Curated Experiences
Join La’Neice Littleton, Ph.D., historian and Director of Community Collaborations, for an exploration of people, places, and events in Atlanta’s Black history.
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Curated Experiences
Join La’Neice Littleton, Ph.D., historian and Director of Community Collaborations, for an exploration of people, places, and events in Atlanta’s Black history.
Curated Experiences
Learn about the origins of interior design and see the work of one of its founding members—Ruby Ross Wood, decorator of the iconic Swan House mansion.
Curated Experiences
Learn about the house architect Philip Shutze, interior decorator Ruby Ross Wood, the Inman family who owned the home, and the staff who worked in the house including Lizzie McDuffie
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Atlanta History Center is the repository of millions of pages of archival documents and photographs, and tens of thousands of books, maps, museum artifacts, oral history interviews, and much more, with the collection growing daily. For the first time in the institution’s nearly 100-year history, we are excited to announce that this process will now operate from a new search tool housed on our website.
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Formed in June 1972, the Atlanta Lesbian/Feminist Alliance (ALFA) was established to increase lesbian visibility and solidarity, and to provide means for women to exist outside of society’s sexist institutions. The Kenan Research Center has recently processed several visual collections related LGBTQ+ history, which include photographs related to ALFA.
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Board of Park Commission Minute Books hold significant information, reflecting the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in urban spaces during the early twentieth century.
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Rountree Visual Vault showcases portions of museum collections and greets guests the moment they enter our museum.
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The Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry Garden brims with Georgia’s native flora due to the careful consideration of Mr. Cline.
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Atlanta’s history of influential and entrepreneurial women includes Adelle Bartlett Harper, the first woman to own and operate a florist shop in Atlanta in 1921.
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A husband and wife team were instrumental at a critical time in the roots of Georgia’s environmental struggles and inspired many to continue to protect Georgia’s valuable wilderness.
Archival Collections
Atlanta’s urban development, and political and social history are well documented through thousands of photographs from photojournalists and corporate photographers, primarily dated 1930-1990.
Archival Collections
African American history in Atlanta is documented in the Kenan Research Center’s strong collections of civic and political leaders, photojournalists, and oral history resources.
Archival Collections
Kenan Research Center’s military history collections document the Civil War, World War I, and World War II; as well as an oral history collection featuring over 600 interviews with veterans of foreign wars, including World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars.