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Andrew J. Young Papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-005
Scope and Contents note
The Andrew J. Young Papers document his career and family life spanning more than 50 years, including his positions as a minister, civil rights activist, Congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta, Co-Chair of the 1996 Atlanta Committee of the Olympic Games, and his involvement with Law Companies Group, Inc. and GoodWorks International. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, press releases, calendars, books, minutes, reports, publications,...
Dates:
1910s-2007
Ann N. Cooper collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl95-007
Overview
The collection contains items from 1922 to 1956 including a daybook, two scrapbooks, a magazine, correspondence, a brief biography of Ann Cooper prepared for the Utopian Literary Club, photographs, and posters that document life in Atlanta's African American community and Ann N. Cooper and her husband, dentist Albert Berry Cooper in particular. |bOf particular note are the aviation scrapbook compiled by Albert Cooper containing information about African American pilots, a scrapbook compiled...
Dates:
1922-1956
Ann States Photograph Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl.85.001
Scope and Contents
The Ann States Photograph Collection holds images of Atlanta life during the 1970s. Many of the photographs showcase Auburn Avenue and the businesses that once thrived there. The photographs also show the people of Sweet Auburn in various settings socializing and working, these images offer a glimpse to what Sweet Auburn looked like during this time period.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-1979
Annabelle Thompson Kilgore collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl95-006
Overview
The Annabelle Thompson Kilgore collection contains items from 1966-1994 that document Kilgore's personal and professional life both as a photographer and educator and includes a profile, newspaper clippings, photographs of Atlanta, Africa, and African American photographers James Van Der Zeee and Prentice Harmon (P. H.) Polk, four of which are known to be the work of Mrs. Kilgore, a playbill for Katherine Dunham and her company, programs, brochures, and display materials on African American...
Dates:
1966-1994
Annie L. McPheeters papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl90-005
Overview
The collection consists of the papers of Annie L. McPheeters from 1945-1990. Includes correspondence, reports, notes, photographs, and a variety of printed materials which are largely clippings, brochures, pamphlets, journals, and books. Much of the collection relates to McPheeters' personal involvement with the Auburn and the West Hunter Branches of the Atlanta Public Library, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Warren Memorial United Methodist Church, and the Utopian Literary Club. Other...
Dates:
1945-1990
Annual Report Public Schools Augusta and Richmond County Georgia
Collection
Collection number: MS-74
Scope and Contents
Outlines and reports of various divisions
Dates:
1910
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Anthony "Tony" Daniels papers
Collection
Collection number: aarl008-008
Scope and Contents note
The Anthony "Tony" Daniels papers, 1980-2000, documents his professional and personal life through correspondence, diaries, journals, print materials, publications. The primary focus of the collection is his writings, which includes drafts, rewrites, scripts and related printed material. The collection also has records from the ensemble, ADODI Muse.
Dates:
1985-1999
Anton P. Markert Family World War II Ration Books
Collection
Collection number: MS -35
Scope and Contents
War Ration Book no. 3, nos. 440294, 440295. 440297, 440298. War Ration Book No. 4, nos. 858513, 858514, 858516, 858517. “A” Basic Mileage Coupons no. 0193807
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Aquinas High School Football Program
Collection
Collection number: MS-72
Scope and Contents
Photographs of the football team, cheerleaders, and coaching staff. Content is heavy on advertisements
Dates:
1961-10-20
Found in:
Georgia Heritage Room
Archives Map collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl.AMC-105-2010
Scope and Content Note
The Archives Map collection consists of printed maps of Africa, the Caribbean Islands, the World and the United States. There are approximately four hundred and thirty-five (435) items which were published between 1542 and 1987 by well known cartographers such as Sebastian Munster, Abraham Ortelius, and Williem Blaeu. Some of the maps on the surface appear to be duplicates but upon examination, are a variation of the same map but often with a different cartographer and date. Each...
Dates:
1913-1998
Art Work of Augusta and Savannah Georgia Published in Nine Parts
Collection
Collection number: MS-46
Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-014
Overview
The mission of the organization is to recognize the human diversity and multicultural nature of our society; to enhance the development, human rights, and the psychological health of all people as critical to the social, educational, political, professional and personal reform in the United States; to identify and work to eliminate conditions which create barriers to the individual development of non-whites; to develop, implement and/or foster interest in charitable, scientific and...
Dates:
1972-1992
Atlanta Caribbean Association, Inc. records
Collection
Collection number: aarl008-002
Dates:
1983-2010
Atlanta Cooperative Preschool Center collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl00-010
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the first years of the first interracial preschool in Atlanta. The collections includes news clippins, correspondence, flyers and other information on the school. The photographs document activities that the students did and
Dates:
1966-2013
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history interviews
Collection
Collection number: aarl91-007
Scope and Content Note
AIB's video project began in 1990 with several purposes: (1) documenting the reminiscences of elderly members of various Afro-American churches throughout Atlanta through oral history interviews; (2) recording individual church histories; (3) interviewing outstanding personalities of the South who have made a difference to society and documenting their oral history; (4) recording styles of singing and worship that existed in a previous time and which are dying out; and (5) documenting...
Dates:
1990-
Atlanta Life Insurance Company records
Collection
Collection number: aarl98-016
Overview
Records of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company from 1894-1994, 2000 which primarily document the operation of the company, and to a lesser extent, the role it played in Atlanta's African-American community. The record include officer's files; financial records; insurance policies and claims; Atlanta Life publications and printed material; non Atlanta Life publications and printed material; and architectural drawings, calendars, certificates and diplomas.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1945-1985; Bulk, 1945-1985 1894-1994 2000 1945-1985
Atlanta University collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl89-017
Overview
The collection contains documents spanning the dates from 1865 to 1989, with the bulk of the material from the period 1882-1865, and relating to the history and operation of Atlanta University and later Atlanta University Center, including newspaper clippings, ephemera, presidential reports, general correspondence, financial documents, photographs, legal documents, and essays, memoirs, and speeches.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1882-1965; Bulk, 1882-1965 1865-1994 1882-1965
Auburn Avenue Research Library Africana Graphic Novel and Comic Book Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl019-001
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains 320 graphic novels and comic books from countries around the world. All feature black characters or historical figures. Some of the content is racist and gives a historical idea of how blacks were portrayed during a certain time. Most of the content is in a foreign language, mostly French.
Dates:
1904-2007
Auburn Avenue Research Library Arts and Artifacts Collection
Collection
Collection number: aarl1994-001
Scope and Contents
The Arts and Artifact Collection consists of paintings, sketches, photographs, and other artworks of various mediums. The date ranges of the items of this collection are between 1930 and 2012. Pieces from Georgia artists such as Benny Andrews, James Hiram Malone, Mary Parks Washington and Raymond B. Cody are included in this collection. Many of the pieces of this collection highlight the African American experience in Georgia and the South as a whole. From street scenes to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900-2020
Auburn Avenue Research Library for African American Culture and History prints collection
Collection
Collection number: aarlprints
Overview
The collection contains both original prints and reproduced images including engravings, drawings, and a few photographic prints which appeared in magazines depicting African American experience during the Civil War and Reconstruction, as well as a series of engravings satirizing African Americans. Of special interest may be specific sets within the collection including the Jenner Moxon set, items published inFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and items...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1900; Bulk, 1850-1900 1686-1988 1850-1900
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