Farming -- Georgia
Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
Scope Note: Note, this heading is not a Library of Congress authorized heading. Use Agriculture instead.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Blue Print and Graphics Company Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS112
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised primarily of photographs of geographic locations in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. They were obtained by Atlanta Blue Print and Graphics Company through the course of business and were probably used to promote their services as a printing company. The photographs were taken by commercial photographers and photojournalists such as Edgar Orr (active 1922-1964), Kenneth Rogers (Head of the Constitutions Photography department, and later the head of the Atlanta...
Dates:
1961-1962, undated
Charles and Annie Haden papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS108
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and business papers of Charles J. Haden and his wife, Annie Bates, including correspondence, land grants, clippings, maps, speeches, and printed material. Topics include genealogy, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the state Democratic Party, the Cherokee Slate Company, and the Cyclorama. Of particular note is a speech by Haden on cotton production in the South and the effects of various New Deal policies on southern economy, the Atlanta Convention...
Dates:
1847-1966, undated; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1950
Georgia Horticultural Society records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1092
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, minutes, membership rosters, and treasurer's reports that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the society. Also included are newsletters and meeting programs, which offer details on topics of interest and field trips. Of special interest are documents that show the society's involvement with the State Botanical Garden in Athens, Georgia.
Dates:
1964-1994, undated
Joe McTyre Photograph Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS106
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of images taken by Atlanta Journal- Constitution journalist Joe McTyre, and images of other Atlanta photojournalists. The photographs in the collection include images of prominent individuals in government, business, entertainment, sports, and others who were the subject of news events. Also included are photographs of the physical environment of Atlanta, and in rural Georgia towns. The remaining photographs relate to news coverage of events such as airplane...
Dates:
1889-1985, undated
Mary and Jay Hambidge visual materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS1
Scope and Content
Through photographic prints, negatives, designs, drawings, paintings, plates, postcards, sketches, photo albums, and maps the collection documents the life of Mary Crovatt Hambidge from her family and childhood in Brunswick, Georgia to the establishment of the Hambidge Center, formerly the Jay Hambidge Art Foundation, and the efforts of Mary and Jay Hambidge to develop and promote the concept of dynamic symmetry, from 1837-1970. See the scope and content note of each series for expanded...
Dates:
1837-1970, undated
Patricia Kennedy Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS160
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection of photographs contains seemingly random images of the American South during the 1940s. Some of the photographs show scenes in Atlanta, Georgia, however the locale of many of the images has not been determined. Images of Atlanta include a Civil War monument in Piedmont Park, the Fox Theatre on Peachtree Street, and Union Station and the Federal Reserve Bank downtown. Also included is a photograph of the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain. Some of the unidentified...
Dates:
circa 1940
Thomas Deaton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS951f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Thomas Deaton's financial, legal, and personal papers, the bulk of which pertain to the Civil War. Financial records include deeds of purchase for land and enslaved persons, as well as affidavits of sales. Also included is a diary he wrote while working at a Confederate hospital in which he recorded personal notes, information about meetings, records of the weather, and copied obituaries. Correspondence documents Deaton’s sale of grain to the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1838-1873, undated