Scope and Content This collection contains a 1912 diary of Kate Hester Robson, who lived in Atlanta from 1859 until her death in 1914. Robson writes about moving to Atlanta in 1859 where her family lived in a house on the corner of Marietta and Spring Street. She describes making uniforms for soldiers and working in a hospital during the Civil War. She also writes about her husband investing capital in a plantation in Dougherty County and enslaving African Americans. The diary includes Robson’s account of...