Belle Isle Family Photographs : circa 1900-1940.

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Belle Isle Family Photographs : circa 1900-1940.

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This collection consists of photographs of Alvin Belle Isle and his family, including his wife Agnes, his parents John and Jane, his five children, and several grandchildren. In addition, the collection contains images of the Belle Isle Garage on Houston Street in Atlanta which housed most of Alvin's businesses. The photographs include exterior and interior images of the building. Also included is a line drawing of a new garage Mr. Belle Isle was planning to build, but never did. The remainder of the collection consists of a series of images taken of New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a campaign visit to Atlanta and Warm Springs, Georgia in October 23rd and 24th 1932. Alvin Belle Isle was Roosevelt's chauffeur in Atlanta and is pictured in several photographs. Other notable individuals pictured in these images are Eleanor Roosevelt, and her son and daughter, James and Anna; Georgia Governor Richard Russell, and gubernatorial candidate Eugene Talmadge; Georgia Senators John Cohen and Walter George; Atlanta Mayor James Key, and also Atlanta attorney Hugh Howell, Sr. Some of the locations shown are Atlanta's Union Station, Municipal Auditorium, Girl's High School, and the Little White House in Warm Springs.

88 photographic prints : b&w, sepia.

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7012302

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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