These are what everyday life in Atlanta, the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia, looked like before 1900.
Alabama Street, near its intersection with Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta, 1890Atlanta in the Civil War, ca. 1861-65Atlanta’s Grady Hospital on May 25, 1892Atlanta in 1864Atlanta’s Equitable Building in 1892Atlanta’s Five Points area, 1892Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, 1895Decatur Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864Downtown Atlanta taken from the roof of the Equitable Building, 1895Federal officers in front of a home in Atlanta, Georgia during the Civil War, ca. 1861-65Paddling around Lake Abana in Atlanta’s Grant Park in 1895Peachtree (then Whitehall Street) looking toward Wall Street with the Kimball House looming in the background, ca. 1890sPeachtree Street in Atlanta, GA, 1875Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864Railroad yards, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864Street in Atlanta, ca. 1890sTaking a stroll through Atlanta’s Piedmont Park in 1895The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 1895.The construction of the English American Building (also known as the Flatiron Building) in downtown Atlanta, 1897Wagon train leaving Atlanta, Georgia, 1864Wagon train on Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street) from Mitchell Street, 1895Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1860sA cart on Peachtree Street, near Five Points in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. 1882Students from the Atlanta Medical College pose for a photograph in January 1895 in front of 34 Hilliard Street.Horse-drawn Ambulance in 1896 Atlanta for Grady Hospital.Peachtree Street looking south from Five Points. 1875Marietta and Peachtree St., Atlanta, 1871.1890s view of Peachtree (then Whitehall Street) looking toward Wall Street with the Kimball House looming in the background1890s view of Edgewood Avenue looking east toward Pryor, Atlanta.
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