Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates:
1922-1993, undated
Mrs. Witherspoon Dodge scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS896
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook of newspaper clippings kept by Mrs. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, Georgia. All the clippings relate to various opera performances and symphony concerts held in Atlanta or to opera and musical stars, such as Lawrence Tibbett and Kirsten Flagstad. A few of the clippings are from New York newspapers, but the majority appear to be from Atlanta papers.
Dates:
1938-1941
Southline Press, Inc. records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1015
Scope and Content
This collection contains corporate records of Southline Press, and includes advertising and administrative records, published articles, and research files. Advertising records include advertising copy, sales records, advertising rates, and sales invoices. Administrative records contain budgets, contracts, reader surveys, and correspondence of Southline publisher Todd Evans. The remainder of the collection consists of drafts and copies of articles published in...
Dates:
1959-1988, undated; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1988
Taylor Flanagan scrapbook pages
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS110f
Scope and Content
This collection contains copies of newspaper clippings about Atlanta musicians and local musical performances.
Dates:
1918-1954
Vogue, The Picture record
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS899
Scope and Content
This collection contains one seventy-eight revolutions per minute record which has a picture on each side. One of the songs is "Atlanta, G.A." by Skylar and Shaftel, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Jack Prince as vocalist. This side has a picture of a train, the Atlanta Limited, a young woman, and morning glories. The other side of the record is "Aren't You Glad You're You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Shep Fields and his Orchestra with Meredith Blake as...
Dates:
undated
WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates:
1977-1980, undated