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United States -- Armed Forces -- Officers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Captain Joseph E. Brown Connally Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS71F
Scope and Content This collection consists of newspaper clippings, letters, notes and other ephemera pertaining to the life and death of Joseph Brown Connally. The collection includes a letter notifying Connally of his election to the Governor’s Horse Guard in 1897, his commission certificate from the Georgia State Troops in 1902, special orders from the National Guard in 1913 and from Fort McPherson in 1917. It also contains notes and poems written about the life of Joseph Brown Connally, after his death in...
Dates: 1897-1921

Douglas H. Davis, Sr. photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS301
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of aerial views of Atlanta and vicinity, and of Valdosta, Georgia. Included are images of Southern Railway shops; downtown Atlanta; Ponce de Leon Baseball Park; Gammon Theological Seminary; and Oglethorpe University and Georgia School of Techonology campuses. Of interest are photographs pertaining to Davis as an aviator and his early days of commercial flying.

Dates: 1929-1934, undated

John Cothran papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1131
Scope and Content

This collection primarily contains documents from John Cothran's military service during World War II and as a member of the Organized Army Reserve. Material includes records of service, orders and memos, and discharge papers. Additional items include family papers such as his brother James Jr.'s baby book, diplomas, and awards. Of particular note is material given to discharged soldiers after World War II to aid their return to civilian life.

Dates: 1902-1953, 1995, undated

Malneda Owens etchings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS340
Scope and Content

This collection contains etchings of various Civil War era government officials and military officers.

Dates: 1862, undated

Mrs. Joseph Fanning photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS302
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of Fanning family members and images of military officers of the 17th Engineer Regiment at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of a person identified as Major Atwood, a person identified as Major Cushing, and a person identified as the commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Other images include group portraits of family members and children at the 1914 Lincoln Fair. Of note are two funeral photographs of a person identified...
Dates: 1904-1918, undated

National Jewish War Veterans' presentation ceremony photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS282
Scope and Content

This collection consists of images from the September 12, 1954 ceremony in which the National Jewish War Veterans' members presented a portrait of Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of War, to the City of Atlanta.

Dates: 1954 September 12