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Description:: Over 1000 photographs documenting the history and social life of Atlanta, Georgia from 1923 to 1964, including weddings, sports events, portraits, local buildings, companies, the Atlanta labor community, and the Shriners Yaarab Temple, from the collections of Georgia State University's Special Collections
Date of Original:: 1923/1964
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Photographs taken by the Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers that depict life in Atlanta from the 1920s to 1957.
Date of Original:: 1920/1957
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Photographs from 1904 to 2000 documenting portraiture, family, research, and events participated in by African American scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln.
Date of Original:: 1904/2000
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Materials dating from 1895 to 1955 from the Voter Education Project.
Date of Original:: 1895/1955
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Black-and-white photographs dating from 1893 to 1975 of the career of Atlanta police chief Herbert T. Jenkins including images of African American police officers and the Summerhill riots in 1966.
Date of Original:: 1893/1975
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: The Digital Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff Library consists of photographic images and publications from the Archives and Special Collections Department documenting the early history of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) institutions. These "founding documents" encompass pictures of AUC member institution presidents, faculty, students, alumni, earliest buildings, and an electronically searchable text of the Atlanta University Bulletin dating from 1883 to 1910.
Date of Original:: 1869/2004
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Photographs dating between 1868 and 2002 collected by Savannah civil rights leader W.W. Law. and his mother Geneva.
Date of Original:: 1868/2002
Contributing Institution:: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

Description:: Photographs of Atlanta University before its consolidation with Clark College, containing photographs dating from 1858 to 1995, with the bulk of the material falling between 1905 and 1968.
Date of Original:: 1858/1995
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Georgia State University's Southern Labor Archives, established in 1971, is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making available the documentary heritage of Southern workers and their unions, as well as that of workers and unions having a historic relationship to the region.
Date of Original:: 1850/2010
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Photographs dating from the 1840s to the 2009 from the photography staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Date of Original:: 1840/2009
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Historically significant photographs of people, places, and structures from Georgia's past from the Vanishing Georgia Collection at the Georgia Archives.
Date of Original:: 1800/1994
Contributing Institution:: Georgia Archives
Sensitive Content:: This site includes historical images and accompanying materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These items are presented as part of the historical record. Please be aware before entering the site that some of the images may be disturbing.

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