammell recounts his personal experiences as a gay man in Atlanta during the 1950s and 60s. Trammell talks substantially about his life as a closeted gay man and the measures that he and his partner, Bill Camp, took to conceal their sexual orientation. Trammell also discusses his aversion to gay activism, saying that he...
Dates:
2007
Leander Parker letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS266f
Scope and Content
This collection contains photo copies of four letters written by Leander Parker, a soldier in the Confederate Army, to his mother. He writes about his feelings on the war, actions of Federal troops, sickness, rations, and peace prospects.
Dates:
1862-1864
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