This map depicts a layout of the land where the orphan house is located. The layout for the house includes the main orphan house, an infirmary, a work house, a kitchin, wash house, cart house, a building intended to be a still house, a stable, a…
Updated with entries through 2016, the timeline reflects the history of the domestic epidemic from its origins in illness, fear, and death to our present, hope-filled years.
It is a 1938 Map of the City of Atlanta. The colors are grades for neighborhoods and identify the main race in the region. In this map, the red region is largely African American settlements.
Here is a photograph of two black, female students being escorted by an unmarked police car on their first day of school at Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta, GA on August 30, 1961.
This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells…
This map provides a visual representation and mapping of the path General Sherman and his Union forces took across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah during 1864 as part of the Civil War.