Authors, American -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Writers' Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS513
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence, newsletters, programs, yearbooks, membership lists, and a published history of the Atlanta Writers' Club.
Dates:
1925-1982
Ella May Thornton Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS206
Scope and Content
This collection contains personal documents of Miss Thornton’s, as well as material that reflected some of her interests later in life. Included are report cards from the Georgia Capital Female College and Conservatory of Music in 1890-1891, her passport from 1935, and a citation from the Atlanta Library Club upon her retirement in 1954. Other material consists of hand-written correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical records, and pamphlets that documented her interests in the Gate...
Dates:
1890-1973, undated (bulk 1947-1968)
Florence Bryan Ansley family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS246
Scope and Content
This collection consists of family photographs of Mrs. Bonneau Ansley (Florence Bryan). Included are images of her parents Judge and Mrs. Shepard Bryan; great-grandmother Sally Addison Cobb Jackson (1847-1915); mother-in-law Florence King Jackson; and Sister Mary Bryan Benedict. Most of the images in the collection are informal photographs of family members taken in the home of Florence Bryan. Of special note is a photo of Florence Bryan and Judge Shepard Bryan standing before a plaque...
Dates:
approximately 1880 - 1958
Margaret Mitchell House Archives
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content
The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1848-2002, undated
Margaret Mitchell House Museum, Inc. Visual Arts Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS140
Scope and Contents of the Records
These visuals were acquired by the Margaret Mitchell House, Inc. to document the life of Margaret Mitchell; the creation of her book, Gone with the Wind; the movie, Gone with the Wind; the Margaret Mitchell House; and Atlanta, Georgia, in the early half of the 20th century. Most of the images are copy prints and negatives. There are some significant original prints, however, including a series of photographs featuring Mitchell and her friend Henry Angel. Other original prints include...
Dates:
1863-1997, undated, bulk 1916-1936
Mary Cawthon McIntrye papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1217
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is short story drafts and notes written by Mary Cawthon McIntrye for her historical fiction and mystery stories. There are also three World War II ration books from her family.
Dates:
1944, 1990, undated
Myrta Lockett Avary photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS279
Scope and Content
The collection contains images collected by Avary, including images of Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Memorial Association members, and portraits of Myrta Avary. Also included are exterior views of Bulloch Hall and Barrington Hall in Roswell, Georgia, and the Wren's Nest in Atlanta, Georgia. Of note are images of a ceremony transferring possession of the Wren's Nest from Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris to the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. Other photographs include Joel Chandler Harris...
Dates:
1870-1917, undated
Sydney C. Kerksis papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS762
Scope and Content
This collection contains a number of Kersis' original manuscripts and the supporting research and correspondence as well as published copies of other articles.
Dates:
1946-1989