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Business records -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

1900 Study Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS406
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of materials created by and about the 1900 Study Club. The bulk of the collection is club minutes and scrapbooks. Also included in the collections are yearbooks, correspondence, and programs.

Dates: 1903-1990
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / 1900 Study Club records

Abercrombie, Aycock, Hale, and Hawk family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS394f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of various legal documents, a letter from "G. L. Hale" to her son, and a petition to re-locate the court in Walton County, Georgia. The legal documents include bills of sale for land, debts, and property deeds for the Abercrombie, Aycock, Hale, and Hawk families.

Dates: 1845-1899, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Abercrombie, Aycock, Hale, and Hawk family papers

American Legion Fulton County Post 134 records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS386
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of organizational and financial records for the American Legion Fulton County Post 134. Included in the collection are meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial records. There are also meeting programs, membership rosters, and dues cards.

Dates: 1882-1969, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / American Legion Fulton County Post 134 records

Augustus Robert Jones papers

 Collection
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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Augustus Robert Jones papers

Berry family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1024
Scope and Content This collection contains articles, certificates, correspondence, deeds, a ledger, military records, and school assignments. The majority of the records consist of deeds dated 1832-1887 of properties purchased by John Marshall Berry in Rome, Georgia. Included are deeds for one half of a commercial lot bought by Charles H. Smith, former mayor of Rome, Georgia, and one for 22 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. There is a merchant ledger dated 1864-1869 perhaps belonging to John Marshall Berry...
Dates: 1832-1965, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Berry family papers

Bird Isaac Moon ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS407f
Scope and Content

This ledger of cabinet maker Bird Isaac Moon in Harmony Grove, Georgia, contains the names of customers, type of item made for them, and the price of the item. The collection also contains clippings of poems, recipes, and obituaries.

Dates: 1874 June 17 - 1877 December 30
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Bird Isaac Moon ledger

Business accounts ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1176
Scope and Content

This collection contains a ledger used to record business accounts. Each page contains the name of a business or individual, followed by a list of dates and numbers. It is possible this ledger was used by a general store, with each list containing purchases and wages.

Dates: 1913, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Business accounts ledger

Cable Piano Company of Atlanta financial records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS350
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of financial records generated by the Cable Piano Company. Included in the collection are sales and purchase ledgers, sales report book, and account book.

Dates: 1959-1971
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Cable Piano Company of Atlanta financial records

DuBose family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and professional papers of the DuBose family and the historical Civil War items they collected. The personal papers pertain to geneaology, correspondence, and DuBose Jr.'s military service in the United States Navy. Also included are manuscripts and presentations written by members of the DuBose family as well as many collected from others about the Civil War.These papers document the DuBose family's interest in the Civil War. There is...
Dates: 1782-2001, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / DuBose family collection

Elijah A. Brown, Sr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS38
Scope and Content

These papers consist of business and personal papers, including correspondence and financial records of Elijah A. Brown, Sr. and some of Elijah A. Brown, Jr. In addition, ther are papers pertaining to several Brown Family members, including Governor Joseph E. Brown, Julius I. Brown, and Marcus J. Brown.

Dates: 1826-1965, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Elijah A. Brown, Sr. papers

Empire State Oil Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS443
Scope and Content

This collection contains company records such as leases, financial reports, inventories, and tax returns. There are also stock certificates and transactions.

Dates: 1939-1942, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Empire State Oil Company records

Georgia Chamber of Commerce collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS436
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of travel information pertaining to various cities throughout Georgia. Travel materials include books, pamphlets, postcards, tour maps, correspondence, and press releases. There are also organizational materials such as periodicals, publications, and special event programs.

Dates: 1957-1978, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Georgia Chamber of Commerce collection

Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS400
Scope and Content

This collection consists of club yearbooks, pamphlets, programs, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1912-1961, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs records

James E. Williams papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS329
Scope and Content This collection documents Williams family members and their businesses, including letters, bills, and receipts. There are three bound books: a checkbook from 1854, Williams company account book from 1859, and a scrapbook from 1904-1905. There are also several Confederate bond receipts and checks, letters from the field, a parole, monthly subsistence papers, a land indenture, and a broadside of a speach James's WIlliams gave in Atlanta. Other items include a fire insurance policy dated...
Dates: 1820-1905, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / James E. Williams papers

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates: 1810-1988, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1077
Scope and Content This collection contains business documents generated and collected by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The bulk of the material is meeting minutes created by the Chamber and its various councils. There are also publications of the Chamber, administrative and institutional records, and various documents describing the establishment of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), airports in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission. Material...
Dates: 1883-2012, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce records

Mitchell and Mitchell real estate records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS448
Scope and Content This collection contains real estate records used by the Mitchell and Mitchell law firm. The bulk of the collection are abstracts of title that track a property's legal history. Most of the abstracts are for Fulton County residences, but some document businesses; railroads; churches and cemeteries; streets; and neighborhoods. In addition to Fulton County, there are abstracts from Cobb, DeKalb, Bartow, Campbell, Cherokee, Clayton, Clinch, Floyd, Gwinnett, and Milton counties. The collection...
Dates: 1849-1958, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mitchell and Mitchell real estate records

Nineteenth Century History Class records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS408
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes books as well as event programs and membership information.

Dates: 1912-1952, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Nineteenth Century History Class records

Rhodes Furniture Company records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS430
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of the business records for the Rhodes Furniture Company. Included in the collection are financial records, acquisition papers, correspondence, ledgers, and cash books. There are also pension plan and tax return records.

Dates: 1900-1965, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Rhodes Furniture Company records

Rosalie Howell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS119
Scope and Content The bulk of the materials in the Rosalie Howell papers document Howell's career as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and her subsequent world travel. Items include a scrapbook; correspondence with former patients; official Red Cross documents; clippings concerning her receipt of the Croix de Guerre from the French government; and travel books, postcards, and ephemera (primarily from the United Kingdom). The collection has material about, or created by, other members of the Howell family;...
Dates: 1880-1970, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Rosalie Howell papers