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African American Calendar Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 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
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

General Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl-89-12
Scope and Contents The General Photographs Collection consists of images of African American life from the 1880s to the 1980s. Many of these photographs are portraits taken in various studios on the East Coast of the United States, other are snapshots of family life, school, church and the many social organizations of the African American community. Some photographs in this collection showcase the neighborhoods and businesses that existed in the early to mid 20th century. Majority of the photos are...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1979
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

Historic District Development Corporation maps and plans

 Collection
Identifier: aarl-unknown03
Scope and Contents The Historic District Development Corporation Collection contains 114 rolled architectural plans. Included are neighborhood street maps, construction plans, property surveys, and buidling designs, sites that are all located in the Old Fourth Ward. Among these are Auburn Avenue Research Library (AARL) architectural sketches, site plans for Edgewood lofts, a large census tract map for the city, mayor Bill Campbell's approved plans for Atlanta's transportation and Solid Waste Services and...
Dates: 1989 - 2006
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

Summerhill community oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: aarl97-007
Overview

The interviews in the Summerhill Community Oral History series focus on the residents of the Summerhill neighborhood who discuss what it was like growing up in the neighborhood, as well as their childhood and teen years in the community.

Dates: 1997
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

Sweet Auburn Curb (Municipal) Market collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl016-003-2
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the Sweet Auburn Curb (Municipal) Market papers that span the years between 1920 and 2013. It includes printed and published materials such as newspaper and magazine clippings but mainly administrative documents. These are court documents, lease agreements, correspondences, board meeting minutes, audits, financial statements, budgets, ledger booklets, and other managerial papers. There are several construction plans for the market's renovation project in this...
Dates: 1920 - 2013
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

Thomasville Heights neighborhood project collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl96-004
Overview

The collection consists of photographs, slides, an audiotape recording of a visit through the Norwood community, and creative writings of the students, including "Change Agent Stories" and original poems about the Thomasville Heights community created between 1995 and 1996.

Dates: 1995-1996
Found in: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

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John Wesley Dobbs Elementary School (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
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