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Map, Damage to Atlanta After Great Fire of 1917, Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal, May 25, 1917
Map published showing the damage to a large amount of land in the city of Atlanta after the Great Fire of 1917. Reports from the time estimated that 73 blocks were completely destroyed and that 5,000-10,000 people were subsequently left homeless.
Map, Washington Park Neighborhood Area (Sheets 557, 558), Atlanta Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Volume 5, 1925
A selection from the 1925 Atlanta Sanborn Fire Insurance Map showing the layout of the Washington Park Neighborhood. Many historical landmarks can be seen
Article, "'Dream House vision revived," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 11, 2005
Article discussing the refurbishment of the former Heman Perry "Dream House" located in the Washington Park neighborhood
Cover Illustration,”Massacre de Negres dans les Rues D’Atlanta [Massacre of Negroes in
the Streets of Atlanta],” Le Petit Parisien, October 14, 1906
This Paris publication shows an imagined scene of the Atlanta Race Riot, which took place in late September 1906.
Photograph, Graham W. Jackson Playing at Procession of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Body, Ed Clark, April 13, 1945
This famous photograph shows Graham Jackson playing the accordion as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's body processes out of Warm Springs, Georgia after his death. The two friends had spent the days leading up to Roosevelt's death working on a…