Merchandise Mart (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Longstreet Weltner films
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS360
Scope and Content
This collection documents the political life of Charles Longstreet Weltner and the built landscape of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1950s and 1960s. Film footage highlights a variety of Weltner's campaign activities including him walking on the sidewalk through a blighted Atlanta neighborhood; Weltner looking over the city of Atlanta from the top of the Merchandise Mart; and scenes most likely used for campaign ads. Included are street scenes of downtown Atlanta, with views of public and...
Dates:
approximately 1958-1966, undated
Series II: Board of Zoning Adjustment records, 1922-1997, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains committee meeting minutes from the Board of Zoning Adjustment’s review of applications and appeals for zoning variances. Types of variances included requests for new building projects or home renovations; special use permits; district rezoning, such as rezoning a house to operate business; and lot resizing. Of particular note is an application from the Westminster School Inc. to build schools and boarding buildings and the Atlanta Merchandise Mart’s appeal against the...
Dates:
1922-1997, undated
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- Archival Record 1
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Aerial views -- 1950-1960 1
- Aerial views -- 1960-1970 1
- African American families -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Bellwood Quarry (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Building inspection -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Buses -- 1950-1960 1
- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cityscapes -- 1950-1960 1
- Cityscapes -- 1960-1970 1
- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Landscapes -- Georgia 1
- Lawyers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Ordinances, Municipal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Ordinances, Municipal -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Political campaigns -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Political candidates -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Sidewalks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Street names -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Street names -- Law and legislation 1
- Streets -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Trolley cars 1
- Voting -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Zoning -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Zoning boards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Zoning law -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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