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Photograph of a young Ruby Blackburn. Blackburn owned a beauty shop in the Washington Park neighborhood and also played an influential role as a community activist.

Photograph showing Ruby Blackburn teaching a group of women how to use a voting machine. This was likely part of her work with the Georgia League of Negro Women Voters.

Portrait of a young Pearlie Craft Dove. She was a resident of Washington Park who was committed to community service in the area.

Photograph of Walden likely taken after his appointment to the position of alternate judge of the Atlanta municipal courts in 1964.

Students of Booker T. Washington High School admire a statue of Booker T. Washington, the namesake of the school. Heman Perry, founder of Standard Life Insurance Company and financier of the Washington Park Neighborhood, sold some of his land to the…

Bill Calloway built the pictures building in 1958. His purpose for building and financing the structure was to provide medical professionals with a building, so that they would be attracted to the Washington Park community.

View of the Washington Park Tennis Center as it looks today

View of MLK Jr Drive NW (then, Hunter Street), in which Ashby theater can be seen in the middle of the background

View of the front side of William A. Harris Memorial Hospital, which was founded by Sadie and Charles Powell in 1928.

Image showing a modern view of a Citizen's Trust Bank building. This building has since been repainted a light gray color.