Cobb County (Ga.)

Content Description The collection contains two typescripts and various documents relating the history of the Atkinson and Floyd families of Camden County and Marietta (Cobb County), Georgia. The first typescript (Notebook #1) is entitled "Atkinson: Being Mostly the Descendents of Burwell Atkinson and Nathan Atkinson Who Settled in Camden County, Georgia in the Late 1790s" and was compiled by Shirley Thomas Joiner. It contains several hundred typed pages of genealogical information, with short biographical...

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The photographs have been arranged into five sub-series and ordered chronologically.

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The Blair Family Collection consists of scrapbooks, papers, and photographs pertaining mainly to the 1940s, while L.M. (Rip) Blair was mayor of Marietta, Georgia, and the Bell Aircraft Company was transforming the local economy and culture. The collection also includes a number of blueprints for public projects in Marietta and Fair Oaks from 1938 to 1941.

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Topical

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Files are arranged in chronological order, with the exception of a correspondence series of D.C. Cole, filed alphabetically by last name.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of approximately 2849 technical drawings of various sizes from Gregson and Ellis, architects based in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as other items of mixed media. The architectural drawings date from circa the 1940s-1970s, and the bulk are from designs and plans made around the state of Georgia, including libraries, public institutions, hospitals, college buildings, courthouses, gymnasiums, school buildings, auditoriums, stadiums, museums, funeral homes, public housing,...

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This collection consists of two handwritten ledgers from 1879 and 1880 of John Stanley Gibson, who owned J. S. Gibson and Co., a blacksmith shop in Big Shanty, Georgia after the Civil War. The ledgers were continued into the early 1900s by Isom Fletcher Gibson, son of John Stanley Gibson. Both ledgers contain the accounts of farmers from the immediate region, who are identified by name at the top of each page. Included are loose papers and ephemera related to the family business.

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Index compiled by Thomas A. Scott, 19 September 1996.

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The bulk of this collection is related to Hattie Gaines Wilson's terms, both as board member and chair, on the Board of Commissioners of the Marietta Housing Authority. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, financial statements and reports, as well as general documents and records. Other parts of this collection are regarding community service and volunteer work done by Ms. Wilson at Kennestone Hospital and the Marietta-Cobb Community Center.

Content Description This collection consists of papers and related materials of Bowling Cox Yates ranging in date from 1849-1985. The materials in this collection mainly document Yates’s role as the first superintendent of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park and as a history professor at Reinhardt University. Materials include correspondence, articles, columns, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, letters, postcards, drawings, maps, notes, newspaper clippings, books, planners, pesos (Mexican currency),...