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David F. Dorsey, Jr. collection

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Collection number: aarl91-001
Overview The collection, created by Atlanta University scholar David Frederick Dorsey, consists of programs, newsletters, flyers, and clippings related to dance and other performing arts between 1972 and 1990 and pamphlets and reports dated 1928 and from 1979 to 1983 documenting the political situation in southern Africa. The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Atlanta Ballet, Jomandi Productions, Clark Atlanta University student groups, and international dance troupes are represented within the...
Dates: 1972-1991

Dedication Program for the Augusta Municipal Auditorium

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Collection number: MS-111
Scope and Contents

1 dedication program

Dates: 1940-03-31 - 1940-04-05

Deed of Trust Naming Five Slaves, Hancock County, Georgia, 1841

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Collection number: MS-136
Dates: 1841

Dent's Undertaking Establishment [ Dent's Funeral Home]

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Collection number: MS-77
Scope and Contents

Artifacts believed to be associated with Dent’s Undertaking Establishment [Dent’s Funeral Home]. 1 Selective Service Card for Willie Paul, 3 photographs of unknown persons 2 ca.1950 1 ca, 2004, 1 fan, 1 price list, 2003

Dates: 1941 - 2004

Documents of C.G. Lamback

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Collection number: MS-110
Scope and Contents

Contains certificate of commission as a Richmond County commissioner, one receipt for membership in the Ku Klux Klan, and two Klan pamphlets

Dates: 1920 - 1921

Don Rhodes Papers

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Collection number: MS-52
Scope and Contents

Contains vertical files, research, clippings, thematic binders, and scrapbooks

Dates: Majority of material found within 1962 - 2014

Donald Adams Pullman Porter collection

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Collection number: aarl95-011
Overview

The collection contains one 5"x7" black and white photograph of an unidentified African American man, one Pullman porter hat, and eleven duplicate time sheets (copies) of Mr. W. O. Bullock. Mr. Bullock was an employed by the Pullman Company as a Porter (I.D. number PO. 174) from 1951 to 1957.

Dates: 20th century

Donald L. Hollowell Collection

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Collection number: aarl012-002
Scope and Contents note This collection consists of four series: General Case Files; Civil Rights Cases; Photographs and Print Materials; Awards, Oversized Photographs, and Miscellaneous Prints; Ephemera; and Audio/Visual. The collection consists of 26 boxes. The General Case Files and Civil Rights Cases span the early 1950s to the late 1960s, and include incoming and outgoing correspondence, legal motions, court transcripts and other legal documents, as well as Hollowell's notes related to the cases. The General...
Dates: 1930s-2004

Dorothy Anderson Shipes Jung Collection

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Collection number: MS-151
Scope and Contents 1938 Maids and a Man (Tubman High School, Augusta, Ga.) yearbook showing senior picture of Dorothy; two (2) 1938 graduation programs from Tubman High School naming Dorothy; navy blue wool nursing cape c. 1945 showing UH (University Hospital) embroidered on the collar. The cape is lined in red with “Dorothy Shipes” embroidered on the lining; one (1) gold class ring showing ’45 and skull and crossbones insignia; four (4) Tubman High School reunion photos; Tubman High School reunion name tag...
Dates: 1938 - 1945

Dorothy Lee Bolden Thompson collection

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Collection number: aarl96-005
Overview

Mrs. Bolden Thompson used her experience as a domestic worker to organize the Union, which successfully improved the wages and working conditions of domestic workers in Atlanta, and other cities of the U.S.

Dates: 1968-1996

Dorothy Porter Wesley papers

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Collection number: aarl99-007
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of bibliographies, correspondence, and research materials pertaining to Latin American authors and literature, in addition to conference papers and documents from the 1973 Phyllis Wheatley Poetry Festival held at Jackson State College in Jackson Mississippi. These documents were compiled by librarian and bibliophile Dorothy Porter Wesley.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1932-1975

Douglas M. Frey

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Collection number: Coll-011
Scope and Contents Collection of research and information gathered by Douglas Frey, an architectural historian and restoration contractor while working on his 2010 publication Marietta, the Gem City of Georgia: A Celebration of Its Homes - A Portrait of Its People. The work includes photographs by Jim DiVitale and was published by Cobb Landmarks and Historical Society, Inc. The collection includes materials related to information about historic districts in Atlanta and the surrounding area; historic homes and...
Dates: 2001 - 2009

Dr. Alpha Omega Campbell papers

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Collection number: aarl94-014
Overview

The collection, covering the 1940s through 1994, contains photographs of Dr. Alpha Omega Campbell and his family as well as the hospital he established, two newspaper articles on Dr. Campbell, and correspondence concerning a 1994 proposed bicycle path in Tallahassee to be named after the Campbell family.

Dates: ca. 1940-1994

Dr. Asa G. Yancey, Sr., M.D. papers

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Collection number: aarl94-016
Overview

The collection spans from 1938 to 2001, the bulk of which dates from ca. 1952 to 2001, and contains articles, programs, and other publications related to the medical career of Dr. Asa G. Yancey, his contributions to healthcare in Atlanta, and the history of African American healthcare workers including Dr. Charles R. Drew, under whom Yancey studied.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1952-1971; Bulk, 1952-1971 1937-2001

Dr. Barbara King papers

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Collection number: aarl016-002
Scope and Contents note

The Collection Consists of sermon notes, journals, books, travel documents, a map, catalogues, flyers, an ID card, invitations, correspondence, programs, Newspaper clippings, writings by various authors, photographs, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, DVDs, and awards of Dr. Barbara King dating from 1945-2016. In addition to physical awards included, there is a listing of names and pictures of additional awards that Dr. Barbara King has received.

Dates: 1945-2016

Dr. Claude C. George, Jr. family papers

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Collection number: aarl96-015
Overview The collection contains six volumes of Capital Avenue Elementary School publications from 1972 through 1973, Cooper Street Elementary School publications from 1970 through 1972, biographical information about Atlanta educator Dr. Claude C. George, Jr. and other family members, clippings from the Atlanta constitution and Atlanta daily world from 1957 through 1964, pamphlets, periodicals, essays, and other publications relating to the Atlanta public schools (1974-1990), and a diploma from...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1971-1990; Bulk, 1971-1990 1912-1996 1971-1990

Dr. Clifton Orrin Dummett papers

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Collection number: aarl097-014
Overview The collection contains: One (1) book entitled,Charles Edwin Bentley, A Model For All Times: The Biography of the Father of the Oral Hygiene Movement in the United Statesby Clifton O. Dummett and Lois Doyle Dummett (U.S.A. : North Central Publishing Company, 1982); Four(4) copies of Invitation cards; Fifteen (15) copies of Journal articles by Dr. Clifton O. Dummett; Four (4) documents written about Dr. Clifton O. Dummett on matters related to the dental...
Dates: 1950-1992

Dr. Ernest C. Tate papers

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Collection number: aarl93-001
Overview

The collection consists of a photograph of Tate, an award received by Tate, and three works by Tate including a playlet about James Weldon Johnson and his two books,The Social Implications of the Writings and the Career of James Weldon JohnsonandWordplay and Poetry.

Dates: 1968-1982

Dr. Frederick Douglas Funderburg papers

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Collection number: aarl94-008
Overview

The collection dates from the 1940s to 1986 and consists of photographs of Funderburg and other family members, clippings about Funderburg's medical contributions and his brother George's bronze star, and plaques related to his medical and civic service.

Dates: [ca. 1940]-1986

Dr. Henry F. Shorter papers

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Collection number: aarl94-007
Overview

The collection spans 1886 to 1994 and consists of photographs depicting Shorter family members and friends dating from 1907 to 1920, legal and financial documents including deeds, titles, and Henry F. Shorter, Sr.'s will, correspondence, minutes of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Sunday School convention in 1904, and a set of picture postcards of Muscle Shoals and Florence, Alabama.

Dates: 1886-1994

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Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History 206
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Cobb County, Georgia, United States 3
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Second Baptist Church 5
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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
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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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