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Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta Chapter American Guild of Organists Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS367
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection contains chapter minutes, membership rolls, programs, correspondence, yearbooks, and a series of scrapbooks. The scrapbooks primarily document chapter activities between 1935 and 1980. The contents of each scrapbook generally include recital programs, newspaper clippings, convention materials, photographs, brochures, church programs, etc. In addition, the collection contains the chapter newsletter, Organizer, which reports information and activities relative to the pipe organ....
Dates: 1914-2006

Atlanta Community Orchestra photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS250
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Atlanta Community Orchestra (ACO) performances, rehearsals, and orchestra members. Of special note are photographs of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra first chair clarinetist, Karl A. Bevins (1915-2011), performing with the ACO.

Dates: approximately 1957-1971, undated

Atlanta Freedom Marching Bands documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1112
Scope and Content

This collection contains financial, outreach, and organizational papers that document the founding and early years of the Atlanta Freedom Marching Band. Records include meeting minutes, incorporation records, bylaws, correspondence, bank information, expense reports, tax records, membership announcements, newsletters, and advertisements.

Dates: 1993-1998, undated

Atlanta Music Club photographs and video

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS245
Scope and Content The collection consists of images of club members and performers, club member meetings, and concerts and events produced by the Atlanta Music Club. A variety of images of events are represented in the collection such as color and black and white images from the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra's 26th Annual Young Artists' Concerto Concert (2000); the club's Spring Promenade (1982); the All-Star Concert Series (1985) and a fashion show (1993). There are a small number of unidentified...
Dates: 1950-2001, undated

Atlanta Music Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS404
Scope and Content This collection consists of records created by the Atlanta Music Club and its subsidiary organizations including correspondence, meeting minutes, rosters, by-laws, financial statements, and committee reports. Also included are marketing materials such as press releases, advertising contracts, correspondence regarding advertising and publicity arrangements, concert series programs, newsletters, and information about artists who performed for the club. The collection contains publications of...
Dates: 1915-2001, undated; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970

Atlanta Music Festival Association records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS332
Scope and Content This collection contains records from the Atlanta Music Festival Association and Metropolitan Opera performances in Atlanta. Included in the collection are correspondence, donor gift records, ticket office operations manuals and ticket sales data mostly from the mid-1980s until the end of the Metropolitan Opera tour in 1986. The collection also contains annual reports, scrapbooks, librettos, newspaper clippings, publications, repertoires, seating charts, and ticket order forms from the New...
Dates: 1902-1986, undated

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS424
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of fifteen scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings and performance programs. Also included in the collection are loose programs and miscellaneous printed materials.

Dates: 1946-1962, undated

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS452
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1920s through the 1990s. The photographs document orchestra directors, musicians, personnel, guest musicians, concerts, and activities. Locations depicted in the photographs include Peachtree Street, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Swan House at Atlanta History Center, Chastain Park, Carnegie Hall in New York, and unidentified locations.

Dates: approximately 1920-1999, undated

Atlanta Woman's Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS353
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of records that provide details on the history of the club. Included in the collection are yearbooks, scrapbooks, pressbooks, newspaper clippings, and programs pertaining to the club's social and civic activities. Of special interest are materials that provide details on the historic Wimbish House.

Dates: 1895-1986, undated

Choral Guild of Atlanta records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1251
Scope and Contents This collection contains records that document the activities, practices, and performances of the Choral Guild of Atlanta. Included in the collection are board proceedings, financial records, chorus member handbooks, clippings and articles, organizational history, itineraries, performance announcements, schedules, and programs. Also a part of the collection are administrative binders that detail CGA's mission, history, by-laws, meeting minutes, member handbooks, budgets, timeline, and...
Dates: 1939-2018, undated

Dave Hayward papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1104
Scope and Content

This collection contains programs, flyers, and clippings collected by Dave Hayward from LGBTQ events in the Atlanta area including Atlanta Pride, museum exhibits, film screenings, musical and theatrical performances, and religious meetings.

Dates: 1991-2010, undated

Dorothy Haverty Grove papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS97
Scope and Content The clippings, correspondence, programs, and articles in this collections, pertain primarily to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Guild, and secondarily with the Atlanta Music Club and the Atlanta Junior League. Of particular note is a signed proclamation by Mayor William B. Hartsfield that declared September, 6-13, 1954, Atlanta Symphony Week, the script of the orchestra’s tenth anniversary radio program, (which includes a history of the group), and several articles...
Dates: 1938-1956, undated

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

Frances A. Pici visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS418
Scope and Contents This collection contains color slides and videos of LGBTQ+ activist events, performances, and sports. Included are images of two Atlanta lesbian softball teams, the Lorlei Ladies and the Tower Hotshots, as well as materials related to the Red Dyke Theatre and Lucina's Music performance venues. Also included are two activist events related to the Equal Rights Amendment (labeled as a picnic) and a gay rights march, both in Atlanta, Georgia. The videos depict performances by members of the Red...
Dates: approximately 1975-1990

Graham W. Jackson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS526
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials pertaining to the musical career of Graham Washington Jackson, including advertisements, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, musician contact records, a recital program, and a certificate for the WSBeaver Award from WSB Radio. In addition, this collection includes some of Jackson’s personal papers, such as his driver’s license, some postcards, birth announcements, business and membership cards, and event programs.

Dates: 1923-1983, undated

J. Thomas Hutcheson scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS793
Scope and Content

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and programs of the Atlanta Philharmonic Society and some musical events in Atlanta.

Dates: 1930-1933

Judy Body papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS902
Scope and Content This collection contains material collected by Harriet Fuller and her daughter, Judy Body. Items include sheet music relating to opera, waltzes, and sonatas. Also, newspaper and magazine reviews of operas and performing arts as well as pictures and portraits of opera and theatrical performers from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Two scrapbooks containing poems, postcards and newspaper clippings are also included. Several items relating to Atlanta are included, e.g., a newspaper from Girls...
Dates: 1890-1985, undated

Lilla Lynam Noble programs and invitations

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS254f
Scope and Content

This collection contains programs from recitals at which Lilla Lynam Noble sang. Most of the recitals occurred at Atlanta Conservatory of Music, The collection also contains recital invitations and a wedding invitation for the marriage ceremony of Lilla Lynam and Clymer Marlay Noble.

Dates: 1915-1920

Mary Butt Griffith Dobbs papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS111
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials related to the Griffith family, Mary Griffith Dobbs, and the Griffith School of Music in Atlanta. Items includes articles, a scrapbook, music periodicals and booklets, and ephemera from the Griffith School of Music.

Dates: 1913-1965, undated

Mary Butt Griffith Dobbs photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS299
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Dobbs' family members, including Mary B. Griffith Dobbs and John H. Dobbs, as well as photographs of Griffith School of Music. Other photographs include images of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.

Dates: 1912-1927, undated