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High schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Agnes "Annie" Moore scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS927f
Scope and Content

This scrapbook documents Agnes Moore Nabers' senior year at Commercial High School. It contains newspaper clippings pertaining to Commercial High School, photographs of students and faculty, short poems and signatures from students and faculty, pressed flowers, and calling cards. Also included are lists of clubs, Moore's report card, and a graduation program.

Dates: 1919-1920

Albertype Company Atlanta souvenir album

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS213
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photogravures of locations in and around Atlanta during the early 20th century, including the Georgia State Capitol; Piedmont Hotel; Ansley Hotel; Winecoff Hotel; Second Baptist Church of Atlanta; Carnegie Library; First Baptist Church; and the First United Methodist Church.

Dates: approximately 1915

Charles Bird papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS509f
Scope and Content

This material contains correspondence, texts of speeches, essays, verses, clippings, and student publications from Charles Bird's days as a student at Tech High in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1922-1926

Charlesey Whitehead Brown school directories and yearbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS856f
Scope and Content

This collection contains high school directories and yearbooks from the Margaret Mitchell School and Girls High School. The Girls High yearbook, titled The Mallonian, is noted as the "Senior Issue" and highlights members of the class of 1923 through photos, poems, drawings, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1923-1971

Evelyn Knox Powell scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS301
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single scrapbook created by donor when she was a student at Girls' High School in 1922.

Dates: 1922

Frances Newman papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS812f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a diary Newman kept as a teenager in which she records descriptions of her life at home with her family, activities at school, and plays that she attended. The diary is signed on the front inside cover by Frances Newman and by her mother, Fanny Alexander Newman. The collection also contains correspondence and newspaper articles about Newman's life and novels.

Dates: 1896-1990

Georgia Mae Johnson baccalaureate papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS774f
Scope and Content

This collection contains Georgia Mae Johnson's 1939 high school graduation scrapbook. The book contains invitations, report cards, and pictures chronicling her senior year. There is also a list of the courses that were offered at Commercial High School during her time there.

Dates: 1939

Girls High School photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS326
Scope and Content

This collection contains various photographs of class photos, faculty photos, and physical education classes, Christmas decorations and alumni of Girls High School. There is also a photo of the Board of Education committee of the Atlanta City Council.

Dates: 1875-1943, undated

Ida Mae McDonald Perry scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS860f
Scope and Content This collection contains a copy of The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book in which McDonald recorded her fourth year at Girls High School. The book has sections with class photographs, class officers, class prophecies, graduation invitations, graduation programs, jokes and frolics, gown photos, and press notices. McDonald used the book as a scrapbook, adding newspaper clippings, notes from friends, event programs, drawings, and photographs of her and her classmates...
Dates: 1916

Jessie Wills Henley commencement book

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS491f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a volume titled "My Commencement: Memoirs & Records of School Life." Miss Henley entered information about her school experiences and collected autograph messages from classmates and friends. It also includes a brief history of the school.

Dates: 1915

Lethea Turman Lochridge photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS378
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of Lethea Turman Lochridge's friends and family, including her father, S.B. Turman. Of special note are photographs from the 1911 Southern International Poultry Show in Athens, Georgia, where Lethea and her siblings won an award, as well as a photograph of her Girls High School graduating class. This collection also includes a photograph taken by Edwin Lochridge Sr. of Charles and Mary Tway's residence on 212 15th Street, which neighbored the Lochridge...
Dates: Approximately 1868-1917, undated

Marguerite Y. McConnell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS872
Scope and Content

This collection contains material concerning Henry Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as commencements, camp programs, newspaper clippings, financial records, and personal letters regarding the Atlanta, Georgia branch of the Camp Fire Girls from 1947-1985.

Dates: 1947-1986, undated

Mary Virginia Bryan school papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1215
Scope and Content

This collection contains documentation of Mary Virginia Davis's education. The bulk of the materials are grammar, arithmetic, and spelling workbooks from E. Rivers School in Atlanta, Georgia. Other school papers include graduation achievement documents, and an E. Rivers School 1946-1947 yearbook titled The Rivers Overflow. There is also a World War II ration book and a wedding dress invoice for Mary Virginia Brown, Bryan's great-grandmother.

Dates: 1874-1952, undated

O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. papers of Frances D. Green

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS374
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, memoranda, and committee reports that Frances D. Green (1910-?) collected from O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. Included in the files are O.A.S.I.S. articles of association, by-laws, handwritten meeting notes, correspondence, and membership lists. The correspondence contains a description of groups and individuals identified by H.O.P.E. as distributors of “hate-literature” opposing integration. Of particular note is a letter and...
Dates: 1955-1961, undated

Percy H. Perkins, Jr. architectural drawings and photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS254
Scope and Content

The collection consists of architectural drawings of projects designed by Perkins and images of himself and family members. A variety of projects are presented in the collection such as the construction of the administration building of the Fulton County Airport (1950-1951); Salvation Army School for officer training (1966); and Lake Shore Shopping Center in Gainesville, Georgia (1963). Of special interest is a black and white print of Perkins at his drawing board in his office.

Dates: 1937-1975, undated

Robert E. Shivers documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS675f
Scope and Content

This collection contains directory report of alumni from Boys High School for their 50th reunion, and a newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1949, 1974

Virginia R. Hiatt scrapbooks and report cards

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS938f
Scope and Content

This collection contains report cards for Virginia R. Hiatt from first grade to twelfth and two scrapbooks that document her years at Commercial High School. Included within the scrapbooks are pressed flowers, photographs of Hiatt's friends and classmates, newspaper clippings, theatre programs, ribbons, and signatures from classmates.

Dates: 1924-1931

Willette C. Elrod graduation scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS534f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a graduation book "A Girl's Commencement: Rosebud Memories" kept by Willette C. Elrod upon her graduation from Commercial High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1919

William A. Bass High School documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1193
Scope and Content

This collection contains editions of the student newspapers The Aerial and The Ambassador. Articles cover important school matters as well as current events. The newspapers also contain short works of fiction, jokes, and a long-running gossip column called "Campus Cliques." Additional material includes Parent Teacher Association pamphlets, commencement programs, and graduation programs.

Dates: 1924-1951

William J. Floyd school papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS958f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an autograph book in which teachers and classmates wrote notes to William Joseph Floyd as well as a 1931 graduation program from Booker T. Washington High School. There is also a March 1929 edition of Atlanta University Alumni Association's The Crimson and Gray from 1929.

Dates: 1929-1931