1940s view of the Hurt Building and the Derby Show (originally the Atlanta Theatre).
1875 view of Peachtree Street looking south from Five Points.
Christmas tree in Atlanta’s historic Swan House.
“I reached Atlanta during the afternoon of the 14th, and found that all preparations had been made…Colonel Poe, United States Engineer, of my staff, had been busy in his special task of destruction. He had a large force at work, had leveled the great depot, round-house, and the machine-shops of the Georgia railroad, and had applied fire to the wreck… The fire also reached the block of stores near the depot, and the heart of the city was in flames all night…”
- William T. Sherman
Family members react as former prisoner-of-war Crawford Love arrives home at Atlanta’s Municipal Airport in 1953.
Awesome 1930 pic of Atlanta kids dressed up as cavemen at school.
PS One of the kids totally looks like Harry Potter.
Early 1900s view of the English-American Building. Constructed in 1897 (five years before New York’s Flatiron Building), it is Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper.
In honor of Halloween, here’s a collection of pics of some of the creepiest Atlanta houses we could find in the archives. Enjoy!
1898 view of streetcars on Peachtree Street. Atlanta’s First Methodist Church and DeGive’s Opera House (later known as the Loew’s Grand Theater) stand in the background.
Early 1900s view inside Atlanta’s Grady Hospital.
1870’s view of workers at the Atlanta City Brewing Company at the corner of Courtland (then Collins) and Harris Streets.
1940s view of a baseball game at Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Park.
Kids playing “museum” at a school in Atlanta in 1935.
1892 view of Atlanta’s Five Points area showing the old artesian well and streetcar line construction.
View of Atlanta’s Candler Building under construction in the early 1900s. Completed in 1906, the Candler Building was built by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler. At seventeen stories, it was the tallest building in Atlanta when it was completed.
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