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1. Collection Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records

Description:
The Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records consist of materials spanning the years 1968 to 1994, including photographs, general correspondence, mayoral campaign materials, and printed and published materials and correspondence related to the Atlanta Child Murders.
Date of Original:
1968/1994
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

2. Collection Lillian Smith letters to Rochelle Girson, circa 1960

Description:
The collection consists of four annotated letters from Lillian Smith to Rochelle Girson. Correspondences regard Ms. Smith's selection of books on race relations for the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and include her opinions of works by Louis Lomax, Peter Ritson, and Charles Dickens.
Date of Original:
1960
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

3. Collection Lillian Smith letters to Ashley Montagu

Description:
Correspondence regarding the Anisfield-Wolf Award Committee, books that have been nominated for the award, and personal matters. The collection also includes a carbon from Norman Cousins to Lillian Smith, and a telegram announcing Smith's death.
Date of Original:
1956/1966
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

4. Collection Omer Clyde Aderhold papers

Description:
The collection documents the administrative business of the University of Georgia during O.C. Aderhold's tenure as president from 1950-1967. Materials of particular interest are those documenting the desegregation of the university in January 1961 when Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African American students to attend UGA.
Date of Original:
1950/1967
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

5. Collection Lillian Smith letter to Kelsey Guilford

Description:
One typewritten letter dated November 11, 1949, "Dear Mr. Guilford," from Lillian Smith regarding Guilford's review of Killers of the Dream.
Date of Original:
1949-11-11
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

6. Collection Lillian Smith letters

Description:
Correspondence between Lillian Smith and her publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, particularly with George P. Brockway and Storer B. Lunt, who discuss the distribution of her works, publicity to sell her books, and reviews of her works. Also includes letters from others relating to the distribution of or reaction to her works.
Date of Original:
1949/1966
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

7. Collection Atlanta Urban League papers

Description:
The Atlanta Urban League (AUL) was established in 1920 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. The AUL served as an organization dedicated to addressing the social and economic concerns of African Americans in the city of Atlanta.
Date of Original:
1948/1964
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

8. Collection Green family World War II letters

Description:
Collection consisting of materials that cover William Walter Green’s time serving in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1943-1945.
Date of Original:
1943/1945
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

9. Collection Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling letters

Description:
Correspondence of a personal nature, regarding health and family matters, but some discuss Smith's activities while on lecture tours. Includes an editorial from 1951 calling Smith's book "Strange Tripe."
Date of Original:
1943/1955
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

10. Collection William A. Hagins Papers

Description:
The papers of William Archer Hagins, Sr from 1940-2005. Included within the collection are written letters, v-mail, military, and legal documents concerning Hagins’ service in the United States Army during World War II.
Date of Original:
1942/1946
Holding Institution:
Henderson Library (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Campus)

11. Collection Frances J. Pratt Letters on the US Foreign Policy Association, 1940-1965

Description:
Series of typed correspondences by Frances J. Pratt, the Director of Special Events for the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, written between the years 1940 and 1965.
Date of Original:
1940/1965
Holding Institution:
Cobb County Public Library System (Marietta, Ga.)

12. Collection M. H. Mitchell, Inc. 94th Infantry Division collection

Description:
Correspondence and records reflecting on World War II and the 94th Infantry Division, a military unit that was activated in 1942.
Date of Original:
1940/2020
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

13. Collection Clarence A. Bacote papers

Description:
The Bacote papers document an important period in the history of Atlanta, and of Atlanta University. The activities of one very prominent scholar and community leader help provide an important piece of the history of the university and its community.
Date of Original:
1930/1978
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

14. Collection John Hope records

Description:
The records of John Hope (1897-1953) include documentation on the development of what would later be called the Atlanta University Center, when Atlanta University aligned with Morehouse College and Spelman College to form an academic consortium. During Hope's eight years as president, the graduate school was launched, the Department of Fine Arts was established, and the Trevor Arnett Library was opened. The Hope Papers include correspondence, administrative, and financial records for all eight years of his presidency, as well as some personal and family records.
Date of Original:
1928/1939
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

15. Collection Chase Street Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) scrapbooks

Description:
Seventeen scrapbooks and one photo album spanning almost 100 years of the Chase Street Elementary School in Athens, Georgia, dating from 1926-2000 and containing records of the school’s parent teacher organization (PTO) from 1926-early 2000s.
Date of Original:
1926/2015
Holding Institution:
Athens-Clarke County Library

17. Collection Lillian Eugenia Smith papers

Description:
Papers of Georgia author, lecturer, human rights advocate Lillian Smith (1897-1966) from circa 1920-1980, one of the first prominent white Southerners to stand against segregation.
Date of Original:
1920/1980
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

18. Collection National Council of Negro Women: subject vertical files

Description:
The subject vertical files contain publications and printed materials, such as newspaper clippings, press releases, pamphlets, and flyers from 1930s to 1980s. These items highlight the activities, programs, and events of the National Council of Negro Women.
Date of Original:
1917/1989
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

19. Collection Leo Frank clemency file

Description:
Application for Executive Clemency and supporting documentation filed by Leo Frank in 1915.
Date of Original:
1915-04-22/1915-06-21
Holding Institution:
Georgia Archives

20. Collection Lillian Smith papers, 1915-1972

Description:
Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper County, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. Her best known fiction piece was the controversial 1944 novel 'Strange Fruit'.
Date of Original:
1915/1972
Holding Institution:
University of Florida. Libraries

21. Collection Superintendents

Description:
Documents, correspondence and publications produced by the Fulton County Schools Superintendents' office between 1914 and 1969.
Date of Original:
1914/1969
Holding Institution:
Fulton County Schools Archive

23. Collection Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills digital collection

Description:
Photographs and records from 1907 to 1989 of the Atlanta-based Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill.
Date of Original:
1907/1989
Holding Institution:
Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department

24. Collection Hoyt William Fuller collection

Description:
The Hoyt William Fuller Collection documents his career from 1943-1981.
Date of Original:
1905/1978
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

25. Collection Johnson Publishing Company clipping files collection

Description:
Founded in 1942 by African American businessman John H. Johnson, the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. published Ebony and Jet magazines, as well as other publications. This collection contains newspapers clippings, press releases, and more used as research for the various publications.
Date of Original:
1905/1982
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

26. Collection Virginia Lacy Jones papers

Description:
Virginia Lacy Jones (b. 1912 - d. 1984) was a librarian, educator, author, and among library educators known as "the Dean of Deans." She dedicated almost fifty years of her life to the library profession, thirty-six of which she spent as Dean of the School of Library Service at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University). Her career began at Atlanta University in 1939 as Catalog Librarian in Trevor Arnett Library.
Date of Original:
1905/1984
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

27. Collection John H. Wheeler collection

Description:
Items related to John H. Wheeler, who was heavily involved in politics and education through various positions within the federal government and on various boards of trustees for institutions like Morehouse College, Atlanta University, Lincoln Hospital, and the National Scholarship Service for Negro Students.
Date of Original:
1895/1973
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

28. Collection Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers

Description:
Correspondence dating from 1792 to 1938 of Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar and his wife, Georgia writer and clubwoman Clarinda Pendleton Lamar.
Date of Original:
1895/1938
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

29. Collection Robert deTreville Lawrence III Papers, 1730 - 1991

Description:
Correspondence, printed materials, and photographs dating from 1895 to 1933 of the Marietta, Georgia Lawrence family.
Date of Original:
1895/1930
Holding Institution:
Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

30. Collection Courtney Hodges Collection

Description:
Collection of photographs and memorabilia related to Courtney Hodges, a World War II general from Perry, Georgia.
Date of Original:
1890/1980
Holding Institution:
Houston County Public Library System

31. Collection United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau form letter

Description:
This collection contains a form letter from the fraudulent United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau (a scam targeting former slave owners eager to be reimbursed for the loss of their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation) assuring former slave owners that by paying a fee, the bureau would register the number of slaves they lost at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation so that they could be compensated.
Date of Original:
1890/1899
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

32. Collection Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman memorial collection

Description:
The Cullen Jackman Memorial Collection, dating from 1881-1995 documents the artistic and creative nature of those of African descent.
Date of Original:
1881/1995
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

33. Collection Cobb County Library System Collection

Description:
Collection contains papers and photographs dating from 1880 to 1974 relating to the Fraser family and Alice Birney of Cobb County, Georgia
Date of Original:
1880/1974
Holding Institution:
Cobb County Public Library System (Marietta, Ga.)

34. Collection Leo M. Frank collections

Description:
Materials on Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, who was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913; then lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment.
Date of Original:
1878/1988
Holding Institution:
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

35. Collection Joseph E. Brown papers

Description:
The online collection consists of correspondence belonging to Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown from 1876
Date of Original:
1876
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

36. Collection Fountain family papers

Description:
Papers of the Fountain and McCants families of Georgia, a large portion of which is comprised of the correspondence and financial records of Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. (1845-1920) of Butler, Georgia as well as deeds, titles, surveys, receipts, insurance policies, tax information, and printed material from the Fountain, McCants, and McCrary families.
Date of Original:
1870/1955
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

38. Collection University of Georgia Board of Trustees correspondence and reports

Description:
Materials of the University of Georgia's Board of Trustees, including meeting minutes, drafts of resolutions, annual reports, committee reports, auxiliary reports such as catalogs, fiduciary documents, recommendations on degrees, petitions, and correspondence.
Date of Original:
1866/1932
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

41. Collection Alexander H. Stephens family papers

Description:
Materials including an 1860 will belonging to Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), who was born near Crawfordville Georgia, and served as the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, as a United States congressman, and died in office as Georgia governor in 1883.
Date of Original:
1860
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

42. Collection Athens, Georgia city records

Description:
The collection consists of various official records of the city of Athens that were housed in the Mayor's vault. Included are tax assessment books, tax digests, city engineer's correspondence, disbursement ledgers, mayor's general papers, and a significant amount of material dealing with the Athens Housing and Urban Renewal Project. The latter series includes city council minutes, project plans, and information about acquisitions and relocations concerning the renewal project undertaken in the early-mid 1960s including the Linnentown neighborhood.
Date of Original:
1860/1970
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

43. Collection Eugene S. Mitchell collection

Description:
Correspondence and schoolwork dating from 1856 to 1869 of Eugene S. Mitchell, graduate of Mercer University in 1860 and member of Company F, 45th Regiment during the Civil War.
Date of Original:
1856/1869
Holding Institution:
Mercer University. Libraries

44. Collection L. A. Chamerovzow letter to Miss Hildrith

Description:
The collection consists of one letter written on British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society letterhead: dated February 15, 1855, "Dear Madam," signed "L. A. Chamerovzow," regarding the publications Slave Life in Georgia, and the Anti-Slavery Reporter. Chamerovzow mentions several influential British anti-slavery leaders and alludes to the policy of emancipation in South Africa.
Date of Original:
1855-02-15
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

45. Collection Henry W. Longfellow letter to Andrew A. Lipscomb

Description:
The collection consists of a letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Andrew A. Lipscomb dated Cambridge, July 4, 1853. Longfellow discusses his view of slavery "the meanest form of tyranny," the influence of newspapers upon public opinion, and his future meeting with Lipscomb.
Date of Original:
1853-07-04
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

46. Collection James Rembert Smith letters to George Gilman Smith

Description:
Correspondence from James Rembert Smith, a medical doctor and Methodist preacher in Sandersville, Georgia, and his nephew, George Gilman Smith, dating from 1853-1888.
Date of Original:
1853/1888
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

47. Collection Rebecca Latimer Felton papers

Description:
Correspondence, speeches, articles, and scrapbooks dating from 1851 to 1930, all reflecting Rebecca Latimer Felton's lengthy public career as author, newspaper columnist, lecturer, as she actively pursued her interests in politics, religious issues, penal and temperance reform and women's political rights.
Date of Original:
1851/1930
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

48. Collection Johnston family papers

Description:
Papers of the Malcolm Johnston family dating from the nineteenth century that include documents concerning enslaved people owned by the Johnston family: bill of sales for a slave received by Richard Johnston; wills of Malcolm Johnston and E. L. Johnston; “List of property belonging to M. Johnston,” listing 800 acres of land, and the name, sex, age, and monetary value of enslaved people.
Date of Original:
1850/1862
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

49. Collection Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857)

Description:
Antebellum letters dated 1850-1861 to Callie Lumpkin King, wife of Alabama lawyer and plantation owner Porter King and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin that touch on family life, local and national politics, marriage, and the social life in Athens, Georgia.
Date of Original:
1850/1861
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library
Alexander Campbell King Law Library