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McCleskey family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS784
Scope and Content
These papers consist of various business, personal, and legal documents related to members of the McCleskey family. Included are real estate deeds, receipts, business correspondence, and tax statements of John David McCleskey. In addition, this collection contains papers and receipts of John David McCleskey's wife and sons, including Jesse Eugene McCleskey's certification as a Fulton County Deputy Sheriff. Also included are Roy G. McCleskey's personal records of his education at Fulton...
Dates:
1892-1941, undated
McClure family collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS223f
Scope and Content
This collection includes letters, medical notes, poems, jokes, advertisements, receipts, and other documents relating to the McClure family in Georgia.
Dates:
1861-1953
McDonald Valentine papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS781f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents relating to Valentine's military and baseball coaching careers. Of particular note are newspaper articles about his tutoring programs and his former students.
Dates:
1973-1989, undated
McDonough-Thompson Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS6
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an alphabetical list of jobs undertaken by the company and dates of completion from 1920-1978.
Dates:
1920-1978
McMillan and Bellingrath family documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS235f
Scope and Content
This collection contains typed transcriptions of letters, certificates and other documents belonging to members of the McMillan and Bellingrath families of Georgia. Included is a letter from Malcolm McMillan describing his experiences as a prisoner-of-war; three letters from Ferdinand Dallas McMillan about his service in Company B. of the 7th Georgia Regiment; a letter written by Miss Lou Lanneau describing a trip to Atlanta prior to its siege in 1864; a 1931 letter describing war-time...
Dates:
1860-1931
Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates:
1947-1949
Meguiar ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS920f
Scope and Content
This collection contains ephemera found in the Cherokee Garden Library historic book, Floral Keepsakes (1854) by John Keese (1805-1856). The book was owned and inscribed by sisters Sweetie and Mary Lizzie Meguiar. Items include correspondence and essays written by the Meguair sisters while attending College in Kentucky. Also a part of the collection are letters from friends, such as Helen Mary Shelby (1857-1904), also a student of the same college. The...
Dates:
approximately 1850-1880, undated
Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS142
Scope and Content
The collection contains the papers of the Menefee, Timmons, and Mitchell families of Georgia. Included are correspondence, application materials to the Daughters of the American Revolution (D. A. R.) and Daughters of the War of 1812, printed materials, legal records, scrapbooks, and other ephemera. Correspondence includes letters between F. N. Menefee, Maggie (Menefee) Dean Warden, Josephine Menefee, and Aline Timmons regarding their family genealogy. Application materials for...
Dates:
1827-1980
Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell family visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS211
Scope and Content
This collection consists of photographs, postcards, greeting cards, ambrotypes, tintypes, daguerreotypes, albumen prints, cyanotypes, and negatives of the Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell families. Also included are images of related families including the Benedicts, the Middletons, the Seamans, the Hunnicutts, the Sweets, and the Deakins. There are images from family trips to St. Simons Island, Georgia, and Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as well as images from El Paso, Texas, where Jessie and Russell...
Dates:
1883-1963, undated
Men's Garden Club of Atlanta, Inc. records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1086
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Included are correspondence, directories, and newsletters. Of special interest are letters describing the interest and support of the first state botanical garden for Georgia in 1938.
Dates:
1938-1984, undated
Mercy Van Vlack travel diary
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS888f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a diary used by Mercy Van Vlack to document missionary trips she took with her husband. She wrote about travel conditions and described what they saw in each city they passed through, recounting in particular detail major cities such as London, Paris, Constantinople, and Port Said. The diary contains a note claiming that it may be a transcription and/or an abridgement of an unknown original.
Dates:
1911-1916, undated
Meredith Zara photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS61
Scope and Content
This collection contains two prints depicting unidentified African American laborers involved in construction work on Alabama Street, between Pryor Street and Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. The other image is of the exterior of the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is now Ford Motor Lofts.
Dates:
1900-1930
Meriwether County cotton ginner's record book
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS921f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a record book from an unidentified cotton ginnery in Meriwether County, Georgia. The records include details such as date of ginning, customer name, pounds of cotton ginned, prices paid, and assigned bale numbers. Fertilizers such as guano (made from the excrement of birds and bats), corn mix, and soda are noted in the records.
Dates:
approximately 1912
Merry Hills Garden Club scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1083
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook that describes the social and civic activities of the club. Documents include photographs, newsletters, clippings, and one yearbook. Of note are items highlighting the club's community beautification efforts located in the Merry Hills neighborhood and the Toco Hills Shopping Center on North Druid Hills Road.
Dates:
1961-1962
Methodist Orphans Home subscriber list
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS47f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an unlabeled list of donations from individuals, possibly to the Methodist Orphans Home in Atlanta, Georgia. Names are furnished along with addresses and amounts donated.
Dates:
approximately 1880
Metro Atlanta Arts Fund, Inc. report
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS827f
Scope and Content
The collection contains one report titled The Feasibility of United Arts Fund Raising in Metropolitan Atlanta. The study was initiated by the Metro Atlanta Arts Fund, Inc. and funded by a grant from the emergency fund of the governor of Georgia, George Busbee. The report recommended a united funding approach separate from the Atlanta Arts Alliance (which included the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the High...
Dates:
1981
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1077
Scope and Content
This collection contains business documents generated and collected by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The bulk of the material is meeting minutes created by the Chamber and its various councils. There are also publications of the Chamber, administrative and institutional records, and various documents describing the establishment of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), airports in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission. Material...
Dates:
1883-2012, undated
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates:
1922-1993, undated
Midtown Historic District photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS265
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of images of the historic Midtown area in Atlanta, Georgia. The photographs were taken for draft nomination on the National Register of Historic Places for Midtown. Included are photos of churches, Henry Grady High School, stores and businesses, street scapes, apartments, and homes in the Midtown area. Types of homes photographed vary among bungalows, duplexes, row houses, carriage houses, alley dwellings, and cottages. Of special interest are photographs of the...
Dates:
1997
Mildred Calhoun Wick manuscript
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS835
Scope and Content
This collection contains a manuscript titled "Living with Love, 1896-1985: An Autobiography by Mildred Calhoun Wick (Great Granddaughter of John C. Calhoun)." The manuscript was published under the title Living with Love in 1986 by Serendipity Press.
Dates:
1986
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