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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Abbie M. Brooks diaries and church invitation

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS39f
Scope and Content This collection contains two diaries of Abigail M. Brooks, which date from 1865 and 1870 along with typed transcriptions of both. In addition, there is an invitation to attend church which dates from 1858. In the 1865 diary, Brooks describes life in rural Tennessee, near Nashville, where she teaches in a one room school house. Later in the year, Abigail moves to Edgefield, Tennessee, also near Nashville, and starts her own school. She describes life in Edgefield, trials with her students,...
Dates: 1858-1870
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Abbie M. Brooks diaries and church invitation

Alfred Colquitt gubernatorial primary flyer

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS975f
Scope and Contents This political flyer is from the first Georgia gubernatorial primary after the state ratified a new post-Reconstruction constitution in 1877. In it, "colored men interested in the welfare of their race" urge Black Georgians to vote for Alfred Colquitt (1824-1894) over Thomas Norwood (1830-1913) because "Governor Colquitt is the first Democratic Governor that has ever given the colored people their full rights in Georgia." Colquitt, the incumbent and Democratic nominee, ultimately won the...
Dates: approximately 1880
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Alfred Colquitt gubernatorial primary flyer

Anna R. Jordan Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS128
Scope and Content The collection includes letters addressed to Anna Jordan from family and friends, along with personal items of her family. Included are letters to Anna R. Jordan from Inez James, a teenaged girl in Varnell’s Station, Georgia. Two letters from Ms. James describe how she and her neighbors were under siege from Union soldiers who confiscated food and personal items from their farms. Her letters after the war briefly tell of Union occupation, weddings, and her school work. Correspondence from...
Dates: 1844-1921, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Anna R. Jordan Papers

Augustus Robert Jones papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS571
Scope and Content This collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, ledgers, receipts, legal papers, advertisements, insurance papers, newspaper clippings, patent documents, and other papers pertaining to Augustus Robert Jones and the Jones family. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Jones's personal correspondence and financial records about the family cotton business. Also included are pocket diaries containing records of business and household purchases, printed papers such as price...
Dates: 1855-1908, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Augustus Robert Jones papers

Ella May Powell scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS467f
Scope and Content This collection contains a scrapbook and scrapbook fragments. Materials collected in the scrapbook include poetry, newspaper clippings, speeches, DeGive's Opera House programs, an 1885 edition of the Sunny South, and documentation about the life of Powell's father, Fielding Travis Powell. Of particular note are documents on Powell's advocacy of Confederate Monuments and the suffragist movement, two medicine recipes, and an image of the Georgia College of...
Dates: 1847-1962, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Ella May Powell scrapbooks

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 Atlanta History Center / Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary

John D. Stevenson letter and obituary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS933f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a farewell letter written by the members of the 150th regiment of Illinois Infantry to John D. Stevenson in appreciation for his leadership during Reconstruction. Also included are photocopies of obituaries for John D. Stevenson and his wife, Hannah Stevenson.

Dates: 1866, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / John D. Stevenson letter and obituary

John Milton Brannan letter to Charles J. Jenkins

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS621f
Scope and Content

This collection contains one letter from General John Milton Brannan to Charles J. Jenkins, governor of Georgia and refers to the legal process of trying criminals and others in the state courts.

Dates: 1866 April 11
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / John Milton Brannan letter to Charles J. Jenkins

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers

Pennie Wilson and Maggie Wilson letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS382f
Scope and Content

This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of letters written by Pennie Wilson of Mississippi, to her cousin Maggie Wilson in Georgia on conditions in Mississippi and Georgia after the American Civil War.

Dates: 1867
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Pennie Wilson and Maggie Wilson letters

Richard Dees Funderburke research papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1242
Scope and Contents This collection contains research materials produced by Richard Dees Funderburke throughout his academic and professional career. The majority of the collection includes newspaper articles that feature specific architects that were active during the victorian era in the southeastern United States, specifically Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Also included are notes, photocopied images, article drafts, and book proposals authored by Funderburke throughout his...
Dates: 1975-2020, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Richard Dees Funderburke research papers

Sue Harper Mims scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS295
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding Atlanta, Georgia's social growth, and the South's transformation after the Civil War.

Dates: 1876-1887
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Sue Harper Mims scrapbook

Thomas W. Connally pardon and certificates

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS72f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a pardon issued to Thomas W. Connally by President Andrew Johnson and certificates signed by Secretary of State William Seward in response to Mr. Connally's service in the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Dates: 1867
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Thomas W. Connally pardon and certificates