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Bazoline E. Usher papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates: 1921-2005, undated

Bazoline Usher visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS481
Scope and Contents This collection contains portraits of Bazoline Usher, her father, and her siblings. It includes images related to Bazoline Usher’s career as an educator and director and supervisor of Atlanta Public Schools’ African American schools, including images of a Georgia Teachers and Education Association Meeting, and Atlanta Public Schools African American Supervisors and Principals meetings. Of special note are photographs of Usher receiving the Iota Phi Lambda Bronze Woman of the Year Award, and...
Dates: approximately 1895-1991

Bedford-Pine Neighborhood Photograph Collection

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Collection number: ahc.VIS152
Scope and Contents of the Records

The collection includes images of residents and homes in the Bedford-Pine district of Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1970’s. The images depict children playing in the streets and on playgrounds as well as adults outside their homes. The photographs depict dilapidated and condemned housing in the area, a few neighborhood storefronts, refuse, and scenes of the Atlanta skyline in the background.

Dates: circa 1970-1971

Belle Isle Family Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS146
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection consists of photographs of Alvin Belle Isle and his family, including his wife Agnes, his parents John and Jane, his five children, and several grandchildren. In addition, the collection contains images of the Belle Isle Garage on Houston Street in Atlanta which housed most of Alvin’s businesses. The photographs include exterior and interior images of the building. Also included is a line drawing of a new garage Mr. Belle Isle was planning to build, but never did. The...
Dates: circa 1900-1940

Belle Rogers McConnell papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS839
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that document the teaching career of Belle R. McConnell. Materials include hearing test results, lesson plans, activity materials, copies of speeches and reports, McConnell's teaching certificates, news clippings, and correspondence with colleagues and former students.

Dates: 1905-1971, undated

Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta

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Collection number: ahc.VIS444
Scope and Contents This collection includes copies of watercolors of a variety of locations around Atlanta, including the First National Bank of Atlanta, the commissioner of the work; Georgia Capitol; Grady Memorial Hospital; Piedmont Park; Emory University; Peachtree Street; Muse's Department Store; First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia; and the Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia. Also included are interleaving pages for each painting with descriptive information. Please note this collection contains...
Dates: 1959

Benjamin E. Mays photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS40
Scope and Content The images consist of portraits of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, primarily at public events such as graduation ceremonies or committee meetings during his tenure as the president of Morehouse College. Other photographs consist of Mays with other individuals or groups, including faculty members. Most of the group photographs are identified by event only and include general faculty or administrators posed in cap and gown, consisting of Benjamin E. Mays; Charles E. Merrill, Chairman, Board of Trustees,...
Dates: approximately 1947-1981

Benjamin Elliot Crane collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS341
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of essays, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript of Crane's biography.

Dates: 1849-1885

Benjamin H. Hill speech

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Collection number: ahc.MSS460f
Scope and Content

This handwritten address to the Georgia branch of the Southern Historical Society discusses the Reconstruction period and includes reminiscences of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The speech was delivered in Atlanta on February 18, 1874.

Dates: 1874

Benjamin J. Wilson Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS208
Scope and Content The papers of Benjamin J. Wilson consist primarily of business records from Alabama and Georgia. The bulk of the collection contains receipts and letters written as part of his business in and around Atlanta in the years 1864 and 1896. There are some personal records and family information with one folder of miscellaneous clippings collected by his wife. Other family members mentioned in these papers include his sons: John B. Wilson (1875-1881), Robert E. Wilson, Will Wilson (d. 1898) Philip...
Dates: 1850-1896

Benjamin J. Wilson Photograph and Map Collection | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

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Collection number: ahc.VIS142
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection of photographs consist of three generations of Wilson family members, including the images of grandchildren: Caverly, Bessie and Benjamin Wilson Tye; the children of Carrie Wilson Tye and John L. Tye. There are also several unidentified photos. An additional oversize file contains a map, property survey of Fulton County, near Westend, pertaining to the Riddle v. Wilson court case that is part of MSS 208.

Dates: circa 1870-1930

Benjamin Mart Bailey papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS30
Scope and Content

These papers consist of Army documents, correspondence, and newspaper clippings from General Bailey's military career, personal life, and academic and military education.

Dates: 1881-1978; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1940

Benjamin T. Hunter papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS179f
Scope and Content This collection contains Benjamin T. Hunter's diary, in which he wrote extensively about the weather, his school, hunting, Civil War battles, drilling and camp life with the local militia, the cost of items he had purchased, and various activities he pursued in his workshop. Also included are military documents in which Hunter is ordered to arrest deserters. There are letters from J. DeWitt Burkhead regarding a teaching position in Athens, Georgia. The collection also contains papers...
Dates: 1861-1869

Benning family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS60
Scope and Content

These papers consist of correspondence between various members of the Benning family, personal documents, genealogy of the Benning family, and business papers from Hong Kong, New York and Atlanta.

Dates: 1862-1963, undated

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

Benton family Leo Frank papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1167
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents pertaining to the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the murder trial of Leo Frank. Newspaper articles and a dissertation describe the details of the trial and Frank's lynching as well as new witness for the case and the push for a pardon for Frank in the 1980s. Also included are genealogy papers on the Phagan family.

Dates: 1891-2015

Benton Rapid Express, Inc. freight tariff report

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS828f
Scope and Content

The collection contains a Benton Rapid Express, Inc. proportional freight tariff supplemental listing of class and commodity rates between Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1936-1938

Berman Family Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS28f
Scope and Content

Included in this collection is a certificate of naturalization for Augustus Berman and a reissued marriage license for Augustus and Gertrude Berman. Also included is a letter of acknowledgement to Gertrude Berman from Mrs. Abe Fitterman, President of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, for the donation of a sewing machine, and a Georgia medical license issued to Louis C. Rouglin.

Dates: 1901-1952

Bernard C. Johnson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS463f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents relating to conservation, or rationing of gasoline and civil defense during World War II; and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1943-1949

Bernard L. Solari Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS147
Scope and Contents of the Records

These photographs depict the aftermath of a fire at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta. Included are photographs of the exterior of the building, interior light fixtures, the lobby area, theatre seating, and the theatre stage area, all damaged by the fire.

Dates: February 1978

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Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
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Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
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C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
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Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 13
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department 12
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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 Water Works (Ga.) 11
First National Bank of Atlanta 11
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Inman family 11
Junior League of Atlanta 11
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 11
United States. Navy. 11
Allen, Ivan, 1877-1968 10
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Capital City Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 10
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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
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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
American Society of Landscape Architects. Georgia Chapter 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
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