University Homes (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Real Estate Board photographs and plat maps
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS431
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographic prints, plat maps, and building plans of properties in Atlanta and Fulton County created for real estate business purposes. Most photographs depict residential and commercial buildings that were torn down to make way for two public housing projects, Techwood Homes and University Homes in 1934. Highlights include appraisal photographs and supporting documents for the Grant Building, the J.M. High Estate, and the Atlanta King Plow Company building.
Dates:
1922-1935, undated
The Atlanta Community Network magazine, fall 1987 issue
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS967f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the fall 1987 edition of The Atlanta Community Network magazine. It covers issues pertaining to Georgia State Senator Hildred W. Shumake Jr.’s constituency. Articles include the legacy of University Homes, the first public housing units in the United States for African Americans; reflections from Agnes White, a volunteer at Grady Memorial Hospital; the consequences of Georgia Power's construction of the Vogtle nuclear power plant;...
Dates:
1987
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- African American legislators -- Georgia 1
- African American neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- African Americans -- Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Lawshe Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Lovejoy Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Medicaid -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- North Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Nuclear power plants 1
- Periodicals -- Publishing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Public housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Real estate business -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Real estate development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Techwood Drive (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- The Atlanta Community Network (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 1 + ∧ less
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