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This collection contains images from a photo album of Atlanta Transit System construction scenes around Atlanta, Georgia. Included are scenes of workers (primarily African American workers) constructing trolley lines in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Also included are unidentified street scenes, trolley cars, rail bridges, and an unidentified mill in Atlanta, Georgia.

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of early 20th century Atlanta vehicles detailed in Volume II of Jean Martin’s Mule to MARTA book series. The collection includes images of trackless trolleys, coach cars, buses, work cars and cranes, and a light rail vehicle. Many of the photographs show these vehicles in use on downtown Atlanta streets. Other images include a revised city plan from the 1924 Beeler Report, a motorman, and a former trolley that was...