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Pitts Theology Library, Emory University Collection – UUCA

Overview: Meeting minutes for the first Unitarian church established in Atlanta, Ga. Two meeting minutes books were used by the church. Book I documents meetings that were held at the church such as annual, quarterly and special meetings.
Period: March 1883 to Jan 1909
Number of Pages: 336 pages in Archive Box 25 / Folders 01 – 06. Original meeting box is in Archive Box 103.
Status: All pages available.
Access: Index Book I.

Overview: Meeting minutes for the first Unitarian church established in Atlanta, Ga. Two meeting minutes books were used by the church. Book II documents meetings conducted by the Board of Trustees.
Period: March 1883 to April 1909
Number of Pages: 279 pages in Archive Box 26 / Folders 02
Status: All pages available.
Access: Index Book II.

Overview: Provides a full chronology of meetings held at both the Church and by the Board of Trustees.
Access: Index Book I and Book II.

Overview: Meeting minutes for the first Unitarian church established in Atlanta, Ga. The Unitarian and Universalist churches have merger (1918) and the combined church is known as the Liberal Christian Church.
Period: Nov 1925 to Sep 1938
Number of Pages: Separate documents. Archive Box 26 / Folders 03 – 04
Status: Documents from Jan 28, 1926 to Nov 14, 1926 have been uploaded (Dec 2016)
Access: Index to Meeting Minutes

Overview: Handwritten meeting minutes for the Woman’s Union that was formed following the merger of the Atlanta Unitarians and Universalist churches in 1918.
Period: Jan 1919 to 1926
Number of Pages: No page numbers in meeting book. Archive Box 60 / Folders 03 – 05
Status: Available from Jan. 14, 1919 to Dec 12, 1922. (Dec 2016)
Access: Index to Meeting Minutes

Overview: Handwritten meeting minutes for Woman’s Mission Circle for the First Universalist Church in Atlanta
Period: Mar 1897 to Apr 1899
Number of Pages: No page numbers in meeting book. Archive Box 60 / Folder 02
Status: Available from Mar 1897 to Dec 1897. (Mar 2017)
Access: Index to Meeting Minutes

Overview: Handwritten and typed meeting minutes for Young People’s Christian Union of the First Universalist Church in Atlanta
Period: 1916 – 1927
Number of Pages: Archive Box 26 / Folder 07
Status: Dec 1, 1916 to Jan 28, 1920. (Jan 2017)
Access: Index to Meeting Minutes

Overview: Collection of sermon and academic papers that provide an overview of activities of Unitarians and Universalists in the south.
Period: Time frame covered generally ranges from 1800’s to 1900’s
Access: See index to History Summary documents.

Overview: Collection of periodical articles, newspaper articles and obituaries that provide background information on ministers who have served the Unitarian and Universalist churches in Atlanta.
Period: Time frame covered generally ranges from 1800’s to 1900’s
Access: See index to Minister documents.

Overview: Meeting minutes, reports and other documents from the archive of the Northwest UU Congregation in Sandy Springs. The curating of this organization’s records is a work in progress. Records from 1968 – 2000 have been fully curated in archival boxes. That physical collection is currently housed at the congregation’s facilities in Sandy Springs, Ga. Only a limited number of those documents have been digitized as of December 2016.
Period: Time frame covered late 1960’s to 1980.
Access: See index to Northwest collection

Overview: The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center (The Mountain) near Highlands, NC is a non-profit year-round ecologically conscious retreat and learning center serving churches, businesses, non-profits, schools, and other groups founded by Atlanta area Unitarian Universalists in 1979. Only a limited number of documents such as correspondence and newsletters regarding the founding of this organization are contained in the archive.
Period: 1979 – 1980
Access: See index to Mountain documents.

Overview: Limited collection of commentary by the archive Archivist on topics related to specific events in Unitarian and Universalist history. The initial focus of the Archivist Blog posts is the clarification of historic facts that have “drifted” from their verifiable historic roots.
Period: Time frame covered generally ranges from 1800’s to 1900’s
Access: See index to Archivist Blog entries.