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Pryor Street (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Mackle Construction Company Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS159
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains images of residential, commercial, and governmental property most likely built by the Mackle Construction Company in Atlanta, Chamblee, and Augusta, Georgia, and in South Carolina. The collection contains photographs of schools, hotels, apartments, stores, an office building, and a military base. Among the photographs of buildings in Atlanta are images of the J. P. Allen Building on Whitehall Street, the Cecil Hotel on Luckie Street, the F. J. Cooledge and Sons...
Dates: 1916-1920
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mackle Construction Company Photographs

Meredith Zara photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS61
Scope and Content

This collection contains two prints depicting unidentified African American laborers involved in construction work on Alabama Street, between Pryor Street and Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. The other image is of the exterior of the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is now Ford Motor Lofts.

Dates: 1900-1930
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Meredith Zara photographs

Mrs. William Gayle Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS121
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains reproductions of photographs of the Five Points area of downtown Atlanta, including images of Union Station, the parking deck for Rich’s Department Store, the Carnegie Library, the Forsyth Street Bridge Atlanta Journal building, Krystal restaurant, the Ivan Allen-Marshall building, Friedman Jewelers, the Western Union building, and the “Coca-Cola clock”. The streets shown include Broad, Alabama, Forsyth, Marietta, Peachtree, Pryor, and Carnegie. The collection also...
Dates: circa 1953
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Mrs. William Gayle Photographs

Robert Rothberg photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS374
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs taken by F & L Photo Service and collected by Robert Rothberg of various downtown Atlanta buildings and businesses in the early 1930s. Notable scenes include the Alonzo F. Herndon (1858-1927) Crystal Palace barber shop on Peachtree Street, the Hurt Building, the J. P. Allen & Company department store, Chevrolet Motor Company, Moline Plow Company, King Hardware Company, and the Henry Grady Hotel.

Dates: Approximately 1930-1935
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Robert Rothberg photographs

Ruth Henley photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS368
Scope and Content

This collection contains black and white photographs collected by Ruth Henley of John Willis Henley inside the Fulton County Courthouse and portraits of Atlanta Journal newspaper carriers on a trip to Washington D.C., in 1910, one of whom may be Thomas Henley.

Dates: 1906-1910
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Ruth Henley photographs