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Samuel M. Inman scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS282
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single scrapbook that includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, telegrams, and invitations all pertaining to Samuel M. Inman.

Dates: 1843-1915

Samuel P. Jones Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS126
Scope and Content The collection is primarily correspondence pertaining to Samuel P. Jones’ revival activities and letters from family members. Most of the letters are photocopies; however, a few are originals. In general, the revival correspondence references planning activities for future meetings as well as building projects. The majority of the Laura Jones correspondence is of a personal nature and the receipts are for incidental purchases. Receipts of interest include a buggy ordered by Reverend Samuel...
Dates: 1880-1925

Samuel P. Lindley photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS311
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Camp Wheeler, a United States Army camp in Macon, Georgia, and there are also images of Marietta National Military Cemetery, officers in military uniforms, army trucks and tents, and photographs of a group of soldiers that were taken mostly during WWI. Also included are photographs of downtown Atlanta, Union Station, Tuxedo Tobacco Company, Henry Grady Monument on Marietta Street, Boy's High School, and Keely's Department Store.

Dates: approximately 1910-1945, undated

Samuel R. Belk diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS878f
Scope and Content

The collection contains Samuel R. Belk's diary, which contains a page of recordings for every day of 1926. One page includes a newspaper clipping which mentions Samuel Belk by name. Entries focus mostly on everyday family life and religious matters from his work as a pastor at Trinity Church in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also notes on the memoranda pages at the end of the diary consisting of names, addresses, and times of day.

Dates: 1926, undated

Samuel Russell and Julia Colquitt Bridges papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1165
Scope and Content

This collection contains genealogy records, letters, programs, and newspaper clippings about the Bridges family, primarily Samuel Russell, Jr. Included are the military papers of Samuel Russell Bridges from World War II. Of particular note is Mrs. Bridges' guest book which was signed by President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).

Dates: 1907-1991, undated

Samuel Spencer Civil War letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS333f
Scope and Content

This collection contains carbon transcriptions of fifty seven letters by Samuel Spencer to his father, Lambert Spencer, while he served in the Confederate Army in 1864-1865. He saw service in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Dates: 1864-1865

Samuel Venable Mason letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS454f
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters from Mason to his mother and describe his military activities and surroundings. Other correspondents include Elizabeth Venable Mason, and Ensign Richard Barksdale Harwell. The collection also contains a poem about the 361st Regiment.

Dates: 1944-1945

Sarah B. Fay herbarium

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Collection number: ahc.MSS925f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one bound herbarium of marine plants collected by Sarah B. Fay. The notebook includes several different types of seaweed such as kelp and algae. The specimens likely came from the coast of Massachusetts. Of special note, the herbarium contains species of seaweed such as: Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) and Porphyra leucosticta (Thuret).

Dates: approximately 1900

Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates: 2012

Sarah Martha Cobb Whitner scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS326
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of two scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings pertaining to Cobb and Whitner families as well as Atlanta events.

Dates: 1857-1900, undated

Sarah Plaster speech

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS292f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a speech given by Sarah Plaster before the Parent Teacher Association of Rock Spring School in Atlanta, Georgia on the school's Founder's Day. In the manuscript of the speech she wrote about the founding and development of the School.

Dates: 1950

Sarah Slaughter photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS157
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection includes photographs of Atlanta during the early twentieth century. Shown are photographs of Grant Park, an aerial view of Peachtree Street and Broad Street (c.1910), and the interior of an Atlanta home. Photographs of Grant Park taken in the snow include images of Augusta Avenue, the boat dock and boat house, cannons, a driveway, the lion statue at entrance, and children.

Dates: circa 1910-1920

Scripto Pen Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1013
Scope and Content This collection contains personnel and marketing records, and documentation of the labor strike at the Scripto Pen Company. The early personnel records include employee names, start dates, previous employment, and wage rates. Volumes of marketing publications and advertisements illustrate trade and commercial print advertisements Scripto Pen Company used for their writing instruments and disposable lighters. National and local newspaper clippings included in the collection relate to the...
Dates: 1923-1981, undated

Scrutchin, Morrison & Company customer form

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS571f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a form mailed to costumers from Scrutchin, Morrison & Co. Commission Merchants and Dealers in Hardware, successors to McNaught, Ormond & Co. both of Atlanta, Georgia. There is a slightly legible note written on the back of the form from an unidentified person.

Dates: approximately 1865

Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS988
Scope and Contents of the Records Nursery catalogs offer a wide variety of horticultural information, including plant introductions, agricultural development and examples of plant illustration. The Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection represents over 500 Seed, Nursery, and Supply companies. Using this collection, researchers can learn about plant cultivar introductions, verify when and how plants were used, study various types of gardening equipment, as well as gain insight into the changes in printing technology and the...
Dates: 1827-current, undated

Senoia Circuit, LaGrange District, North Georgia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South record book

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS303f
Scope and Content

This record book contains the official roll and minutes of the Senoia Circuit, LaGrange District, of the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Dates: 1879-1882

Service Group scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS826
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, notices, etc. related to the activities of the Service Group.

Dates: 1932-1938

Seventeenth Railway Engineers ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS304f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a regimental roster of the Seventeenth Engineers and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1917-1919

Seydel-Woolley & Company agreement

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS663f
Scope and Content

The Seydel-Woolley & Company records include an agreement admitting Paul Vasser Seydel and John R. Seydel into the company. Dated July 1, 1941, the document also describes the business, particularly its financial operations.

Dates: 1941

SGM Carl L. Sharp papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS751f
Scope and Content

This collection contains one letter and envelope addressed to Sharp’s commanding officer, Captain Richard M. Barb, commending Sharp and his comrades for assisting the Atlanta Police Department with the investigation of the Jewish Temple bombing on October 12, 1958. It also contains a short biographical note on Sharp outlining his military career as well as correspondence between the AHC and Sharp's family.

Dates: 1958, 2017, undated

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 123
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 118
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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 82
Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 79
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 75
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 74
Scrapbooks -- Georgia 69
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 66
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 65
Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 53
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 52
Scrapbooks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 52
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 50
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Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 47
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Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 44
Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 44
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Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 37
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Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 35
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Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 34
Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 33
Women -- Societies and clubs 32
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Georgia -- Genealogy 29
Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 27
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Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
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African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
Business records -- Georgia 25
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Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 23
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City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
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Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Slavery -- Georgia 20
World War, 1914-1918 20
Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 19
Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Portraits, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Advertising -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Real estate business -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
Daguerreotypes 16
Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Gay activists 16
Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
Military uniforms 16
Plants, Ornamental -- Georgia 16
Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 15
Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15
Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15
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Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15
Invitation cards -- Georgia 15
Landscape architecture -- Southern States 15
Politicians -- Georgia 15
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Names
Atlanta Historical Society 32
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
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
United States. Army 15
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 14
Young, Andrew, 1932- 14
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
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 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
Inman family 10
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 10
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 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
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 9
Democratic Party (Ga.) 9
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 9
Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 9
Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 9
Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
United Daughters of the Confederacy 9
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
American Red Cross 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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