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The Elevated City
Atlanta, a new city established by the railroads in the 19th century and transformed by the automobile in the 20th century, was built first for...
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Tracing Almeta
Mapping Atlanta’s Jim Crow Era Women’s Basketball Community. During the era of legalized segregation, Black Atlantans created their own economic, educational, and recreational institutions. In...
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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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The Histories of Our Streets
Georgia State University students map Atlanta’s past. This website is produced by Dr. Marni Davis and her students at the downtown Atlanta campus of Georgia...
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Before Underground
Within Georgia State University Library’s digital collections can be found a series of approximately 100 photographs depicting downtown Atlanta streets in 1927, focusing mainly on...
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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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