United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Prison Riots photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS494
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images documenting the Atlanta Prison Riots. Photographs include Federal Bureau of Investigation agents surveilling the penitentiary, as well as aerial views of prisoners. Also included are images of damage to the facility following the riots.
Dates:
1987 November 13-23
Marion Johnson photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS33
Scope and Content
This collection documents the Atlanta urban environment, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, through cityscapes, aerial views and scenes of individual buildings as the city underwent a period of building and growth. The arrival of the city's first professional sports team, the Atlanta Braves, is documented. Also included in the collection are scenes pertaining to Southern politics including local, state and presidential races. A wide variety of Georgia agriculture and industry is...
Dates:
1938-1975
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
Whittier Cotton Mills records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS558
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is correspondence that Whittier Cotton Mills received from local and national suppliers and clients such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Southern Railroad. Other correspondence documents product pricing and sales, some of which includes interoffice memos; the construction of new company housing and plant #5; receipt of bids; and construction contracts with Silver Lake Company. The collection also contains payroll checks. Of particular note are invoices and...
Dates:
1897-1933 (bulk 1926-1933)
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- Aerial photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Office buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Recreation areas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Sports -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Baseball -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Central business districts -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cities and towns -- Georgia 1
- Cityscapes 1
- Cityscapes -- 1950-1960 1
- Cityscapes -- 1960-1970 1
- Cityscapes -- 1970-1980 1
- Clothing and dress -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Convict labor -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton manufacture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton textile industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton trade -- Employees -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cotton trade -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Factories -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Football -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Football teams -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Government facilities -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Governors -- Georgia 1
- Hotels -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Law enforcement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Manufacturing industries -- Georgia -- Employees 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mountains -- Georgia 1
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Peachtree Street (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Photography -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Photojournalism -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Politicians -- Georgia 1
- Prison riots -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Prisoners -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Prisons -- Georgia 1
- Saint Simons Island (Ga.) 1
- Skyscrapers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Stone Mountain (Ga.) 1
- Stores, Retail -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Synagogues -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Textile workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Urban landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 1
- Warm Springs (Ga.) 1
- White supremacy movements -- Georgia 1 + ∧ less
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