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100% Wrong Club Records
Collection
Collection number: aarl011-007
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of approximately five linear feet of miscellaneous material that documents the history of the 100% Wrong Club of the Atlanta Daily World. The collection includes balance sheets, bylaws, committee reports, correspondence, membership list, and menus. It also includes programs, financial records, photographs, publications, news clippings and audio recording.
Dates:
1959-1984
100th Anniversary Dinner Ticket Old Medical College of Georgia Building; 8x10, black & white print by Schaeffer Studio of the 1973 graduating class of MCG.
Collection
Collection number: MS-96
Scope and Contents
1 ticket for the 100th Anniversary dinner; 8x10 B&W photo by Schaeffer Studio of the 1973 graduating class of MCG
Dates:
1948-12-03 - 1973
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
A Course For Intermediates On The Negro In America
Collection
Collection number: MS-102
Scope and Contents
Booklet has instructions and lesson plans for those leading classes
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Abraham Lincoln (A.L.) Lewis papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl90-007
Overview
The collection consists of one box with six folders containing minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of Bethune-Cookman College (1937, 1944, 1945), the College's 1937 annual report, the fortieth anniversary bulletin of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company (1941), and ephemera.
Dates:
1937-1945
Academy of Richmond County Annual Hall of Fame Induction Programs
Collection
Collection number: MS-147
Scope and Contents
Programs list inductees for the Academy of Richmond County Hall of Fame
Dates:
2012 - 2019
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Adam Knight Spence and John Wesley Work collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl90-001
Overview
The collection consists of papers of Adam Knight Spence and John Wesley Work from ca. 1851-1936. The papers contain materials relating to their interest in Negro folk music and involvement in the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the early twentieth century. Includes musical scores and arrangements, correspondence regarding the travels of the singers, printed materials, as well as correspondence (1906-1921) and classroom papers (1931) pertaining to John Work. The collection contains correspondence of...
Dates:
1851-1936
Adamsville-Collier Heights Library Branch Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl020-005
Scope and Contents
This collection included historical information related to areas surrounding the Adamsville-Collier Heights Branch of the Fulton County Public Library which opened in 1989. Each folder is related to a different community and includes historical informations, maps, plans and other information.
Dates:
1960-1995
Address by Hon. Joseph R. Lamar of Augusta, Georgia; delivered on Memorial Day, April, 1902 at Athens, GA
Collection
Collection number: MS-125
Scope and Contents
Booklet contains the address titled The Private Soldier of the Confederacy
Dates:
1902
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Address Delivered Before The Georgia Bar Association At Its Eighth Annual Meeting
Collection
Collection number: MS-78
Scope and Contents
Booklet contains an address on John MacPherson Berrien given by Charles C, Jones Jr.
Dates:
1891-05-20
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Address of Joseph B. Cumming
Collection
Collection number: MS-94
Scope and Contents
Contains one copy of Address of Joseph B. Cumming At The Memorial Service of Archibald W. Butt at Augusta, Georgia, May 2nd, 1912.
Dates:
1912-05-02
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Addresses of William H. Fleming
Collection
Collection number: MS-85
Scope and Contents
2 booklets printing the addresses of William H. Fleming
Dates:
1895 - 1909
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
African American Calendar Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl000-001
Scope and Contents Note
The African American Calendar collection is comprised of yearly calendars created by businesses, organizations or artists that celebrate African American history and culture. Each month in the calendars feature a historic figure, art work or fact. Of local interest are the calendars from Bell South which document important African Americans in Atlanta.
Dates:
1949-2017
African American Lesbian and Gay Print Culture Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-008
Scope and Content Note
The African American Lesbian and Gay Print Culture Collection, 1989-2010, documents African American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cultural and social formations in the United States through a variety of print forms and media, including advertisements, articles, broadsides, catalogs, ephemera, guides, invitations, journals, leaflets, letters, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and programs. Scattered issues of magazines and newsletters, bulking 1989-2010, comprise the largest...
Dates:
1989-2010
Aida Rentas papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl009-015
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes personal records documenting the life of Aida Rentas. A substantial portion of the collection are photographs.Includes correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, biographical and writings by Rentas.
Dates:
1950s-2010
Akbar Imhotep Papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl010-009
Scope and Contents
The Akbar Imhotep Papers consist of 17 boxes. These boxes contain letters; poems, manuscipts, pictures and articles from and about the multifaceted artist Akbar Imhotep. The collection documents his involvement with Varius organizations such as Toastmasters; Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia, The National Association of Black Storytellers(NABS) and the Metro Atlanta Kwanzaa Association. The collection also highlights his work as a community activist in and around Atlanta.
Dates:
1951-2019; This date range covers the period from his birth to his work or more recent years.
Albert M. Langley Railroad Collection
Collection
Collection number: MS-152
Scope and Contents
Material covers ephemera, an oversize postcard, photocopies, reproductions of photographs and publications relating mainly to Georgia and South Carolina railroads. The majority of the items are commemorative envelopes or post cards issued by the Augusta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Some items are from other sources Included are the Central of Georgia Railway Company, The Freedom Train to Augusta, Georgia, the Louisville and Wadley Railroad, Seaboard Coastline Railroad...
Dates:
1945 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1978
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Alexander Stephens Letter
Collection
Collection number: MS-17
Scope and Contents
Letter from Alexander Stephens, Crawfordville [Georgia] sent to Charles A. Robb relating to a gas fixture. Letter retained because of its association with Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. According to the 1872 Augusta City directory Charles A. Robb was the proprietor of a business concerned with plumbing, steam, and gas fitting.
Dates:
1875-09-21
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Pi Gamma Lambda Chapter records
Collection
Collection number: aarl009-001
Scope and Contents Note
The collection consists of correspondence; minutes of meetings; committee reports; programs; financial and legal records of the Pi Gamma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The collection includes material on the National organization and the Southern Region organization. Organizational manuals; National Conference programs and proceedings; the organization's newsletter and journal; invitations, membership directories; and photographs of events are all part of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1988-2019
Andrew Feiler Photographic Prints
Collection
Collection number: aarl022-001
Scope and Contents
A large bell hangs in the clock tower overlooking the now quiet campus of Morris Brown College. Its inscription reads, in part, Dedicated to the Education of Youth, Without Regard to Sex, Race or Color. Predominantly in the decades after the Civil War, about 120 colleges were established to educate African Americans. Over time these schools became known as historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). One of these colleges is Morris Brown. Morris Brown was...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2012-2013
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