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Samuel M. Inman and Jane Walker Inman legal documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS74f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a will of Samuel M. Inman, a letter testamentary whereby his will was executed; an agreement between Mr. Inman and the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company; a letter to his wife from an attorney; and the will of Jane Walker Inman.

Dates: 1906-1923, undated

Samuel M. Inman scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS282
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single scrapbook that includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, telegrams, and invitations all pertaining to Samuel M. Inman.

Dates: 1843-1915

Samuel P. Jones Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS126
Scope and Content The collection is primarily correspondence pertaining to Samuel P. Jones’ revival activities and letters from family members. Most of the letters are photocopies; however, a few are originals. In general, the revival correspondence references planning activities for future meetings as well as building projects. The majority of the Laura Jones correspondence is of a personal nature and the receipts are for incidental purchases. Receipts of interest include a buggy ordered by Reverend Samuel...
Dates: 1880-1925

Samuel P. Lindley photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS311
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Camp Wheeler, a United States Army camp in Macon, Georgia, and there are also images of Marietta National Military Cemetery, officers in military uniforms, army trucks and tents, and photographs of a group of soldiers that were taken mostly during WWI. Also included are photographs of downtown Atlanta, Union Station, Tuxedo Tobacco Company, Henry Grady Monument on Marietta Street, Boy's High School, and Keely's Department Store.

Dates: approximately 1910-1945, undated

Samuel R. Belk diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS878f
Scope and Content

The collection contains Samuel R. Belk's diary, which contains a page of recordings for every day of 1926. One page includes a newspaper clipping which mentions Samuel Belk by name. Entries focus mostly on everyday family life and religious matters from his work as a pastor at Trinity Church in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also notes on the memoranda pages at the end of the diary consisting of names, addresses, and times of day.

Dates: 1926, undated

Samuel Russell and Julia Colquitt Bridges papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1165
Scope and Content

This collection contains genealogy records, letters, programs, and newspaper clippings about the Bridges family, primarily Samuel Russell, Jr. Included are the military papers of Samuel Russell Bridges from World War II. Of particular note is Mrs. Bridges' guest book which was signed by President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).

Dates: 1907-1991, undated

Samuel Spencer Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS333f
Scope and Content

This collection contains carbon transcriptions of fifty seven letters by Samuel Spencer to his father, Lambert Spencer, while he served in the Confederate Army in 1864-1865. He saw service in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Dates: 1864-1865

Samuel Venable Mason letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS454f
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters from Mason to his mother and describe his military activities and surroundings. Other correspondents include Elizabeth Venable Mason, and Ensign Richard Barksdale Harwell. The collection also contains a poem about the 361st Regiment.

Dates: 1944-1945

Sandy Springs Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS894
Scope and Content

This collection consists of documents that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Material includes photographs, correspondence, yearbooks, program announcements, and financial reports. Of special interest are scrapbooks that detail the club's work to preserve Sandy Spring's historic Williams-Payne House and the original springs natural area.

Dates: 1947-1994

Sarah B. Fay herbarium

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Collection number: ahc.MSS925f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one bound herbarium of marine plants collected by Sarah B. Fay. The notebook includes several different types of seaweed such as kelp and algae. The specimens likely came from the coast of Massachusetts. Of special note, the herbarium contains species of seaweed such as: Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) and Porphyra leucosticta (Thuret).

Dates: approximately 1900

Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors

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Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates: 2012

Sarah Martha Cobb Whitner scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS326
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of two scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings pertaining to Cobb and Whitner families as well as Atlanta events.

Dates: 1857-1900, undated

Sarah Plaster speech

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Collection number: ahc.MSS292f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a speech given by Sarah Plaster before the Parent Teacher Association of Rock Spring School in Atlanta, Georgia on the school's Founder's Day. In the manuscript of the speech she wrote about the founding and development of the School.

Dates: 1950

Sarah Slaughter photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS157
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection includes photographs of Atlanta during the early twentieth century. Shown are photographs of Grant Park, an aerial view of Peachtree Street and Broad Street (c.1910), and the interior of an Atlanta home. Photographs of Grant Park taken in the snow include images of Augusta Avenue, the boat dock and boat house, cannons, a driveway, the lion statue at entrance, and children.

Dates: circa 1910-1920

Scripto Pen Company photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

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Collection number: ahc.VIS204
Scope and Content This collection features photographs of the Scripto Pen Company plant and offices in Atlanta. The images document various operations, including drafting, machinery use, and assembly line work being carried out by staff. The collection also includes a photograph of the Scripto Pen Company building exterior and group portraits of personnel. Of particular note is an awards ceremony in which President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) presents Scripo executives with the Presidents "E" Award, an award...
Dates: approximately 1924-1968, undated

Scripto Pen Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1013
Scope and Content This collection contains personnel and marketing records, and documentation of the labor strike at the Scripto Pen Company. The early personnel records include employee names, start dates, previous employment, and wage rates. Volumes of marketing publications and advertisements illustrate trade and commercial print advertisements Scripto Pen Company used for their writing instruments and disposable lighters. National and local newspaper clippings included in the collection relate to the...
Dates: 1923-1981, undated

Scrutchin, Morrison & Company customer form

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS571f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a form mailed to costumers from Scrutchin, Morrison & Co. Commission Merchants and Dealers in Hardware, successors to McNaught, Ormond & Co. both of Atlanta, Georgia. There is a slightly legible note written on the back of the form from an unidentified person.

Dates: approximately 1865

Searcy Slack Jr. visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS495
Scope and Contents This collection contains technical drawings and photographs of neon signs made by the Southern Neon Displays Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Drawings include sign dimensions, construction materials, and electrical information. Signs for the Georgian Terrace Hotel, the Atlantan Hotel, Eastern Airlines, the Coca-Cola Company, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the General Motors Company, and the Bank of Georgia are featured in this collection. All locations are in Atlanta unless...
Dates: 1929-1978, undated

Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS988
Scope and Contents of the Records Nursery catalogs offer a wide variety of horticultural information, including plant introductions, agricultural development and examples of plant illustration. The Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection represents over 500 Seed, Nursery, and Supply companies. Using this collection, researchers can learn about plant cultivar introductions, verify when and how plants were used, study various types of gardening equipment, as well as gain insight into the changes in printing technology and the...
Dates: 1827-current, undated

Senoia Circuit, LaGrange District, North Georgia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South record book

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Collection number: ahc.MSS303f
Scope and Content

This record book contains the official roll and minutes of the Senoia Circuit, LaGrange District, of the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Dates: 1879-1882

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Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 122
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Atlanta Campaign, 1864 73
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Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 55
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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- 22
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 21
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 21
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 20
Coca-Cola Company 20
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 19
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 19
Rich's (Retail store) 19
Emory University 18
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 18
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 18
Garden Club of Georgia. 17
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 16
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 16
Atlanta (Ga.). Fire Department 15
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 15
Atlanta History Center 15
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 15
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 15
United States. Army 15
University of Georgia 15
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team) 14
Young, Andrew, 1932- 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
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
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 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
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- 9
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 9
Jones, Bobby 9
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- 9
Olympic Games. (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Technological High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 9
Woodruff, Robert Winship 9
Atlanta Public Library 8
Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Democratic Party (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 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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