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Portrait photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Albert F. Bellingrath photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS458
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Albert F. Bellingrath and members of the McMillan family. Photographs include Bellingrath with Walthall Robertson Joyner (1854-1924) and his family; Ferdinand McMillan with two other members of a Confederate military band in uniform; and William Henry McMillan. Additional photographs include Atlanta Gas Light Company operating and distribution department group portraits and a photograph of the Hunnicutt and Bellingrath Company exterior.

Dates: 1865-1943

Alva Pinkston McCrary photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS466
Scope and Contents This collection contains images of the McCrary family, the bulk of which are portraits of Alva Pinkston McCrary, and photographs he took or collected while stationed in France during World War I, such as battlefield images depicting French, American, and German trenches, troops, artillery, aircraft, medical facilities and equipment, and living conditions. Also included are images of dead German soldiers; battle damage to buildings, bridges, and villages; several American naval vessels; and...
Dates: approximately 1870-1949, undated

Benning family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS343
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the Benning family and the construction of the English-American (Flatiron) Building in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1893-1961, undated

C. W. Motes photographs and drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS436
Scope and Contents This collection contains several photographs taken by Columbus Washington "C. W." Motes, as well as portraits of Motes. Additional photographs include his wife, Emma F. White, and their two daughters: Mary Motes Delbridge and Eva Motes. The collection also includes photographs, presumably of his clients, images of titled sculptures, a drawing by C. W. Motes, and a color cased image of his daughter, Mary. Of special note is an ambrotype of Motes during his time as a Confederate soldier in the...
Dates: approximately 1862-1900, undated

Caroline M. Clarke photographs of the Candler family

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS376
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of the Candler family, who were related to Caroline M. Clark on her mother's side. This collection includes a photograph of Martha Candler with seven of her sons: Milton (1837-1909), Ezekiel (1838-1915), Noble (1841-1887), William (1847-1928), Asa (1851-1929), Warren (1857-1941), and John (1861-1941). Another photograph features Asa Candler with his wife, Lucy (1878-1919), and their children: Asa Jr. (1880-1953), Lucy (1883-1962), William (1890-1936),...
Dates: Approximately 1840-1890

Civil War Confederate cartes de visite collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS206
Scope and Content

This collection contains twenty-six cartes de visite of Confederate generals and politicians. Generals include Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest among others. Politicians include images of President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens as a young man. There is also an image of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Dates: undated

Cobb, Glenn, and McBride visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS9
Scope and Content

This collection consists of three cased photographs, one carte-de-visite, and four albumen prints documenting the Cobb, Glenn, and McBride families.

Dates: Approximately 1850-1900

Cunningham family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS373
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of the Cunningham family, as well as photographs of Gussie Swafford Cunningham's father, John Augustus Swafford, and her cousin, Ray Swafford (1889-1917), pictured in front of the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included are photographs of a Georgia Power Company line crew, which features Julian Cunningham's father-in-law, Major Holland Collins (1883-1966). There are also photographs of Ella Swafford's father, David Terrell Duncan,...
Dates: Approximately 1890-1923, undated

Dorothy A. Vogel photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS461
Scope and Contents This collection contains four albums containing photographs related to Dorothy Vogel's life. Images include family, friends, school trips, stylized portraits, and travel destinations such as the Grand Canyon; Yellowstone National Park; Oregon; Miami; New York; and Ontario, Canada. Also included are photographs of Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and United Service Organization (USO) events, dances, and women's basketball, as well as summer camps such as Camp Highland in Plum Lake,...
Dates: 1917-1960, undated

Enrico Leide visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS511
Scope and Contents This collection contains visual materials that document Enrico Leide's profressional personal life. Photographs depict Leide conducting orchestras such as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Also included is an advertisement for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a poster advertising the Brooklyn Opera Company's opening concerts conducted by Leide. Family photographs show Leide with two of his wives, Lucy and Anne, and Leide's...
Dates: 1891-1969, undated

Goldberg and Rich family photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS456
Scope and Contents

This collection contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and cased tintypes of Goldberg and Rich family members. Featured individuals include Marcus and Rachel Goldberg, as well as their children and families. Of special note is a photograph of Rosalind and Valerie Rich as children with an unidentified African American woman, who was likely employed as a family nanny or domestic employee.

Dates: approximately 1847-1895

Governor and Mrs. John M. Slaton visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS209
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs, albumen prints, notecards, and a platinotype collected by Governor Slaton and his wife. Images include portraits of Howell Cobb, Cary B. Wilmer, Julia King (Mrs. Henry) Grady, and James W. English, Jr. Other images include Marechal Foch and Charles Loridaus of France and Thomas Whipple Connally. There is a view of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton in the attire she wore when presented at the court of King George V and Queen Mary. There are portraits of four...
Dates: 1887, 1921-1930, undated

Harvey Dan Abrams photographs of Medora Field Perkerson

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS155
Scope and Contents of the Records The photographs in this collection relate to Atlanta author Medora Field Perkerson. The earliest images, a photograph from 1924, shows Ms. Perkerson seated in the center with other members of the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, including Margaret Mitchell. Other photographs show Medora Field Perkerson seated with her mother reading Who Killed Aunt Maggie? in 1939; a photograph of her arrival at the 1940 premiere of the movie Who Killed Aunt Maggie? with her husband Angus Perkerson, and a...
Dates: circa 1924-1961

Harvey Smith Jr. visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS450
Scope and Contents This collection contains works collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. and his original designs. Materials in this collection by Smith are illustrated works with a focus on the human figure, the natural world, decorative arts and designs and paintings by Claud J. Herndon. The collected works further include photographic prints and negatives of the Smith and Robertson families, and residences; photographs of Claud Herndon (1912-1980); and photography from Smith’s research on the history of...
Dates: 1648-1991, undated; Majority of material found in 1830-1991

Hopkins family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS455
Scope and Content

This collection is a scrapbook that contains materials pertaining to the Hopkins family. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, and genealogy materials.

Dates: 1899-1962, undated

Irene Rose Smillie visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS210
Scope and Content

This collection contains cased portraits of family members of Irene Rose Smillie. There are images of Smillie's immediate family including her parents, sisters, and brother. There are also images of her mother's family including Smillie's grandfather, aunt, uncle, and cousin. The collection also contains photographs of Gibraltar, taken by Smillie during cruises across the Atlantic Ocean in 1911, as well as two watercolors painted by Smillie.

Dates: approximately 1850-1915, undated

Jennie Clarke photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS350
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Clarke family, images of the Atlanta Terminal Station in 1969, and a photograph of a 1940 lynching near Marietta, Georgia.

Dates: 1869-1969, undated

John C. Burdette Photograph

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS62
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a bust portrait of African-American John Cladwell Burdette taken by G.F. Kohler of Los Angeles.

Dates: 1915

John W. Grant visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS208
Scope and Content This collection contains cabinet cards collected by John W. Grant. Seventeen of the mounted photographs are of classmates of Grant's from the University of Georgia (1885-1888). These images include Eugene M. Mitchell (1885), Charles F. Rice (1886), and Lucian L. Knight (1886). Another image from Grant's college years shows group of debate students posed after a debate in 1884. Other images include a boy with a chihuahua and a view of a carriage with four horses and footmen outside a...
Dates: 1884-1888, undated

Johnny E. Green photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS371
Scope and Content

This collection contains black and white photographs taken by Johnny E. Green. Images include a portrait of a young woman with a tennis racket labeled as the Atlanta Academy of Charm, a Bible reading at a residence on North Avenue, and interior scenes at the Grove Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1949-1950