Register of the Herndon Family Collection

The Alonzo Herndon family was one of the most prominent African American families in Atlanta through much of the twentieth century. Rising above slavery, the Herndons reached the heights of business, education, culture, and community service in a racist society that sought to subjugate Blacks in every area of life.

Alonzo Franklin Herndon was born a slave in Social Circle (Walton Country), Georgia, on June 26, 1858. His mother, Sophenie Herndon, was also a slave, and his father, Francis Marion Herndon, was his White slave master, who never recognized Alonzo as his child. Alonzo had one full brother, Thomas Madison Herndon, and several half-siblings with whom he shared the same father.

Following slavery, Alonzo Herndon began field labor and eventually sharecropped for three years. By the time he left Social Circle about 1878, Herndon was twenty years old and had obtained a formal education of one year. Continuing field labor in surrounding counties in Georgia, Herndon settled for a while in Jonesboro where he learned the barber's trade and opened his first shop. Moving to Atlanta in 1882, he eventually became the city's premier barber. As owner of the Crystal Palace at 66 Peachtree Street in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Herndon served Whites only, as was required by Jim Crow custom and law. The shop was reputed to be the largest and finest barbershop in the world. Herndon invested heavily in real estate, owning more property than any other Black in the city. As the Black population in Atlanta continued to grow, as Jim Crow increasingly restricted business opportunities such as barbering that catered primarily t o a White market, Herndon purchased in 1905 three mutual aid associations that he reorganized as the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association (later known as Atlanta Life Insurance Company). Atlanta Life, which primarily served the African American market, became Atlanta's leading Black business and one of the largest Black financial institutions in the country, establishing Herndon as one of the foremost businesspersons of his era.

Alonzo Herndon was also Atlanta's leading Black philanthropist, who contributed to Atlanta University, the Butler Street YMCA, Gate City Free Kindergarten Association, First Congregational Church, the Leonard Street and Carrie Steele-Pitts orphanages, and many other charities. Herndon was a founding member of the National Negro Business League, which was organized by Booker T. Washington. Herndon was also a founding member of the Niagara Movement, which was spearheaded by W. E. B. Du Bois. As the first Black civil rights organization of the twentieth century, it was a forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Herndon died from heart disease on July 21, 1927. His fortune was worth at least one million dollars at that time. Herndon's wealth would eventually contribute millions of dollars to charitable purposes in Atlanta.

Alonzo Herndon married Adrienne McNeil on October 31, 1893. Adrienne was born in August, Georgia, on July 22, 1869, to Martha Fleming, an unmarried slave-born seamstress and domestic servant. Her father was George Stephens. Adrienne grew up in Savannah, Georgia, where her mother married Archibald McNeil, a butcher. Educated at the West Broad Street Public School, Adrienne attended Atlanta University Normal School, from which she graduated in 1890. She taught at the Gray Street Public School in Atlanta until her marriage to Alonzo Herndon. By 1895 she began teaching elocution at Atlanta University. She furthered her education by attending the Boston School of Expression during summers, receiving a degree in general culture in 1902 and one in public reading in 1903. On January 28, 1904, Adrienne made her drama debut in Steinert Hall in Boston under the stage name of Anne Du Bignon, reciting all parts of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra. Due to racial exclusions in the American theater, however, Adrienne was unable to establish a name for herself as a public reader or to perform on the legitimate theater stage as she had dreamed. Her greatest theater contributions were her teaching and her Shakespearean productions at Atlanta University. Adrienne Herndon also graduated in 1908 from the School of Dramatic Arts in New York City, furthering her preparation in college teaching and drama productions. Perhaps her most enduring contribution, however, was her design of the Herndon family residence. Although untrained in architecture, Adrienne, who was well traveled and well read, had a keen eye for architecture and designed a fifteen-room mansion that has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Like her husband, Adrienne was active in community service and philanthropy. She was one of the founders of the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association. She also performed dramatic readings to raise funds for social, civic, and educational organizations in the Black community in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Savannah, Augusta, and other cities. Her untimely death from Addison's disease occurred on April 6, 1910, when she was 40 years old. Adrienne had a half sister, Jennie Olive McNeil, and a half brother Willie McNeil.

Norris Bumstead Herndon, son of Alonzo and Adrienne Herndon, was born on July 15, 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his studies at Atlanta University's Oglethorpe Practice School and continued at the West Mitchell Public School. He completed the high school preparatory course at Atlanta University in 1915 and in 1919 received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta University in 1919. In preparation for work in his father's business, Norris Herndon, completed his studies at Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in business administration in 1921. While a student, Norris worked at Atlanta Life, having been elected to the board of directors in 1919, and elected as vice-president in 1921. Following the death of this father in 1927, Norris became president of Atlanta Life, which under his presidency experiences its greatest period of growth. Norris Herndon served in this position till 1973.

Norris continued his family's philanthropy, establishing the Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon Foundation in 1950 which has contributed millions of dollars to such religious, educational, charitable and civil organizations as the NAACP, United Way, National Urban League, Atlanta University and the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home for Orphans. The Foundation also supports the Herndon mansion as a memorial to the good works of Adrienne Herndon. An avid, self-taught collector, Norris Herndon has substantially increased the family's collection of furnishings, textiles, decorative objects, and ancient artifacts. Less than a month before his eightieth birthday, Norris, who like his father suffered from heart disease, died at his home in Atlanta on June 15, 1977. Norris had been an only child and never married nor had children.Two years following Adrienne Herndon's death, Alonzo Herndon married Jessie Franklin Gillespie, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jessie was born on September 6, 1871, to Ezekiel, and Catherine Robinson Gillespie, who were prominent persons in the early development of the Black community in Milwaukee. Educated in the public schools of that city, Jessie eventually moved with her family to Chicago where her father continued to work as a railroad messenger on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. Jessie was a hairdresser and manicurist in the beauty salon and hair goods store of her half-sister, Mary Gillespie. Jessie had a full brother, Charles, and a full sister Ida. From the former marriages of both parents, Jessie had seven half-siblings.

In Atlanta, Jessie Gillespie Herndon was active in various community affairs, having supported such organizations as the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA and the Herndon Day Nursery (part of the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association). Shortly before his death, Alonzo had Jessie elected to the board of directors of Atlanta Life, making her the first female to serve on that body. Upon Alonzo Herndon's death, in 1927, Jessie was elected a vice president, becoming the first female to serve in this position. Jessie was also prominent socially, having been a member of the Twelve Club, an exclusive organization for the wives of prominent businessmen and professionals. Jessie died of a stroke at home on February 1, 1947, at the age of seventy-five. She had no children.

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Scope and Content Note

The Herndon family collection includes the family papers of Alonzo, Adrienne, Norris and Jessie Herndon from 1896-1977. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to and from the Herndons, financial records, publications, and photographs. Also, present in this collection is a small collection of diaries and journals, real estate and legal records, and house and restoration records.

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Arrangement of the Collection

The collection is organized into fifteen series:

(1) Biographical and death materials

(2) Correspondence

(3) Diaries, journals, and address books

(4) School material

(5) Financial records

(6) Legal papers

(7) Real estate papers

(8) House restoration and maintenance

(9) Medical records

(10) Business and organizational material

(11) Travel

(12) Art and architecture

(13) Publications

(14) Atlanta Loan and Trust Company records

(15) Ephemera

(16) Books

(17) Herndon family photographs.

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Topics Covered

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Herndon, Adrienne M., 1893-1910.

Herndon, Alonzo, b. 1958.

Herndon, Jessie G., 1871-1947.

Herndon, Norris B., 1897-1977.

White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955.

Atlanta Life Insurance Company.

Atlanta Loan and Trust Company.

Atlanta University--Students

Harvard University--Students.

Herndon Barbershop (Atlanta, Ga.)

School of Expression (Boston, Mass.)

African American barbers--Georgia.

African American business enterprises--Georgia.

African American businesspeople--Georgia.

Barbershops--Georgia.

Insurance companies--Georgia.

Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs.

Photographs.

Scrapbooks.

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Administrative Information

Provenance:

Gift, Herndon family and various sources

Restrictions on Access:

Some restrictions apply. See Archivist

Restrictions on Use:

All requests subject to reproduction policy of The Herndon Home.

Preferred Citation Method:

[after identification of item(s)], Herndon family papers, The Herndon Home.

Processing Information:

Processed by Lamonica Sanford and Wesley Chenault, 2002-2004.

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Related Material

Atlanta Life Insurance Company records and First Congregational Church records, Auburn Avenue Research Library and Atlanta University Archives, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Special Collections.

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Separation List

Atlanta Life Insurance Company photographic collection, Herndon Foundation records, Martin and Palmer families collection, and Fred Toomer collection.

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Description of Series

Series 1: Biographical and death materials

Box 1 and OV18-20

The biographical and death materials series consists of addresses and remarks, eulogies, and other materials that document the lives and deaths of the Herndons, relatives, and friends.

Box

Folder

Alonzo F. Herndon

Adrienne M. Herndon

Norris B. Herndon

Jessie G. Herndon

Madeline White

Relatives and Friends

Box

OV18

Miscellaneous Scrapbooks, 1914 - 1926 [Record Storage Box 4]

Box

OV19

Miscellaneous Scrapbooks, 1902 - 1921 [Record Storage Box 5]

Box

OV20

Hankerson-McNeil Family Bible [Record Storage Box 6:]

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Series 2: Correspondence, 1894-1976
Boxes 1-21
The correspondence series in the Herndon Family Collection includes general correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, telegrams, greeting cards, invitations, and solicitations. This series contains incoming and outgoing material dating from 1894 to 1976 with the bulk of the material from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. While this series includes incoming and outgoing material from Alonzo F. Herndon, Adrienne M. Herndon, Jessie G. Herndon, and other persons, the bulk of the correspondence is from Norris B. Herndon. Highlights of this series include letters exchanged among the Herndons. The letters among the Herndons offer insight into personal relationships. Noteworthy, are letters written to Norris Herndon by A. Philip Randolph (1941), W.E.B. DuBois (1942), Mary McCleod Bethune (1942), and Walter White (1947).


		Alonzo F. Herndon: Letters, Incoming
Box	Folder
1	1		1901-1902, 1904-1905, 1912-1916, 1919
	2		1921-1926
		Alonzo F. Herndon: Letters, Outgoing
	3		1911-1912, 1914, 1916-1917
	4		1918-1919, 1921-1923
	5		1924-1925, 1927, n.d.
		Alonzo F. Herndon: Postcards, Incoming
	6		1905, 1907-1911, 1913, 1915-1917, 1923, n.d.
		Alonzo F. Herndon: Postcards, Outgoing
	7		1910-1912, n.d.
		Alonzo F. Herndon: Invitations, Incoming
	8		Invitations, 1914-1915, n.d.
		Alonzo F. Herndon: Greeting Cards, Incoming
	9		1906, 1909, n.d.
		Adrienne M. Herndon: Letters, Incoming
	10		1902, 1904, 1907, one 1909 envelope
	11		1909
		Adrienne M. Herndon: Postcards, Incoming
	12		1894, 1902-1903, 1905-1906, 1908-1910, n.d.
		Adrienne M. Herndon: Postcards, Outgoing
	13		1900, 1907, 1909
		Adrienne M. Herndon: Greeting Cards, Incoming
	14		Greeting Cards: Adrienne M. Herndon: Incoming, n.d
		Norris B. Herndon: Letters, Incoming
Box	Folder
2	1		1908-1912
	2		1913
	3		1914
	4		1915
	5		1916
	6		1916
	7		1917
	8		1918
	9		1921-1923
	10		1926-1927
	11		1939
	12		1941
	13		1942
	14		1942
	15		1943
	16		1944
	17		1945
	18		1946-1947
	19		1947
	20		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
	21		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
	22		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
	23		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
	24		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
	25		1947 (Regarding Death of Jessie Herndon)
Box	Folder
3	1		1948
	2		1948
	3		1949
	4		1949
	5		1950
	6		1950
	7		1951
	8		1951
	9		1952
	10		1953
	11		1954
	12		1954
	13		1954
	14		1954
	15		1955
	16		1955
	17		1956
	18		1957
	19		1958
	20		1960
	21		1961
	22		1962
Box	Folder
4	1		1963
	2		1963
	3		1963
	4		1964
	5		1964
	6		1965
	7		1965
	8		1965
	9		1965
	10		1966
	11		1966
	12		1966
	13		1966
	14		1966
Box	Folder
5	1		1967
	2		1967
	3		1968
	4		1969
	5		1969
	6		1971-1972
	7		1974
	8		1975
	9		1976
	10		n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Letters, Outgoing
Box	Folder
6	1		1907-1926
	2		1942-1945
	3		1947
	4		1948
	5		1949
	6		1950
	7		1951
	8		1952
	9		1953
	10		1954
	11		1955
	12		1963-1964
	13		1965
	14		1966
	15		1967
	16		1968
	17		1969, 1971
	18		n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Letters, Incoming/Outgoing Attached
Box	Folder
7	1		1942-1943
	2		1944-1945
	3		1946-1947
	4		1948
	5		1949
	6		1950
	7		1951
	8		1952
	9		1953-1954
	10		1955
	11		1963
	12		1964
	13		1965
	14		1965
	15		1966
	16		1967
	17		1968
	18		1968
	19		1969
		Norris B. Herndon: Telegrams, Incoming
Box	Folder
8	1		1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1961, 1963-1965, 1967-1968, 1971, n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Postcards, Incoming
	2		1900-1905, Postcard album
	3		1900-1909
	4		1910-1911
	5		1912-1917, 1919
	6		1922, 1925, 1928-1929, 1939
	7		1943, 1947-1949
	8		1950-1955, 1958-1959
	9		1960-1969, 1976
	10		n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Postcards, Outgoing
	11		1912 (1912 Honeymoon)
	12		1909-1912, 1918
	13		1955-1957, 1963-1964, n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Invitations, Incoming
	14		1907, 1913-1914, 1919-1920
	15		1949, 1951-1952, 1954-1955
	16		1963-1965, 1968, 1973, n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Greeting Cards, Incoming
Box	Folder
9	1		pre-1927, 1911-1914, 1917-1918, 1942, 1944-1945
	2		1947
	3		1947
	4		1948
Box	Folder
10	1		1949
	2		1949
	3		1949
	4		1949
Box	Folder
11	1		1950
	2		1950
	3		1950
	4		1950
Box	Folder
12	1		1951
	2		1951
	3		1951
	4		1951
Box	Folder
13	1		1952
	2		1952
	3		1952
	4		1952
Box	Folder
14	1		1952
	2		1952
	3		1952
	4		1952
Box	Folder
15	1		1953
	2		1954
	3		1955
	4		1955
Box	Folder
16	1		1955
	2		1955
	3		1955
	4		1957-1959
Box	Folder
17	1		1960-1962
	2		1963
	3		1964
Box	Folder
18	1		1965
	2		1966
	3		1967
	4		1968
	5		1969
Box	Folder
19	1		n.d.
	2		n.d.
	3		n.d.
	4		n.d.
	5		n.d.
		Norris B. Herndon: Solicitation, Incoming
Box	Folder
20	1		Solicitation
	2		Solicitation
	3		Solicitation
	4		Solicitation
	5		Solicitation
		Jessie G. Herndon : Letters, Incoming
Box	Folder
21	1		1905, 1918, 1925-1927, 1932, 1935-1937
	2		1942, 1945-1946, n.d.
		Jessie G. Herndon : Postcards, Incoming
	3		1905-1906
	4		1907-1908, 1919, 1935, 1943, n.d.
		Jessie G. Herndon : Postcards, Outgoing
	5		1929
		Jessie G. Herndon: Invitations, Incoming
	6		Invitations, 1945
		Martha A. McNeil: Postcards, Incoming
	7		1905-1908
	8		1910-1911
	9		1912-1913
		McNeil Relatives: Correspondence and Postcards, Incoming
	10		1908-1909, 1911-1912, 1918, n.d.
		Gillespie Relatives: Postcards, Incoming
	11		1905, 1912
		Miscellaneous Correspondence
	12		Letters, 1911, 1914, 1942-1943, 1947, 1950
	13		Letters, 1951-1952, 1961, 1963-1964, n.d
	14		Postcards, 1906, 1909-1910, 1912, n.d.
	15		Greeting cards, n.d.

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Series 3: Diaries, journals, and address books, 1886-1941
Boxes 1-2
This series includes journals and address books belonging to Herndon family members. A large portion of the journals belongs to Norris B. Herndon and documents his travels to various parts of the world.


Box	Folder
1	1	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Adrienne M. Herndon, n.d.
	2	Memory Book: Adrienne M. Herndon, 1886
	3	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Jessie G. Herndon, 1941
	4	Calendars
	5	Guest Book
	6	Telephone Directory: Atlanta, Georgia, 1914
Box	Folder
2	1	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1912
	2	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1915
	3	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1917-18
	4	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1921, 1923, 1925
	5	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1927
	6	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1938
	7	Yearbook and Travel Journals: Norris B. Herndon, 1955
	8	Diaries (Baby Book): Norris B. Herndon, 1898
	9	Address Booklets: Norris B. Herndon

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Series 4: School material, 1896-1975
Boxes 1-3
For the most part, the school material in this series belongs to Adrienne M. and Norris B. Herndon. Of particular interest are materials that document Adrienne's attendance at the Boston School of Expression. The bulk of the material ranges from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Included in this series are annual catalogs, classwork, notebooks, and other material directly related to the Herndon's attendance at their respective institutions.


		Adrienne M. Herndon
Box	Folder
1	1		Atlanta University Program and Recitals
	2		Atlanta University Classwork and Program from "Adventure of the Second Stain"
	3		Boston School of Expression Annual Catalog, 1896-1899
	4		Boston School of Expression Annual Catalog, 1900-1902
	5		Boston School of Expression Annual Catalog, 1904
	6		Boston School of Expression Annual Catalog, 1905-1908
	7		Boston School of Expression Annual Catalog, n.d.
	8		Boston School of Expression Classwork
	9		Boston School of Expression Classwork
	10		Boston School of Expression Classwork
	11		Boston School of Expression Classwork
	12		Boston School of Expression Graduation Programs and Invitations
	13		Boston School of Expression Instructors
	14		Boston School of Expression Library Card, 1902
	15		Boston School of Expression Notebooks
	16		Boston School of Expression Receipts
	17		Boston School of Expression Recitals and Banquets
	18		School of Dramatic Arts New York
		Norris B. Herndon
	19		Atlanta Public Schools - Classwork
	20		Atlanta Public Schools “A Few Scenes" Plays, 1911-1912
	21		Atlanta Public Schools Grades and Promotion Slips, 1905-1911
	22		Atlanta Public Schools History and Geography, 1911
	23		Atlanta University Class Schedules, 1912-1913
	24		Atlanta University Classwork Algebra, Geometry, Physics and Trigonometry, n.d.
Box	Folder
2	1		Atlanta University Classwork Algebra, Geometry, Economics, Physics and Trigonometry, 1913-1919
	2		Atlanta University Class Notebooks, 1917-1918
	3		Atlanta University Classwork - English and Literature, n.d.
	4		Atlanta University Classwork - English and Literature, 1913-1914
	5		Atlanta University Classwork Ethics, 1919
	6		Atlanta University Classwork French and German, 1915-1916
	7		Atlanta University Classwork German, Latin French n.d.
	8		Atlanta University Classwork History and Sociology,,1918-1919
	9		Atlanta University Classwork History and Sociology, n.d.
	10		Atlanta University Classwork Loose Sheets, 1912-1919
	11		Atlanta University Classwork Loose Sheets, n.d.
	12		Atlanta University Diploma Normal Department, 1915
	13		Atlanta University Grades, 1911 1918
	14		Atlanta University Manager of the Scroll Receipts and Other Materials
	15		Atlanta University Military Papers
	16		Atlanta University Receipts and Activities
	17		Harvard University School Songs
	18		Harvard University Bills, Receipts, Misc. School Material
	19		Harvard University Business School Bulletins (Scattered Issues), 1958, 1975
	20		Harvard University Classwork, 1920-1921
	21		Harvard University - Invitations, Activities, Programs
	22		Harvard University Thesis
	23	Carrie H. Herndon Connally - Atlanta University
	24	Clara Simkins
	25	Miscellaneous Persons
		Adrienne M. Herndon
Box	Folder
3	1		Atlanta University Botany Textbooks
	2		Atlanta University Record and Composition Books
	3		Boston School of Expression - Notebooks
	4		Boston School of Expression - Notebooks
	5		Boston School of Expression - Notebooks
			Norris B. Herndon
	6		Scribbling found on back of sheets
	7		Atlanta Public Schools Workbook and Notebooks
	8		Atlanta University Apostolic Church History Notebook
	9		Atlanta University Chemistry Tablets, 1916-1918
	10		Atlanta University Class Notebooks, 1917-1918
	11		Atlanta University French Notebook, 1918
	12		Atlanta University Geometrical Drawings, 1914
	13		Atlanta University Physics Tablet, 1916-1918
	14		Harvard University Banking Notebook
	15		Harvard University Accounting Principles and Insurance Notebooks
	16		Harvard University Official Register, 1921 and Business School Club of Atlanta Directory, 1977-1978
	17		Harvard University Marketing Notebook
	18		Harvard University Commercial Contracts Notebook
	19		Notebook
		Jennie O. McNeil
	20		Botany Notebook

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Series 5: Financial records, 1898-1977
Boxes 1-56, OV2-6, and SA1
The Financial Records are comprised of bank statements, cash vouchers loan notes, check stubs, correspondence, deposit receipts and tickets, invoices and receipts, payroll for the Herndon Building and Home, real estate statements, tax documents, and utility stubs. The bulk of the material ranges from 1945 to 1975 and primarily documents Norris B. Herndon's business and personal finances.


Payroll, Herndon Building and Estate and Payroll, Home are closed to researchers.


		Other financial records
Box	Folder
1	1		Accounting notes, n.d.
Box
SA1		Bank books, 1938-1948
	2		Bank notes and notices, 1915, 1925, 1927, 1949, 1951, n.d.
	3		Loan documents, 1948-1949
	4		Loan documents, 1950-1959
	5		Loan documents, 1962, 1964, 1975
	6		Stock documents, 1915, 1934
	7		Stock documents, 1941-1943, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955
	8		Stock documents, 1960-1961, 1963, 1966, 1968-1969, 1972, 1976, n.d.
	9		Miscellaneous envelopes, 1936-1937, 1950, 1954-1955, 1961-1964, 1972
	10		Miscellaneous envelopes, n.d.
		Insurance Policies
Box	Folder
2	1		Automobile, 1927-1929, 1931, 1950-1959
	2		Automobile, 1960-1969
	3		Automobile, 1970-1977
	4		Insurance correspondence, incoming, 1954-1971
	5		Norris B. Herndon, 1946-1952
	6		Norris B. Herndon, 1967-1970
	7		Homeowners Atlanta, 1963-1966, 1972-1974
	8		Homeowners Atlanta, 1974-1977
	9		Homeowners Tavares (FL), 1947-1959
	10		Homeowners Tavares (FL), 1962-1977
Box	Folder
3	1		Fire and Owners, Landlords, & Tenants (OL&T) liability, 1926-1931, 1948-1949
	2		Fire and OL&T liability, 1950-1954
	3		Fire and OL&T liability, 1955-1959
	4		Fire and OL&T liability, 1960-1964
	5		Fire and OL&T liability, 1965-1969
	6		Fire and OL&T liability, 1970-1973
	7		Fire and OL&T liability, 1974-1977
		Bank Statements (with cancelled checks)
Box	Folder
4	1		1945
	2		1945
	3		1948
	4		1949
	5		January 1950
	6		February 1950
	7		April 1950
	8		May 1950
	9		June 1950
	10		July 1950
Box	Folder
5	1		August 1950
	2		September 1950
	3		October 1950
	4		November 1950
	5		December 1950
	6		January 1951
	7		February 1951
	8		March 1951
	9		April 1951
	10		May 1951
	11		June 1951
	12		July 1951
	13		August 1951
	14		September 1951
	15		December 1951
Box	Folder
6	1		February 1952
	2		March 1952
	3		April 1952
	4		May 1952
	5		June 1952
	6		August and December 1953
	7		January 1954
	8		February 1954
	9		March 1954
	10		April 1954
	11		May 1954
	12		June 1954
	13		July 1954
	14		August 1954
	15		September 1954
	16		October 1954
	17		November 1954
	18		December 1954
Box	Folder
7	1		January 1955
	2		February 1955
	3		March 1955
	4		April 1955
	5		May 1955
	6		June 1955
	7		August 1955
	8		September 1955
	9		October 1955
	10		November 1955
	11		January 1956
	12		February 1956
	13		March 1956
	14		April 1956
	15		May 1956
Box	Folder
8	1		June 1956
	2		July 1956
	3		August 1956
	4		September 1956
	5		October 1956
	6		November 1956
	7		December 1956
	8		January 1957
	9		February 1957
	10		March 1957
	11		April 1957
	12		May 1957
	13		June 1957
	14		July 1957
	15		August 1957
	16		September 1957
	17		October 1957
	18		November 1957
	19		December 1957
Box	Folder
9	1		January 1958
	2		February 1958
	3		March 1958
	4		April 1958
	5		May 1958
	6		June 1958
	7		July 1958
	8		August 1958
	9		October 1958
	10		November 1958
	11		December 1958
	12		January 1959
	13		February 1959
	14		April 1959
	15		May 1959
	16		June 1959
Box	Folder
10	1		September 1959
	2		October 1959
	3		November 1959
	4		December 1959
	5		January 1960
	6		February 1960
	7		March 1960
	8		April 1960
	9		May 1960
	10		June 1960
	11		July 1960
	12		August 1960
	13		September 1960
	14		October 1960
	15		November 1960
	16		December 1960
Box	Folder
11	1		January 1961
	2		February 1961
	3		March 1961
	4		April 1961
	5		May 1961
	6		June 1961
	7		July 1961
	8		August 1961
	9		September 1961
	10		October 1961
	11		November 1961
	12		December 1961
Box	Folder
12	1		January 1962
	2		February 1962
	3		March 1962
	4		April 1962
	5		May 196
	6		June 1962
	7		July 1962
	8		August 1962
	9		September 1962
	10		October 1962
	11		November 1962
	12		December 1962
Box	Folder
13	1		January 1963
	2		February 1963
	3		March 1963
	4		April 1963
	5		May 1963
	6		June 1963
	7		July 1963
	8		August 1963
	9		September 1963
	10		October 1963
	11		November 1963
	12		December 1963
	13		January 1964
	14		February 1964
	15		March 1964
	16		April 1964
	17		May 1964
Box	Folder
14	1		June 1964
	2		July 1964
	3		August 1964
	4		September 1964
	5		October 1964
	6		November 1964
	7		December 1964
	8		January 1965
	9		February 1965
	10		March 1965
	11		April 1965
	12		May 1965
	13		June 1965
	14		July 1965
	15		August 1965
	16		September 1965
	17		October 1965
	18		November 1965
	19		December 1965
Box	Folder
15	1		January 1966
	2		February 1966
	3		March 1966
	4		April 1966
	5		May 1966
	6		June 1966
	7		July 1966
	8		August 1966
	9		September 1966
	10		October 1966
	11		November 1966
	12		December 1966
	13		November 1967
	14		January 1968
	15		February 1968
	16		March 1968
Box	Folder
16	1		April 1968
	2		May 1968
	3		June 1968
	4		July 1968
	5		August 1968
	6		September 1968
	7		October 1968
	8		November 1968
	9		December 1968
	10		January 1969
	11		February 1969
	12		March 1969
	13		April 1969
	14		May 1969
	15		June 1969
	16		July 1969
	17		August 1969
	18		September 1969
	19		October 1969
	20		November 1969
	21		December 1969
Box	Folder
17	1		January 1970
	2		February 1970
	3		March 1970
	4		April 1970
	5		May 1970
	6		June 1970
	7		July 1970
	8		August 1970
	9		September 1970
	10		October 1970
	11		November 1970
	12		December 1970
	13		January 1971
	14		February 1971
	15		March 1971
	16		April 1971
	17		May 1971
	18		June 1971
	19		July 1971
	20		August 1971
	21		September 1971
	22		October 1971
	23		November 1971
	24		December 1971
Box	Folder
18	1		January 1972
	2		February 1972
	3		March 1972
	4		April 1972
	5		May 1972
	6		June 1972
	7		July 1972
	8		August 1972
	9		September 1972
	10		October 1972
	11		November 1972
	12		December 1972
	13		January 1973
	14		February 1973
	15		March 1973
	16		April 1973
	17		May 1973
	18		June 1973
Box	Folder
19	1		July 1973
	2		August 1973
	3		September 1973
	4		October 1973
	5		November 1973
	6		December 1973
	7		January 1976
	8		February 1976
	9		March 1976
	10		April 1976
	11		May 1976
	12		June 1976
	13		July 1976
	14		August 1976
	15		September 1976
	16		October 1976
	17		November 1976
	18		December 1976
			Cash Vouchers
Box	Folder
20	1		November 1956
	2		December 1956
	3		January 1957
	4		January 1957
Box	Folder
21	1		February 1957
	2		February-March 1957
	3		November December 1957; scattered 1957
	4		January and September 1958
Box	Folder
22	1		June 1958
	2		June 1958
	3		June 1958
	4		Scattered 1958; September 1960
	5		Cash voucher envelopes, 1969, n.d.
	6		IOUs, 1950-H51
		Check stubs
Box	Folder
23	1		1925-1927 (unnumbered)
	2		nos. 2005-2202, 1944-1945
	3		nos. 2401-2598, 1945-1946
	4		nos. 2599-2799, 1946
	5		nos. 1-201, 1947
	6		nos. 202-402, 1947
	7		nos. 403-603, 1947
	8		nos. 604-804, 1947-1948
	9		nos. 1-150, 1948
	10		nos. 151-300, 1948
Box	Folder
24	1		nos. 301-450, 1948-1949
	2		nos. 451-702, 1949
	3		nos. 703-852, 1949-1950
	4		nos. 853-1002, 1950
	5		nos. 1003-1302, 1950-1951
	6		nos. 1303-1452, 1951
	7		nos. 1453-1602, 1951-1952
	8		nos. 1603-1752, 1952
	9		nos. 1753-2049, 1952-1953
	10		nos. 2050-2199, 1953
	11		nos. 2200-2349, 1953
	12		nos. 2350-2502, 1953
Box	Folder
25	1		nos. 2503-2652, 1953-1954
	2		nos. 2653-2802, 1954
	3		nos. 2803-2952, 1954
	4		nos. 2953-3102, 1954-1955
	5		nos. 3103-3252, 1955
	6		nos. 3253-3402, 1955-1956
	7		nos. 3403-3551, 1956
	8		nos. 3552-3701, 1956
	9		nos. 3702-3851, 1956-1957
Box	Folder
26	1		nos. 3852-4300,1957
	2		nos. 4301-4896, 1957-1959
	3		nos. 4900-5430, 1959-1960
	4		nos. 5431-5928, 1959-1960
Box	Folder
27	1		nos. 5929-6495, 1960-1961
	2		nos. 6496-6976, 1961-1962
	3		nos. 7538-7870, 1962-63
	4		nos. 7871-8248, 1963
Box	Folder
28	1		nos. 8249-8763, 1964
	2		nos. 8764-9255, 1965
	3		nos. 9256-9744, 1966
	4		nos. 9765-11263, 1967
Box	Folder
29	1		nos. 11264-12761, 1967-1968
	2		nos. 13116-13545, 1969-1970
	3		nos. 101-347, 1972
	4		nos. 2000-2197, 1973-1974
	5		unnumbered, 1974
Box	Folder
30	1		nos. 350-409, January-April 1973; 1-399, April 1973-December 1974; 1400-1462, December 1974-March 1975; unnumbered, April-May 1973
	2		Cancelled checks, 1951-1952, 1959, 1961-1962, 1965-1967, 1970-1975, n.d.
	3		Blank checks, n.d.
		Correspondence
Box	Folder
31	1		Norris B. Herndon incoming, 1927, 1941-1942, 1946-1948
	2		Norris B. Herndon incoming, 1949-1951
	3		Norris B. Herndon incoming, 1952-1955
	4		Norris B. Herndon incoming, 1961-1965, 1967, 1974
	5		Norris B. Herndon outgoing, 1942-1943, 1946-1948, 1950, 1952-1953
	6		Norris B. Herndon outgoing, 1964-1968
	7		Norris B. Herndon incoming/outgoing, 1944-47, 1949
	8		Norris B. Herndon incoming/outgoing, 1950, 1952
	9		Norris B. Herndon incoming/outgoing, 1953-1955
	10		Norris B. Herndon incoming/outgoing, 1964-1965
	11		Norris B. Herndon incoming/outgoing, 1966-1967, 1969
		Deposit Receipts
Box	Folder
32	1		1952-1954
	2		1971-1972
	3		1972
	4		1973
Box	Folder
33	1		1974
	2		1975
	3		1975
	4		1976
	5		Deposit tickets, n.d.
		Invoices and Receipts
Box	Folder
34	1		Cable transfers and money orders, 1941-1943, 1947, 1949
	2		Cable transfers and money orders, 1951-1955
	3		Cable transfers and money orders, 1961-1969, n.d.
	4		Car, 1947-1955
	5		Car, 1961-1969
	6		Car, 1970-1975, n.d.
	7		Charities, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1961-1966
	8		Clothing, 1947-1975
	9		Estate properties, 1904
	10		Estate properties, 1916
	11		Estate properties, 1927
	12		Estate properties, 1935-1937
	13		Estate properties, 1946-1949
	14		Estate properties, 1950-1954
Box	Folder
35	1		Estate properties, 1955
	2		Estate properties, 1956
	3		Estate properties, 1957-1958
	4		Estate properties, 1960-1963
	5		Estate properties, 1964-1965
	6		Estate properties, 1966-1967
	7		Estate properties, 1968-1969
	8		Estate properties, 1970-1973
	9		Estate properties, 1974-1975, n.d.
	10		Florist, 1949, 1955-1959
	11		Florist, 1960, 1963-1966, 1971-1975
Box	Folder
36	1		Garden and lawn, 1949, 1952-1955
	2		Garden and lawn, 1961-1969
	3		Garden and lawn, 1970-1973
	4		Garden and lawn, 1974-1975, n.d.
	5		Groceries, 1903, 1924, 1948-1949, 1954-1960, 1962-1969 1972-1975, n.d.
	6		Household supplies, 1911, 1919, 1948-1955
	7		Household supplies, 1961-1965
	8		Household supplies, 1966-1969
	9		Household supplies, 1970-1971
Box	Folder
37	1		Household supplies, 1972
	2		Household supplies, 1973
	3		Household supplies, 1974
	4		Household supplies, 1975, n.d.
	5		Launderers and cleaners, 1917-1919, 1941, 1948-1949, 1954-1955, 1958-1959, 1963-1964, 1972-1975, n.d.
	6		Pest control, 1949, 1952-1955, 1957-1959, 1960-1963, 1966, 1972-1975
	7		Pet care, 1917, 1930
	8		Safe deposit box, 1954, 1958, 1960
	9		Subscriptions, 1917, 1926, 1955-1957, 1961-1963, 1964-1975
	10		Tavares (FL), 1947-1949, 1950-1958
	11		Tavares (FL), 1961-1969
	12		Tavares (FL), 1970-1975
	13		Travel, 1943, 1947, 1951, 1954, 1961-1968, n.d.
	14		Miscellaneous, 1898, 1908, 1920, 1922
		Payroll, Herndon Building and Estate [Confidential]
Box	Folder
38	1		1945
	2		1946
	3		1947
	4		1947
	5		1948
	6		1949
	7		1949
	8		1950
Box	Folder
39	1		1951
	2		1952
	3		1952
	4		1953
	5		1954
	6		1954
	7		1954
	8		1955
	9		1955
	10		1955
Box	Folder
40	1		1956
	2		1956
	3		1957
	4		1957
	5		1958
	6		1958
Box	Folder
41	1		1958
	2		1959
	3		1960
	4		1960
	5		1961
	6		1961
		Payroll, Home [Confidential]
Box	Folder
42	1		October 1947
	2		June 1949
	3		February - March 1950
	4		June 1955
	5		December 1956
	6		April, August, October 1957
	7		January, April, September 1958
	8		June - July, September 1960
	9		September, November December 1961
	10		September December 1962
	11		January - December 1963
	12		January December 1964
	13		January December 1965
	14		January December 1966
	15		January - April, September 1967
	16		July - December 1968
	17		January - March 1969
	18		July - December 1970
	19		January - December 1971
	20		January - December 1972
	21		January - December 1973
	22		January - December 1974
	23		January - December 1975
	24		n.d.
		Real Estate Management Statements
Box	Folder
43	1		1926, 1935
	2		1952-1953
	3		1972
	4		1973
	5		1973
	6		1974
	7		1974
	8		1975
	9		1975
	10		1976
		Tax Documents
Box	Folder
44	1		1923-1924, 1926
	2		1933
	3		1945
	4		1945
	5		1946
	6		1946
	7		1946
	8		1947
	9		1947
	10		1947
Box
OV2		1924-1926, 1928, 1946-1949, n.d.
Box	Folder
45	1		1948
	2		1948
	3		1948
	4		1948
	5		1949
Box	Folder
46	1		1950
	2		1950
	3		1951
	4		1951
	5		1952
	6		1952
	7		1952
Box
OV3		1950-1954
Box	Folder
47	1		1953
	2		1953
	3		1954
	4		1954
	5		1955
	6		1955
Box
OV4		1955-1959
Box	Folder
48	1		1956
	2		1957
	3		1957
	4		1958
	5		1958
	6		1959
	7		1959
Box	Folder
49	1		1960
	2		1960
	3		1961
	4		1961
	5		1962
	6		1962
	7		1963
Box
OV5		1960-1964
Box	Folder
50	1		1964
	2		1965
	3		1966
	4		1967
	5		1967
Box
OV6		1965-1970
Box	Folder
51	1		1968
	2		1968
	3		1969
	4		1969
	5		1970
	6		1970
	7		1971
	8		1971
Box	Folder
52	1		1972
	2		1973
	3		1974
	4		1975
	5		1976
	6		n.d.
		Utilities
Box	Folder
53	1		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1947-1949, n.d.
	2		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1950-1954
	3		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1955-1959
	4		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1960-1961, 1963-1964
	5		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1965-1969
	6		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1970-1972
	7		Atlanta Gas Light Co., 1973-1975
	8		Atlanta Water Works, 1936-1937, 1939, 1952
Box	Folder
54	1		Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1947-1949, n.d.
	2		Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1950-1959
	3		Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1960-1964, 1966-1967, 1969
	4		Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1970-1975
Box	Folder
55	1		Georgia Power Co., 1947-1949, n.d.
	2		Georgia Power Co., 1950-1954
	3		Georgia Power Co., 1955-1959
	4		Georgia Power Co., 1963-1969
	5		Georgia Power Co., 1970-1972
	6		Georgia Power Co., 1973-1975
Box	Folder
56	1		Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., 1947
	2		Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., 1950-1955, 1957-1959
	3		Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., 1960-1963, 1965-1969
	4		Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., 1970-1975
	5		Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., n.d.

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Series 6: Legal paper, 1881-1952
Boxes 1-6, OV1 and SA1
The Legal Papers, bulking from 1920 to 1952, document a variety of personal family matters. The Estate of Jessie G. Herndon documents, bulking from 1946 to 1947, include bank books, correspondence, estate inventories and distribution lists, letters of administration and dismissory, newsclippings, tax returns, and a rubber stamp. These materials document the dispersal of her estate. A deposition, attorney notes, and court cases document financial suites brought against Norris B. Herndon, chiefly from 1951-52. Also contained in the Legal Papers are financial materials, such as notes, receipts, and statements regarding matters related to Alonzo F. Herndon, Mary E. Gillespie, and Jennie McNeil.


Portions of this series are closed to researchers.


		Estate of Jessie G. Herndon documents
Box	Folder
1	1		1926, 1942, 1945-1947, n.d.
	2		1944-1945
	3		1946-1947
	4		1947
	5		1947
	6		1947
	7		1947
	8		1947-1948
	9		1947-1948
Box	Folder
2	1		1946
	2		1947
	3		1947-1948
	4		1947-1948
	5		1947-1950
	6		1948
	7		1948
	8		1949
	9		1950
Box	Folder
3	1		1947-1948
	2		1947-1948
	3		1947-1949
	4		1948
	5		1948
	6		1948
	7		1948-1949
Box	Folder
4	1		1948-1949
	2		1948-1949
	3		1948-1949
	4		1948-1949
	5		1948-1949
	6		1949
	7		1949-1951
Box
SA1		Rubber stamp, ca.1947
		Other Legal Papers
Box	Folder
5	1		Attorney's notes (Paul Webb, Jr.), 1951-1952, n.d. [Confidential]
	2		Legal expenses, 1952, n.d. [Confidential]
	3		Deposition of N. B. Herndon on behalf of Plaintiffs Weems and Phillips, 1952 [Confidential]
	4		Freeman Carswell vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	5		Freeman Carswell vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	6		Jack Golson vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	7		John C. Phillips vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	8		John C. Phillips vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	9		Minnie Lee Ray vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	10		Phil Rosenberg vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	11		Phil Rosenberg vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	12		Ulysee Weems vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	13		Ulysee Weems vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	14		Ulysee Weems vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	15		Ulysee Weems vs. N. B. Herndon, 1952 [Confidential]
	16		Checks and deposits, 1951-52 [Confidential]
Box	Folder
6	1		A. F. Herndon bonds and stocks, 1908-1927
	2		A. F. Herndon contract for patent, 1920
	3		A. F. Herndon insurance policies and receipts, 1895-1926, n.d.
	4		A. F. Herndon letter of guardianship, 1915
	5		A. F. Herndon promissory notes, real estate note and tax receipts, 1881-1925
	6		A. F. Herndon real estate management statements, 1915, 1924-1925
	7		A. F. Herndon rent agent agreement, 1901
	8		Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company petition for incorporation, 1919
	9		Atlanta Mutual to Atlanta Life resolution, 1922
	10		Mary E. Gillespie documents, 1919-1923
	11		Mary E. Gillespie documents, 1922-1946
	12		Jennie McNeil receipts, 1898-1999
Box
OV1		Application for loan, n.d.
			Accident policy, 1912
			Tax assessors report, n.d.

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Series 7: Real estate papers, 1867-1950, (bulk 1880-1936)

Boxes 1-3 and OV1

The Real Estate Papers, bulking from 1880 to 1936, primarily document the amassment of the Herndon Estate through deeds, leases, legal cases, titles, and various receipts. See the Financial Records series, specifically Invoices and Receipts, Payroll and Tax Documents for other materials related to properties owned and operated by the Herndons.

Box

Folder

Auburn Avenue, deeds, receipts, and titles, 1890, 1919-1930, 1952, n.d.

Auburn Avenue and Butler Street, deeds and titles, 1920-1925

Barbershop material and 35 Marietta and 142-4 Peachtree Streets, deeds, legal cases and tax receipts, 1899, 1916, 1920-1930

Beckwith and Walnut Streets, deed and title, 1905-1906

Bell Street, deeds and titles, 1915-22, 1950

Butler Street, deeds and titles, 1880-1905, 1915, 1920

Cain and Valentine Streets, deeds and titles, 1895-1896, 1905, 1918-1922, 1950

Chesnut Street, deeds, 1914-1919

Davis Street, deeds, insurance policies, and titles, 1896-1899, 1906-1919, 1927-1936, 1952

Delbridge and Walnut Streets, deeds and titles, 1901-1918, 1950

Dover Street, deed and title, 1920

Flat Shoals Road, deed, 1895

Fort Street, deeds, 1899-1903, 1950

Gate City Lodge and Board of Education, leases, 1921, 1925

Box

Folder

Harris Street, deeds, letters of administration, and titles, 1886-1905, 1918-1921, 1951

High and Tatnall Streets, deeds and titles, 1914-1922, 1950

Hunter (M. L. King) and Davis Streets, 1867-1901, 1918-1924

Lambert and Thurman Streets, deeds, 1895-1898, 1917-1918

Lester Street, deeds and titles, 1924, 1950

Little Street, deeds and titles, 1894-1895, 1948-1950

Little and Terry Streets, deeds and titles, 1894, 1897, 1906-1907

Magnolia and Walnut Streets, deeds, legal cases and titles, 1896-1926, 1950

Maple Street, deeds and titles, 1892-1917, 1950

Markham House, leases and loan notices, 1893-1894, 1900, n.d.

Markham Street, deed and title, 1919-1925

Newton and Louisa Streets, deeds and titles, 1906-1918

Old Wheat Street, deeds, 1917-18, 1950

Orleans, Chestnut, and McDaniel Streets, deed, 1918

Park Street, deed, 1886

66 Peachtree Street, leases, legal cases, and receipts, 1912-1925

Piedmont Avenue, deeds, 1906-22

Box

Folder

Piedmont and Auburn Avenues, bonds, deeds, and titles, 1893-1918

Reed Street (George A. Towns), deeds and titles, 1900-1921

Rhodes Street, deeds and titles, 1891-1919, 1950

Simpson Street, 1950

Sunset Avenue, deed, 1927

Tatnall Street, deed, 1919

Tazor (Tazzar) Street, deeds and title, 1923-1924

Vine Street, deeds, insurance policy, and title, 1910-1925

Vine and Magnolia Streets, deeds and titles, 1883-1905

West Mitchell Street, bond, deed, and title, 1896-1902

West Mitchell Street, mortgages and titles, 1901, 1908-1909, 1918, n.d.

Lane Park (FL) papers, 1896-1928

Tavares (FL) papers, 1910-1926

Tavares (FL) papers, 1919

Unknown property blueprint (copy), n.d.

Oversized real estate papers

Box

OBV1

Auburn (formerly Wheat) and Bell (formerly Valentine) Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1900 [Item No. 44]

Bell (formerly Valentine) and Houston Streets lot, Mortgage, 1915 [Item No. 30]

Butler and Houston Streets lot, Mortgage, 1905 [Item No. 19]

Butler, Harris, and Fort Streets lot, Deed, 1897 [Item No. 66]

Cain and Fort Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1896 [Item No. 38]

Calhoun (now Piedmont Ave.), Wheat (now Auburn Ave.) and Houston Streets lot, Abstract of Title, 1885 [Item No. 26]

Davis and Foundry Streets lot, Loan Deed, 1914 [Item No. 21]

Davis and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets lot, Abstract of Title, 1891 [Item No. 27]

Davis and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets lot, Mortgage, 1890 [Item No. 3a]

Davis and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1890 [Item No. 37]

Davis and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1891 [Item No. 9]

Davis and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets, Abstract of Title, 1890 [Item No. 17]

Davis Street lot, Loan Deed, 1913 [Item No. 10]

Flat Shoals Road lot, Abstract of Title, 1895 [Item No. 15]

Flat Shoals Road lot, Abstract of Title, 1895 [Item No. 22]

Flat Shoals Road lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1895 [Item No. 4]

Flat Shoals Road lot, Warranty Deed, 1895 [Item No. 16]

Fort and Ellis Streets lot, Mortgage, 1899 [Item No. 41]

Fort and Ellis Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1903 [Item No. 13]

Fowler Street lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1894 [Item No. 39]

Fowler Street lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1894 [Item No. 5]

Green Street (now Hunter) lot, Deed, 1866 [Item No. 35]

Harris and Fort Streets lot, Abstract of Title, 1893 [Item No. 28]

Harris and Fort Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1891 [Item No. 33]

Harris and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Abstract of Title, 1889 [Item No. 29]

Harris Street lot, Deed, 1870 [Item No. 59]

Harris Street lot, Warranty Deed, 1900 [Item No. 6]

Harris, Butler, and Fort Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1896 [Item No. 31]

Harris, Fort, and Bynum (formerly Park) Streets lots, Bond for Title, 1900 [Item No. 18]

Harris, Fort, and Bynum (formerly Park) Streets lots, Warranty Deed, 1900 [Item No. 20]

Harris, Fort, and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Deed, 1882 [Item No. 64]

Harris, Fort, and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Deed, 1886 [Item No. 57]

Harris, Fort, and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Quit Claim Deed, 1893 [Item No. 58]

Harris, Fort, and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1884 [Item No. 40]

Harris, Fort, and Park (now Bynum) Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1889 [Item No. 34]

Helena Street and Jonesboro Road lot, Warranty Deed, 1920 [Item No. 1]

Lambert and Thurman Streets lot, Administrator's or Executor's Deed, 1900 [Item No. 36]

Lester and Vine Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1917 [Item No. 3b]

Little and Martin Streets lot, Deed, 1895 [Item No. 56]

Little and Martin Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1881 [Item No. 14]

Little and Terry Streets lot, Bond for Title, 1907 [Item No. 46]

Magnolia and Vine Streets lot, Mutual Benefit Building Association vs. J. H. Honeywell, Bill of Sale, 1897 [Item No. 2a]

Magnolia and Vine Streets lot, Mutual Benefit Building Association vs. S. A. Brooks et al, Bill of Sale, 1898 [Item No. 2b]

Magnolia and Walnut Streets lot, Bond for Title, 1903 [Item No. 11]

Magnolia and Walnut Streets lot, Loan Deed, 1916 [Item No. 12]

Magnolia and Walnut Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1896 [Item No. 61]

Magnolia and Walnut Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1911 [Item No. 42]

Maple and Houston Streets, Sheriff's Deed, 1900 [Item No. 47]

Maple and Hunter (formerly Green) Streets lot, Bond for Title, 1898 [Item No. 50]

Mitchell and Davis Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1897 [Item No. 23]

Mitchell and Davis Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1901 [Item No. 45]

Park, Butler and Fort Streets lot, Deed, 1886 [Item No. 60]

Piedmont (formerly Calhoun Street) and Auburn (formerly Wheat Street) Avenues lot, Bond for Title. 1900 [Item No. 24]

Reed, Crumley, and Frazier Streets lot, Bond for Title, 1887 [Item No. 54]

Reed, Crumley, and Frazier Streets lot, Deed, 1887[Item No. 55]

Reed, Crumley, and Frazier Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1878 [Item No. 51]

Rhodes and Maple Streets lot, Loan Deed, 1905 [Item No. 48]

Rhodes, Maple and Carter Streets lot, Warranty Deed, 1905 [Item No. 49]

Vine and Magnolia Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1900 [Item No. 53]

Vine and Magnolia Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1898 [Item No. 32]

Walnut and Delbridge Streets lot, German-American Investment Company vs. J. M. Haywood, Bill of Sale, 1914 [Item No. 65]

Walnut and Delbridge Streets lot, Mortgage, 1906 [Item No. 7]

Walnut and Delbridge Streets lot, Mortgage, 1909 [Item No. 43]

Walnut and Delbridge Streets lot, Mortgage, 1911 [Item No. 8]

Walnut and Delbridge Streets lot, Sheriff's Deed, 1914 [Item No. 63]

West Mitchell Street lot, Deed, 1878 [Item No. 62]

West Mitchell Street lot, Warranty Deed, 1880 [Item No. 52]

Wheat (now Auburn Ave.) and Bell (formerly Valentine) Streets lot, Warranty Deed, ca. 1885 [Item No. 25]

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Series 8: House restoration and maintenance, 1947-1951, 1954-1975
Boxes 1-2
The House Restoration and Maintenance series documents via correspondence, invoices, and receipts not only restoration projects for and repairs made to, but also furnishings purchased for the Herndon Home, chiefly from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Of particular interest are interior renovations to, for example, the Music Room and items purchased by Norris B. Herndon during his numerous travels abroad.


Box	Folder
1	1	Barge-Thompson, Inc., 1956
	2	Barge-Thompson, Inc., 1968-1969
	3	Dwoskin, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963-1964
	4	Trinity Furniture Shops, Inc., 1954, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972
	5	W. E. Browne Decorating, Co., 1957-1961
	6	Furnishings, invoices and receipts, 1947-1951, 1953-1959
	7	Furnishings, invoices and receipts, 1960-1964
	8	Furnishings, invoices and receipts, 1965-1966
	9	Furnishings, invoices and receipts, 1967-1968, 1972-1974, n.d.
Box	Folder
2	1	Restoration and repairs, invoices and receipts, 1949, 1955-1958
	2	Restoration and repairs, invoices and receipts, 1962-1968
	3	Restoration and repairs, invoices and receipts, 1970-1975, n.d.

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Series 9: Medical records, 1949-1977

Box 1

This series documents the medical history of Norris B. Herndon from 1949 to 1977. The bulk of this series is comprised of invoices and receipts for medical services performed on Norris Herndon.

Entire series is closed to researchers.

Box

Folder

Norris B. Herndon, 1949, 1952-1953, 1955, 1963-1964, 1968-1971

Norris B. Herndon, 1972

Norris B. Herndon, 1973

Norris B. Herndon, 1974

Norris B. Herndon, 1975, 1977, n.d.

Norris B. Herndon, Publications

Ned Williams, 1966

Confidential information

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Series 10: Business and organizational material, 1905-1977
Boxes 1-4 and OV15-16
This series contains papers, pamphlets, brochures and other materials on various educational and service organizations as well as material related to Atlanta Life Insurance Company and the Herndon Barbershop. Of particular interest are primary source material directly related to the administration of Atlanta Life and the Herndon Barbershop.


Box	Folder
1	1	The Abbott School
	2	Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc
	3	Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc
	4	Atlanta Life: Brochure and Calendar, Biographies of Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon
	5	Atlanta Life: Building Program, 1926
	6	Atlanta Life: Bulletins, 1916, 1919
	7	Atlanta Life: Clippings and Obituaries
	8	Atlanta Life: Employees Retirement and Welfare Plans
	9	Atlanta Life: Facts and Records Booklet, 1972
	10	Atlanta Life: Financial Statements, 1928-1929, 1931, 1966
	11	Atlanta Life: Investment Projects
	12	Atlanta Life: Lapsed Certificate Register, 1908
	13	Atlanta Life: Leaflet on Notes and Shares
	14	Atlanta Life: Managers' and Senatorial Conferences, 1924, 1926
	15	Atlanta Life: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Training Manuals for Agents, 1922-1923
	16	Atlanta Life: Miscellaneous Items
	17	Atlanta Life: Natal Day Ceremony Programs
	18	Atlanta Life: Resolution on the Death of Alonzo F. Herndon
	19	Atlanta Life: Resolutions and Contracts
	20	Atlanta Life: The Vision Magazine, 1972, 1974 (no record of 1973, 1976)
	21	Atlanta Life: Weekly Reporter, 1936
	22	Atlanta Life: Weekly Reporter, 1957
Box	Folder
2	1	Atlanta University: Alumni Association, 1943
	2	Atlanta University: Atlanta University Publications, No 13 & Atlanta Conference Program, 1910
	3	Atlanta University: Bulletins, 1910-1912
	4	Atlanta University: Bulletins, 1913-1915
	5	Atlanta University: Bulletins, 1916-1918
	6	Atlanta University: Bulletins, 1957, 1964, 1974
	7	Atlanta University: Bulletins, 1977-1978
	8	Atlanta University: Catalogue, 1908-1910
	9	Atlanta University: Class Night Exercises, 1905-1909
	10	Atlanta University: Commencement Exercises, 1905-1928, 1947
	11	Atlanta University: The Crimson and Gray, 1919, 1929
	12	Atlanta University: Elocutionary Contest Program, 1901
	13	Atlanta University: Extracurricular Activities, 1905-1955
	14	Atlanta University: 100th Anniversary Booklet, 1965
	15	Atlanta University: Phylon, 1942
	16	Atlanta University: Report of the President, 1942
	17	Atlanta University: School of Social Work Award (Adrienne M. Herndon)
	18	Atlanta University: The Scroll, 1906-1917
	19	Atlanta University: U.S. Army Training Detachment
Box	Folder
3	1	Bethune Cookman College
	2	Brandeis University
	3	Butler Street YMCA
	4	Calhoun School
	5	Clark College
	6	Colored People's Magazine
	7	Emerson College of Oratory
	8	First Congregational Church: Church Activities
	9	First Congregational Church: Church Anniversaries
	10	First Congregational Church: Church Bulletins
	11	First Congregational Church: Production of “Everyman" performed by Adrienne M. Herndon, 1909
	12	First Congregational Church: Treasurer's Ledger kept by A.F. Herndon
	13	Fisk University
	14	Gate City Day Nursery Association
	15	Harvard University
Box	Folder
4	1	Herndon Barbershop: Conditions Report
	2	Herndon Barbershop: Miscellaneous Items
	3	Herndon Barbershop: Official Souvenir Guide of Shrines Convention, 1914
Box
OV15	Herndon Barbershop Ledgers, 1902 - 1916 [Record Storage Box 1]
Box
OV16	Herndon Barbershop Ledgers, 1917 - 1925 [Record Storage Box 2]
	4	Kindergartens
	5	King Center and S.C.L.C
	6	Leonard Street Orphanage
	7	Livingstone College
	8	Morehouse College
	9	Morris Brown College
	10	Morris Brown College
	11	National Negro Business League
	12	National Urban League
	13	O'Keefe High School
	14	Southview Cemetary Association
	15	Talladega College
	16	YWCA of Atlanta

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Series 11: Travel
Boxes 1-11 and OV12
This series contains travel brochures, magazines, pamphlets, postcards without correspondence, and other travel related items stemming from the trips of Alonzo Herndon here and abroad and from Norris B. Herndon's voyages to Africa, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.


		General travel material
Box	Folder
1	1		Accommodations
	2		Atlases and Maps
	3		Currency (foreign)
	4		Hotel Receipts
	5		Itinerary for European Trip
	6		Menus
	7		Menus
Box
OV12		Menus
	8		Norwegian America Line
	9		Passenger lists, Timetables, Ship line tickets
	10		River Line (booklet)
	11		Souvenirs
	12		Tickets, Timetables
	13		Trade Cards (foreign)
	14		Trains (news)
			World Fairs/Expositions
	15		World Fairs/Expositions
	16		World Fairs/Expositions
Box	Folder
2	1		California (booklets, timetables)
	2		California - San Diego (booklet)
	3		Connecticut (brochure)
	4		Florida (booklet)
	5		Georgia (booklet)
	6		Illinois (booklet, timetables)
	7		Massachusetts (booklet)
	8		Louisiana (booklet)
	9		Montana (brochure)
	10		New England States (leaflets)
	11		New England States - White Mountains (booklet)
	12		New York (booklets)
	13		Oregon (booklet)
	14		South Carolina - Charleston (booklet, leaflet)
	15		Tennessee - Memphis (booklet)
	16		Texas (brochure, booklet)
	17		Utah (mail card)
Box	Folder
3	1		Austria (booklet)
	2		Canada (booklet)
	3		Cuba (booklet)
	4		Denmark (booklets)
	5		England (booklets)
	6		France (booklets)
	7		France (booklets)
	8		Germany (booklets)
	9		Germany (booklets)
	10		Germany (booklets)
	11		Greece (booklets)
Box	Folder
4	1		Greece (booklet)
	2		Greece (booklet)
	3		Greece (booklet)
	4		Greece (booklet)
	5		Haiti (booklet)
	6		Holland (booklet)
	7		Ireland (booklet)
	8		Italy (booklet)
	9		Italy (booklet)
	10		Italy (booklet)
Box	Folder
5	1		Italy (booklet)
	2		Italy - Florence (booklet)
	3		Italy - Florence (booklet)
			Italy - Pompeii (booklet)
	4		Italy - Venice
	5		Middle East - Egypt (booklets)
	6		Middle East - Egypt (booklets)
	7		Middle East - Israel (booklets)
	8		Middle East - Lebanon (booklet)
	9		Netherlands (booklet)
	10		Norway (booklet)
	11		Norway (booklet)
Box	Folder
6	1		Portugal (booklets)
	2		Russia (booklet)
	3		Scotland (booklets)
	4		Spain (booklets)
	5		Spain (booklets)
	6		Sweden (booklets)
	7		Switzerland (booklets)
	8		Switzerland (booklets)
	9		Turkey (booklets)
	10		Turkey (booklet)
	11		Yugoslavia (booklet)
		Postcards with no correspondence
Box	Folder
7	1		Atlanta University
	2		Christmas Greetings
	3		Cruise Ships
	4		Easter Greetings
	5		Famous Blacks
	6		Greek Sculpture
	7		Misc. Cards
	8		New Year's Day
	9		Presidents
	10		Religious Greetings
	11		Sports
	12		Trains
	13		Unidentified Cards
	14		Alabama
	15		Alaska
	16		California
	17		Colorado
	18		Florida
	19		Georgia
	20		Illinois
	21		Indiana
	22		Maryland
	23		Massachusetts
	24		Michigan
	25		Minnesota
	26		Missouri
	27		Montana
	28		New Jersey
	29		New York
	30		New York
	31		North Carolina
	32		Ohio
	33		Oregon
	34		Pennsylvania
	35		Rhode Island
	36		South Carolina
	37		Tennessee
	38		Washington
	39		Washington, D.C.
	40		West Virginia
	41		Wyoming
Box	Folder
8	1		Amsterdam
	2		Austria
	3		Belgium
	4		Berlin
	5		Brazil
	6		Bruxelles (Brussels)
	7		Canada
	8		Cuba
	9		Denmark
	10		Dominican Republic
	11		Egypt
	12		England
	13		England
	14		Finland
	15		France
	16		France
	17		France
	18		French Riviera
	19		Germany
	20		Germany
	21		Germany
Box	Folder
9	1		Gibraltar
	2		Greece
	3		Greece
	4		Greece
	5		Haiti
	6		Holland
	7		Ireland
	8		Italy (misc)
	9		Italy (Arezzo)
	10		Italy (Bologna)
	11		Italy (Florence)
	12		Italy (Florence)
	13		Italy (Milan)
	14		Italy (Naples)
	15		Italy (Naples)
	16		Italy (Pisa)
	17		Italy (Pisa)
Box	Folder
10	1		Italy (Pompeii)
	2		Italy (Rome)
	3		Italy (Rome)
	4		Italy (Rome)
	5		Italy (Sicilia)
	6		Italy (Taormina)
	7		Italy (Venice)
	8		Italy (Venice)
	9		Jamaica
	10		Malta
	11		Israel
	12		Lebanon
	13		Palestine
	14		Morocco
	15		Norway
	16		Norway
Box	Folder
11	1		Portugal
	2		Russia
	3		Scotland
	4		Spain
	5		Spain
	6		Sweden
	7		Switzerland
	8		Switzerland
	9		Switzerland
	10		Syria
	11		Turkey
	12		Yugoslavia

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Series 12: Art and architecture, 1903-1970
Boxes 1-7 and OV13
The Herndon family's affinity for art, architecture, theatre, and music are documented in this series. Material in this series was collected primarily by Adrienne and Norris and includes paintings, designs, sheet music, theatre books, plays and programs. Of special note is a small collection of the play notes, programs, and scrapbook from Adrienne Herndon's theatrical performances.


		Art and Architecture
Box	Folder
1	1		Building and Garden Structures - France
	2		Building and Garden Structures - France
	3		Building and Garden Structures - France
	4		Building and Garden Structures - France
	5		French Art
	6		German Art
	7		Italian Art
	8		Italian Art
	9		Paintings
	10		Paintings
	11		Paintings - John Henry Adams
	12		Paintings - 1400-1800
	13		Paintings - 1800
	14		Paintings - Guide to Library of Congress
	15		Photography
	16		Portraits of Presidents of the U.S
	17		Practical Drawings, 1908
	18		Sketchings
	19		Sculptures - Tafur
	20		The Architectural Forum, 1933
		Art Collection, Norris B. Herndon
Box	Folder
2	1		Bronzeworks, 1955
	2		Carvings, 1956, 1966
	3		Ceramics, 1956-1970
	4		Advertisements for Coins
	5		Egyptian Antiquities
	6		Furniture and Furnishings
	7		Glassware
	8		Gold Coins, 1963
	9		Jewelry, 1956, 1964 (?)
	10		Marbleworks, 1955-1969
	11		Marbleworks, 1955-1969
	12		Oriental, 1963-1969
	13		Miscellaneous Decorative Art, 1956-1964
	14		Paintings, 1955-1969
	15		Pewter, 1956
	16		Roman Glass, 1955-1967
	17		Roman Glass, 1967
	18		Roman Glass, 1967
	19		Roman Glass, 1967-1968
	20		Roman Glass, 1968
	21		Silverware, 1955, 1957-1969
	22		Stamps
	23		Textiles, 1956-1963
	24		Venetian Glass, 1963-1969
	25		Unidentified
		Art Work, Norris B. Herndon
Box	Folder
3	1		Drawings - Crayon
	2		Drawings - Paste/Cut
	3		Drawings - Pencil
	4		Drawings - Pencil
	5		Drawings -Pencil
	6		Drawings - Photograph Transfer
	7		Drawings - Stitch and Sew
	8		Drawings - Watercolor
	9		Drawings - Watercolor
		Music
	11		Index of Records - Norris B. Herndon
		Sheet Music
	10		"Muzio Clementi Sonatinas for Pianoforte"
	12		"Absent" - "The Sweetest Flower That Blows"
	13		"An Irish Love Song" - "For This"
	14		"Arditis"
	15		"At the Devil's Ball" - "The Colored Prima Donna Waltzes"
	16		"Babe, I'm Learning Now to Love You"
	17		"Papillon"
	18		"Andante Finale de Lucia di Lammermoor"
	19		"Danse Negre"
	20		"Dear Heart"
	21		"Der Kliene Pischna"
	22		"Frederick Douglass Funeral March"
	23		"Geisha Dance" - "Standard Classics"
	24		"Gloria from the Twelfth Mass" - "Ring the Bells"
	25		"God of Our Fathers" - "My Lady Chlo" - "The Shepherds Bid Farewell to the Holy Family"
	26		"Hark! Hark! The Lark!"
Box	Folder
4	1		"Her Eyes Twin Pools"
	2		"I'd Rather Love What I Cannot Have"
	3		"In Dreams" - "Japanese Parasol"
	4		"In the Springtime"
	5		"Instructive Compositions for the Piano"
	6		"Instructive Compositions for the Piano"
	7		"Japanese Love Song" - "Birds in Dreamland Sleep"
	8		"KI-YO" - "Without You the World Don't Seem the Same"
	9		"La Belle Graziella"
	10		"Legendary Masters of the Piano"
	11		"Leonore" - "A Song of Seasons"
	12		"Miscellaneous Items"
	13		"Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl An' De Moon" "The Flowers of Dixie Land"
	14		"On the Village Green"
	15		"Phantom Caprice"
	16		"Preludes" - "Chinga Ling A Loo"
	17		"Psalmsammlong"
	18		"Qui Vive"
	19		"Palm Tree Branches"
	20		"Save It for Me"
	21		"ABT Practical Singing Tutor - Part II Exercises for the Cultivation of Fluency"
	22		"Scattered Pieces"
	23		"Sea Pieces" - "Jean"
	24		"Sechzig Leichte" - "Vocalism und Solfeggien"
	25		"Still as the Night" - "Seguidilla"
	26		"Symphonic VI"
	27		"That Devil Rag" - "Standard Works for the Pianoforte"
	28		"The Bandolero" - "Springtime Greeting"
	29		"The Blue Eyes of Spring"
	30		"The Tuskegee Institute March" - "The King of Spades"
	31		"Three Shadows"
	32		"The Benediction"
	33		"Woodland Sketches" - "Scenes from an Imaginary Ballet"
		Theatre
Box	Folder
5	1		Adrienne M. Herndon - Composition Book - Play and Production Notes
	2		Adrienne M. Herndon - Play Notes
	3		Adrienne M. Herndon - Production of "Everyman"
	4		Adrienne M. Herndon - Programs for Herndon Recitals
	5		Adrienne M. Herndon - Short Stories
	6		Adrienne M. Herndon Miscellaneous and receipts - Anne DuBignon
	7		Adrienne M. Herndon - Scrapbook of Anne DuBignon
	8		Catalogue, Contract, Programs and Miscellaneous Materials American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 1907-1908
	9		Films - "Gone With the Wind" - "My Fair Lady" - "The Clansman" - "The Last Waltz"
	10		Miscellaneous Materials
Box	Folder
6	1		Miscellaneous Persons - Composition Book and Loose Sheets (play)
	2		Musicals "Hello Dolly"
	3		Musicals and Recitals (program)
	4		Musicals and Recitals (program)
	5		Musicals and Recitals (correspondence and program) - Victor Ryder
	6		Musicals and Recitals (program) Edith M. Smaill - Reader - French, Canadian, Scotch and Miscellaneous Recitals
	7		Musicals and Recitals (programs) - The S. Coleridge Taylor Choral Society
	8		Musicals and Recitals (programs) - The Shubert Gaieties of 1919 with Sophie Tucker
	9		Musicals and Recitals - "Ziegfeld Follies"
	10		Opera (programs)
	11		Opera (Libretto)
	12		Opera (Libretto)
	13		Photos: Film and Actresses
	14		Plays - 1) A Detective in Petticoats, 2) King Cole 3) Class Day, 4) A Class Day Conspiracy, 5) The Book of Drills
	15		Plays - "Ladies Battle" - "Mary Stuart" - "Pelleas Melisande"
	16		Plays - "The Tragic Spark" - "Pygmalion and Galateam" "Their Graduating Essays" - "Ici on Parle Francais"
Box	Folder
7	1		Plays - "Two Little Rebels" - "An Ideal Husband"
	2		Plays (Shakespeare) - "Antony and Cleopatra" - "As You Like It"
	3		Plays (Shakespeare) - "Macbeth" - "Romeo and Juliet"
	4		Plays (Shakespeare) - "Midsummer Night's Dream" - "Twelfth Night"
	5		Progams (Plays)
	6		Programs (Plays) 1903-1952
	7		Programs Boston
	8		Programs - Boston
	9		Programs - Boston
	10		Programs - New York
	11		Programs - New York
	12		Programs - New York
	13		Programs - New York
	14		Programs - New York
	15		Programs - New York
	16		Programs - New York Theatrical Publications
	17		Ticket stubs and envelopes
		Miscellaneous oversize artwork
Box
OV13		Architectural drawing, "Proposed Elevation Building for Mr. A. F. Herndon" by Aiken and Faulkner Builders
			Charcoal airbrush on paper of Adrienne Hendon
			Charcoal airbrush on paper of Martha McNeil
			Charcoal sketching on paper of Norris Herndon by Jewel Simon
			Crayon and Ink in paper, artist unknown, notations by Norris Herndon
			Illustration, "The Best of the Ball" by Harrison Fisher
			Illustration, "Isn't She Sweet" by Harrison Fisher
			Oil pastel on paper, "Hard Choices" by J. Lasster
			Painting on canvas board, "The Soul of Negro Music" by Lewis Charles Hargro, Jr.
			Pencil sketching on paper by Norris Herndon
			Photographic print, Alonzo Herndon (3)
			Silk-screen print, "Powell St. Turntable" by L. A. Komenian (?)
			Silk-screen print, "The Dance" by Jewel Simon
			Silk-screen print, title unknown, Jewel Simon
			Silk-screen print of landscape, artist unknown
			Watercolor and pencil on paper of Stone Hall (now Fountain Hall), Atlanta University, by W. Alexandre Jones

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Series 13: Publications, 1906-1977
Boxes 1-17
Material in this series includes various publications, newspapers, and news clippings. Magazines and journals belonging to Norris B. Herndon are the bulk of this series and reveal his interests. Contained in this series is a large collection of Trains: The Magazine of Railroading dating from 1941 to 1971. Also, in this series is a large number of news clippings that document the lives of the Herndon family, relatives, friends, and associates.


Box	Folder
1	1	52nd Annual Report of the Chief of Police of the City of Atlanta, December 31, 1932
	1	Announcement of the Special Session for Business Executives, Summer 1928
	1	Building Modernization, December 1934
	1	Building Modernization, May 1935
	1	Copper & Brass Bulletin, December 1938
	1	Copper & Brass Bulletin, February 1939
	1	Fortune, August 1947
	1	Harvard Alumni Bulletin, March 10, 1939
	1	Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin, Summer 1942
	1	Journal of the Georgia State Medical Association, December 1938
	1	Julius Rosenwald Fund: Review of two Decades 1917-1936, 1936
	1	NAACP Annual Report for 1948
	1	Quiz on Railroads and Railroading, April 1947
	1	Rails, August 1937
	1	Scribner's Magazine, January 1938
	1	The Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1948
Box	Folder
2	1	Battlefields of Today, 1918
	1	Commerce, Finance, and Industry, December 1926
	1	Commerce, Finance, and Industry, January 1927
	1	Commerce, Finance, and Industry, March 1927
	1	Lest We Forget, January 1919
	1	Mid-Week Pictorial, April 28, 1934
	1	Mid-Week Pictorial, February 16, 1935
	1	Mid-Week Pictorial, October 5, 1935
	1	Mid-Week Pictorial, January 4, 1936
	1	Mid-Week Pictorial, March 7, 1936
	1	Modern Locomotives and Cars, 1939
	1	Our Navy, July 1, 1925
	1	Our Navy, Mid-July, 1925
	1	Pearson's, September 1903
	1	Railroad Information, 1958
	1	Scenic South, April 1957
	1	Scenic South, March 1959
	1	Scenic South, June 1959
	1	Scenic South, January 1963
	1	Scenic South, February 1963
	1	Scenic South, May 1963
	1	Scenic South, March 1964
	1	Scenic South, July 1964
	1	Scenic South, September 1964
	1	Scenic South, December 1964
	1	System: The Magazine of Business, June 1920
	1	System: The Magazine of Business, August 1921
	1	Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 1976-1977
Box	Folder
3	1	Atlanta, September 1965
	1	Boxing Brief, 1950
	1	Dow Diamond, June 1950
	1	Pictorial Study of the General on Exhibit in Union Station, ca. 1926
	1	Railroads on Parade (brochure from New York World's Fair, 1939
	1	Ships and Sailing, July 1951
	1	Sports Illustrated, November 19, 1956
	1	The American Conservationist, December 1934
	1	The Atlantan Magazine, August 1958
	1	The Courier, February 1955
	1	The National Geographic Magazine, December 1934
	1	The National Geographic Magazine, December 1936
	1	The National Geographic Magazine, October 1939
	1	The National Geographic Magazine, March 1954
	1	The Pullman News, 1948
	1	Westways, January 1963
	1	Where Steam Still Serves, 1961
Box	Folder
4	1	Citrus Leaf, March 1927
	1	Harper's Magazine, April 1937
	1	Jet, January 15, 1959
	1	Jet, August 3, 1973
	1	Report of the 11th Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League, August 1910
	1	Survey Graphic, March 1925
	1	The Crisis, 1955
	1	The Crisis, 1915
	1	The Negro in the New Reconstruction, n.d.
	1	The Voice of the Negro, July 1906
	1	Were You Born in July?, 1909
	1	Were You Born in October, 1909
	1	Your Investments, October 1941
	1	Your Investments, October 1942
Box	Folder
5	1	Abraham Lincoln Centenary Program of Exercises, 1908
	1	Birth of the Republic, 1962
	1	La France a Votre Table, n.d.
	1	Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, May 16, 1915
	1	Little Journeys to the Home of Great Lovers, 1906
	1	Soul Craft, 1944
	1	The Desire of the Moth for the Star, n.d.
	1	The Riverside Bulletin, September 1905
	1	Wehman Bros. New Book of Toasts, n.d.
		The Architectural Forum
Box	Folder
6	1		January 1934
	1		August 1934
	1		March 1935
	1		May 1935
	1		June 1935
	1		September 1935
		Ebony
Box	Folder
7	1		March 1954
	1		October 1955
	1		July 1961
	1		May 1962
	1		December 1965
	1		May 1969
	1		August 1971
	1		November 1975
		Trains Album of Photographs
Box	Folder
8	1		Book 1: Eastern Railroads, 1943
	1		Book 2: Far Western Railroads, 1943
	1		Book 3: Midwestern Railroads, 1943
	1		Book 4: Colorado Railroads, 1943
	1		Book 5: Southern Railroads, 1944
	1		Book 6: New England Railoads, 1944
	1		Book 8: Pennsylvania Railroads, 1944
	1		Book 10: Modern Steam Locomotives, 1945
		Travel
Box	Folder
9	1		March 1934
	1		December 1934
	1		January 1935
	1		November 1935
	1		May 1937
	1		August 1938
	1		December 1938
	1		February 1939
	1		April 1939
	1		May 1939
	1		July 1939
	1		August 1939
	1		March 1940
	1		July 1940
	1		November 1940
	1		March 1952
		Railroad Magazine
Box	Folder
10	1		February 1962
	1		June 1962
	1		August 1962
	1		October 1962
	1		December 1962
	1		February 1963
	1		April 1963
	1		June 1963
	1		August 1963
	1		October 1963
	1		December 1963
	1		February 1964
	1		December 1964
	1		April 1965
	1		July 1965
	1		September 1965
	1		October 1965
	1		November 1965
	1		December 1965
	1		January 1966
	1		March 1966
	1		April 1966
		Trains: The Magazine of Railroading
Box	Folder
11	1		September 1941
	1		October 1941
	1		November 1941
	1		December 1941
	1		February 1942
	1		March 1942
	1		May 1942
	1		July 1942
	1		August 1942
	1		September 1942
	1		October 1942
	1		November 1942
	1		December 1942
	1		January 1943
	1		June 1944
	1		August 1944
	1		September 1944
	1		October 1944
	1		November 1944
	1		December 1944
	1		January 1945
	1		March 1945
	1		April 1945
	1		June 1945
	1		July 1945
	1		August 1945
	1		September 1945
	1		October 1945
	1		November 1945
	1		January 1946
	1		March 1946
	1		April 1946
	1		July 1946
	1		January 1947
	1		February 1947
	1		August 1947
	1		September 1947
Box	Folder
12	1		January 1948
	1		February 1948
	1		March 1948
	1		May 1948
	1		July 1948
	1		August 1948
	1		February 1949
	1		November 1949
	1		March 1950
	1		September 1950
	1		December 1950
	1		April 1951
	1		June 1951
	1		September 1951
	1		October 1951
	1		November 1951
Box	Folder
13	1		June 1952
	1		July 1952
	1		December 1952
	1		November 1953
	1		December 1953
	1		January 1954
	1		February 1954
	1		May 1954
	1		August 1954
	1		September 1954
	1		January 1955
	1		March 1955
	1		April 1955
	1		June 1955
	1		August 1955
	1		September 1955
	1		November 1955
	1		December 1955
	1		January 1956
	1		March 1956
	1		April 1956
	1		May 1956
	1		June 1956
	1		July 1956
	1		August 1956
	1		September 1956
	1		November 1956
Box	Folder
14	1		December 1956
	1		January 1957
	1		February 1957
	1		March 1957
	1		April 1957
	1		August 1957
	1		September 1957
	1		October 1957
	1		November 1957
	1		December 1957
	1		January 1958
	1		March 1958
	1		May 1958
	1		June 1958
	1		August 1958
	1		October 1958
	1		November 1958
	1		January 1959
	1		February 1959
	1		August 1959
	1		October 1959
	1		January 1960
	1		February 1960
	1		April 1960
	1		September 1960
	1		April 1961
Box	Folder
15	1		June 1961
	1		August 1961
	1		September 1961
	1		October 1961
	1		January 1962
	1		February 1962
	1		March 1962
	1		April 1962
	1		May 1962
	1		July 1962
	1		August 1962
	1		September 1962
	1		October 1962
	1		January 1963
	1		February 1963
	1		March 1963
	1		August 1963
	1		September 1963
	1		October 1963
	1		November 1963
	1		December 1963
	1		February 1964
	1		March 1964
	1		May 1964
	1		August 1964
	1		September 1964
Box	Folder
16	1		October 1964
	1		November 1964
	1		January 1965
	1		February 1965
	1		March 1965
	1		April 1965
	1		May 1965
	1		June 1965
	1		July 1965
	1		September 1965
	1		October 1965
	1		November 1965
	1		December 1965
	1		December 1966
	1		August 1968
	1		January 1971
	1		February 1971
	1		May 1971
	1		June 1971
	1		July 1971
	1		August 1971
		Newspaper Clippings
Box
17		Miscellaneous Clippings

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Series 14: Atlanta Loan and Trust Company records, 1890-1959
Box 1 and OV7-11
The Atlanta Loan and Trust Company Papers, ranging from 1890 to 1932, are comprised of court cases, depositions, invoices and receipts, ledgers, minutes, real estate statements, reports, and tax returns. Alonzo F. Herndon was a primary stockholder of this company, which was organized in 1891 for the purchase, sale and development of real estate.


Box	Folder
1	1	1891
	2	1911
	3	1918-1919
	4	1919-1920
	5	1920
	6	1920-1921
	7	1921-1922
	8	1922-1923
	9	1923-1924
	10	1924-1925
	11	1925-1926
	12	1926-1927
	13	1926-1927
	14	1928
	15	1929-1930
	16	1931-1932
	17	1932
	18	1900, 1910-11, 1914, 1916, 1921
	19	n.d.
		Bound volumes
Box
OV7		Atlanta Loan and Trust Company ledger, 1911-1920
Box
OV8		Atlanta Loan and Trust Company ledger, 1891-1892
Box
OV9		Atlanta Loan and Trust Company ledgers (4), 1890-1997
Box
OV10		Atlanta Loan and Trust Company vs. Alonzo F. Herndon, vols. I and II, June 13, 1910
Box
OV11		Atlanta Loan and Trust Company Minutes Book, 1919-1924
			Atlanta Loan and Trust Company Minutes Book, 1925-1959
			Atlanta Loan and Trust Company stock ledger, 1911-1948

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Series 15: Ephemera
Boxes 1-2 and OV17
This series comprises a collection of ephemera belonging to Herndon family members, including calling cards, advertisements, card game scores, and invitation lists. Of particular interest are miscellaneous notes documenting various family artifacts sent to Norris Herndon by his aunt, Jennie Olive Bailey.


Box	Folder
1	1	Anchor Block Pamphlet: Norris B. Herndon
	2	Calling Cards: Businesses and Acquaintances
	3	Calling Cards: Jessie G. Herndon
	4	Certificate: Norris B. Herndon
	5	Dress Illustrations
	6	Empty Envelopes: Alonzo F. Herndon
	7	Empty Envelopes: Jessie G. Herndon
	8	Empty Envelopes: Norris B. Herndon
	9	Empty Envelopes: Norris B. Herndon
	10	Herndon Home: Booklets on Design and Decoration
	11	Herndon Home: Booklets on Design and Decoration
	12	Herndon Home: Piano Purchasing Coupon and Conover Pianos Pamphlet
	13	Identification and Membership Cards: Jessie G. Herndon
	14	Identification and Membership Cards: Norris B. Herndon
	15	Lectures and Exhibitions
Box	Folder
2	1	List for Greeting Cards, Invitations, Flowers, etc.
	2	Miscellaneous Materials
	3	Notes
	4	Political Donations and Affiliations
	5	Religious Materials: Church Bulletins
	6	Religious Materials: Miscellaneous
	7	Religious Materials: Pamphlets
	8	Religious Materials: The Fifth Clifton Conference, 1908
	9	Social Guests: Adrienne M. Herndon
	10	Social Guests: Jessie G. Herndon
	11	Social Guests: Norris B. Herndon
	12	Stationery Holder
	13	Stamps
	14	Trade Cards
Box
OV17	Score Ledgers for Card Games, 1953 - 1969 [Record Storage Box 3]

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Series 16: Books

Boxes 1-18

This series consists of a large collection of books dating from 1870 to the 1970s, the bulk of which is the classics of American and British literature, textbooks and novels from the turn of the twentieth century, and works of ancient history. Also included are art and architecture books from the mid-twentieth century and a turn-of the century children's books.

Box

Curatorial Staff Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Treasures of the Metropolitan

Masson. Italian Villas and Palaces

Lothrop. Treasures of Ancient America

Pratt. Early American Homes

Craven. A Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Guiart. The Arts of the South Pacific

Drave. Munchen

Payne. Lost Treasures of the Mediterranean World

Pillement, et al. The Rome I Love

Box

Hussey. The Clarence House

Ceram. The March of Archaeology

Morand. The Florence I Love

Maiuri. Le Musee National (The National Museum) Naples

Leslie Judge Co. Caricature: The Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story

Brion. Pompeii and Herculaneum. c. 1-3

Basilika Ottobeuren

National Geographic Society. The Age of Chivalry

Mockba (Moscow)

Brown. Roman Architecture

Branner. Gothic Architecture

Lowry. Renaissance Architecture

MacDonald. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Millon. Baroque and Rocco Architecture

Cartwright. The Catholic Shrines of Europe

Hurlimann. Paris

Hurlimann. Rome

Dover. American Negro Art

Box

Terry. Masterworks of Japanese Art

Lullies and Hirmer. Greek Sculpture

Warner and Hurlimann. Eternal Greece

Wegner. Greek Masterworks of Art

Scully. The Earth, the Temple and the Gods

Forlag. Norway

The Romance of Chinese Art

Burmese Art and its Influences

Macku. Vienna

Sansom. The Bay of Naples

Maiuri. Pompeii

Malraux. Le Musee Imaginaire de La Sculpture Mondiale

Huyghe. Art and the Spirit of Man

Clement. Heroines of the Bible in Art

Bellonzi. Rome

Box

Scully. Modern Architecture

Scranton. Greek Architecture

Saalman. Medieval Architecture

Fleming. The Tariff, Civil Service, Income Tax, Imperialism, The Race Problem, and Other Addresses

Pfleger. Green Leaves

Report of the Comptroller-General of the State of Georgia

Willis. Principles of the Law of Contracts

Martin. The Life and Professional Career of Emma Abbott

White. How Far the Promised Land

Manual of the General Assembly, 18922-93

Cannon. A Gentle Knight

Lineman. Business and Protective Law

Bok. The Americanization of Edward Bok

Cherington. Advertising as a Business Force

Johnson. Life of James G. Blaine

Parton. The Life of Horace Greeley

Sturdivant. Autobiography of Capt. Cyrus Sturdivant, the Prisoner's Friend

Harris. Oscar Wilde

Craven. The Pocket Book of Greek Art

Franklin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Ricordo di Venezia

Harvard Alumni Directory, 1923

Grant. Myths of the Greeks and Romans

Box

Talmadge. How to Cook a Pig

Cannon. The Bride's Cookbook

Cannon. The Fast Gourmet Cookbook

Vergara. Mathematics in Everyday

Vergara. Things Science in Everyday Things

Millikan and Mills. Electricity, Sound and Light

Winslow. The Home Medical Library, vols. II-VI

Tyrrell. The Royal Road to Health

Jamison. Intestinal Ills

Zervas. Treatment of Diseases by Electricity

Editors of Life. The Epic of Man, c.1-2

Editors of Life. The Wonders of Life on Earth

Editors of Life. Life Science Library, vols. 1-7

Box

Editors of Life. Life Nature Library, vols. 1-5

The Connoisseur, Nov. 71; April, May, June, July, 72; Feb., May, April, June, 73

The Horizon Book of Ancient Greece

The Horizon Book of Ancient Rome

The Horizon Book of Great Cathedrals

The Horizon Book of Lost Worlds

The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages

The Horizon Book of the Renaissance

Box

Horizon, v. 1, n. 4; v. 3, nos. 2-5; v. 4, nos. 1-6; v. 5, nos. 1-8; v. 6, nos. 1, 3-4

Box

Horizon, v. 7, nos. 1-4; v. 8, nos. 1-4; v. 9, nos. 1-2; v. 10, nos. 1, 3-4; v. 11, nos. 1-3; v. 12, nos. 1-4, v. 13, n. 2; v. 14, nos. 2-4

Box

Horizon, v. 15, nos. 1-3

Associated Press. The Torch is Passed

Blake. History of the Tammany Society

Staff. The Transatlantic Mail

Shippen. Naval Battles and Our New Navy

Blaine. Twenty Years of Congress 1861-1881, vols. I and II

Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, vol. II

Report of the Insurance Department of the Comptroller-General's Office for the year ending December 31, 1916

The Authentic Life of William McKinley

Forty-Second Kentucky Insurance Report, 1912, part II

Sixty-fifth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Insurance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Church. The Robert R. Churches of Memphis

Proceedings of the Thirty-second annual meeting of the American Life Convention

Thorpe. Life Insurance in War Time

Box

Hitler. Mein Kampf

Webster. Chums and Brothers

Weigall. The Life and Times of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt

Swope. Inside the German Empire

Barnes. A Brief History of the United States

Emerson. A History of the Twentieth Century Year by Year

The Origin of the Young Men's Christian Association

Singleton. The World's Great Events, vols. 1, 3-5

Ackerman. Industrial Life Insurance

Alexander Melville Bell: Some Memories with Fragments from a Pupil's Notebook

Costello. On Fighting Decks in 1812

Wood. The White Side of the Black Subject

Myers. Ancient History

Griggs. Wisdom's Call

Reynolds. Old St. Augustine

Thompson. The History of the United States

Harper and Wallace. Xenophon's Anabasis

French. Revolt of the Tartars

Byron's Works

Tupper. Columbia's War for Cuba

Wallace. The Repose in Egypt

Longfellow's Poems

Tennyson's Poems

Box

Fry. History of Georgia, 1850-1881

Bell. Shakespeare's Works

Balch. Perfect Jewels

Report of the Insurance Department-Comptroller General's Office for the Year Ending December 31, 1916

Adams. Soulcraft

Dumas. The Chevalier D'Harmental

Dumas. The Chevalier de Maison Rouge

Dumas. Chicot the Jester

Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo I

Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo II

Dumas. The Countess de Charny

Dumas. The Forty-five Guardsmen

Dumas. Joseph Balsamo

Dumas. Louisa de la Valliere

Dumas. The Man in the Iron Mask

Dumas. Then Memoirs of a Physician

Dumas. Margaret de Valois

Dumas. The Page of the Duke of Savoy I

Dumas. The Page of the Duke of Savoy II

Dumas. The Queen's Necklace

Dumas. The Regent's Daughter

Dumas. Taking the Bastile

Box

Dumas. Ten Years Later

Dumas. The Three Guardsmen

Dumas. Twenty Years After

Dumas. The Two Dianas I

Dumas. The Two Dianas II

Dumas. The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Dickens. Dumbey and Son and Uncommercial Traveller

Dickens. Edwin Drood and Christmas Stories

Dickens. Little Dorritt and Oliver Twist

Dickens. Barnaby Rudge and Tale of Two Cities and Hard Times

Dickens. Bleakhouse and History of England

Dickens. David Copperfield and Christmas Books

Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby and Old Curiosity Shop

Dickens. Pickwick Papers and Sketches by Boz

Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes

Dickens. Mutual Friend and Great Expectations

Du Bois. The Quest of the Silver Fleece

Du Bois. The Gift of the Black Folk

Drummond. Johnnie Courteau and Other Poems

Davis. Belshazzar

Crogman. Talks for the Times

Bulwer. Rienzi: The Last of the Roman Tribunes

Churchill. The Crossing

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

Box

Baldwin. Old Stories of the East

Browning. The Ring and the Book

Bennett. Virgil's Aeneid

Goethe's Poems

Willson. History of the United States

Poems of Robert Browning

The Works of Williams Shakespeare

Poe's Best Tales

Selected Writings of Washington Irving

The Poetical Works of James Thomson

Dickens. Oliver Twist and American Notes and The Uncommercial Traveler

Shakespeare's Complete Works

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, v. IV

Chambers. The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Voice of the Silence and Other Chosen Fragments from the Book of the Golden Precepts

The Lock and Key Library: American Stories

The Lock and Key Library: French Novels Stories

The Lock and Key Library: German Stories

The Lock and Key Library: Mediterranean Stories

The Lock and Key Library: Modern English Stories

The Lock and Key Library: Modern French Stories

The Lock and Key Library: North Europe Stories

The Lock and Key Library: Old-time English Stories

The Lock and Key Library: Real-life Stories

Hawthorne. Moses from an Old Manse

Masterpieces of Eloquence, vols. 1-6

Box

Masterpieces of Eloquence, vols. 7-25

Dumas. The Whites and the Blues, vols. I-II

Cupples and Leon. Thoughts for Companions

Eliot. English Poetry from Tennyson to Whitman

Beck. The Story of Oriental Philosophy

Elmo. Two Thousand and Ten Popular Quotations

Goldsmith. Poems, Plays, and Essays

Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress, c.1-2

Emerson. Emerson's Essays, series 1-2

Emerson. Representative Men

Box

Gosse, ed. The French Classical Romances

Gosse, ed. Abbe Constantin

Gosse, ed. The Black Tulip

Gosse, ed. The Brigadier Frederick

Gosse, ed. Captain Fracasse

Gosse, ed. The Chartreuse of Parma

Gosse, ed. Colomba and Carmen

Gosse, ed. The Downfall

Gosse, ed. An Iceland Fisherman

Gosse, ed. The King of the Mountains

Gosse, ed. The Lady of the Camellias

Gosse, ed. Madame Bovary

Gosse, ed. Mauprat

Gosse, ed. Memoirs of Two Young Brides

Gosse, ed. Mlle. de la Seigliere

Gosse, ed. The Nabob

Gosse, ed. Notre Dame de Paris

Gosse, ed. Pierre and Jean

Gosse, ed. Renee Mauperin

Gosse, ed. The Romance of the Poor Young Man

Gosse, ed. Samuel Brohl and Company

The Readers Digest Book of Christmas

Julius Caesar, v. II

Murray. Manual of Mythology

Morehead. The Sorceress

Box

Hartshorn, ed. An Era of Progress and Promise

Song Treasures

Musical Friend

Ideal Gems of English Song

Gems of Sacred Song

Sacred Songs for Choir and Home-Circle

Eliot. Collected Works, vols 2-3

Famous American Statesmen and Orators, vols. I-IV, VI

Whittier. Snow-Bound

Ewen. The World of Great Composers from Alestrina to Debussy

Film Year Book, 1927

Film Year Book, 1928

Palmer. Sophocles' Antigone

Box

Ewen. Encyclopedia of the Opera

Everyman: A Moral Play

Benedix. Die Hochzeitsreife

Short Story Classics, vols. 1-2, 4-5

Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers, vols. I-III

Lytton. The Last Days of Pompeii, c. 1-2

Irvin. Tales of Traveler/Bracebridge Hall/Abbotsford/Wolfert's Roost

Irvin. Sketchbook/Crayon Papers/History of New York

Irvin. Astoria/Captain Bonneville/Salmagundi

Irvin. Life and Voyage of Columbus

Irvin. Oliver Goldsmith/Mahomet/Moorish Chronicles

Irvin. Alahambra/Conquest of Granada/Conquest of Spain/Spanish Voyages

Irvin. The Sketch Book, c.1-2

Irvin. The Alahambra

Phillips. Mojo Hand

Rudyard Kipling, vols. I-III

Heart of Oak Books, vols. II-IV

Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lee. The Peacock and Other Poems

Kipling. The Drums of the Fore and Aft

Meredith. Lucile

Longfellow. Hyperion

Shakespeare. Julius Caesar

Shakespeare. As You Like It

Hudson. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Hudson. Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet

Box

Masquerades, Tableaux, and Drills

Wesley. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

The Victor Book of the Opera

Poems of Sidney Lanier

Gunnison. New Dialogues and Plays

Trotter. Music and Some Highly Musical People

Wiggin. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Long. Ascending and Other Poems

Swiss Family Robinson

The Works of William Shakespeare

Scott. Rokeby

Scott. The Lady of the Lake

Victor Records, November 1915

Molnar. The Devil

Goethe. Faust: A Tragedy

Packard. The Man in the Case

Longfellow. Tales of Wayside Inn

Longfellow. The Courtship of Miles Standish

Wheeler. Maurine and Other Poems

Rolfe. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Eliot. Silas Marner

Stevenson. Treasure Island

Wright. Shakespeare Select Plays: King Henry the V

Wright. Shakespeare Select Plays: The Tempest

Wright. Shakespeare Select Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Wright. Shakespeare Select Plays: Coriolanus

Warren. Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Spiers. Dumas's Monte-Cristo

Hudson. Shakespeare's The Tempest

Palmer. Self Cultivation in English

The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge

Manuel de la Conversation

Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome

Ruskin. Sesame and Lilies/The King of the Golden River

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Series 17: Herndon family photographs
Boxes 1-45 and OV14
This series consists of photographs of the Herndon and allied families, their associates, related institutions (Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta University, Herndon barbershops, and Leonard Street Orphanage), and travel dating from the 1880s to the 1960s. The series includes photographs of prominent African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Truman Gibson, John Hope, Benjamin Davis, Frederick Douglas and James Weldon and Rosamond Johnson, and Jesse Owens.


		Alonzo F. Herndon Family
Box	Folder
1	1		Alonzo P. Herndon, c. 1880-1890
	2		Alonzo F. Herndon, c. 1890-1918
	3		Alonzo F. Herndon, c. 1920-1925
	4		Alonzo F. Herndon, c. 1925
	5		Adrienne M. Herndon, c 1885-1895
	6		Adrienne M. Herndon, c.1895-1910
	7		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1890-1905
	8		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1905
Box	Folder
2	1		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1905
	2		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1905
	3		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1905
	4		Adrienne M. Herndon, c. 1905
Box	Folder
3	1		Norris B. Herndon, c. 1897
	2		Norris B. Herndon, c. 1900-1910
	3		Norris B. Herndon, c. 1910-1920
	4		Norris B. Herndon, c. 1920-1950
	5		Norris B. Herndon, c. 1955-1965
	6		Jessie G. Herndon, c. 1875-1900
	7		Jessie G. Herndon, c. 1912-1927
	8		Jessie G. Herndon, c. 1928-1947
Box	Folder
4	1		Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon
	2		Alonzo, Adrienne and Norris Herndon, c. 1905-1910
	3		Alonzo, Jessie and Norris Herndon
	4		Alonzo and Jessie Herndon, c. 1912-1925
	5		Alonzo Herndon and Herndon family, c. 1890-1905
	6		Alonzo Herndon and associates
	7		Adrienne and Norris Herndon, c. 1900-1905
	8		Adrienne and Norris Herndon and Hankerson-McNeil family
Box	Folder
5	1		Adrienne M. Herndon and associates
	2		Norris B. and Jessie G. Herndon
	3		Norris B. Herndon and Herndon family
	4		Norris Herndon and Hankerson-McNeil family
	5		Norris Herndon and Gillespie family
	6		Norris Herndon and Dr. Henry Lang
	7		Norris Herndon and Martin-White family
	8		Norris Herndon and Victor Ryder
	9		Norris Herndon and other associates
	10		Jessie Herndon and Gillespie family
	11		Jessie Herndon and associates
	12		Alonzo Herndon family and associates
		Associates of Alonzo Herndon family
Box	Folder
6	1		Associates of Adrienne M. Herndon
	2		Associates of Adrienne M. Herndon
	3		Associates of Adrienne M. Herndon
	4		Associates of Adrienne M. Herndon: Harrison family
	5		Associates of Norris Herndon: Victor Ryder
	6		Associates of Norris Herndon: Victor Ryder
Box	Folder
7	1		Other associates of Norris Herndon
	2		Associates of Jessie Herndon
	3		Associates of Jessie Herndon
	4		Associates of Jessie Herndon
	5		Associates of Jessie Herndon
Box	Folder
8	1		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon Family: Alexander Hamilton and family
	2		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Mrs. John Jones
	3		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Idella Hunt Logan and family
	4		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Dr. Loring Palmer
	5		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Walter White and family
	6		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Miscellaneous persons
	7		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Miscellaneous persons
	8		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Partially identified and unidentified
	9		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Visitors to Tavares, FL
	10		Other associates of Alonzo Herndon family: Henry Rucker and family
		Other Herndon Family and allied families
Box	Folder
9	1		Carrie Herndon Connally and family
	2		Alonzo Herndon II and family
	3		Thomas M. Herndon
	4		Florence and Richard Berry
	5		Associates of Sophenie Herndon family
	6		Edward R. Bailey and family
	7		Jennie McNeil Bailey
	8		Jennie McNeil Bailey and family
	9		Joseph Henry Bailey
	10		Mildred Bailey
	11		Mildred Bailey and Lester Edwards
	12		Joseph Cumming
Box	Folder
10	1		Adrienne Bailey Edwards
	2		Adrienne Bailey Edwards and family
	3		Lester Edwards and family
	4		Lester Edwards and family
	5		Lester Edwards and family
	6		Edward T. Fleming
	7		Harriet Hankerson
	8		Clara Simkins Jefferson and family
Box	Folder
11	1		Martha McNeil
	2		Martha McNeil and Frances Norris
	3		William F. McNeil
	4		Rachel Fleming Simpkins and family
	5		Associates of Hankerson-McNeil family: Frances Norris
	6		Other associates of Hankerson-McNeil family
	7		Other associates of Hankerson-McNeil family
	8		Charles Gillespie and family
	9		Emma Gillespie I
	10		Emma Gillespie II
	11		Ezekiel Gillespie
	12		Katherine Gillespie
Box	Folder
12	1		Mary Gillespie
	2		William Gillespie and family
	3		William Gillespie and family
	4		Dora Robinson Manley and family
	5		Samantha Gillespie Marshall and family
	6		Alice Gillespie Mason and family
	7		Ida Gillespie McQueen and family
	8		Ida Gillespie McQueen and family
Box	Folder
13	1		Ella Robinson and family
	2		Nora Lee Roddy and family
	3		Nora Lee Roddy and family
	4		Other members of Gillespie family
		Alonzo Herndon Family Residence
	5		Bumstead Cottage exterior and interior, c. 1900
	6		Herndon Home exterior and grounds, c. 1910-1960
	7		Herndon Home exterior and grounds, c. 1960-1970
Box	Folder
14	1		Herndon Home exterior, c. 1981
	2		Herndon Home exterior, c. 1981
	3		Herndon Home interior, c. 1915-1970
	4		Herndon Home interior, c. 1915
	5		Herndon Home interior, c. 1981
Box	Folder
15	1		Herndon Home reception hall and music room
	2		Herndon Home living room
	3		Herndon Home dining room
	4		Herndon Home butler's pantry and breakfast room
	5		Herndon Home stairhall and upstairs sitting area
	6		Herndon Home bedroom of Jessie Herndon
	7		Herndon Home bedroom of Alonzo Herndon
	8		Herndon Home bedroom of Norris Herndon
	9		Herndon Home collections room
	10		Herndon Home guest room and card room
	11		Herndon Home living room murals
	12		Herndon Home silver service
	13		Herndon Home staff
		Atlanta Life Insurance Company
Box	Folder
16	1		Board of Directors
	2		Board of Directors
	3		Herndon family and Atlanta Life associates
	4		Gilbert DeLorme and family
	5		Truman Gibson and family
	6		Lemuel Haywood and family
	7		E. M. Martin: White-Palmer families
	8		Walter H. Smith
	9		Other Atlanta Life associates
	10		Atlanta Life and other insurance conferences
	11		Bowling team
	12		Home Office Building, c. 1930
		Atlanta University
Box	Folder
17	1		Horace Bumstead
	2		W. E. B. Du Bois and family
	3		Faculty
	4		John Hope
	5		George Towns
	6		Students
	7		As You Like It, 1907
	8		Merchant of Venice, 1905
	9		Midsummer Night's Dream, 1910
Box	Folder
18	1		Taming of the Shrew
	2		Twelfth Night, 1908
	3		Twelfth Night, 1908
	4		May Day celebration
	5		Buildings and grounds
		Other Institutions
Box	Folder
19	1		First Congregational Church
	2		Gillespie Hairdresser Shop
	3		Harvard University
	4		Herndon Barbershop; 7 North Broad Street
	5		Herndon Barber shop: Marietta St. and Markham House
	6		Herndon Barbershop: 66 Peachtree Street
	7		Herndon Barbershop 100 North Pryor Street
	8		Charles Herndon Barbershop
	9		Herndon Day Nursery
Box	Folder
20	1		Knox Institute
	2		Leonard Street. Orphanage
	3		Leonard Street Orphanage
	4		Links, Inc.
	5		Mercy Hospital
	6		Mitchell Street School
	7		Morris Brown College
	8		National Negro Business League
	9		Unidentified barbershop
	10		Unidentified child care agency
	11		Boston School of Expression
		Places
Box	Folder
21	1		Cemeteries
	2		Florida: Tavares
	3		Georgia: Atlanta
	4		Georgia: McDonough
	5		Georgia: Savannah
	6		Georgia: Walton Co, and other places
	7		Massachusetts: Cambridge
	8		New York: New York
	9		Unidentified places
		Distinguished Blacks
	10		Benjamin O. Davis
	11		Frederick Douglas and family
	12		James Weldon and Rosamond Johnson
	13		Jesse Owens
		Miscellaneous
Box	Folder
22	1		Military
	2		Native Americans
	3		Pets, animals
	4		Picasso ceramics
	5		Picasso ceramics
	6		Rail transportation
	7		Sports
	8		Steinway Pianos
	9		Theatrical persons
	10		Theatrical exhibits
	11		Art and architecture
		Travel
Box	Folder
23	1		Europe, l912: Alonzo, Norris and Jessie Herndon
	2		Europe, 1955: Norris Herndon, Martin-White families
	3		Caribbean: Norris Herndon, Martin-White families
	4		Caribbean: Norris Herndon, Martin-White families
	5		Norwegian-American Line, c. 1963
	6		Miscellaneous, unidentified places
	7		Europe, Jessie Herndon
	8		Austria (Vienna)
Box	Folder
24	1		Belgium, 1965
	2		Belgium, 1965
	3		Caribbean
	4		Caribbean
	5		Caribbean
	6		Caribbean (Haiti)
	7		Egypt
	8		England
	9		France
Box	Folder
25	1		Germany (West)
	2		Germany (East and West)
	3		Greece
	4		Iceland
	5		Italy
	6		Soviet Union
	7		Switzerland
	8		United States (Montana)
	9		Yugoslavia (Split)
	10		Unidentified places
		Unidentified persons
Box	Folder
26	1		Alabama
	2		California
	3		Florida
	4		Georgia (Athens)
	5		Georgia (Atlanta men)
	6		Georgia (Atlanta men)
	7		Georgia (Atlanta women)
	8		Georgia (Atlanta women)
Box	Folder
27	1		Georgia (Atlanta women)
	2		Georgia (Atlanta women)
	3		Georgia (Atlanta children)
	4		Georgia (Atlanta children)
	5		Georgia (Atlanta families)
	6		Georgia (Augusta)
	7		Georgia (Savannah)
	8		Georgia (Savannah)
	9		Georgia (other locations)
Box	Folder
28	1		Illinois (Chicago families)
	2		Illinois (Chicago females
	3		Illinois (Chicago males)
	4		Massachusetts (Boston)
	5		Minnesota
	6		New Hampshire
	7		New York
	8		Pennsylvania
Box	Folder
29	1		Rhode Island
	2		Washington, D.C.
	3		Other locations
	4		Other unidentified men
	5		Other unidentified men
	6		Other unidentified women
	7		Other unidentified women
Box	Folder
30	1		Other unidentified children and groups of people
	2		Other unidentified children and groups of people
	3		Other unidentified children and groups of people
		Albums
Box	Folder
31	1		#1. Bumstead Cottage, Herndon Home, AU, Philadelphia, Savannah (also includes letters, newsclippings)
Box	Folder
32	1		#2. Western U.S., 1915; trains
	2		Honeymoon, Europe, 1912
	3		Honeymoon, Europe, 1912
	4		Honeymoon, Europe, 1912
	5		Honeymoon, Europe, 1912
Box	Folder
33	1		Travel, New York, 1913-1914
	2		Travel, New York, 1914
	3		Travel, U.S., 1915
	4		Travel, U.S., 1915
Box	Folder
34	1		#3. Travel, trains, miscellaneous
	2		Atlanta, Tavares, Cambridge, miscellaneous
Box	Folder
35	1		#4. Tavares, Atlanta, Hot springs, miscellaneous
Box	Folder
36	1		#5. San Francisco, Tavares, Atlantic City (many photos dismounted and filed with loose photos)
Box
37		#6. Wedding of Rose Martin and James Palmer
Box
38		#7. Europe, 1955
Box	Folder
39	1		#8. Europe, 1955
Box	Folder
40	1		#9. Europe, 1955
Box	Folder
41	1		#10. Europe, 1955; Tavares, Cypress Gardens, FL
Box	Folder
42	1		#11. Mediterranean, Tavares, Herndon Home
Box	Folder
43	1		#12. Egypt, Greece, France, Italy, Soviet Union, Tavares, Victor Ryder, Herndon Home, Miscellaneous
Box	Folder
44	1		#13. Ireland, Belgium, Soviet Union
Box	Folder
45	1	Alonzo Herndon tintypes, c. 1880
	2	Adrienne Herndon tintypes,
	3	Norris Herndon, McNeil family and associates tintypes
	4	Norris Herndon mounted prints
	5	Jessie Herndon and associates tintypes, 1880 - 1895
	6	Jessie G. Herndon mounted print
	7	Thomas Herndon tintype, c. 1880
Box	Folder
45	8	McNeil family tintypes, c. 1870 - c. 1882
	9	Emma Gillespie I
	10	Frances Norris tintype, c. 1880
	11	Unidentified persons, tintypes, c. 1880
	12	Unidentified persons, tintypes
	13	Unidentified woman, ambrotype, c. 1880
Box
46		National Negro Business League, Savannah
Box
OV14	Atlanta University, c. 1912 [31OV]

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