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Historic Atlanta Postcards

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December 6, 2011

Vintage scenes of the city.

A familiar landmark in today’s Buckhead, Christ the King was the co-cathedral for Catholics in Atlanta and Savannah for decades.

Downtown Atlanta, circa 1920. This is the area called Fairlie-Poplar today.

The Old Fulton County courthouse. ‘I will send you a Capitol in a few days,’ wrote Mrs. Gidish of Trinity Avenue, who mailed this to a pen pal in 1908.

Another card mailed in 1908 by Mrs. Gidish to her pen pal in Iowa. After the Carnegie Library was demolished, salvaged portions were used to create a memorial pavilion at Hardy Ivy Park.

Stone Mountain, in a postcard from the 1930s. The “carving” on the mountain face is a rendering; although sculpting of the Confederate Memorial started in the 1920s, it was not completed until 1972.

Part of Lake Clara Meer in Piedmont Park was enclosed to create a swimming area, which was used until the 1970s, when health concerns prompted construction of a separate pool.

This postcard was mailed in December 1906, a few months after this memorial to Henry Grady served as part of a grisly tableau. During the 1906 Atlanta riot, corpses were arranged at the statue’s base.

Atlanta’s “Flat Iron” building pre-dates the one in New York by several years. On the back of this card, mailed in 1929, a caption calls Atlanta “the convention city of Dixie.”

The Robert Burns Cottage, located near Grant Park, is a replica of the Scottish poet’s home.

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