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Women authors

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Carlyn Fisher papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS770
Scope and Content

The collection contains materials pertaining to Carlyn Fisher's artistic career as a painter, as well as her chronicling of numerous other artists from the southeastern United States. Other items in the collection include newspaper clippings magazine articles, correspondence, and information regarding other artists and their works.

Dates: 1961-1982, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Carlyn Fisher papers

Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS814f
Scope and Content

This collection contains Emily Jane Winkler Bealer's diary in which she reflects on domestic life as an impoverished widow during Reconstruction in Atlanta. Topics include raising and educating her children, financial and business affairs, and social and church life. The collection also includes a typed transcript and biographical notes written by Bealer's great-granddaughter, Emily Bealer Calhoun II. These notes contain research on people and businesses referenced in the diary.

Dates: 1876-1886, approximately 1975
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary

Jane Peacock research materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1121
Scope and Content

This collection contains manuscripts, research materials, correspondence, book layouts, design notes, and newspaper clippings. Most of the material relates to Margaret Mitchell, the book Gone With The Wind, as well as its movie adaptation, and Peacock's research.

Dates: 1966-1988, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Jane Peacock research materials

Lucinda Bunnen photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS395
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken for Movers and Shakers in Georgia by Lucinda Bunnen and Frankie Coxe. The collection includes images of notable political, business, cultural, and arts figures between 1976-1978 in Georgia. Also included are photographs of events such as Jimmy Carter's presidential election, a Decatur Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) planning meeting, the Ramblin' Raft Race on the Chattahoochee River, an Atlanta...
Dates: approximately 1976-1978
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Lucinda Bunnen photographs

Mary Cawthon McIntrye papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1217
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection is short story drafts and notes written by Mary Cawthon McIntrye for her historical fiction and mystery stories. There are also three World War II ration books from her family.

Dates: 1944, 1990, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Mary Cawthon McIntrye papers

Nora Stirling papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1126
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, extensive newspaper reviews of Stirling's book Pearl Buck: A Woman in Conflict (1983) as well as reviews of her earlier plays. Also included are two book manuscripts and Stirling’s high school yearbook.

Dates: 1918-1990, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Nora Stirling papers

Olive Bell Davis papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS79
Scope and Content The bulk of these papers are drafts and finished versions of Davis' literary work, including the novels Inquest to Love and Exodus 20, the short stories, poems, and one-act plays published in Between two Novels (1965), an unpublished novel “A Year to Love," and articles published in the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta...
Dates: 1950-1968, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center / Olive Bell Davis papers