- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Downtown Atlanta, looking northwest on the Heart of Atlanta Motel, now the Hilton Atlanta hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1964.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lee, J. C. (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1964-10
- Subject:
- Buildings
Skyscrapers
Aerial photographs
Heart of Atlanta Motel
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Interstate 75
Interstate 85 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Baker Street
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, John Portman Boulevard, 33.760986, -84.389756
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Piedmont Avenue, 33.7674443, -84.38202 - Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Negative envelope: "Atlanta Skyline & Expressways at Night, Oct. 1964, J.C. Lee." During this time, the motel was owned by Atlanta attorney Moreton Rolleston Jr., who was an avid segregationist. Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the year pictured), Rolleston filed suit in Federal Court. His case, Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, eventually was heard by the United States Supreme Court, where he lost.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/3712
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:3712/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCNS1964-10-01d, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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