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Central Atlanta Progress, INC. Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS139
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains images of Atlanta’s physical landscape, including buildings, streets, residences, office parks, retail stores, shopping malls, interstates, and railroads in neighborhoods within the city. Many of the photographs were probably used in presentations to business leaders and task forces that worked on projects related to economic development, transportation, housing, and urban design. The images illustrate the growth of the city, and changes that have occurred in the...
Dates:
1960- 1981, undated
Duane L. Cronk Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS117
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains images of the construction of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail stations, including the Five Points Station, Civic Center Station, North Avenue Station, Garnett Station, the North Line, South Line and East Line. Also included are photographs taken on the opening day for the Avondale, Decatur, Omni, Fare Gates rail stations, and the West Line.
Dates:
1978-1980, undated
Hugh Brannon photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS477
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection contains color slides that document buildings, street scenes, and fire incidents in downtown Atlanta during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular note are images of Atlanta Fire Department stations and firefighting scenes. Also included are photographs of local events including the Inman Park Festival, Atlanta Braves and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sporting events, and a civil rights demonstration by Atlanta University Center students in 1960. There is also a...
Dates:
1945-1996, undated
Jack Etheridge Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS109
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection is comprised of images of the construction of a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, known as the downtown connector. Included are aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta, and images taken on the ground depicting the path of the interstate.
Dates:
1961-1962
Parker Lowell Photograph Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS136
Scope and Contents of the Records
Included in this collection are photographs of Atlanta buildings and parks. Images include the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Piedmont Park, the Cyclorama building in Grant Park, the Hurt Building and Hurt Park, the Municipal Auditorium, Rich’s Department Store, and The Temple and other scenes on Peachtree Street.
Dates:
1949
T. Cobb Benning Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS153
Scope and Contents of the Records
The images in this collection depict the construction of the English American building (also known as the Flatiron Building) at the intersection of Peachtree Street and Broad Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
1897- 1898
Virginia Twinam Smith slides
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS397
Scope and Contents
This collection contains slides of a wide variety of identified plants including herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, native shrubs, vegetables, vines, and trees of the Southeastern States. Also a part of the collection are photographs of public gardens, such as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Callaway Gardens, Chattahoochee Nature Center, and the gardens of the Tullie Smith House at the Atlanta History Center. Other images in the Smith collection depict downtown Atlanta, skylines,...
Dates:
1978-2003
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- Brannon, Hugh W. (Hugh Wallace), 1924-2007 1
- Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. 1
- Cronk, Duane L. 1
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- English-American Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Etheridge, Jack P. 1
- Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Georgia Institute of Technology 1
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Football team) 1
- Grady High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Grant Field (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Lowell, Parker 1
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 1
- Mitchell Motors (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Peachtree Plaza (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Peachtree Summit (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Rich's (Retail store) 1
- Smith, Virginia Twinam, 1923-2015 1
- Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia 1 + ∧ less
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