This collection is comprised of materials that document the Atlantic City Housing Authority's programs, specifically its earliest developments: Stanley Holmes Village, Jonathan Pitney Village and Buzby Village. The collection's photographs, construction records and publications (other than the Annual Reports) were found by ACHA when Jonathan Pitney Village was demolished. They were donated to the Atlantic City Free Public Library in March of 2011. The Annual Reports were not published every year and ACHA ceased publication of these documents in 2008. It should be noted that the Annual Reports available in this collection do not represent a comprehensive assemblage of the reports. The photographs in the collection are largely representative of Stanley Holmes Village, including images of its construction, groundbreaking and cornerstone laying ceremonies, and images of Stanley Holmes' first tenants moving into their new homes. The first fifty-four images have a corresponding index of descriptions created by ACHA. A number of the photos (H022. ACHA055L through H022. ACHA291G) were originally displayed in two albums. Photos with the suffix "L" come from an album of landscaping photographs, and photos with the suffix "G" come from an album of general construction photographs. Photographs from the landscaping album were delivered to the Atlantic City Free Public Library already separated from their album. The general construction album was disassembled by the Atlantic City Free Public Library for preservation purposes. Two photographs, H022. ACHA292 and H022. ACHA293, are of Jonathan Pitney Village. The four clippings scrapbooks are comprised of newspaper articles from the 1930s through the 1960s. They were deposited with the Atlantic City Free Public Library in 1997. These scrapbooks are extremely fragile and the original books are restricted from use. Heston Room staff may assist in obtaining information contained within these scrapbooks. A number of the articles in the clippings scrapbooks are also available via the Press of Atlantic City microfilm.
