Atlanta - City

Atlanta Mayor-elect Maynard Jackson makes a speech on election night on October 3, 1973 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Midtown.

A group of anonymous teens fish in Piedmont Park, ca. 1970.

Friends hanging out on a Midtown front porch, ca. 1970.

Building housing the plant and botany exhibitions at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Piedmont Park.

The sons of Atlanta Fire Chief Walthal Robertson Joyner pose as tiny firemen in front of the city’s Fire Department headquarters in 1897. From left to right, they are Ralph Joyner, Harry Joynerr, and Walthal R. Joyner, Jr. (also known as Cap).

Andrew Young came to Atlanta in 1961 to work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) after serving as a pastor in Thomasville and leading voter registration drives.

Atlanta is known for its diversity of neighborhoods, both historic and contemporary.

Atlanta’s famous street name is widely known due in part to Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, which introduced the city and its most famous street to popular culture.

In 1925, the Chamber of Commerce launched Forward Atlanta, a campaign to attract business to the city. Over 750 companies moved to Atlanta, infusing $34 million in payroll into the city’s economy.

In the region that became Atlanta – part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy—a significant Native American presence was the village called Pakanahuili (Creek meaning Standing Peach Tree), a trading center at the juncture of Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River.

Atlanta ’96 tells new stories and expands on memories of the city’s Olympic and Paralympic history.

Ralph McGill was the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Atlanta Constitution.

A pink pig and a renegade cow. A movie prop and a Coke bottle. A Pulitzer Prize–winning book and a Nobel Prize–winning icon. How do you tell the story of Atlanta in 50 objects?

The Civil War is the decisive turning point in American history. A nation divided against itself before—half enslaved, half free—was reunited. Experience the Civil War through the eyes of soldiers and civilians.