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3D Atlanta of the 1920s Demo
This student project allows users to experience Atlanta as it was in the 1920s, including many historically accurate buildings modeled from photos taken at the...
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Historic Harlots of Old Atlanta
Digital tour of the rise and fall of the bawdy brothels that lined Downtown Atlanta’s Collins Street from the late 1800s to the early 1900s—showcasing...
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Rap Map
Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop! The Rap Map visualizes metro Atlanta’s influence on hip-hop and hip-hop’s influence on the region over the last three decades....
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The Phoenix Project: Resurrecting the MARTA Archaeological Collection and Atlanta’s Past
During the 1970s, Georgia State University archaeologists conducted systematic excavations associated with the construction of the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail lines. This...
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Mapping Atlanta
GSU professor Taylor Shelton’s blog exploring all of Atlanta’s oddities and inequalities with maps. Issues covered are fundamentally about geography, about how places are the...
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Planning Atlanta – A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
Digital collection of material related to city planning and urban development in Atlanta. The collection consists of city planning maps, city planning publications, demographic data,...
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Streetscape Palimpsest: A History of Georgia Avenue
Digital project that investigates the history of Georgia Avenue, which once served as an important commercial thoroughfare in the neighborhoods south of downtown Atlanta, and...
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Atlanta Sit-Ins, 1961-1964
Beginning in 1960, the Atlanta sit-in movement took over the downtown area of the city. Follow this tour to see where student activists conducted their...
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Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Collection: Maps
This digital collection contains digitized versions of items that are owned by the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library. Currently, the collection contains historical maps, dating from the...
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Atlanta Water Walk
How water has shaped the city. Video tour with urban designer and author Hannah Palmer. Palmer’s writing explores the intersection of Southern stories and urban...
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ATLMaps
The ATLMaps platform, a collaboration between Georgia State University and Emory University, combines archival maps, geospatial data visualization, and user contributed multimedia location pinpoints to...
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Krog Codex: Archive of Krog Street Tunnel
A Community Interactive Digital Archive. Krog Street Tunnel is one of Atlanta’s premier destinations for street art, political communication, and a community bulletin board. Since...
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