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West Paces Northside Neighborhood Association documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1173
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents from the meetings of the West Paces Northside Neighborhood Association. Materials include meeting minutes, agendas, membership rosters, and newsletters sent to neighborhood residents. Of particular note is the expansion plans of Pace Academy, which is located just outside of the neighborhood.
Dates:
1991-1999, undated
Westbrook family ration books
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS893f
Scope and Content
The collection contains eight World War II ration books belonging to members of the Westbrook family. There are two ration books for each family member: William Love Westbrook, Margaret Stone Westbrook, William Lawrence Westbrook, and Charles Holt Westbrook. Half of the books were signed by Margaret Westbrook.
Dates:
undated
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company rules booklet
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS18f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains a printed booklet, “Rules for Conductors and Engine-Men of the Western and Atlantic Rail-Road,” published in Atlanta, Georgia in 1852. The booklet has seven sections: 1) Passenger Train Schedules 2) Freight Train Schedules 3) Rules for Passenger Engine-Men 4) Rules for Passenger Conductors 5) Rules for Freight Engine-Men 6) Rules for Freight Conductors and 7) Rules for Lumber Train Conductors. The booklet was probably created as a handbook for employees of Western...
Dates:
1852
Western and Atlantic Railroad minute book
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS64
Scope and Content
Minute book of the Western and Atlantic Railroad covering the years 1870-1890.
Dates:
1870-1890
Western and Atlantic Railroad report
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS503f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of one published report, a United States Senate version of an 1837 survey report by Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), Chief Engineer of the W&A. The survey includes detailed maps of north Georgia and information about construction costs.
Dates:
1837
White Star Automobiles documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS501f
Scope and Content
This collection contains stock certificates, correspondence, and an illustrated brochure for White Star Automobiles.
Dates:
1909-1910
Whittier Cotton Mills photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS462
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images of Whittier Cotton Mills employees, primarily from the cafeteria and spinning room. Also included are images of people and entities not connected to Whittier Cotton Mills, such as Chattahoochee School and Riverside Church of God group portraits and leased convict laborers for the Chattahoochee Brick Company. Of special note are images of the Whittier Cotton Mills baseball team.
Dates:
approximately 1895-1969, undated
Whittier Cotton Mills records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS558
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is correspondence that Whittier Cotton Mills received from local and national suppliers and clients such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Southern Railroad. Other correspondence documents product pricing and sales, some of which includes interoffice memos; the construction of new company housing and plant #5; receipt of bids; and construction contracts with Silver Lake Company. The collection also contains payroll checks. Of particular note are invoices and...
Dates:
1897-1933 (bulk 1926-1933)
Wier G. Boyd papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS37f
Scope and Content
This collection mainly consists of legal interrogatories used in Georgia Superior Courts from 1859-1866. One of the interrogatories, dated March 8, 1852, concerns Shands and Co., a partnership represented by Wier Boyd, which filed suit against Andrew Howell and Andrew Mullinax to recover damages for gold stolen from a mine. The suit was initially brought to court in Greenwood Township, El Dorado County, California, and later in Lumpkin County, Georgia, and was tried three times before a...
Dates:
1852-1886
Wilbur G. Kurtz III papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS102
Scope and Content
Correspondence, newsclippings, school and military records of Wilbur G. Kurtz, III of Atlanta. Of special note is a letter from Wilbur Kurtz II describing his visit to former President Harry Truman
Dates:
1945-1967
Wilbur G. Kurtz, Sr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS130
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Wilbur G. Kurtz, Sr. The bulk of the personal papers pertain to the Kurtz and Fuller families and Wilbur's early adult life in Greencastle, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. The personal papers also contain a series of diaries written by Wilbur and correspondence between Kurtz and Fuller family members.The professional papers and research papers consist primarily of the research materials and notes compiled by Wilbur...
Dates:
1814-1993, undated
Wilbur G Kurtz, Sr. visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS197
Scope and Content
This collection contains the family photographs of the Kurtz and Fuller families as well as visual materials Kurtz created and collected during the course of his career. Family photographs pertain to Kurtz and Fuller families as well as a few images from Annie Pye Kurtz prior to her marriage to Wilbur Sr. Also included are images of Wilbur Sr. and friends during his time in Chicago, Illinois. The bulk of this collection is photographic materials which support the research and field work...
Dates:
1859-1972, undated
Wiley Albert Cash papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1216
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Wiley A. Cash’s finances, state records, legal contracts, and family correspondence. Financial records include household and business expenses, especially with Evens Implement Company, Wofford Oil Company, and C.P. Suber General Merchandise; legal records include documentation about a family dispute about estate inheritance and a land contract with neighbor George McIntosh. The collection also contains a genealogy of the Cash family and a 1928 Emory University...
Dates:
1899-1978, undated
Wiley family Bible
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS470
Scope and Content
This collection contains a single family Bible. It includes family genealogy.
Dates:
1869
Wilhelmina "Billie" Bluet Drummond papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS95f
Scope and Content
This collection contains material related to Wilhelmina Drummond's military service in France during World War I. Included is a French automobile drivers license issued to Drummond; and a contract signed by Drummond to serve with American Women's Hospitals. Also included is typed correspondence in French from the American Committee for Devastated France, Inc., instructing Drummond to report to their offices to be assigned to a destination in France to work as a ambulance driver and mechanic....
Dates:
1918-1920
Willcox family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1148
Scope and Content
This collection contains family correspondence; a copy of the Atlanta Journal and other newspaper clippings; eyesight and speedwriting examination sheets; a composition notebook; a notepad; and a recipe book containing handwritten recipes, newspaper and magazine clippings, and a pamphlet with dietary recommendations from the Atlanta branch of Pat Walker’s Figure Perfection Salons, International. This collection also contains materials pertaining to specific...
Dates:
1923-1986, undated
Willette C. Elrod graduation scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS534f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a graduation book "A Girl's Commencement: Rosebud Memories" kept by Willette C. Elrod upon her graduation from Commercial High School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1919
William A. Bass High School documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1193
Scope and Content
This collection contains editions of the student newspapers The Aerial and The Ambassador. Articles cover important school matters as well as current events. The newspapers also contain short works of fiction, jokes, and a long-running gossip column called "Campus Cliques." Additional material includes Parent Teacher Association pamphlets, commencement programs, and graduation programs.
Dates:
1924-1951
William A. Huff business ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS176f
Scope and Content
This collection contains business correspondence, canceled notes, receipts and invoices of William A. Huff of Macon, Georgia. Most of the invoices are from High, Butler and Company and Carroll & High of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1859-1860
William A. Manley World War II scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS869f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook complied by William A. Manley's father, George T. Manley, in remembrance of his son. It contains letters from William to his mother and his aunt Burnette "Birdie" Manley Fox (1900-?), as well as three letters that George Manley wrote to his son. Topics of the letters include everyday life and concern for William's safety. Newspaper clippings reporting William as missing in action are also included. Of particular note are letters expressing sympathy after...
Dates:
1943-1944, undated
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