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The Battle of Atlanta was a small part of the Atlanta Campaign that went on During the American Civil War. It was fought between the Union and the Confederate troops on July 22, 1864. This artifact is consisted of several papers of the Branch Family…

Oil Painting of Confederate Submarine Boat

This book provides a description of the exchanges between the orphan house and its beneficiaries and benefactors during the time of funding and full service.

Here is a photograph of two black, female students being escorted by an unmarked police car on their first day of school at Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta, GA on August 30, 1961.

Seen here is Girls' High School in 1925. Though the school started out as a few rooms above a shoe store in the 1870s, it eventually was moved to this building as more and more women enrolled over the years.

This article, Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals, was written by Lawrence Altman for the New York Times on July 3, 1981 before doctors had an understanding of what AIDS was. At the beginning of the AIDS outbreak, many homosexual men, predominantly in…

The Grand Trunk Railroad provides its customers with entertainment and sight-seeing opportunities.

This map details how professors patrolled the grounds around Charlayne Hunter's Myers Hall dormitory during the first days of integration -- implying the importance of her enrollment to the faculty of the University. Also included is a list of…

View of Antoine Graves Homes atrium, looking southeast from the top floor

Map of the city of Savannah in 1856.