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Confederate States of America -- History -- Societies, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Adelle Bartlett Harper papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1136
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, notes, and scrapbooks that document Adelle B. Harper's life as well as members of her family. Material provides insight into Harper's flower shop business, club activities, family life, and her wide variety of interests. Scrapbooks offer details about Auverne Harper's enrollment in Woodberry Hall School for Girls in Atlanta and Shorter College in Rome, Georgia.

Dates: 1864-2017, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Adelle Bartlett Harper papers

Children of the Confederacy scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS883
Scope and Content This collection contains one scrapbook of the Children of the Confederacy of Georgia, dated 1966. Georgia chapters covered in the scrapbook include: Centennial Chapter No. 646 (Abbeville); Margaret Mitchell Chapter No. 612 (Albany); Alfred Holt Colquitt, Jr. No. 493 (Atlanta); Julia Jackson No. 1 (Atlanta); Emma Sheppard Burns No. 175 (Clarksville); Jefferson Davis No. 587 (Fitzgerald); Tara Chapter No. 385 (Jonesboro); Dixie Lee Chapter No. 446 (Macon); Dorothy Blount Lamar (Macon);...
Dates: 1966
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Children of the Confederacy scrapbook

Rubie Austin Acker photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS468
Scope and Contents This collection contains images collected by Rubie Austin Acker of Confederate memorial events in Georgia, including the Battle of Jonesboro Centennial Celebration in 1964 in Jonesboro, Georgia, as well as images of the Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Memorial Cemetery. Also included are group portraits of United Daughters of the Confederacy, Frankie Lyle Chapter members. Of particular note are photographs of the 100th Confederate Memorial Day event at Oakland Cemetery in 1966 in Atlanta,...
Dates: approximately 1960-1969, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Rubie Austin Acker photographs

Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS331
Scope and Content

This collection captures the unveiling of the O'Reilly Monument in front of the Atlanta City Hall on the corner of Washington Street and Mitchell Street. The monument was erected by the Atlanta Historical Society.

Dates: 1945 October 18
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs