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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Allen family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1014
Scope and Content This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, awards and ceremony programs, and scrapbooks collected by the Allen family. The bulk of the collection pertains to Ivan Allen, Sr. and Ivan Allen, Jr.'s business, civic, and political affairs. Ivan Allen, Sr.'s state senate campaign and election, and Ivan Allen, Jr.'s mayoral campaign and election, and both father and son's work with various charities and civic minded associations are included. Of note are the numerous...
Dates: 1899-2004, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Allen family papers

Allen Family Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS104
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection consists of images of family members and friends of the Allen, Inman, Richardson, and Grant families of Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the photographs of family members consist of images of Ivan Allen, Sr. and Ivan Allen, Jr. Included are photographs of Ivan Allen, Sr. at business meetings, civic and social events, and with friends and family. Photographs of Ivan Allen, Jr. include those from his childhood throughout his career as a businessman and mayor of Atlanta. Also included...
Dates: 1840-1990, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Allen Family Photographs

Atlanta City Council Proclamation for the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS943f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a proclamation signed by the Atlanta City Council on September 16, 2013 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the January 1, 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was signed by president of the Atlanta City Council President, Ceasar C. Mitchell (1968-), and fifteen other council members.

Dates: 16 September 2013
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta City Council Proclamation for the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

Atlanta Department of City Planning records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1268
Scope and Contents This collection contains meeting minutes from the Atlanta Department of City Planning and its boards and committees, including the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board, Board of Zoning Adjustment, Zoning Review Board, and the Planning and Development Committee. The minutes include summaries from public hearings and executive meetings about decisions pertaining to zoning requests and discussions about city-wide redevelopment. Specifically, the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board,...
Dates: 1920-1997, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Department of City Planning records

Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing papers and publications

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS773
Scope and Content

This collection consists of papers and publications related to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Atlanta, Georgia. Series I includes gay and lesbian publications from Atlanta,the Southeast, and nationwide. Series II consists of business and organization papers pertaining to gay rights and AIDS. Series III includes personal papers of gay and lesbian activists in Atlanta and Georgia.

Dates: 1957-2002, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History Thing papers and publications

Bessie Duke Small collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS466
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Bessie Duke Small and miscellaneous ephemeral materials. The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings primarily regarding the Democratic Party and various political events.

Dates: 1908-1961, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Bessie Duke Small collection

Calhoun family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS50
Scope and Content The Calhoun family papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, military papers, and family history. The primary contributors to the collection are James Montgomery Calhoun and his son, William Lowndes Calhoun. Notable items in the collection include an undated Calhoun family history, a personal account of Sherman’s siege of Atlanta by Robert Henderson, a family Bible, a handwritten copy of the affidavit of James M. Calhoun regarding the surrender of Atlanta, and a floor plan of...
Dates: 1834-1960, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Calhoun family papers

Carl T. Sutherland scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS788
Scope and Content

This collection consists of five scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and letters concerning City of Atlanta personnel and the events affecting the city's Personnel Department, including the World War II years. They also contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and letters on the 81st Infantry Division, Army Reserves. General Sutherland's military career during World War II is not chronicled in these scrapbooks.

Dates: 1939-1971
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Carl T. Sutherland scrapbooks

Central Atlanta Progress, INC. Photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS139
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains images of Atlanta’s physical landscape, including buildings, streets, residences, office parks, retail stores, shopping malls, interstates, and railroads in neighborhoods within the city. Many of the photographs were probably used in presentations to business leaders and task forces that worked on projects related to economic development, transportation, housing, and urban design. The images illustrate the growth of the city, and changes that have occurred in the...
Dates: 1960- 1981, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Central Atlanta Progress, INC. Photographs

Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS591
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection consists primarily of the records of Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. The collection includes a small amount of material (1929-1952) from predecessor organizations: Central Atlanta Improvement Association, Greater Atlanta for Annexation, Inc, and the Central Marietta Street Association. The collection also includes early correspondence regarding the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad and the construction of viaducts and bridges in downtown Atlanta in the 1920s and...
Dates: 1924-1994, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. Records

City of Atlanta Gender Identity Amendment

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS736f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a copy of the Gender Identity Amendment (legislation 00-O-0074), signed by Mayor Bill Campbell in 2000, as well as a certificate of authentication for the pen used to sign the amendment.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / City of Atlanta Gender Identity Amendment

City of Atlanta Records

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Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates: 1848-2013, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / City of Atlanta Records

City of Atlanta Treasurer's report

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS6f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a report from the Treasurer for the city of Atlanta for the quarter ending September 30, 1864. The report lists several categories of spending including public buildings, relief programs, stationary, incidentals, and interest.

Dates: 1865
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / City of Atlanta Treasurer's report

E. Earl Patton, Jr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS804
Scope and Content

This collection contains newspaper clippings from political activities from 1965 to 1981, political memorabilia, and family information.

Dates: 1960-1981, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / E. Earl Patton, Jr. papers

Emmet Bondurant papers of the Atlanta Charter Commission

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1169
Scope and Content This collection includes legal records, meeting minutes, correspondence, news articles, organizational charts, draft charters, district maps, consultants' proposals, research reports, and a resolution of commendation given to Emmet Bondurant. Committee minutes and correspondence document the commission's work in creating the new charter throughout its various stages of development. The collection also documents feedback the commission received from city planners and from the public through...
Dates: 1925-1973, undated; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1973
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Emmet Bondurant papers of the Atlanta Charter Commission

Forrest Adair papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS22
Scope and Content

These papers consist of material about the Masons and Atlanta. Papers include newspaper clippings, correspondence, a booklet, Atlanta city directories, and Masonic literature and directory.

Dates: 1859-1925
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Forrest Adair papers

George Hillyer papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS154f
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, genealogical papers, and newspaper clippings related to Judge George Hillyer.

Dates: 1875-1931, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / George Hillyer papers

Gladys Palmer Hobgood Camp papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS68
Scope and Content

Lists of personnel of the civil court of Fulton County, a series of publications titled Railroad Stories, by H. A. Couch; inaugural invitations for President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a letter from Mayor William Hartsfield on the annexation of Buckhead and Druid Hills.

Dates: 1916-1978
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Gladys Palmer Hobgood Camp papers

Grady Lee Randolph diaries

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1002
Scope and Content The collection contains eighty-six volumes of diaries written by Grady Lee Randolph that include memoirs, observations and analysis of daily life as a Alabama farm boy and later as a school teacher and permanent resident of Atlanta, Georgia. The collection spans from 1931 to 2001, but skips the year 1943. Randolph recorded over 20,000 daily diary entries that include observations of life during the Great Depression, and events such as the Gone With the Wind premier; World War II; the...
Dates: 1931-2001
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Grady Lee Randolph diaries

Hale family visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS381
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of Frank Sheffield Hale's family, including members of the Bradley, Davis, Fogle, Harrold, Long, and Sheffield families and their residences. Of special note are photographs of the Hale family farm in Marengo County near Uniontown, Alabama, and the Long family farm in Russell County, Alabama, as well as the Long family's 1984 reunion in Uchee, Alabama. Locations in the collection are unknown unless otherwise noted; however, several of the individuals...
Dates: 1850-2018, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Hale family visual arts materials