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Athens Historical Society collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.062
Overview

Periodicals and other publications of the Athens Historical Society.

Dates: 1963-2017

Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.063
Overview

Publications and other documents pertaining to the public activities of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, founded in 1967 and renamed Historic Athens in 2019.

Dates: 1971-2019

Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society (COGS) collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.064
Overview

Newsletters of the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society and other materials to be added.

Dates: 1987-1996

Collection of promotional hand fans for Athens funeral and ambulance services

 Collection — Box: 1
Collection number: MSS.065
Overview

Ten hand fans from the early Twentieth Century, bearing illustrations and advertisements, all coming from local funeral homes/ambulance services: Mack & Payne Funderal Directors, McDorman-Bridges Ambulance Service, and the Morton Funeral Home.

Dates: c. 1900-c. 1920

Collection of Athens cookbooks and recipes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.066
Overview

This collection mostly contains cookbooks published by local organizations featuring recipes from amateur chefs.

Dates: 1929-2016

United Daughters of the Confederacy yearbooks

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3
Collection number: MSS.067
Overview

Yearbooks published by the Laura Rutherford Chapter of the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Dates: 1937-1999

Records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Collection number: MSS.068
Overview

The records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History includes minutes, flyers, the charter, and photographs. This is an ongoing collection.

Dates: 2017-2020

Records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Collection number: MSS.68
Overview

The records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History includes minutes, flyers, the charter, and photographs. This is an ongoing collection.

Dates: 2017-2020

Al Hester papers

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.069
Overview Research files of Al Hester, a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia who later in his life wrote extensively on Athens history. The files pertain to the planning and writing of three books: Enduring Legacy: Clarke County Georgia's Ex-Slave Legislators Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson; Putting On Blue: Confederates from the Athens, Georgia, Area Who Became Galvanized Yankees; and Athens Memories: The W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project Interviews; and related historical topics....
Dates: 1980-2017; Majority of material found within 1998-2017

Jennie L. Mattox collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Collection number: MSS.070
Overview

Items donated by the family of Jennie L. Mattox commemorating her work for the community.

Dates: 2019

Dillard Family collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Collection number: MSS.071
Overview

A self-published book on the history of the Dillard Family of Athens, Georgia; in addition to audio and text copies of an interview with Frederick Dillard and documentation related to that oral history.

Dates: 2014-2015

Athens-Clarke County Recordings and Oral Histories collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.072
Dates: 1976-2003

Athens ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.073
Overview A sort of companion to the Small collections (MSS 016) and the vertical files, this collection houses objects that both do not belong elsewhere in the Heritage Room manuscripts and archives and fit the definition of the term, ephemera, as used in the fields of antiques and collectables. Ephemera can be found in other Heritage Room collections, especially the collection of promotional hand fans for Athens funeral and ambulance services (MSS 065) and the J. Tanner collection of Clarke Central...
Dates: ca. 1950-2008

Conoly Hester papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.074
Overview

Journalist Conoly Hester's research files, containing clippings of articles authored by her and accompanying printed materials.

Dates: 1971-2017

Athens-Clarke Safe Cycling Association collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-8
Collection number: MSS.075
Overview

Documents concerning the organization's goal of making cities safe for cyclists, including internal records, pamphlets on bicycle safety, and maps of cities for cyclists. Some records were not created by the organization, but used as reference material.

Dates: 1974-1990

Kiwanis Club collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.077
Dates: Majority of material found within 1983-2015

Clarke Central athletics collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.080
Overview

Programs sold at Clarke Central football games and related documents spanning a half-century.

Dates: 1970-2019

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Atlanta Branch records

 Collection
Collection number: aarl98-007
Scope and Contents note The NAACP Atlanta Branch Records document the administration and committee work of the organization. The collection comes primarily from Jondelle Johnson's tenure as Executive Director from 1972-1985 and her leadership with the Special Projects Committee in the 1990s. Presidents represented in the collection include Samuel W. Williams, C. Miles Smith, Lonnie King, and Julian Bond. The collection spans nearly 40 years and documents the Branch's activities and initiatives through legislation,...
Dates: 1950-1998

National Black Arts Festival records

 Collection
Collection number: aarl96-017
Overview The National Black Arts Festival collection consists of items from the years 1988 through 1998 and contains commemorative textiles including tee shirts, caps, sweatshirts, and canvas tote bags, as well as ephemera such as buttons, compact disc recordings, program guides, brochures, exhibit catalogs and guides, fliers, promotional packages, annual reports, essays, pamphlets, clipings, poetry, audiocassette tapes, photographs, financial records, administrative records, correspondence, folk...
Dates: 1988-1998

National Conclave of Grady Graduate Nurses collection

 Collection
Collection number: aarl05-001
Overview The National Conclave of Grady Graduate Nurses, an organization of professional nurse graduates of Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta, is devoted to maintaining and publicizing the history of the school, which existed 1917-1982, and its founder, Mrs. Ludie Andrews; to fostering high standards of nursing and health care; and to engaging the issues facing African Americans in the nursing profession. The collection contains the Conclave's records and personal papers of...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1972-2003; Bulk, 1972-2003 1917-2003 1972-2003

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Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History 206
Georgia Heritage Room 146
Heritage Room, Athens-Clarke County Library 77
The Georgia Room at Switzer Library in Cobb County 11
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Athens (Ga.) 55
Athens-Clarke County (Ga.) 25
Clarke County (Ga.) 25
Correspondence 25
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Atlanta (Ga.) 18
Scrapbooks 15
Minutes (administrative records) 13
Books 9
Ephemera (general object genre) 9
Programs (documents) 9
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations. 7
Financial records 7
Administrative records 6
African American churches -- Georgia 6
African American women--Georgia--Societies and clubs. 6
Audiocassettes 6
Newsletters 6
Newspapers 6
Posters 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
African American businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 5
African American churches -- Southern States 5
African Americans 5
African Americans--Education. 5
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs. 5
Awards 5
Community arts projects--Georgia--Atlanta. 5
Pamphlets 5
Sound recordings 5
African American art -- 20th century 4
African American artists -- 20th century 4
African American civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 4
African American lesbians 4
African American universities and colleges--Georgia. 4
African American women--Societies and clubs. 4
African Americans--Education--Georgia--Atlanta. 4
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Double-barreled cannon 4
Education--Georgia 4
Oral histories (literary works) 4
Plaques (flat objects) 4
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African American artists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
African American arts 3
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African American educators -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
African American journalists--Georgia. 3
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African American photographers--United States. 3
African American politicians--Georgia. 3
African American schools--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
African American teachers--Georgia. 3
African American universities and colleges--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 3
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--Societies and clubs. 3
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
African American women--Georgia--Fulton County--Social life and customs. 3
African American women--Georgia. 3
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century. 3
African Americans--Civil rights. 3
African Americans--History 3
African Americans--History. 3
African Americans--Music. 3
African Americans--Religious life--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
African Americans--Societies, etc. 3
Articles 3
Arts--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 3
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs--20th century. 3
Augusta (Ga.)--History 3
Blues (Music) 3
Buttons (information artifacts) 3
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
Civil rights movements--Southern States. 3
Civil rights movements--United States. 3
Cobb County, Georgia, United States 3
Community life--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
Confederate States of America. Army 3
Cultural Organizations---Black---American 3
Family history (Genealogy) 3
Funeral homes 3
Funk (Music) 3
Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950. 3
Gospel music. 3
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration 3
Lectures 3
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) 3
Literature--Societies, etc. 3
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Language
English 363
Undetermined 87
Latin 1
 
Names
Second Baptist Church 5
Young, Andrew, 1932- 5
Atlanta University 4
Jones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
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Pfadenhauer, Ruby Mabry McCrary 4
University of Georgia 4
Athens Community Council on Aging (Athens, Ga.) 3
Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation 3
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 3
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 3
First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878 3
Marshall, Edison, 1894-1967 3
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Spelman College 3
WERD (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006 2
Archer, Jessie Thelma Beasley, 1903-1999 2
Athens Historical Society 2
Athens-Clarke County (Ga.) 2
Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room (Athens, Ga.) 2
Atlanta Life Insurance Company 2
Atlanta Public Library. Auburn Branch 2
Atlanta Public Library. West Hunter Branch 2
Atlanta Public Schools 2
Augusta Symphony 2
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Blackburn, Ruby Parks, 1901-1982 2
Blayton, Jesse B., Sr., 1897-1977 2
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 2
Carter, Laura 2
Central Presbyterian Church (Athens, Ga.) 2
Cooksey, Eugene V. 2
Cumming, Joseph B. 2
Daughters of the American Revolution 2
Fickett, Richard Nathanial, 1905-1998 2
First Methodist Church 2
Georgia Museum of Art 2
Georgia State University 2
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Hartsfield, William Berry 2
Hester, Albert L., 1932- 2
Hill, Jesse, 1927- 2
Holder, H. Randolph (Howard Randolph), 1916-2002 2
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 2
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 2
Kenneth Kay (Photographer) 2
Lee, Sanford Henry, 1878-1958 2
Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) 2
Marshall, George O., 1922-2012 2
McPheeters, Annie L. 2
Moore, John A. 2
Murray, Miledge Galphin 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Black Arts Festival, Inc. 2
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Plummer, Gayther, 1925-2014 2
Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908 2
Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Stephens, Alexander 2
Tanner, J. (Johnnie B.) 2
The City Council of Augusta 2
Tree That Owns Itself 2
United States. Army Air Forces 2
Utopian Literary Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
(Baldwin) Turnell, June, 1932-2019 1
100% Wrong Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
27 Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Aaron, George 1
Aaron, Hubert, 1923-2014 1
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Abney, Beth Mobley, 1928-2016 1
Academy Baptist Church 1
Academy of Richmond County 1
Adams, Donald, of Ann Arbor, Mich. 1
Adams, Floyd C. (Floyd Cecil), 1904-1998 1
Adcock Building (Athens, Ga.) 1
African Diaspora Studies Institute (2nd : 1981 : Nairobi, Kenya) 1
Afro-American Life Insurance Company 1
Akola Girls' English School (Berar, India) 1
Alexander and Co. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Alexander, Sarah 1
Alexander, T. M. (Theodore Martin) 1
Alford, James H., Jr., 1940- 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Peyton Austin, 1867-1963 1
Allen, R. W. 1
Allen, Walter, Sr., 1930- 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. South Atlantic region 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Tau Epsilon Omega Chapter (East Point and College Park, Ga.) 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 1
Altrusa Club of Athens 1
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation 1
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