Transportation -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
City of Atlanta Records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.CityofAtlanta
Scope and Content
This collection consists of administrative records from the City of Atlanta, which have been divided into sixteen series. Records include materials pertaining to select mayors of Atlanta and correspondence and memos from the Executive Office. The collection also includes City Council and Board of Alderman legislation, minutes, and proceedings. Records also include material regarding transportation, public safety, finance, planning and community development, courts, public works, and maps....
Dates:
1848-2013, undated
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS167
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of images of geographic locations in the Metropolitan Atlanta region, and several events, most probably used in promotional material published by the Chamber. The majority of the photographs are aerial views of the city, as well as Atlanta landmarks, and commercial and government buildings. The identity of the photographers who produced the images has not been determined. This collection also contains four films produced by the Chamber. They depict Atlanta's first...
Dates:
1922-1993, undated
Subseries I: Bureau of Planning records, 1909-1979, undated
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
Bureau of Planning records document the efforts of the City of Atlanta government and Metropolitan Planning Comnmission (later named Atlanta Regional Commission) to peacefully integrate Atlanta neighborhoods in the 1950s and 1960s as African Americans sought to purchase homes in neighborhoods occupied by white residents. In 1952, Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield set up the West Side Mutual Development Committee (WSMDC), a bi-racial citizens committee that worked with civic groups, real...
Dates:
1909-1979, undated