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Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Kirkpatrick and Dorsey families photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS27
Scope and Content

This collection consists of identified and unidentified portraits of Kirkpatrick and Dorsey family members.

Dates: 1850-1900, undated

Kuhns family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS319
Scope and Content

This collection contains images from the Kuhn's Photography Studio, including photographs of both the Kuhns family and clients. Many of the images are identified, however most of the tintypes remain unidentified.

Dates: approximately 1860-1929

Laura Thompson Chapman photograph

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS26
Scope and Content

This collection consists of an ambrotype of Laura Thompson Chapman.

Dates: approximately 1850-1860

Lawshe family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS323
Scope and Content

This collection contains portraits of Er Lawshe's wife, children, brother, and daughter-in-law. Of special note is one carte de visite of his jewelry business at 47 Whitehall Street.

Dates: approximately 1850-1904

Marian Josephine Bateman Hulsey photograph

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS10
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one cased image of Marian Josephine Bateman Hulsey. The image is hand colored and printed on a waxed paper with a piece of milk glass behind. The case contains an oval glass opening which allows viewing without opening the case.

Dates: approximately 1860

Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell family visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS211
Scope and Content This collection consists of photographs, postcards, greeting cards, ambrotypes, tintypes, daguerreotypes, albumen prints, cyanotypes, and negatives of the Menefee-Timmons-Mitchell families. Also included are images of related families including the Benedicts, the Middletons, the Seamans, the Hunnicutts, the Sweets, and the Deakins. There are images from family trips to St. Simons Island, Georgia, and Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as well as images from El Paso, Texas, where Jessie and Russell...
Dates: 1883-1963, undated

Mrs. Charles Elrod fashion plates

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS102f
Scope and Content

This collection contains fashion plates from magazines published in the 1880's.

Dates: approximately 1880

Plaster and Smith families photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates: 1835-1950, undated

Powell family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS8
Scope and Content

This collection contains fifteen images documenting three generations of the Powell family. George T. Powell and Ned T. Powell are also represented. The carte-de-visite and cabinet cards were produced by C. W. Motes and Kuhns, both post-Civil War Atlanta photographers.

Dates: approximately 1845-1955

Robert Kellam photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS16
Scope and Content

This collection consists of seven portraits of identified and unidentified individuals.

Dates: 1850s-1860s

Robert S. Paden photographs and drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS439
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of five generations of the Smith-Steele-Medlock-Davenport family gathered for Elizabeth Hawkins Smith's 93rd birthday. Also included is a watercolor drawing of Jasper Smith (1836), Martha Ellen Smith Paden's brother, who died during the American Civil War. Of special note are photographs of “Auntie Gracie” and Wilkes Smith, two formerly enslaved people who worked for the Smith family. Robert S. Paden took the photograph of Wilkes Smith.

Dates: approximately 1895-1925, undated

Sale, Simmons, and Matheson family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS6
Scope and Content

This collection documents four generations of the Sale, Simmons, and Matheson families. Examination of the images indicates they were probably taken during the same photographic session with the exception of VIS 6.6.

Dates: 1852-1853

Susan Ann Clarke Hayes family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS13
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of Susan Ann Clarke Hayes and her descendants.

Dates: approximately 1860-1914

Turner and Bevan family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS7
Scope and Content

The collection consists of cased images of unidentified individuals. Of particular interest are a daguerrotype of a daguerrotype; an image of a Union officer posed in front of an American flag; and a full-length post-mortem image of a child.

Dates: approximately 1850-1890

William McNaught Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS156
Scope and Content The collection is primarily a series of correspondence and documents relating to William McNaught’s business interests; and a limited collection of personal correspondence between family members. The business records document ordinary business activities as well as the effects of the Civil War on his commerce. Several letters document the difficulties collecting funds from debtors after the Civil War. During the Civil War William McNaught with a group of investors formed the Fulton Exporting...
Dates: 1836-1911