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Walter H. Grant scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS96
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Rose Grant, wife of Walter H. Grant. It contains clippings regarding notable Atlanta citizens and adoption papers of their daughter, Louise.
Dates:
1915-1925
Walter McElreath Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS154
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, manuscripts, handwritten notes, and pamphlets. The bulk of the collection contains McElreath's writings; research; rough drafts; a play for the Atlanta Centennial celebration; manuscripts of books and articles; and newspaper notices about his publications. Also included are notes and articles about Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw. Newspaper clippings cover topics such as the Atlanta Centennial in 1948; the...
Dates:
1879-1963, undated
Walter Newman letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS252f
Scope and Content
These letters from Walter Newman of Atlanta, Georgia were written from Cambridge, Massachusetts after World War I. He wrote to his mother about his discharge from the Army and to his brother Edward. He writes of his life in the military and about his desire that Edward escort his fiance in his absence.
Dates:
1919
Walter S. Burns civil war correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS603f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains 22 letters from Walter S. Burns to his parents living in Findlay, Ohio. He writes about living conditions in the army camps, the needs of a soldier, his business matters at home, and news such as deaths of friends and family. Burns’ letters begin in Nashville, Tennessee in 1862 and continue through 1864 from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Ringgold and Atlanta, Georgia. He records fighting outside of Atlanta and the shelling of the city in his letter written on August 20,...
Dates:
1862 – 1864
Walter T. Downing letter and travel article
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS689f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two textual items related to the design of the Fine Arts Building for the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. The first is a two-page letter from Horace Bradley, head of the Fine Arts Department at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, to Walter T. Downing praising his design work on the Fine Arts Building. The second item is a page from a montly society and travel newspaper, The Chicago 400, with a picture of the Fine...
Dates:
1895, undated
Walter T. Downing visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS200
Scope and Content
This collection contains images created or collected by Walter T. Downing. These images include lithographs, collotypes, photographs, and photographic reproductions of architectural details and sculptures from books and serials. The books include Lacy's Dramatic Costumes and Die Tapezierkunst which contains reproduced sketches of tapestries and window decorations. Also included are images of architectural details...
Dates:
1865-1899, undated
War Act broadside
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS474f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a broadside of an act "Recognizing the existence of a state of war between the United States and the Confederate States of America and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods." It is signed by Howell Cobb, president of the Congress, Jefferson Davis, and Robert Toombs, Secretary of State.
Dates:
1861 May 6
War savings bond certificate
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS753f
Scope and Content
This collection contains one certificate for the purchase of war savings bonds to sponsor the United States military efforts during World War II. This particular bond was sold to build a new cruiser, called Atlanta, in 1943.
Dates:
1943
Warren Woodliff documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS642f
Scope and Content
The Warren Woodliff papers include a description of Cumming (Forsyth County), Georgia and an appointment of Warren Woodliff as overseer of the public road.
Dates:
1872-1875
Washington Seminary records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS28
Scope and Content
These papers consist of catalogues (organized chronologically), invitations, programs, newspaper clippings, Memories, and a history of Washington Seminary.
Dates:
1878-1978
Watts Gunn papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS960
Scope and Content
The Watts Gunn Papers, donated in his memory in 1999 by his wife, include newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to his golf career which spanned more than seven decades. Also included are programs from his many inductions into halls of fame, a rules card from Muirfield, Scotland, and certificates of achievement.
Dates:
1923-1993, undated
Way family documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS370f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a certificate from Georgia Tech verifying the enrollment of Harold Way, a 1906 yearbook from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he graduated, and a letter granting commission to him as a Captain in the United States Army in 1918. Also included is a certificate from the American Red Cross belonging to Jeannette Way, Harold's wife.
Dates:
1898-1918
Wayside Garden Club scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS721
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook that provides details on the civic and social activities of the club. Included in the scrapbook are clippings, correspondence, flower show ribbons, photographs, and a yearbook. Of special interest are photographs of the Osgood Sanders Nursery on Baker Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1948-1950
Wayt family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS736
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, a business card, handwritten notes, school work, and church materials. Correspondence involves letters and newspaper clippings exchanged between family members. Many of the letters are to John Augustus Wayt while attending school and in the military (1914-1920). The business card belonged to John Chiles for his building materials business. School work includes John Augustus' class notes in chemistry and engineering; notes and lists include printed...
Dates:
1914-1920
Webb Family letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS452f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains 18 letters and 5 of the envelopes in which the letters were sent. Some are photocopies and some are original letters. Nine of the letters are from Robert R. Webb to his wife Elisabeth A. Webb dating from September 15, 1861 to May 15, 1862. Written first from Camp McDonald then later from his station at Portsmouth, Virginia and a General Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, the letters deal mostly with matters of money. Robert R. Webb directs his wife in paying debts and...
Dates:
1861 – 1888, 1908
Wedding invitation and tax receipt collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS202f
Scope and Content
This collection contains wedding invitations for Atlanta and Suwanee, Georgia weddings. Included are invitations for the weddings of Alice Joseph White to Theodore Weld Birney; Sarah Frances Grant to Thomas Cobb Jackson; Francis Bessie Little to Lansing Bruner Edgerly; Nannie Louise Duncan to Jack B. Stewart; and Harriet Frances Inman to Mr. Morris Brandon. Also included are tax receipts for Mrs. M. J. Van Winkle.
Dates:
1880-1916, undated
Wedding invitations collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS395
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of wedding invitations. The bulk of the invitations were sent to the Slaton and Grant families and to Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Jones and Mrs. John S. B. Woolford.
Dates:
1867-1981, undated
Wednesday Morning Study Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS580
Scope and Contents of the Records
The Wednesday Morning Study Club Records primarily consist of the minute books, 1907-1979, annual program booklets, 1907-2008, and program papers, 1967-2008. The minute books document the activities of the organization and often provide a synopsis of the papers presented at the meeting. The topic of each paper conformed to a theme selected by the organization and was read aloud at the meeting. The minute books also provided a glimpse of the current events; however, one entry suggests the...
Dates:
1907-2012
Wendell C. Moore Western Union Telegraph Company documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS743f
Scope and Content
This collection contains material from Moore's employment at Western Union Telegraph Company. Materials include a copy of his employment application, his employee service record, his personnel record from 1966, a company service card, a company newsletter, and newspaper clipping announcing his promotion to district superintendent in 1951.
Dates:
1923-1966, undated
Wesley Chenault papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS809f
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents pertaining to LGBT issues in Atlanta. Materials include pamphlets from the 2007 Southern Comfort Transgender Conference, advertisements for Atlanta drag performances, a 1981 menu for Prince George Inn (a historically gay restaurant), and an invitation to a 1999 wedding between two women, Melinda McBride and Kristal Manning. Notably, many of the Southern Comfort Conference pamphlets advertise products and treatments, like cosmetic surgery and professional...
Dates:
1965-2007, undated
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