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National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students records
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-013
Scope and Contents
The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students records consist of correspondence, publications, newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, notes, committee reports, meeting minutes, directories and financial records. The collection also includes brochures, audiovisual material, books, programs, grant proposals, photographs, reports, national profiles of black youth, student manuals, test preparation booklets, office records and ephemera. The majority of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1965-1980
Neighborhood Arts Center financial records
Collection
Collection number: aarl91-009B
Overview
This collection consists of the financial records of the Neighborhood Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1979 through 1989, including reports, vendor accounts, manuals on accounting, purchase orders, journals, payroll ledgers, invoices, bank statements, annual reports and tax information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1978-1984; Bulk, 1978-1984 1975-1989 1978-1984
Neighborhood Arts Center records
Collection
Collection number: aarl91-009A
Overview
The collection consists of the program files of the Neighborhood Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from the years 1979-1989 and includes a history of the Neighborhood Arts Center, information from the Board of Directors and their meetings, committee reports, profiles of members of the Board of Directors, correspondence, memos, office files, information on leasing space, budgets and funding sources, and information on program activities.
Dates:
1975-1990
Nellie Harris Hannon Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl020-004
Scope and Contents
This collection includes documents relating to William A. Harris Hospital which was founded by Nellie Hannon's sister. The hospital was founded by Sadye Harris Powell an African American nurse from Atlanta born in 1899 and her husband surgeon Charles W. Powell. The hospital was named after Sadye and Nellie's father William A. Harris. The blacks only hospital facility was located on Hunter Street near Washington High School (Hunter Street is now known as Martin Luther King Jr Dr). Other...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1927-1985
Oakland Cemetery Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-003
Overview
The collection consists of three volumes of numerical lists of burials of African American Atlanta residents in the Oakland Cemetery, organized by month, day, and year from 1850 to 1997 as well as alphabetical lists of burials, divided from A to I and from J to Z compiled by Edward Allen Myers.
Dates:
1993
Olive Lindsey Wakefield Collection on Langston Hughes
Collection
Collection number: aarl89-013
Overview
The collection consists of letters from Langston Hughes to Olive Lindsey Wakefield (wife of Paul Wakefield) of Springfield, Illinois from 1945-1955. The often lengthy letters discuss Hughes' activities including his writings and appearances, family and friends, and thoughts on a variety of subjects. Also includes a bibliography of his works, announcements of his speaking and reading engagements, play announcements, reviews of his works, and periodicals which include his poems.
Dates:
1945-1955
One Share Confederate Stock
Collection
Collection number: MS-12
Scope and Contents
One share of stock issued by the Atlantic Steam Packet Company of the Confederate States at $1000 dollars a share. Stock issued to John A. Moore.
Dates:
1864-10-15
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Oral history interview with Annie L. McPheeters
Collection
Collection number: aarlOHC92-001
Overview
The collection consists of the transcript of an oral history interview with Annie L. McPheeters on June 8, 1992 conducted by Kathy Nasstrom, of the Georgia Government Documentation Project at Georgia State University. During the interview, McPheeters discusses why she became a librarian; library's 1930 adult education program; John Wesley Dobbs; black libraries provide information for political, civic and voters leagues; Dr. Clarence A. Bacote; Reverend William Holmes Borders; Warren Cochran...
Dates:
1992
Oral history interviews of the Atlanta 1950-1979 Oral History Project
Collection
Collection number: aarlatlanta
Overview
The collection consists of the 111 audiocassette tapes and 76 transcripts recording oral history interviews that form the "Atlanta, 1950-1970 Oral History Project" conducted by the Atlanta Public Library and the Junior League of Atlanta and interviewed over eighty Atlanta residents between the years 1974 and 1980 in order to supplement existing printed resources in local history and biography from those years. The project was intended to portray the personal observations and expressions of...
Dates:
1974-1980
Original Page from Punch
Collection
Collection number: MS-21
Scope and Contents
Original Page from Punch v. XVIII, pp. 243-244. 1841. 1st Edition, London
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Othello "Chico" Renfroe collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl90-002
Overview
The collection consists of papers of Othello "Chico" Renfroe from ca. 1938-1991. The papers include scrapbooks, photo albums, baseball game books, and audiotapes documenting the Negro baseball leagues, the integration of African Americans in the white leagues, African American athletes, and the civil rights movement, as well as Renfroe's activities as a sports broadcaster. The scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, and baseball cards. The clippings include...
Dates:
[ca. 1938-1991]
Otis Dennis Howard collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl97-009
Overview
The Otis Dennis Howard collection contains original drawings of his comic strip, correspondence, and a manuscript.
Dates:
undated
Paine College Programs
Collection
Collection number: MS-68
Dates:
1967 - 2010
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Pamphlet Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl.PM
Scope and Contents
The Pamplet Collection holds well over 630 items from historical events, schools, organizations, and thinkpieces from scholars and laymen. This collection covers not only Georgia and the southern United States but it also includes writings and speeches from historical figures from the North. Majority of the collection consists of writings on a variety of topics like, integration, slavery, the confederacy, and the Reconstruction period. This collection will be helpful to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1794-1977
Papers Associated with Augusta, Georgia
Collection
Collection number: MS-153
Scope and Contents
Materials of persons associated in some way with Augusta, Georgia. Contains letters, receipts, and postcards
Dates:
1823 - 1906
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Paradise Missionary Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) Records
Collection
Collection number: aarl015-001
Scope and Contents
The Paradise Missionary Baptist Church Collection dates from 1947 to 2013 and it consists of Church Anniversaries, Special Events, Social Clubs, Correspondences and a Photograph collection.
Dates:
1930-2015
Partial Letter from the Augusta Exposition and Georgia State Fair 1893
Collection
Collection number: MS-70
Scope and Contents
Contains a partial letter Partial Letter from the Augusta Exposition and Georgia State Fair 1893
Dates:
1893-11-01
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Paul E.X. Brown WERD records
Collection
Collection number: aarl97-010
Overview
The collection contains records from 1949 to 1955 of WERD, Atlanta's first African American-owned and operated radio station, that were collected by Paul E. X. Brown and include program schedules, correspondence, some ephemeral items, sworn affidavits of owners operators, and employees of WERD, many from Jessie B. Blayton, as well as several audio cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes of political commentary and programming from 1953 to 1961. The affidavits concern the station's 1954 bid to the...
Dates:
1949-1955
Performance Programs, Augusta Georgia
Collection
Collection number: MS-44
Scope and Contents
Covers Augusta professional theatre performances Consists of programs and 1 playbill.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1912 - 1933
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Peyton Austin Allen papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl94-006
Overview
The collection consists of a photograph of Atlanta-based, African American educator Peyton Austin Allen as a principal with students in 1887, a poster of Negro Day at the Georgia State Fair, October 16, 1899, and newspaper clippings related to Allen's death in 1936.
Dates:
1887-1936
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