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Atlanta's Woman of the Year photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS455
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Atlanta's Woman of the Year awardees, sponsors, and committee chairs for each year. Of particular note is a photograph of Atlanta's Woman of the Year founder, Charles H. Jagels, in 1943, as well as photographs of Mayors William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) and Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003) with Woman of the Year awardees. Among the hundreds of women selected for Woman of the Year, notable awardees include Leila Denmark (1898-2012) in 1953, Ruth Blair...
Dates:
1943-1972
Lee R. Gandee letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS455f
Scope and Content
The collection contains a letter from Lee R. Gandee to Ruth Blair and describes Gandee's impressions traveling through the South in the 1930s and his plans to move to Atlanta, Georgia after being released from the Army and work on renovating a house called "The Old White House."
Dates:
1945 Jan. 7
Thomas Gibson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1185
Scope and Content
The collection contains records from the Atlanta Historical Society, the Rotary Club of Atlanta, and the Yaarab Temple of Atlanta. Items include biographies of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Warren Harding, a short story titled "The Poppies of Wu Fong," and newspaper clippings, mostly about Ruth Blair (1889-1974) being named as Woman of the Year in 1956.
Dates:
1914-1967, undated
Filtered By
- Names: Blair, Ruth, 1889- X
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- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Georgia -- Economic conditions 1
- Men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
- Southern States -- Description and travel 1
- Women -- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women artists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women educators -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women in community organization -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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- Atlanta's Woman of the Year Organization (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Alexander, Dorothy, 1904-1986 1
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 1
- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 1
- Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Yaarab Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Atlanta Historical Society 1
- Bleckley, Katharine Caroline, 1892- 1
- Chappell, Amey, Dr. 1
- Cherry, John 1
- Daughtry-Denmark, Leila, 1898-2012 1
- Ferst, Alvin M., Jr., 1922-2009 1
- Gandee, Lee R. 1
- Gibson, Thomas Harris 1
- Hansell, Granger 1
- Hartsfield, William Berry 1
- Hastings, Donald M. 1
- Henderson, Edith, 1911- 1
- Hinton, Fanny D. 1
- Lewis, Ann E. 1
- McMillan, Ruth M. 1
- Orr, Dorothy 1
- Rotary Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Sibley, Celestine 1
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 1
- Thornton, Ella May 1
- Yarn, Jane Hurt, 1924- 1 + ∧ less
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