Martin Stupich Photographs : Transportation, 1955-1981, 1979-1981.

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Martin Stupich Photographs : Transportation, 1955-1981, 1979-1981.

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The images in this series were created for a survey grant sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and include images of downtown, and Midtown, and southeast Atlanta, and also Decatur. The series contains cityscape images of downtown and Midtown areas of Atlanta, construction projects, and photographs of businesses and billboards that relate to transportation. Included are photographs of Delta Airlines airplanes inside hangars at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, parking garages at Davison's department store and Citizens & Southern Bank in Midtown, construction scenes depicting a project to widen interstate highways, the construction of subway stations, and the demolition of Belle Isle Garage. These images also feature aerial views of the city, including several taken in 1955. Other images include the Spring Street viaduct, the Louisville and Nashville roundhouse in the Tillman Yard in Atlanta , automobile service stations, including the Blue Bird truck stop, advertising billboards, the Moreland Quad drive-in theatre in Decatur, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, the Varsity drive-in restaurant, and the Southern Railroad maintenance shop in Mechanicsville.

92 photographic prints : b&w.

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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