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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bill Wilson photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS99
Scope and Contents of the Records

This collection is comprised of original negatives, copy prints, and copy negatives created by Bill Wilson and other artists and photographers, whose works were collected by Wilson. The collection offers important documentation on a wide variety of personalities, events, and geographic locations both in Atlanta and throughout Georgia. Most of the material is captured on acetate film and color transparencies.

Dates: 1938-1984, undated

Harry G. Lefever papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1011
Scope and Content The Harry G. Lefever papers consist primarily of records Mr. Lefever kept on neighborhoods and community organizations in Atlanta, Georgia. The papers reflect his involvement in community organizing; race relations and urban renewal; Atlanta inner-city neighborhoods and associations; and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. These files contain correspondence; articles from books, magazines, and newspapers; reports; and student papers on the relationship between the community...
Dates: 1966-2009, undated

Henry L. Taylor visual arts materials of Atlanta Transit System, Inc.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS382
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs and blueprints from the Atlanta Transit System, Inc. (ATS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are photographs and schematics of buses, streetcars, and trolleys used by ATS, as well as images of ATS staff. Of special note are photographs of Governor Lester Maddox (1915-2003) with William P. Maynard, president of ATS, signing a sales tax relief bill, which removed sales taxes on passenger fares. Also included is an image of Governor Maddox signing a proclamation...
Dates: 1923-1975, undated

Martin Stupich Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS115
Scope and Contents of the Records The photographs in this collection were created during two survey grants sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The images in the first grant documented the development of Atlanta’s rapid transit system (MARTA) from 1977- 1978, and photographs from the second grant (1979-1981) illustrate Atlanta’s role as a center of transportation. The photographs from the first NEA project depict downtown Atlanta prior to the construction of MARTA, employees involved in the creation of...
Dates: 1955 – 1981, bulk 1977-1981

Mule to MARTA Volume II photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS437
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...
Dates: 1902-1976, undated

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  • Subject: Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) X

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Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) 4
Local transit -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Marietta Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
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Broad Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Buses -- 1950-1960 2
Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Decatur (Ga.) 2
Mass transit -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1970-1980 2
Streets -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Terminals (Transportation) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Aerial photographs 1
Aerial photographs -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1940-1950 1
Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Aerial views -- 1940-1950 1
Aerial views -- 1970-1980 1
Apartments -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations 1
Automobiles -- 1930-1940 1
Automobiles -- 1940-1950 1
Automobiles -- 1950-1960 1
Automobiles -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Bedford Pine (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Bolton Road (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cabbagetown (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Candler Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Chamblee (Ga.) 1
Chattahoochee River 1
City planning -- Citizen participation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Community development -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Community organization -- Citizen participation 1
Demolition -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1970-1980 1
Doraville (Ga.) 1
East Lake (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ellis Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc. 1
Forsyth Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Fort Gordon (Ga.) 1
Gold mines and mining -- Georgia -- Dahlonega 1
Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Hapeville (Ga.) 1
Homeowners -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
Housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Houston Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Inman Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Inner cities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Lakewood Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Little Five Points (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Luckie Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Margaret Mitchell Square (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Mechanical engineering -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Mechanicsville (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Memorial Drive (Decatur, Ga.) 1
Midtown (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Mitchell Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Ponce de Leon Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Public housing -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Reynoldstown (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Roads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Sidney Lanier, Lake (Ga.) 1
Slums -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1940-1950 1
Spring Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
Street railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Subway stations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Subways -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1970-1980 1
Techwood Drive (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Transportation -- Korea (South) 1
Trolley buses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Trolley cars 1
Trolley cars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Underground construction -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 1970-1980 1
Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Vine City (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
West End (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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