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Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Arnall T. Connell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1046
Scope and Content This collection consists of papers related to Arnall T. Connell's tenure as a professor in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Student papers written by Connell's graduate students form the largest portion of the collection. The papers cover a large array of Atlanta-related subjects, including neighborhoods and their histories, historic preservation of buildings and homes, renovation and repurposing ideas for historic...
Dates: 1894-1994, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Arnall T. Connell papers

Atlanta Urban Design Commission records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1272
Scope and Contents This collection contains administrative records and documentation of the creation of AUDC through meeting minutes, reports, newspaper articles, and correspondence. The records also contain data collected about historic nominations of properties and neighborhoods, and records from the Cooperation of Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA). Historic nomination forms include the nominee's history, correspondence, meeting minutes from the commission, and nomination and acceptance packets. The bulk...
Dates: 1973-2008, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Urban Design Commission records

Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS443
Scope and Contents This collection contains images, historic property surveys, and maps which depict Atlanta and its neighborhoods. AUDC generated these materials, gathered by trained volunteers and unidentified photographers, to document and study the neighborhoods and important structures to gauge their historic significance. Materials depict residences, commercial buildings, streetscapes, religious structures, schools, cemeteries, industrial sites, parks, and government buildings. Also included are city...
Dates: 1912-2005, undated (bulk 1973-1995)
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

Beryl Bergquist papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1240
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials relating to the professional organizations to which Beryl Bergquist was affiliated. The bulk of materials are administrative files of the Society of International Business Fellows and planning papers for the Atlanta Sports Carnival, organized by Atlanta Leukemia Research, Inc. Included are biographies of the presidents of the organizations, correspondence, finances, meeting minutes, travel notes, membership rosters, and her membership application and...
Dates: 1977-2017, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Beryl Bergquist papers

Bill Patterson records of the Buckhead Business Association

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1039
Scope and Content

This collection contains Buckhead Business Association letters of incorporation, organizational charts, membership lists, and meeting minutes. The collection also contains correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining to the BBA's involvement in community improvement projects and Bill Patterson as president of the association.

Dates: 1970-1977, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Bill Patterson records of the Buckhead Business Association

Buckhead Fifty Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS348
Scope and Content This collection contains the constitution and by-laws of the Buckhead Fifty Club, including membership lists for the years 1932, 1934, 1952, 1956-1957, 1959, 1962-1979, 1981-1983 and one labeled the 1979 Presidential Edition. There are minutes and resolutions of the organization from the years 1935-1940 and a history of the club's activities from 1934-1956. Also included are newspaper clippings in 1955 about the Little League team and the annual Santa Claus parade the club sponsored, as...
Dates: 1932-1983
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Buckhead Fifty Club records

Buckhead Men's Garden Club of Atlanta, Inc. records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1036
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, rosters, minutes, membership, and financial records of the club. Also included is the club's monthly newsletter, The Good Earth Boys, which highlights their activities. Material also documents the club's operation of three successive greenhouses.

Dates: 1960-2013, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Buckhead Men's Garden Club of Atlanta, Inc. records

City of Atlanta Limelight Day proclamation

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Collection number: ahc.MSS819f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council announcing Monday, August 19, 1985 to be known as Limelight Day in Atlanta. Marvin S. Arrington, the president of the Atlanta City Council, and Robb Pitts, a council member, issued the proclamation in recognition of the club as a popular tourist attraction and the site of many charitable functions.

Dates: 1985
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / City of Atlanta Limelight Day proclamation

Clair McLeod Muller papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1244
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers of city council member Clair Muller during her time in office from 1990-2009. Included are planning materials for the Atlanta BeltLine, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Georgia State Route 400, environment and sustainability efforts, and community outreach. These papers were generated by her work on subcommittees for the Atlanta Department of Transportation, Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta Regional Commission, and the...
Dates: 1980-2012, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Clair McLeod Muller papers

Collins, Holbrook and Collins photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS537
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of residences built by Collins, Holbrook and Collins (later C. R and Turner Collins) builders and contractors. The bulk of the images depict residences in Atlanta, as well as some in Macon and Sea Island. Photographs include property features such as driveways, gardens, and landscapes. Of special interest are photographs of the Little Shop in the Davison-Paxon Company department store on Peachtree Street. Included with the images are copies of the...
Dates: approximately 1920-1941
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Collins, Holbrook and Collins photographs

Cotten Alston photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS247
Scope and Content This collection contains aerial and street views of the Buckhead, downtown, and Midtown areas of Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of Buckhead restaurants such as OK Cafe and Buckhead Diner. Also featured are the Atlanta History Center's Swan House, Lenox Square Mall, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Underground Atlanta, the Georgia Dome, The Fox Theatre, High Museum of Art, The Varsity, Piedmont Park, and Clark College (later named Clark Atlanta University). Other images include...
Dates: 1972-1998, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Cotten Alston photographs

Dante's Down the Hatch documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1174
Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection is Christmas newsletters published by Dante's Down the Hatch. The newsletters detail events that occurred over the previous year with pictures of those events as well as of notable people who visited the restaurant. Also included in the collection are menus and flyers advertising the restaurant.

Dates: 1982-2011, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Dante's Down the Hatch documents

Dr. Robert and Mary Latta photographs and postcards

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS545
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs and postcards which provide details of the personal and professional lives of Dr. Robert E. Latta and Mary Hewlett Latta in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are images of Dr. Robert E. Latta's work as a dentist and Mary Hewlett Latta's involvement in Forsythia Garden Club. Of particular interest are photographs of the Lattas socializing with friends and Robert Latta posing with taxidermy animals.

Dates: approximately 1930-1950, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Dr. Robert and Mary Latta photographs and postcards

Holton Mastin diaries

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1143
Scope and Content This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, legal documents, and political writings, including text of speeches and letters to the editor of local newspapers that reflect Henry Alexander's activism in the Republican Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Legal and professional documents include Alexander’s affiliation with the American Bar Association, correspondence to the General Assembly and with the Fifth District of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs....
Dates: 1960-2008, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Holton Mastin diaries

Joseph C. Fisch Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS172
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection contains photographs of Atlanta, Georgia, including federal and state buildings, retail stores and businesses, streets, expressways, churches, hospitals, colleges and residences. Included are photographs of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta City Hall, Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta Naval Air Station, Carnegie Library, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, The Journal Building, Terminal and Union Stations, Cathedral of St. Philip, Christ the King Cathedral, Glenn Memorial Church, Emory...
Dates: 1954, 1963
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Joseph C. Fisch Photographs

Joseph Victor McCannon papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1280
Scope and Contents This collection contains McCannon's personal and professional papers as well as publications related to urban planning, historic preservation and transportation, focusing primarily on the development of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The bulk of the materials include correspondence, memoranda, and reports related to infrastructure projects by the City of Atlanta and Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). Also included in the collection are zoning ordinances, meeting agendas, and...
Dates: 1929-2016, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Joseph Victor McCannon papers

Laura Berry Campbell's garden photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS379
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs taken by Reeves Studios of the gardens of Laura and John Bulow Campbell's property at 2958 Andrews Drive. The images highlight a boxwood terrace garden with tulips, a central pool featuring a Leda and the Swan bronze statue, garden tile, and a grassy allee flanked by dogwoods in bloom. Of special note are several millstones, popular decoration in gardens of that time period.

Dates: approximately 1941
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Laura Berry Campbell's garden photographs

Leila Ross Wilburn visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS72
Scope and Contents This collection documents the prolific work of one of Atlanta’s pioneer women architects and businesswomen. It is comprised primarily of architectural plans, photographs, negatives, and slides of private residences, multi-family homes, and apartment buildings Wilburn designed during her career. Her portfolio of architectural plans in Series I includes designs of homes in Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs; in several cities and towns in Georgia, including Forsyth, McDonough, and Thomaston;...
Dates: 1920-1979
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Leila Ross Wilburn visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

Neighborhood Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS677
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that document the club's social and civic activities. Scrapbooks detail the club's monthly meetings and special events attended. The club's ongoing civic project of the neighborhood parkway beautification is highlighted throughout the collection.

Dates: 1931-1973, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Neighborhood Garden Club records

Peachtree Battle Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1032
Scope and Content

This collection contains material that documents the club's history. Included in the collection are scrapbooks that detail the club's social activities, programs, civic projects, and flower shows that the club attended or hosted.

Dates: 1947-2005
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Peachtree Battle Garden Club records