Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This series contains documents defining policies and procedures, as well as directives, speeches, appointments, studies and correspondence recording the implementation of these policies and procedures and relating to all phases of responsibility of the Division of Planning and Marketing. In order to gain a complete grasp of the planning process undertaken by the Division, one is compelled to see all of the series in this sub-group.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, working papers and other records documenting coordination of planning and policy formulation between the Metropolltan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and other governmental and non-governmental agencies. This series is but one in a set of five in all which together document the entire planning and marketing operations of the Division of Plannlng and Marketing.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, working papers and other records documenting the development and implementation of transit marketing and service development plans and programs.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, working papers and other records documenting the coordination of planning and policy formulation and development of guidelines and criteria for the design and construction of rapid transit stations and line segments.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, working papers and other records relating to regional development and transportation planning included as components of regional plans.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, working papers and other records relating to the coordination of planning and policy formulation, the development of guidelines and criteria for the design, construction and procurement of systemwide facilities and equipment and the development of operating standards and procedures.

This series contains newspaper clippings and news releases documenting one of the chief missions of the Department of Planning and Public Affairs, the dissemination and collection of information on rapid transit matters in general and the building of the Atlanta system in particular.

This bound set of plans was prepared by Parsons-Brinckerhoff-Tudor- Bechtel, general engineering consultants for MARTA. The set includes drawings and profiles of all sections of all projected lines in the system, as well as drawings of typical structures and storage areas connected with the system. An interesting feature is the set of aerial photographs with the line route and stations superimposed on them.

These published annual reports are similar to those of other State departments. They summarize activities and accomplishments of the Authority for the past year and look ahead to accomplishments in the future. They include further, a report from the Chairman of the Board of Directors, names and pictures of members of the Board and a statement of assets, liabilities and fund balances as well as the progress reports and predictions for the future.

Miscellaneous publications belonging to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.

This series contains correspondence files, weekly reports, audit reports, committee meeting reports and individual case files relating to appraisal, acquisition, demolition, restoration, management and relocation of properties purchased by MARTA to carry out its program of rapid transit construction.

This series contains documents relating to the acquisition of real property by the Atlanta Transit System, Inc. Included are deeds to parcels of real estate, land plats, descriptions, lease agreements and related correspondence.

The register is in roughly alphabetical order by parents's surname, followed by the child's name and birth date. There is also a photograph of Martha.

Wright writes to her son, describing life in "Camp Seco," a California mining camp where she was the only "American" woman. In the course of the letter she relates a trip she took with "Major Wright" and "Thomas" to see some "big trees" (possibly redwoods) 35 miles away.

The first few pages of the diary concern Georgia and Cherokee Indian territory. Also included are a letter from Martha to her future second husband, Alfred Shorter, and news articles about this diary and the Shorters.

This collection consists of only a small portion of the records created by Martha Lou Houston, genealogist, in the course of her work. After her death, her niece disbursed the collection among institutions thought to be most appropriate. Families researched are: Bradford, Bradley, Dickson, Gay, Marshall, Murphy, Wells, and Wooten, mostly in the Southeast. A portion of the notes concerns the Land family of Iowa and Missouri and was once in the possession of Estelle Land Cobb.

Receipts for purchases of a wagon, a cart, and a pair of mares, all from New York City, NY, in June 1884.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, legal documents, and genealogical material relating to the Ozburn, Mangum, Connally, and Spalding families. Included are slave records and references to children, medical services, amusements and holidays, Radford J. Crockett's execution, the liquor and medicine businesses, and African Americans after the war.

This collection includes family letters from daughters, Annie and Minnie, in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, home to Atlanta. Also included are letters from Fisher and Drew, relatives in Cave Spring, Georgia, and Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Additional included is a dry goods bill and two calling cards.

These are papers from organizations of which Mary B. Connally was treasurer: the Industrial Educational Loan Association, Fulton County, Georgia, and the Grady Hospital Aid Association. Correspondence includes letters from some of the girls, particularly Rosa B. Holmes, who received loans to attend the Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville.

Letters from Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, to in-laws in the North, describing conditions of Georgia family members.

Primarily letters from John Silas Mason, United States Army in the Philippines, to his sister, Esta Mason McCallum in Atlanta and his parents in Canton, Georgia, concerning the American occupation during the 1907 - 1909 insurrection of the native Moslem Moros. Also includes an 1895 letter from Esta, a broadside announcing a play by Willie McCallum Tuggle, and a brief history of the Holly Springs Baptist Church.

This collection includes estate papers, land records, incoming correspondence, and genealogical information, including a family history on the McAfee family of Washington County, Georgia, and Alabama.

Letters, legal documents and receipts belonging to the McCalla (or McCally) family. Included are: an 1841 slave bill of sale for Sukey and child; an 1843 Samuel McCalla will; and half a dozen letters to Mathew and Greenberry McCalla from relatives and friends who had immigrated to other counties and states.

Included in this collection are the Civil War diary (1864-1865) of Minerva Rowles McClatchey during Sherman's advance on Atlanta, correspondence among family members (1861-1864) when two of her sons were in the army, and later reminiscences of the war and the Reconstruction period. Papers also include Rowles family genealogy.