Showing Collections: 2101 - 2120 of 2289
U.S.S. Atlanta visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS76
Scope and Contents of the Records
The artificial collection, ranging from 1891 to 1982, documents the efforts of prominent Atlantans, among them Margaret and Stephens Mitchell and Mayor William B. Hartsfield, to support and commemorate various iterations of the U.S.S. Atlanta, primarily during the early 1940s, through photographic and albumen prints, lithographs, and a postcard. The bulk of the collection contains visual materials (black and white photographs, one lithograph, and one postcard) related to U.S.S. Atlanta, the...
Dates:
1891-1982, bulk 1944
Utopian Literary Club documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1120
Scope and Content
This collection consists of historical sketches written about the club, biographies highlighting members, and a proclamation from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners honoring the club. There are also programs for events and special projects, yearbooks documenting past club members, meeting minutes, financial reports, and meeting agendas.
Dates:
1927-2003, undated
Valentine family Bible
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS478
Scope and Content
This collection contains a single family Bible that includes a family record.
Dates:
1821
Van Buren Colley Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS149
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs includes pictures of Atlanta and rural areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region, including Adamsville, and Alpharetta, and other areas of Fulton County. Included are street scenes in downtown Atlanta, and private residences, such as the interior of the home of Civil War collector Beverly DuBose on 2737 Peachtree Street, the home of Lemuel P. Grant in Grant Park, and farmland on Dunwoody Road. The collection is comprised of photographs of churches, including the...
Dates:
circa 1873-1970, undated, bulk 1953-1970
Variola Hospital ledger
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS797f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of one ledger containing records on the patients of a smallpox hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The records list dates the patients entered the hospital, their name, the type of smallpox they had contracted, notes about quarantine or treatment, and the date of discharge or death. In addition, the ledger lists employees who became patients, recording the same information collected about regular patient's in addition to their occupation at the hospital before contracting...
Dates:
1894
Verna Trammell Brown family bible
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS49
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a Bible containing handwritten notes on the Ruff family. The Bible belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Ruff Mitchell, ancestress of Verna Trammell Brown.
Dates:
1815
Veterans History Project oral history collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1010
Scope and Content
This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews as well as documents, photographs, and other materials related to the service of veterans and civilians interviewed as part of the Veterans History Project. Also included are documents created during the interview process, such as biographical data forms and audio-video recording logs. Materials in the collection include originals and reproductions of service records and military correspondence, photographs, newspaper...
Dates:
1914-2021, undated; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1973
Vicki Vara papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS730f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents, correspondence, and advertisements relating to Vicki Vara's management of Backstreet Atlanta. There are also full length LGBTQ publications, most of which contain ads for Backstreet.
Dates:
1977-2005, undated
Vincent A. Irick photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS39
Scope and Content
The collection provides excellent documentation of African Americans in rural Georgia and Florida, and is composed of 90 black and white and cyanotype photographs. Featured are scenes of Spencer’s farm and farm activities, and images of Irick’s friends and family. The bulk of the collection consists of images of African-Americans who lived and worked on the farm, including many depictions of children. The majority of the photographs are in excellent condition; the cyanotypes in particular...
Dates:
undated
Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content
The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
1988-1989
Vineville Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1218
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles, clippings, correspondence, newsletters, and yearbooks that provide details of the civic and social activities of the Vineville Garden Club. Also included in the collection are programs and yearbooks from other garden clubs and organizations as well as Bibb County Flower Show schedules. Scrapbooks highlight the club members' gardens and horticultural interests. Scrapbooks from first president, Mrs. Thomas J. (Ann "Octavia" Burden) Stewart, and former...
Dates:
1922-2015, undated
Virginia Avenue Garden Club scrapbooks
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1079
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks that detail the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, and garden club programs. Of special interest are photographs of the Carnegie Branch Library at the Samuel M. Inman School (now Inman Middle School) in Virginia Highland.
Dates:
1934-1951
Virginia Broome Waterer papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS940
Scope and Content
This collection includes documents from the education, personal life, and career of Virginia Marion Broome Waterer. Materials include report cards; school certificates and programs; newspaper clippings; membership cards; church bulletins; newsletters; a plan for the Virginia-Highland Civic Association; a history of the residence at 900 Arlington Place; and programs from the New Era Study Club. Of particular note are papers regarding her work in the Women's Service Pilots (WASP) during World...
Dates:
1912-1999, undated
Virginia Conrad Ribble scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1171
Scope and Content
The collection contains a copy of The Congressional Globe published in 1847 that Virginia Conrad Ribble used as a scrapbook. The book covers proceedings and debates of the twenty-ninth United States Congress. Ribble pasted newspaper clippings throughout the book to document the major events of the Civil War throughout the United States.
Dates:
1847-1868, undated
Virginia Lou Pirkle scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS847
Scope and Content
This collection contains one memory book kept by Virginia Lou Pirkle during her senior year. Included in the book are autographs from teachers and classmates, newspaper clippings, photos, dance cards, and various materials from neighboring school during 1928.
Dates:
1928
Virginia Maude Eastman scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS342
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of twenty-five photocopied pages from a scrapbook assembled by Daisy Arnold Maude, mother of Virginia Maude Eastman. The bulk of the material pertains to death notices and articles about family members.
Dates:
1855-1970, undated
Virginia Paul scrapbook about Larry Miller
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS7f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook assembled by Virginia Paul on the career of Atlanta Crackers pitcher Larry Miller. Ms. Paul was fifteen years old when she assembled the scrapbook. Ms. Paul became Mrs. Charles Bastedo.
Dates:
1949
Virginia R. Hiatt scrapbooks and report cards
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS938f
Scope and Content
This collection contains report cards for Virginia R. Hiatt from first grade to twelfth and two scrapbooks that document her years at Commercial High School. Included within the scrapbooks are pressed flowers, photographs of Hiatt's friends and classmates, newspaper clippings, theatre programs, ribbons, and signatures from classmates.
Dates:
1924-1931
Virginia Twinam Smith slides
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS397
Scope and Contents
This collection contains slides of a wide variety of identified plants including herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, native shrubs, vegetables, vines, and trees of the Southeastern States. Also a part of the collection are photographs of public gardens, such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Callaway Gardens, Chattahoochee Nature Center, and the gardens of the Tullie Smith House at the Atlanta History Center. Other images in the Smith collection depict downtown Atlanta, skylines,...
Dates:
1978-2003
Vogue, The Picture record
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS899
Scope and Content
This collection contains one seventy-eight revolutions per minute record which has a picture on each side. One of the songs is "Atlanta, G.A." by Skylar and Shaftel, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Jack Prince as vocalist. This side has a picture of a train, the Atlanta Limited, a young woman, and morning glories. The other side of the record is "Aren't You Glad You're You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake as...
Dates:
undated
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 122
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 118
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 91
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 82
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 80
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 74
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 73
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 69
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 67
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 66
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 54
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 52
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 52
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 50
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 50
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 48
- Georgia -- Politics and government 48
- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 48
- Atlanta (Ga.) 47
- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 45
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 45
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 44
- Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 40
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 39
- World War, 1939-1945 39
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 37
- Business records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 36
- Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 36
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc. 35
- Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 35
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 34
- Portrait photography 33
- Women -- Societies and clubs 33
- Gardening -- Societies, etc. 31
- Georgia -- Genealogy 30
- Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 29
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 29
- Public schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 27
- Societies -- Georgia -- Atlanta 27
- City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- Family life -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta 26
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
- Business records -- Georgia 25
- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
- Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
- Landscape architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 25
- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 24
- Children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
- Finance, Personal -- Georgia 23
- Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
- Sports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 23
- World War, 1914-1918 23
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 22
- Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Gardens -- Design 22
- High schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia 22
- Portraits, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
- Agriculture -- Georgia 21
- Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 21
- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
- Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
- Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
- Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
- Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
- Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
- Slavery -- Georgia 20
- Advertising -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 19
- Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
- African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
- Military uniforms 17
- Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Real estate business -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
- Daguerreotypes 16
- Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
- Gay activists 16
- Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
- Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Plants, Ornamental -- Georgia 16
- Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 15
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 15 + ∧ less
- Language
- French 2
- Chinese 1
- German 1
- Names
- Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 32
- Atlanta Historical Society 31
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 26
- Georgia Institute of Technology 25
- Hartsfield, William Berry 24
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 21
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 21
- Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 20
- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
- Coca-Cola Company 20
- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
- Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 19
- Rich's (Retail store) 19
- Emory University 18
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 18
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 16
- Garden Club of Georgia. 16
- Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
- Atlanta History Center 15
- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 15
- C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 15
- United States. Army 15
- University of Georgia 15
- Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 14
- Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 14
- Young, Andrew, 1932- 14
- Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 13
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
- Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) 12
- Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 12
- Atlanta Public Schools 12
- Georgia School of Technology 12
- Inman, Emily Caroline MacDougald, 1881-1965 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
- Georgia Power Company 11
- Inman family 11
- Junior League of Atlanta 11
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 11
- United States. Navy. 11
- Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 10
- Atlanta Music Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 10
- Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 10
- Lane Brothers Photo News Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- Massell, Sam 10
- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 10
- Washington Seminary (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
- American Red Cross 9
- Atlanta Art Association 9
- Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Atlanta Pride Committee 9
- Atlanta Pride Festival 9
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 9
- Commercial High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 9
- Democratic Party (Ga.) 9
- Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 9
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 9
- Jones, Bobby 9
- Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
- Atlanta Public Library 8
- Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs 8
- Georgia. General Assembly 8
- Georgia. Militia 8
- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
- Jones family 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
- Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 8
- Trust Company of Georgia 8
- United Daughters of the Confederacy 8
- Woodruff, Robert Winship 8
- Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
- Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
- Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 7
- Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Atlanta Crackers (Baseball team) 7
- Atlanta Journal (Firm) 7
- Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 7
- Atlanta University 7
- Atlanta Urban League 7
- Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
- Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 7 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more