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Newspaper Article/Clipping

SNCC News Release

Date: 1963
Description: News release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia for immediate release in Greenville, Mississippi with the headli...
Poster

Crusade for Citizenship Flyer

Date: 1958
Description: A flyer advertising the Crusade for Citizenship on February 12, 1958. An illustration shows men and women voting. Text reads, in part: "20 cities will hold...
Photograph

Labor Action at White Provisions

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Description: Two representatives of the Georgia CIO, C.H. Gillman and Loren Nelleo, visiting with strikers at the Swift company's White Provisions plant. The strikers w...
Photograph

Union Membership Drive

Date: 1952
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America members at the Armour plant in Atlanta check membership cards in an effort to bring 100 percent membership into loca...
Photograph

All CIO Made

Date: 10 1948
Description: The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) booth at the Southeastern World's Fair in Atlanta featured local products made by CIO members. Visitors to t...
Photograph

Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Photograph

Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop

Date: 04 28 1950
Description: Exterior view of Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop.
Photograph

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Bradens

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Pictured left to right are James Dombrowski, Carl and Anne Braden, Frank Wilkinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta King at a reception in Atlanta, Geo...
Photograph

International Scouts and Helicopter Used by Atlanta Police

Date: 
Description: International Scouts and a helicopter used by the Atlanta police emergency rescue unit.
Photograph

Waiting Area

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Cabinet of sundries (toothpastes, shaving supplies, aspirin, etc.) next to the waiting area at Joyce Smith Gaines' Pharmacy.
Photograph

Confederate Breastworks

Date: 
Description: A view of Confederate breastworks, ridges in the hillsides for defense, at Western Heights. A fence divides the land in the foreground. Caption reads: "Con...
Photograph

Terminal Station

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Description: Elevated view of Terminal Station, which opened in 1905, serving Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and the Atlanta and West Point. T...
Photograph

American Bakeries Company Truck

Date: 04 08 1935
Description: An International truck used by the American Bakeries Company parked alongside a road near an overpass. The text on the truck reads: "Merita Bread, Cake" an...
Photograph

International R-110 Delivery Truck

Date: 01 1953
Description: R-110 delivery truck owned by Simpson Trucking Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
Photograph

Atlanta City Garage

Date: 04 08 1935
Description: R.B. Jett, manager of the Atlanta City Garage, stands next to a truck marked "47". A man seated in the driver's seat looks out from the truck's window.
Photograph

Campbell Coal Company Truck

Date: 1939
Description: A man standing on a large pile of coal uses a rake to load coal onto the bed of an International D-30 truck owned by Campbell Coal. The driver's side door ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Great Speckled Bird

Date: 01 08 1973
Description: Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietn...
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons.
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Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: View looking out from one of the Confederate defenses around the outside of the city. Wooden palisades surround the earthworks. Houses and other buildings ...
Photograph

City of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view of commercial area of the city, taken after General Sherman marched through. Most of the buildings appear to be intact, but one of the build...

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