- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of children planting trees honoring famous Georgians, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 1933]
- Date of Original:
- 1933
- Subject:
- Agriculture--Georgia--Atlanta
Costume--Georgia--Atlanta
Education--Georgia--Atlanta
Forests and forestry--Georgia--Atlanta
Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Atlanta, 1913. Scene at northeast corner of Northside Drive and Peachtree Battle Avenue. This site was established as Memorial Forest where Atlanta school children came to plant trees honoring famous Georgians. The group in the foreground has just planted a tree to honor Howell Cobb. The forest project was abandoned after about five years.
2003/05/29- Howell Cobb was a United States Congressman from March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851 and Speaker of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-first Congress. Cobb was Governor of Georgia from 1851 to 1853. In 1857, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in President Buchanan cabinet. On February 24, 1861 he became chairman of the convention that organized the Confederacy. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_ful0067
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:ful0067
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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