Browse Items (229 total)

This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells…

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.

It is a 1938 Map of the City of Atlanta. The colors are grades for neighborhoods and identify the main race in the region. In this map, the red region is largely African American settlements.

Updated with entries through 2016, the timeline reflects the history of the domestic epidemic from its origins in illness, fear, and death to our present, hope-filled years.

This photo shows the layout and skyline of the buildings in Atlanta, along with the greenery surrounding the city.

A detailed digital map of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport provided by the Georgia Department of Transportation

This map depicts a layout of the land where the orphan house is located. The layout for the house includes the main orphan house, an infirmary, a work house, a kitchin, wash house, cart house, a building intended to be a still house, a stable, a…

George Whitefield is continuing to deal with money involved in the Orphan House. Personal letters are written to him from donors about Whitefield's teaching's coming through in the actions of the children. These personal letters from donors show…