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Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred W. Brewerton visual arts material

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS480
Scope and Contents

This collection contains portraits of Alfred W. Brewerton and a photograph taken by Brewerton of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. Also included are original sketches of Asa G. Candler (1851-1929) and unpublished "Dot's Diary" comic strips.

Dates: approximately 1905-1940, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Alfred W. Brewerton visual arts material

Arthur and Lafayette Montgomery papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS164
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, financial records, annual reports, trade publications, scrapbooks, programs and invitations, relating to the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta Coca Cola Bottling Company.

Dates: 1909-1979, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Arthur and Lafayette Montgomery papers

Atlanta Baseball Corporation documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1067
Scope and Content

Collection materials consist of business and legal records, including a 1933 lease, a 1947 certificate of residence change, meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, and memos.

Dates: 1932-1951
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Baseball Corporation documents

Atlanta Crackers Photograph Collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS103
Scope and Contents of the Records The majority of this collection consists of members of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team and players from the Nashville Vols. Most of the images were taken at Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta, Georgia, and most are identified. Included are images of Buddy Bates, Charles Bicknell, Robert Boring, James Callaway, Ray Cattano, Paul Cave, Charles Cottier, Jack Daniels, John DeMerit, Frank DiPrima, Richard Grabowski, Robert Heartsfield, Rober Hartman, Ev Joyner, Charles King, Clyde King, Mike...
Dates: 1956-1958, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atlanta Crackers Photograph Collection

Ken Patterson photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS478
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken by Ken Patterson while he was a staff photographer for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Images include Atlanta buildings and scenes, such as the Baltimore Block row houses, Stone Mountain Industrial Park, and Atlanta Stadium. Sporting events are also featured, including a baseball game between the Atlanta Crackers and the Syracuse Chiefs in 1964, as well as images of golfer Bobby Jones (1902-1971) and Georgia Tech...
Dates: 1954-1986, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Ken Patterson photographs | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.

Mary E. Budden scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS843
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one scrapbook kept by Mary E. Budden as a young woman in Atlanta. The scrapbook mainly contains newspaper clippings from Atlanta, Georgia, area newspapers regarding the Atlanta Crackers baseball team.

Dates: 1934-1936
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mary E. Budden scrapbook

Virginia Paul scrapbook about Larry Miller

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS7f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook assembled by Virginia Paul on the career of Atlanta Crackers pitcher Larry Miller. Ms. Paul was fifteen years old when she assembled the scrapbook. Ms. Paul became Mrs. Charles Bastedo.

Dates: 1949
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Virginia Paul scrapbook about Larry Miller

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project