Adams-Cates Company Photograph Collection, 1956-1973.

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Adams-Cates Company Photograph Collection, 1956-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27212274

This collection contains aerial photographs produced to assist Adams-Cates Company in the development of commercial real estate in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Aerial views of the cities of Atlanta, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Forest Park, Gainesville, Hapeville, Lithonia, Marietta, Panthersville, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Stone Mountain, as well as dozens of images of unidentified areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region are contained in the collection. The photographs document the construction of the interstate system around the cities of Atlanta and Decatur, the growth of the skyline of downtown Atlanta, and the largely rural landscape of Cobb, Gwinnett, Douglas, Hall and Newton counties. Included are photographs of the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Fulton County Airport, Peachtree-DeKalb Airport, the General Motors Plant in Doraville, Inman Yard, the Chattahoochee River, East Lake Golf Course, the Farmer's Market in Forest Park, and numerous shopping centers, neighborhoods, drive-in theaters, and industrial areas.

327 photoprints : b&w, (1 document case and 8 oversized boxes)

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241498

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Adams-Cates Company (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Aerial photoprints of downtown Atlanta business district taken in 1951 by Parsifal Cobb. Adams-Cates Company is a real estate firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was founded in 1905 as B.M. Grant-A.S. Adams Company. Alvin Bingham Cates joined with the company's founders as a silent partner in 1915, and in 1927 the company was incorporated as Adams-Cates Company. The company had its headquarters in the Hurt Building until 1978 when it relocated to Peachtree Cent...

Atlanta Municipal Airport (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Fulton County Airport (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Wray Studios (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Cobb, Parsifal.

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Atlanta Water Works (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Georgia State Farmer's Market (Forest Park, Ga.)

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East Lake Golf Club (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Peachtree-DeKalb Airport (Chamblee, Ga.)

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Chattahoochee Industrial Park (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Fulton Industrial Park (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Lenox Mall (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Inman Yard (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center (Mableton, Ga.)

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Crossroads Shopping Center (Atlanta, Ga.)

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