Athletics -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Crackers Photograph Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS103
Scope and Contents of the Records
The majority of this collection consists of members of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team and players from the Nashville Vols. Most of the images were taken at Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta, Georgia, and most are identified. Included are images of Buddy Bates, Charles Bicknell, Robert Boring, James Callaway, Ray Cattano, Paul Cave, Charles Cottier, Jack Daniels, John DeMerit, Frank DiPrima, Richard Grabowski, Robert Heartsfield, Rober Hartman, Ev Joyner, Charles King, Clyde King, Mike...
Dates:
1956-1958, undated
Dr. Louis Elsas 1996 Olympic Games gender verification records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1213
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from Dr. Louis J. Elsas testing of female athletes in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, that the International Olympic Commitee required to verify gender. The bulk of material is testing and survey results, some of which include comments by the tested athletes. The purpose of these tests was to exclude cisgender males from female-only competition while preserving the dignity and careers of intersex and transgender female athletes. Other...
Dates:
1988-2002, undated
Jones, Malone, and Hood family photograph collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS227
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of Bobby Jones, Jr., his wife, Mary Malone Jones, and their three children: Clara Malone Jones Black (1925-1994); Robert Tyre Jones, III (1926-1973); and Mary Ellen Jones Hood (b. 1931). Also included are photographs of his parents, Robert Permedus Jones, Sr. (1879-1956) and Clara Merrick Thomas Jones (1881-1961), grandchildren of Bobby Jones, and acquaintances of the family. Most of the images in the collection are informal snapshots of the family taken...
Dates:
approximately 1910-1980, undated
Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content
The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates:
1810-1988, undated
YMCA of Metro Atlanta photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS266
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs from Metro Atlanta YMCAs including portraits of members; a 1913 time capsule containing photos of a groundbreaking ceremony; photos from the Andrew and Walter Young YMCA in Southwest Atlanta; the creation of YMCA facilities; and YMCA camps and recreational activities such as youth basketball, soccer, and swimming. Also included are photographs of the exhibition at a YMCA in Georgia of the former USSR and the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay supported by the YMCA...
Dates:
1911-1990, undated
YMCA of Metro Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1108
Scope and Content
These records of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, its Board of Trustees, and the Butler Street YMCA contain reports, newsletters, fliers, articles, announcements, and publications. The topics included are fundraising, marketing, media coverage, new buildings, programs, goals, and progress. Some administrative and financial records are included, but these records largely consists of material created for the public. YMCA time capsules from 1886 and 1913 were opened in 1959 and the contents preserved...
Dates:
1875-2001, undated