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Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history recordings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS178
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection is comprised of ten interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original video recordings for each interview, and a DVD access copy of each.

Dates: 2004-2005

Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history transcriptions

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS994
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection is comprised of eleven interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original audio recordings for each interview, and a CD access copy of each. The interviews with Billy Jones and Ginny Boyd are part of the Maria Helena Dolan collection (1999.142)

Dates: 1997, 2004-2005

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

Atlanta's Woman of the Year records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS415
Scope and Content

This collection consists of organizational records that document activities leading up to the annual dinner and awards ceremony. Also included are agendas, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings. There are scrapbooks that contain photographs and newspaper clippings regarding the awards ceremony.

Dates: 1943-1973, undated

Atlantic Steel Company Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS929
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection consists of the administrative, financial, legal, and marketing records of the Atlantic Steel Company. Included are minutes for the Board of Directors, the Atlantic Building Systems, Inc. and Dixisteel Buildings, Inc. Boards and other groups. The records also include audit reports, annual reports, land records, catalogs and sales notebooks, contracts, leases, agreements, tax certificates, and insurance policies. The collection contains the records of the Corporate Public...
Dates: 1836-2000, undated Bulk: 1901-1982

Atwood family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14f
Scope and Content

This collection contains several legal instruments of the Atwood family filed in Greene County and Putnam County, Georgia. Included is a marriage indenture (marriage certificate), letters of administration for an estate, a court order naming a guardian for a child, a probate will, and a petition to change trustees of marriage indenture.

Dates: 1850-1867

Aubrey Williams transcript of "The Failure of Gradualism"

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS957f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a transcript of Aubrey Williams' speech, "The Failure of Gradualism" that that he presented in Atlanta, Georgia, before the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, a historically Black fraternity. In the speech, Williams calls for a united stand against States' Rights Democratic Party, commonly called Dixiecrat, politicians and white supremacists and argues against a gradualist approach to desegregation.

Dates: 1949

Augusta Arsenal Journal

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Collection number: ahc.MSS855
Scope and Content This collection consists of one journal of the Augusta Arsenal. Under the Unites States, the ledger includes an account of the early tarriffs on various goods, wages for camp people, including the wash women, budget of the post treasury, furloughs of soldiers, post orders, and other information about the general operating of the arsenal. Under the Confederacy, the ledger was used to keep inventory of the tools and contents at the arsenal including the Carriage Shop, the Carpenter Shop, the...
Dates: 1834-1866

Augusta Lumber Company catalog

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS569f
Scope and Content

This collection consist of Augusta Lumber Company's Catalogue No. 14 printed in 1915. The catalogue contains various items which were used in the construction of houses and buildings including windows, sashes, doors, trim, mantels, china cases, sideboards, medicine cases, balusters, porch rails, brackets, and stair material with prices.

Dates: 1915

Augustus Robert Jones papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS571
Scope and Content This collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, ledgers, receipts, legal papers, advertisements, insurance papers, newspaper clippings, patent documents, and other papers pertaining to Augustus Robert Jones and the Jones family. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Jones's personal correspondence and financial records about the family cotton business. Also included are pocket diaries containing records of business and household purchases, printed papers such as price...
Dates: 1855-1908, undated

Austin family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1230
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Eugene and Dorethia Austin’s high school diplomas and graduation programs from Buford Colored High School, a newspaper clipping about Eugene Austin speaking at Poplar Hill Baptist Church in Buford, Georgia, and a plaque honoring his induction into the United States Supreme Court as an attorney and counselor.

Dates: 1949-1976, undated

Austin T. Walden papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS614
Scope and Content This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Austin T. Walden. The papers are primarily office files and case briefs from his law career. Additional material includes correspondence, financial papers, membership information, political campaign documents, speeches, and marketing and outreach material from various organizations. The collection contains materials from the many organizations to which Walden belonged or defended in court, such as the NAACP, the Atlanta Negro...
Dates: 1900-1969, undated

Authors' grove documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS507f
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings related to tree planting projects, including a grove of trees comemorating famous authors that were planted in Piedmont Park. The collection also includes correspondence and a list of trees planted.

Dates: 1920-1922

Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Georgia records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS905
Scope and Content

These records consist of scrapbooks and yearbooks.

Dates: 1925-1982

Avary and Stephens family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1028
Scope and Content The papers consist of articles, advertisements, books, datebooks, legal documents, professional records, and personal correspondence of the Avary and Stephens families. There are articles from the Atlanta Journal Constitution and various magazines throughout the 1920's covering topics such as movie costumes, filet crochet, floor plans, and women's sports. Advertisements include a circular for Thomas Edison's phonograph acquired from the 1904 Louisiana...
Dates: 1884-1966, undated

Avondale Estates Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1019
Scope and Content This collection contains the records of the Avondale Estates Garden Club. The collection chiefly consists of the Club's scrapbooks which highlight its projects, awards, and anniversaries. Of particular interest are early scrapbooks from 1938-1940 which describe the Club's involvement in projects to beautify Lake Avondale as a living memorial to G.F. Willis, founder and builder of Avondale Estates, and to establish a bird sanctuary. Also included are yearbooks and history of the Club. These...
Dates: 1931-2019

Avondale Estates narrative history

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS649f
Scope and Content

Longtime Avondale Estates resident Dorothy Partridge wrote this narrative history of her community for a class at Georgia State University in 1992. Partridge drew heavily from contemporary newspaper articles and advertising brochures for the community of Ingleside, later Avondale Estates. The author’s compilation of survey and reminiscences of Avondale Estates residents are also included.

Dates: 1992

Azalea Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1078
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook that details the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, and programs. Of special interest are photographs of members' gardens from the Emory University area neighborhood. Additional loose photographs of Eatonton and Griffin, Georgia, from approximately 1938, are found at the end of the scrapbook.

Dates: 1938-1963; Majority of material found within 1959 - 1963

B. W. Wrenn ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS385f
Scope and Content

This collection contains invitations sent by Georgia governor William Y. Atkinson and by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson during the Cotton States and International Exposition. The collection also contains newspaper clippings on the entertaining during the Exposition and on the death of B. W. Wrenn in New York City.

Dates: 1880-1912

Backstreet Atlanta Discotheque visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS225
Scope and Content

This collection contains snapshot photographs of staff and patrons inside the nightclub during special events and regular business hours. Included are professional publicity photographs of drag performers and entertainers that include Jimmy James, Cynthia Manley, Bubba McNeely, Jane Doe, and Gladys Knight. Also included are advertising flyers for special events.

Dates: 1982-2002, undated

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 122
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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 83
Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 83
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 74
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 73
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 71
Scrapbooks -- Georgia 69
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 66
Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 55
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 53
Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 53
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Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 51
Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 50
Georgia -- Politics and government 49
Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 48
Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 48
Atlanta (Ga.) 47
Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 46
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Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 44
Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 42
World War, 1939-1945 39
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Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 35
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 34
Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.) 33
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Women -- Societies and clubs 33
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Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 31
Georgia -- Genealogy 30
City planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 29
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African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
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Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 25
Landscape architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 25
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Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 24
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Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 23
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Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 23
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 23
World War, 1914-1918 23
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 22
Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
Gardens -- Design 22
Portraits, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 22
Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 21
Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Banks and Banking -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 20
Advertising -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
African American women -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 19
Construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
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Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 19
Slavery -- Georgia 19
African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Real estate business -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Stone Mountain (Ga.) 18
Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 18
Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
Midtown (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
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Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 17
Politicians -- Georgia 17
Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 16
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French 2
Chinese 1
German 1
 
Names
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 32
Atlanta Historical Society 31
Georgia Institute of Technology 27
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 26
Hartsfield, William Berry 24
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Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 23
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 22
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 21
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 21
Coca-Cola Company 20
Garden Club of Georgia. 20
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 19
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
Rich's (Retail store) 19
Emory University 18
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 18
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 17
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 16
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 16
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 15
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 15
Atlanta History Center 15
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
United States. Army 15
University of Georgia 15
Young, Andrew, 1932- 15
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 14
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Ga.) 13
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 13
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 12
Atlanta City Hall (Atlanta, 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
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 12
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 12
Agnes Scott College 11
Atlanta (Ga.). City Council 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
Olympic Games. (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 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
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
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 9
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Woodruff, Robert Winship 9
Atlanta Crackers (Baseball team) 8
Atlanta Journal (Firm) 8
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
League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County 8
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 8
Trust Company of Georgia 8
United Daughters of the Confederacy 8
Aaron, Hank, 1934- 7
Allen, Louise Richardson, 1917-2008 7
American Society of Landscape Architects. Georgia Chapter 7
Atlanta (Ga.). Bureau of Planning 7
Atlanta Botanical Garden 7
Atlanta Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 7
Atlanta Falcons (Football team) 7
Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing (Ga.) 7
Atlanta University 7
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