Desk used by Margaret Mitchell while writing Gone With the Wind.
Atlanta History Center Collection
Photo of Margaret Mitchell seated at her desk.
Just arrived! This torch, from the 2012 London Olympic Games, will soon be on display in our Centennial Olympic Games Museum!
“AISLE 4” sign from Atlanta’s Loew’s Grand Theater. This sign was in place when the film Gone With the Wind premiered there in 1939.
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Wallpaper samples from the Georgia Paint and Glass Company, 1900-1910.
This artifact is on display in the Metropolitan Frontiers exhibit at the Atlanta History Center.
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1930s sign from J.H. Ewing & Sons Realty. The J.H. Ewing & Sons office was located on the ground floor of the Healey Building from 1926 to 1960. The sign was used to advertise properties for sale in segregated white and “Negro” neighborhoods in Atlanta.
This artifact is on display in the Metropolitan Frontiers exhibit at the Atlanta History Center.
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This porcelain Coca-Cola syrup urn is from 1900. Porcelain urns like this one were given to fountain operators who ordered more than 100 gallons of Coca-Cola syrup per year. Soda fountain operators would add Coca-Cola syrup to the urn and then add ice and carbonated water. Gravity did the rest!
This artifact is on display in the Metropolitan Frontiers exhibit at the Atlanta History Center.
FROM THE COLLECTION - Carrie Berry Civil War Diary
“Wed. Nov. 16. Oh what a night we had. They came burning the store house and about night it looked like the whole town was on fire. We all set up all night. If we had not set up our house would have ben burnt up for the fire was very near and the soldiers were going around setting houses on fire where they were not watched. They behaved very badly. They all left the town about one o’clock this evening and we were glad when they left for no body know what we have suffered since they came in.”
FROM THE COLLECTION - Carrie Berry Civil War Diary
“Tues. Nov. 15. This has been a dreadful day. Things have been burning all around us. We dread to night because we do not know what moment that they will set our house on fire. We have had a guard a little while after dinner and we feel a little more protected.”
Many Union soldiers used voting boxes like this one to cast their votes during the Civil War. Soldiers would drop either a blue or beige marble into the box, each color representing a candidate.
This artifact is currently on display at the Atlanta History Center.
Portrait of Scarlett
This life-sized portrait of Scarlett O’Hara, by artist Helen Carlton, hung on the wall in Rhett Butler’s bedroom in the film Gone With the Wind. During the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the film, the portrait was moved to the Davison-Paxon department store as part of a window display. Afterwards, the painting hung in the cafeteria of the Margaret Mitchell Elementary School in northwest Atlanta. The painting, on loan to the AHC by the Atlanta Board of Education, is currently on display at the Margaret Mitchell House.
Original 1936 Magic Chef stove at the AHC’s Swan House. Found in the basement during restoration.
1950s Auburn Avenue Rib Shack neon sign on display at the AHC
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Blue plexiglass from the “bubble-top” dome over Polaris at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.
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This telephone operator’s switchboard was used at Atlanta’s Hotel Clermont for nearly seventy years, and was one of the last manually operated switchboards used in Atlanta.
Fragments from the vase Scarlett O’Hara threw in the library at Twelve Oaks in the film Gone With the Wind. Wilbur Kurtz’s original note is pasted on the lid of the cigar box holding the fragments. It reads: “Fragments of the vase that Scarlett threw at the mantel-piece in the library at Twelve Oaks- the day of the barbecue.”
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