Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport 1964

The primary source here is an aerial photo of Atlanta’s International Airport in the year 1964. The secondary source that supports the aerial photograph is a book titled “A Dream Takes Flight: Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport and Aviation in Atlanta by Betsy Braden, Paul Hagan”. These two sources complement each other well, as well as delve into the overarching theme of the analysis of the Airport, which is how the Airport develops over time and how the airport affects the people surrounding it. By looking a the primary source of the photograph, one can see how the Airport had developed by 1964 since the inception of the airport in 1925; as described within the summary of “A dream takes flight”. The secondary source also comments on how the proprietors of the Airport’s development only ever really cared about and payed attention to the milestones of the Airport’s evolution. This was unfortunate, because, according to the summary, the book fails to take note on how the communities around the airport were affected throughout the different construction changes and land expansions of the Airport. Within the aerial photograph of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, you can see how the layout of the Airport has changed in relation to modern times. The second Primary source displayed In this section details a ground layout of the modern Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. When you compare both the images of the primary sources you can see that the Airport’s layout has changed dramatically over the last 54 years.

Secondary source citation: 

Friedman, Paul D. “The Public Historian.” The Public Historian, vol. 13, no. 4, 1991, pp. 60–63. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3378108.