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The Urban History Collection documents life in the twenty eight county metropolitan area in the context of Georgia and the South. The exhibit reflects commercial and technological innovations and developments that shaped the city and the region.
Community life is represented by artifacts from organizational, educational, religious, and governmental institutions. The display documents conflict and change in the region and contains artifacts that address issues of slavery, segregation, women's suffrage.
The Decorative Arts and Material Culture Collection holds more than 7,000 objects. These objects include furniture and fine art to glass work and games, and reflects the folk art and domestic life of Southeastern antiquity.
Many of these artifacts provide interpretations allowing the public to explore the changes in lifestyles in Georgia and the region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It provides a great time-line to understand Georgia's progression.
The Philip Trammell Shutze Decorative Arts Collection reflects the life of a twentieth-century connoisseur and collector. A nationally recognized architect, Shutze shaped Atlanta's commercial and domestic landscape.
The survey exhibit includes examples of eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese export. The display is featured in the exhibition of Philip Trammell Shutze on display in the Swan House Terrace Level gallery.
The signature exhibition, Shaping Traditions, and the John Burrison Folklife Collection interpret rural life and Southern culture through regional pottery. The display also provides significant examples of Southern decorative arts and folk traditions from the nineteenth century to the present.
The Textiles and Social History Collection is an intimate record of the daily lives of residents, from the city's earliest days as Terminus to the present. Selected textiles are featured in signature exhibitions in the Atlanta History Museum.
Costume records, quilts, and other topics are periodically explored in depth through exhibit-based temporary exhibitions. The 10,000-piece textiles display includes both everyday and special-occasion clothing and other objects that represent the Southeast.
Within this broad range of artifacts are a variety quilts, coverlets, samplers, bedspreads, rugs, and table linens. Textile production and care equipment is represented by spinning wheels, looms, washing machines, irons, and sewing patterns.
The Atlanta History Center offers Peachtree Mercantile sewing patterns based on original garments in the display. With true-to-antiquity patterns, anyone can recreate the past with an authentic reproduction of a Civil War-era dress or overcoat.
The Atlanta History Center's Civil War and Military Collection is considered to be the world's most comprehensive Civil War type exhibit. The DuBose Civil War Collection consists of 7,500 individual Union and Confederate objects covering all areas of battle collecting from firearms and swords to buttons and ammunition.
The George Wray, Junior, Civil War Collection contains 1,000 objects and is one of the nation's finest showings of rare Confederate firearms, uniforms, flags, and accouterments. The Thomas Swift Dickey Civil War Ordnance Collection consists of over 1,200 battle artillery projectiles recovered from at least 388 different battle sites.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection includes 250 artifacts. The Old Guard of the Gate City Guard Collection contains 150 firearms, edged weapons, and post-struggle uniforms plus archival research material.
The Civil War exhibit also preserves approximately 900 additional objects of battle provenance. The general Military exhibit is comprised of 1,000 objects dating from the Spanish-American War to the First Gulf War.
