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Perennial Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1080
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials that provide a history of the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes meeting announcements, yearbooks, clippings, and GCG convention booklets. Scrapbooks are largely devoted to the study of horticulture, conservation, and related gardening interests, including several papers written by members. A club history details its policies on the restriction of civic work and on fundraising.
Dates:
1942-1970, undated
Perkerson family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS699f
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera about the Perkerson family, as well as awards given to Angus Millard Perkerson Jr. and Medora Field Perkerson for their work in journalism. Of particular note is a newspaper article published in Atlanta Journal Constitution Magazine about a letter written by Elizabeth Frances “Lizzie” Perkerson Butler about the impact of the Civil War on her family. She wrote the letter in 1864 but was not...
Dates:
1890-1958, undated
Perry family correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS174
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence between the Perry family and extended family members including the Carters and the Chisolms. Transcription is available for the letters dated between 1852 and 1869. The topics include the experiences of the Perry children in school in Monroe, Georgia, as well as plantation and farming life after the Civil War. Other topics include difficulties with freedmen after the Civil War, failing banks in Georgia, poor health, and development in Atlanta.
Dates:
1852-1901, undated
Peter J. Rosendorf photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS334
Scope and Content
This collection contains images taken within Piedmont Park, and photographs displaying statues and architecture around Atlanta.
Dates:
1969-1970
Peter Kimbrough and Mariah Little marriage record
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS718f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a marriage record for Peter Kimbrough and Mariah Little. The document includes the license authorizing the marriage between the "freedman" and "freedwoman" and the certificate of marriage.
Dates:
22 February 1867
Peter Marchant Civil War correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS657f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a photocopy of a picture of Peter Marchant dated May 7, 1863, and three letters from July 15 to August 2 of 1864. In his description of the photograph Marchant writes about the ring he wears on his left hand which was crafted by a soldier held prisoner at Camp Chase. The letters in this collection were written to Peter Marchant’s wife Susan and all contain much of the same information due to his fear that the letters were not being received. The letters dated July 15...
Dates:
1863-1864
Peter Northen ledger sheet and letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS258f
Scope and Content
This collection contains an 1848 letter from Peter Northen in Richmond, Virginia, to his wife regarding his business trip to Richmond and Philadelphia; and a ledger sheet from Northen's account book in 1856-1857 for household items purchased from Phelps and Seals.
Dates:
1848, 1856-1857
Peter Snow Dixie Camera Club photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS336
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of Dixie Camera Club members and images of club members and their children modeling at Eskew Lake in Fairburn, Georgia, and Jackson Lake in Newton County.
Dates:
1949-1953
Peters Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS169
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, bank books, receipts, advertisements, and legal documents from Richard Peters and members of his family. Most of the collection consists of receipts and vouchers of Richard Peters' Estate. There are also substantial records of Richard's agricultural work in raising and selling livestock. Other materials include letters between family members, legal documents on land sales, pamphlets on the Butterfly Club, an insurance card, and advertisements for...
Dates:
1848-1965, undated
Peters Land Company records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS170
Scope and Content
This collection contains plat diagrams of Peters Park, canceled checks and stock certificates of Peters Park Improvement Company and Peters Land Company, and miscellaneous documents.
Dates:
1881-1937, undated
Peters Street viaduct field book
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS850f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a 1935 field book that documents the construction of the Peters Street viaduct in downtown Atlanta, part of which became Georgia State Route 154. V.W. Smith, the state project's research engineer, likely did the recording. The field book details daily work performed by contractors, including notes on the weather and how it affected the work completed, strategy changes, on-hand calculations, supervisor visits, and higher management schedules. There are also detailed...
Dates:
1935
Philip I. Winn letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS562f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter written by E. I. Ancell to Philip I. Winn of Winnsville, Fluvanna County, Virginia. Ancell worked on the construction of the Western & Atlantic Railroad in Cobb County, Georgia.
Dates:
1839
Philip T. Shutze papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS498
Scope and Content
This collection documents Philip T. Shutze's work in architecture and design. The personal papers consist of topical subject files; correspondence regarding jobs and antiques; financial documents; and certificates and diplomas. The design sources include architectural periodicals; architectural fixtures catalogs; and magazine clippings. Additionally, there are job files from the architectural firm, office indices and lists, and correspondence, newspaper clippings, and brochures related to...
Dates:
1889-1983, undated
Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content
This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates:
1820-1993, undated
Philip Trammell Shutze papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS439
Scope and Content
This collection is a series of scrapbooks that contain magazine clippings, photographs, and postcards. Several of the scrapbooks contain study examples for Shutze's work as an architect. Other scrapbooks contain photographs of projects designed by Shutze.
Dates:
1894-1936, undated
Phillip “P.” Thornton Marye visual arts material
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS349
Scope and Content
This collection contains images and architectural designs of Marye as well as the firms Marye, Alger, and Alger, and Marye, Alger, and Vinour. Included are photographs of the Fox Theatre, the Southern Bell Telephone Building, Terminal Station, and public, commercial, and residential buildings in Atlanta and other cities. Also included are photographs of the interior of the buildings. The architectural drawings consist of Marye's plans for St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Of special note are 1970...
Dates:
1905-1970, undated
Phoenix Society records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS469
Scope and Content
This collection contains two yearbooks and twelve scrapbooks.
Dates:
1964-1997, undated
Photographs of substandard housing
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS284
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of substandard housing and living conditions in the southwestern areas of Atlanta, Georgia, including Stewart Avenue (later named Metropolitan Parkway); Battle Hill neighborhood (later named Westview neighborhood); Vine City neighborhood; and Philadelphia Avenue. The slides feature images of residential homes, children playing, and physically deteriorating landscapes heavily populated with trash and other discarded materials.
Dates:
approximately 1950-1968, undated
Photographs of the Christening of the SS John B. Gordon
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS309
Scope and Content
This collection contains images of the christening of the SS John B. Gordon. Included are photographs of individuals involved in the ceremony, including: Reverend G. Borthern Jones; McWhorter Milner; Annabell Allen; Miss Carl Wohlford; Frank Poole; Mrs. Charles I. Allan (spelled Allen in the captions on the photos); Mrs. Edwin L. Jones; and Ellen Beasley.
Dates:
1943 Nov. 16
Piedmont Driving Club Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS409
Scope and Content
The bulk of the records are invitations and announcements. The invitations include dinner dances with music by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Tommy Tucker, among others. Invitations for seasonal parties, including the annual Halloween Ball with presentation of the debutantes, and Christmas and Valentine's Day parties are also included. Other invitations feature After the Opera suppers, dancing classes, and a variety of other themed parties. Announcements include information about...
Dates:
1907-1998
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