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Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Healey family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1179
Scope and Content This collection contains a set of minutes from the Healey Real Estate and Improvement Company board of directors, two scrapbooks, and other family documents. One scrapbook records Oliver Markham Healey Sr.'s early childhood, and the other covers the wedding of Oliver Healey Sr. and Cornelia Orme Healey. Other materials include newspaper clippings about Cornelia Healey; Oliver Healy Sr.'s personal correspondence; a certificate from the Kiwanis International for Oliver Healey Sr.; stationery...
Dates: 1901-1973, undated

Helen Prior scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS532f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook of Helen Prior who graduated from Girls High School in 1910.

Dates: 1910

Hubbard family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS880f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a recipe book, newspaper clippings, assorted deeds, an invitation, a photo, and a copy of Mamie Lowe Hubbard's driver's license.

Dates: 1889-1928, undated

Hugh B. Adams scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS244
Scope and Content

The images consist of photographs taken by Adams of outings of social clubs in Lenox Woods in Atlanta and Vinings, Georgia. The images are mounted in three loose scrapbooks. Of special interest are photographs taken for Miss Sallie Fannie Grant of the Everyday Tuesday Club at Vinings, in May 1887. Adams also captures some unidentified members of the Dixie Club at Vinings, in May 1889.

Dates: 1887-1891

Irene Richards Sterrett baby book

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS798
Scope and Content

This baby book was kept by Natalie Taylor Sterrett. It includes photographs, notes, newspaper clippings and some school work.

Dates: 1913-1923

Irene Woodruff documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS384f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a series of newspaper clippings, a letter to Irene Woodruff with a history of the Samuel Bowen Wight House located in the West End, and a copy of The Wesleyan Alumnae (Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia).

Dates: 1900-1975

Jane Cooper newsclippings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS406f
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings about the social life of Jane Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1913

Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS171
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains photographic images previously owned by Jeff Askew and Guy Dobbs. The first part of the collection features images of Askew's family and friends at various social functions including holiday and costume parties, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Photographs of Atlanta-native and actress Jane Withers, actor John Bromfield and his wife Mary Ellen Tillotson Bromfield, the Dobbs family, Billy Jones, and Dennis Machett are also included. Images from Guy Dobbs's...
Dates: 1946 - circa 1978, bulk circa 1955

Katharine Hinton Wootten scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS330
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of four scrapbooks that contain cards, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The majority of the materials pertain to Atlanta events.

Dates: 1884-1917, undated

Kentucky Club of Atlanta records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS519
Scope and Content

This collection contains yearbooks, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, newspapers, and the constitution and by-laws for the Kentucky Club of Atlanta. Also included are manuscript drafts of historical sketches of the club.

Dates: 1927-1986

Margaret Whitman Lakin papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks of newsclippings and memorobilia of Atlanta.

Dates: 1919-1955

Marion Wesley Ray diary transcriptions

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS906f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of diaries written by Marion Wesley Ray in which he wrote about his family and kept daily accounts in Bethlehem, Georgia. Also included are pieces of poetry written by Ray. Of particular note is the 1905 entry in which Ray describes the death of his mother, Sarah.

Dates: 1895-1905

Mary Cooper collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS272
Scope and Content

This collection contains one lineage book prepared by Sally Eugenia Brown for Mary Pope Cooper.

Dates: 1905

Mary H. Blanchard Examination Booklet and Memorium

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS34f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a booklet of Mary Blanchard’s term examinations from 1876 to 1877 from Girls High School. The term examinations cover a variety of topics including: Geometry; English Literature, French, Latin and Chemistry. Also included is a booklet titled In Memoriam. In Memoriam is a tribute to the memory of Mary Blanchard written by the Browning Society at Girls High School and read on September 10, 1877. It includes condolences to her family and a poem about her life....
Dates: 1876-1877

Mary Ivey Campbell interview and transcript

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS875f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a recording and transcript of an interview with Mary Ivey Campbell done by Emily Bealer Calhoun. Campbell discusses growing up in Atlanta in the 1910s and 1920s as well as family, school, religion, and shopping.

Dates: 1993

Meeting Place for Travellers, West End, Atlanta, essays

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1231
Scope and Contents This collection contains two bound volumes of typescript essays written by the 1947 tenth and 1949 twelfth grade English classes at Joseph E. Brown High School under the direction of James E. Warren Jr. in West End, Atlanta. The writings highlight a variety of topics including West End schools, churches, residents, parks, businesses, transportation, newspapers, and smaller neighborhoods within West End. Many of the essays were inspired by oral interviews with long-term West End residents....
Dates: 1947-1949

Mildred Traver Coggin papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS65f
Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, advertisements and other ephemera of Mildred Traver Coggin (1888-1979).

Dates: 1890-1957

Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS340
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of seven scrapbooks assembled by Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox. Included in the scrapbooks are newspaper clippings on the Daughters of the American Revolution, Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and programs, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1870-1930, undated

Mrs. Hypatia Bowdoin Ray scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS257
Scope and Content

This collection contains two scrapbooks that are primarily comprised of newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1886-1945

Mrs. Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS339
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a scrapbook created by Mrs. Lipscomb that contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-1951, undated