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Adams family scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS931f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a family scrapbook with photocopies of a diary kept by Nancy Ann Holt Adams from 1895-1898 documenting family life, the weather, and the death of her first child. It also includes newspaper articles about the family, certificates, photographs, and genealogical information about the Adams family.

Dates: 1895-1996, undated

Allen Jones photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS451
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of photographs of Allen Oscar Jones, including photos of his childhood, trips to Europe and Texas, Jones with friends and family, as well as class portraits. Locations depicted in the photographs include Lakewood Park, Moreland Elementary School, Little Five Points, Houston and Galveston, Texas, and unspecified locations in Europe. The bulk of the collection is from Jones’ childhood in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: approximately 1940-1980

Benning family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS343
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the Benning family and the construction of the English-American (Flatiron) Building in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1893-1961, undated

DeGive family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS509
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of the DeGive family of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are portraits of family members, and scrapbooks made by Henry Leon DeGive Jr. containing photographs of family and personal travels, as well as university life. The collection also includes photographs of the family's theaters, the DeGive's Opera House (corner of Forsyth and Marietta Streets) and DeGive's Grand Opera House (157 Peachtree Street).

Dates: 1925-1965, undated

Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1107
Scope and Content

Eliza Jones accumulated this collection to document the genealogy of her extended families as well that of her husband, Waldo Jones. Materials include correspondence that documents her daily life and views, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and diaries. The collection also contains papers from her and Waldo Jones's extended family. Families represented include the Woolford, Grant, Slaton, Harris, Fitz-Randolph, Martin, Waldo, Winslow, Felder, and Jackson families.

Dates: 1789-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970

Fader, Haas, Kahn, and Sugarman family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS433
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Sugarman, Fader, Haas, and Kahn families. It primarily features identified portraits and family photographs. Of special note is a portrait silhouette of Carolyn Haas and Nathan Kahn Jr., as well as images of their wedding venue at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1875-1955, undated

Frances Newman papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS812f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a diary Newman kept as a teenager in which she records descriptions of her life at home with her family, activities at school, and plays that she attended. The diary is signed on the front inside cover by Frances Newman and by her mother, Fanny Alexander Newman. The collection also contains correspondence and newspaper articles about Newman's life and novels.

Dates: 1896-1990

Frances Scarratt McDaniel photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS356
Scope and Content This collection contains images of the Scarratt family, including Charles F. Scarratt, Jr., John Balsios Scarratt, and Edith H. Scarratt, along with photographs of their family businesses. Included are images of employees of the Scarratt Garage; men viewing boats at the Scarratt Boat Company; and images of the family's garage truck. Of special note are images of family members in class photographs at Ivy Street School, North Avenue Presbyterian School, and Highland Elementary School in...
Dates: approximately 1890-1960, undated

Goldberg and Rich family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS456
Scope and Contents

This collection contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and cased tintypes of Goldberg and Rich family members. Featured individuals include Marcus and Rachel Goldberg, as well as their children and families. Of special note is a photograph of Rosalind and Valerie Rich as children with an unidentified African American woman, who was likely employed as a family nanny or domestic employee.

Dates: approximately 1847-1895

Grant and Slaton family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS449
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of members of the Grant and Slaton families. It also includes images of residences belonging to George W. Connor, John Thomas Grant, William Daniel Grant, John W. Grant Sr., John Marshall Slaton, and Hugh T. Inman. Of special note are portraits of Emily MacDougald (Mrs. Edward H. Inman) in her wedding dress. Locations are unknown unless otherwise noted.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955, undated

Hayden family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1183
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks from Julius Hayden and Evelyn Whitner, Julius' granddaughter. Julius' scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the presidential election of 1860 as well as the first year of the American Civil War. Evelyn's scrapbook contains image clippings mostly of women, children, and animals. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1861-1946, undated

Inman family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS518
Scope and Contents This collection contains portraits of Inman family members and residences, including the Swan House and the Inman family's residence on 15th Street in the Ansley Park neighborhood. Also included are residences designed by Cooper and Cooper, possibly by Samuel Inman Cooper, such as residences owned by Malon Courts, Henry Grady Jr., Katherine Mitchell Howell, and Dillon Winship. Of particular note are photographs of Emily MacDougald Inman with Hugh T. Inman II and his family at the Swan House...
Dates: 1893-1980, undated

John Ashley Jones papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS125
Scope and Content

Ephemeral items related to the Sons of Confederate Veterans (of which Jones was the national commander), the New York Life Insurance Company, and Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta (where he served as a ruling elder). Of special interest are scripts and historical addresses from Atlanta’s Centennial Celebration in 1948 and an inscribed copy of Ivan Allen’s The Spirit of Atlanta (1948).

Dates: 1912-1948

Joseph F. Buchanan photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS292
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of unidentified Atlantans posed in and around their homes.

Dates: approximately 1895

Kuhns family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS319
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the Kuhn's Photography Studio, including photographs of both the Kuhns family and clients. Many of the images are identified, however most of the tintypes remain unidentified.

Dates: approximately 1860-1929

Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.

Dates: 1895-1905

Mary Connally Spalding photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS339
Scope and Content

This collection contains image of the family and friends of Mary Connally Spalding. Included are photographs of her travels to Ireland, France, and Egypt, as well as bridal portraits for her wedding to John Schaffner Spalding.

Dates: 1873-1932, undated

Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.

Dates: 1993

Murphy family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS517
Scope and Contents This collection contains scrapbook pages that also contain attached newspaper clippings about the family, photo albums, portraits, and drawings of the Murphy family. Most scrapbooks and photograph albums in this collection were possibly complied by Julia Gatins Murphy. There are also several photographs of the Murphy family’s residences, Hillcrest and Villa Juanita. Of special note are portraits of Cardinal John Murphy Farley (1842-1918) of New York and Robert J. Lowry (1840-1919) that are...
Dates: approximately 1870-1959, undated

Plaster and Smith families photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates: 1835-1950, undated

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