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Scene of McPherson's death - A black and white drawing of a sign in the woods

Scene of McPherson's death - A black and white drawing of a sign in th...

Print shows location in wooded area where Union General James B. McPherson was killed while positioning his troops during battle in the Atlanta campaign. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War ... More

Negro houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Negro houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Great Depression public domain photogr...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army demonstration of new telephone and teletype systems. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25. Utilizing two recent developments in electrical communication. the Army today demonstrated its ability to communicate instantaneously between its Washington Headquarters and its various units in different parts of the country. the test consisted of a long distance telephone conference call over circuits normally employed for commercial telephone service. The hookup interconnected general staff officers in Washington with commanders of the Nine-Corp areas in their respective headquarters at New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Columbus, Omaha, San Antonio, and San Francisco. Left to right: Col. Robert Eichelberger, Sec. To the General Staff; Chief of Staff General Malin Craig; and the Chief Signal Officer General J.O. Mauborgne, 2/25/38

Army demonstration of new telephone and teletype systems. Washington, ...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing on top of a baseball field, Baseball game, Atlanta, Georgia

A group of men standing on top of a baseball field, Baseball game, Atl...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Salesgirl, fashionably dressed, Atlanta, Georgia

Salesgirl, fashionably dressed, Atlanta, Georgia

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Horse and mule traders from Atlanta set up temporary camp to sell to nearby farmers near Covington, Georgia

Horse and mule traders from Atlanta set up temporary camp to sell to n...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A group of people standing on a sidewalk, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing on a sidewalk, Georgia. Farm Security Admin...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people on a sidewalk, Salesgirl leaving work, Atlanta, Georgia

A black and white photo of people on a sidewalk, Salesgirl leaving wor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mr. Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of defense housing for the National Defense Office for Emergency Management (OEM). Mr. Palmer is president of Palmer, Inc,. Atlanta; chairman, Atlanta Housing Authority; and president, National Association of Housing Officials

Mr. Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of defense housing for the National...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia

Carol M. Highsmith - Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Battle of Atlanta was painted in Milwaukee, Wiscons... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Georgia Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia

Carol M. Highsmith - Georgia Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built 1885-1889. Title, date, and keywords provided by ... More

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street. Washington DC sterescope ca...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, and staff at Federal Fort No. 7

Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, and...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

[Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta Intelligencer office by the railroad depot]

[Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta Intelligencer office by the railroad depot]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Sherman's men destroying railroad during American Civil War

Sherman's men destroying railroad during American Civil War

Stereograph showing Union soldiers inspecting the damaged railroad before the evacuation. No. 3631. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to George N. Barnard, ... More

[Atlanta, Ga. Soldiers on boxcars at railroad depot]

[Atlanta, Ga. Soldiers on boxcars at railroad depot]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Rebel fortifications, north side of the city, Atlanta, Ga.

Rebel fortifications, north side of the city, Atlanta, Ga.

Stereograph showing a line of chevaux-de-frise in the foreground, and Confederate fortifications in the background. No. 3580, part of series: War Views. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic Histo... More

General Sherman's men destroying the railroad before the evacuation of Atlanta, Ga.

General Sherman's men destroying the railroad before the evacuation of...

No. 3630. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-3630. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Correspondin... More

[Atlanta, Georgia.] Church, American Civil War Glass Negative.

[Atlanta, Georgia.] Church, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of large rebel fort east of W. & A. R.R. Potter's House in the right background, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864

View of large rebel fort east of W. & A. R.R. Potter's House in the ri...

Photograph shows war damaged chevaux-de-frise in a former Confederate fort near the Western & Atlantic railroad. Inscribed on item: 110. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Atlanta, Georgia. View on Whitehall Street

Atlanta, Georgia. View on Whitehall Street

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Atlanta, Ga. Ruins of depot, blown up on Sherman's departure]

[Atlanta, Ga. Ruins of depot, blown up on Sherman's departure]

Photograph of the War in the West. Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Atlanta, Ga. View on Decatur Street, showing Trout House and Masonic Hall]

[Atlanta, Ga. View on Decatur Street, showing Trout House and Masonic ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad

Atlanta, Georgia. Sherman's men destroying railroad

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, F...

Significance: Techwood Dormitory is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Dormitory differs from the majority o... More

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, F...

Significance: Techwood Dormitory is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Dormitory differs from the majority o... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPherson was killed, July 22, 1864

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPh...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot; a nearer view]

[Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot; a nearer view]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Railroad roundhouse, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Atlanta, Georgia. Railroad roundhouse, American Civil War Glass Negati...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Atlanta, Ga. Trout House, Masonic Hall, and Federal encampment on Decatur Street]

[Atlanta, Ga. Trout House, Masonic Hall, and Federal encampment on Dec...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPherson was killed, July 22, 1864

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPh...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPherson was killed, July 22, 1864

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Spot in woods where General James B. McPh...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlanta or Fingal captured 1863 in Savannah

Atlanta or Fingal captured 1863 in Savannah

Broadside view of ironclad. Possibly by William Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.541) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms part of: Mor... More

"Hizzonors" from all sections attend mayors conference. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. From all sections of the country Mayors of 150 cities gathered in the Capital today to attend the Third Annual Mayors Conference. Problems of crime, unemployment relief, slum clearance and industrial disputes were to be discussed at the meeting which lasts three days. Here we see, left to right: Mayor W.B. Hartsfield, Atlanta, Ga.; Mayor J.M. Jones, Birmingham, Ala.; Mayor Angelo J. Rossi, San Francisco, Cal.; and Mayor E.B. Erwin, Salt Lake City. 11/15/37

"Hizzonors" from all sections attend mayors conference. Washington, D....

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men sitting on top of a field, possibly related to: Atlanta, Georgia. Watching a baseball game

A group of men sitting on top of a field, possibly related to: Atlanta...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Salesgirl leaving work, Atlanta, Georgia

Salesgirl leaving work, Atlanta, Georgia

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people walking down the street, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people walking down the street, Georgia. Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Domestic servants waiting for streetcar on way to work early in the morning. Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia

Domestic servants waiting for streetcar on way to work early in the mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A woman washing a baby in a high chair, Negro domestic servant. Atlanta, Georgia

A woman washing a baby in a high chair, Negro domestic servant. Atlant...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Atlanta mule warehouse sends a camp into rural sections of Georgia for several weeks at a time to sell mules to farmers

Atlanta mule warehouse sends a camp into rural sections of Georgia for...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Repaired truck. FSA (Farm Security Administration) warehouse depot. Atlanta, Georgia

Repaired truck. FSA (Farm Security Administration) warehouse depot. At...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pic... More

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Zoology student

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Zoology student

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Nursery children

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Child in nursery

Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Child in nursery

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Building where Margaret Mitchell wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta, Georgia

Building where Margaret Mitchell wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning nove...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Known as the Crescent Apartments in the 1930s. Title, d... More

Atrium of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta

Atrium of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Like many U.S. state capitols, the Georgia State Capitol is designed to resemble the Neoclassical architectural style of the United St... More

Atlanta, Ga. View on Decatur Street, showing Trout House and Masonic Hall

Atlanta, Ga. View on Decatur Street, showing Trout House and Masonic H...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

[Atlanta, Ga. Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of captured fort]

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Federal pickets before the city

Atlanta, Georgia (vicinity). Federal pickets before the city

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7]

[Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Anderson Way & Howe Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Ander...

Significance: The Nurses Quarters was built as part of the Station Hospital addition of 1943. It signifies the expansion of the Fort McPherson Station Hospital during World War II and the role of 800-series hos... More

James River, Virginia. Confederate Ram ATLANTA after her capture

James River, Virginia. Confederate Ram ATLANTA after her capture

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

["Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street], Confederate States of America.

["Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street], Confederate States of Ame...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

[Atlanta, Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds]

[Atlanta, Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grou...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Ruins of the passenger station, (car shed), Atlanta, Ga. - Nov. 1864

Ruins of the passenger station, (car shed), Atlanta, Ga. - Nov. 1864

Photograph shows ruins of a railroad depot after bombing by Union General Sherman's army before their evacuation of Atlanta. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-2715. Forms part of: Visual materials from the... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fort in front of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia. Confederate fort in front of Atlanta

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sherman's men destroying railroad during American Civil War

Sherman's men destroying railroad during American Civil War

Stereograph showing Union soldiers inspecting the damaged railroad before the evacuation. No. 3631. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to George N. Barnard, ... More

Candler Park Historic District, Roughly bounded by Moreland, Dekalb, McLendon & Harold Avenues, Matthews Street  & Clifton Terrace, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Candler Park Historic District, Roughly bounded by Moreland, Dekalb, M...

Significance: The district consists of the remaining intact portion of a large residential neighborhood dating from the late 19-early 20th century. Founded as Edgewood, a small suburban community east of Atlant... More

Rebel fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

Rebel fortifications, Atlanta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing by the mounted cannons inside a Confederate fort.

Atlanta, Georgia, just after its capture

Atlanta, Georgia, just after its capture

View of railroad "car shed" in Nov. 1864, with covered wagons loaded with supplies for Union troops, shortly before the March to the Sea began under General Sherman. (Source: George N. Barnard, by Keith F. Davi... More

The slave market, Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a town street

The slave market, Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a town str...

Stereograph showing a man with a rifle sitting outside a commercial building used as a slave market, bearing a sign "Auction & Negro Sales" on Whitehall Street. No. 3608, in series: War Views. Imprinted on card... More

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, F...

Significance: Techwood Dormitory is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Dormitory differs from the majority o... More

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, F...

Significance: Techwood Dormitory is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Dormitory differs from the majority o... More

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes, McDaniel Dormitory, 581-587 Techwood Drive, Atlanta, F...

Significance: Techwood Dormitory is a contributing building in the Techwood Homes Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Techwood Dormitory differs from the majority o... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy Street, Mills Street & Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Ruins of Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a factory

Ruins of Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a factory

Stereograph showing two chimneys in the foreground and buildings in the background. No. 2716, in series: War Views. Imprinted on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 501) Broadway, New York. Hand written o... More

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Marietta Road Bridge, Marietta Road, Spanning Inman Railroad Yards, At...

Significance: The Marietta Road Bridge comprises a pair of three span pin connected Double Intersection Pratt through trusses. Its designer and/or fabricator are unknown but the technological character of the ... More

Atlanta, Georgia. Federal picket post shortly before the battle of July 22

Atlanta, Georgia. Federal picket post shortly before the battle of Jul...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Techwood Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Parker Street, William Street & Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Techwood Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Parker Stree...

Significance: The first federally funded housing project in the United States, Techwood Homes represents the first large-scale attempt to eradicate slum housing in a socially humanitarian way in this country. T... More

Battle of Atlanta--Death of General James B. McPherson--July 22d 1864--Army of the Tennessee engaged

Battle of Atlanta--Death of General James B. McPherson--July 22d 1864-...

27019 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

959 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

959 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. The only hip roof house in the community which is situated with its ridge line parallel to the stree... More

TELL CHIEF OF JUBILEE YEAR. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 17. THIS DELEGATION OF CAMP FIRE GIRLS CALLED UPON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION, TO READ TO HIM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE JUBILEE YEAR, AND TO PRESENT HIM WITH THE FIRST JUBILEE BADGE. FROM THE LEFT: LESTER R. SCOTT, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS; DOROTHY RAMSPECK OF ATLANTA, GA; SHIRLEY BURGESS OF BETHESDA, MD; CARLOYN GLAUBER OF BALTIMORE; DOROTHY MAY FILBERT OF WASHINGTON; AND THE PRESIDENT

TELL CHIEF OF JUBILEE YEAR. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 17. THIS DELEGATION...

A group of men standing around a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Tornado" fence at cotton mill. Atlanta, Georgia

"Tornado" fence at cotton mill. Atlanta, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a picnic area, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a picnic area, Georgia. Farm Security Admin...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tractor is brought into repair shop in FSA (Farm Security Administration) warehouse depot by Shepard crane. Atlanta, Georgia

Tractor is brought into repair shop in FSA (Farm Security Administrati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Eroded land, south Georgia, near Atlanta

Eroded land, south Georgia, near Atlanta

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car, Georgia. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Horse and mule traders from Atlanta set up temporary camp to sell to nearby farmers near Covington, Georgia

Horse and mule traders from Atlanta set up temporary camp to sell to n...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jim Bishop and Joe Crow enroute to Montgomery, Alabama from Atlanta on U.S. Highway 29 in Georgia

Jim Bishop and Joe Crow enroute to Montgomery, Alabama from Atlanta on...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s truck, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Greenville, South Carolina. Earl Callam in the terminal ready to take his truck to Atlanta

Greenville, South Carolina. Earl Callam in the terminal ready to take ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Trout House hotel and tent camp at State Square, Atlanta, Georgia]

[Trout House hotel and tent camp at State Square, Atlanta, Georgia]

Tax stamp on verso. Original glass negative: LC-B811-3581. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Atlanta, Ga. Chevaux-de-frise on Marietta Street; photographic wagons and darkroom beyond

Atlanta, Ga. Chevaux-de-frise on Marietta Street; photographic wagons ...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Clark Howell Homes, Building C-4, 432 Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Clark Howell Homes, Building C-4, 432 Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton ...

Significance: Building C-4 is a typical residential building in Clark Howell Homes, which is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developm... More

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, G. U. Treatment Unit Lavatory, Hood Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, G. U. Treatment Unit La...

Significance: Building 121 was built as a 200-man lavatory for the G.U. Treatment Unit of the Station Hospital. It signifies the expansion of the Fort McPherson Station Hospital during World War II and the role... More

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Anderson Way & Howe Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Ander...

Significance: The Nurses Quarters was built as part of the Station Hospital addition of 1943. It signifies the expansion of the Fort McPherson Station Hospital during World War II and the role of 800-series hos... More

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