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Universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Douglas H. Davis, Sr. photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS301
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of aerial views of Atlanta and vicinity, and of Valdosta, Georgia. Included are images of Southern Railway shops; downtown Atlanta; Ponce de Leon Baseball Park; Gammon Theological Seminary; and Oglethorpe University and Georgia School of Techonology campuses. Of interest are photographs pertaining to Davis as an aviator and his early days of commercial flying.

Dates: 1929-1934, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Douglas H. Davis, Sr. photographs

Harriette Speer Parker photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS353
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs of scenes in Atlanta, Georgia, taken by Harriette Speer Parker and her father, Eustace Asbury Speer. Of special note are photographs of the Great Fire of Atlanta in 1917, the Festival of Old Atlanta in the late 1960s, and negatives of aerial photographs of downtown Atlanta. The photographs taken by Eustace Asbury Speer include images of the State Revenue Department personnel in 1927, Piedmont Park, and the Atlanta skyline. Also featured are family...
Dates: 1917-1970, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Harriette Speer Parker photographs