- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Shermantown
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1879
- Subject:
- Drawing--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1870-1880
Houses--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Auburn Avenue, 33.755509, -84.376596 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- "Shermantown is a random collection of huts forming a dense negro settlement in the heart of an otherwise attractive place and named after Sherman's barracks."
View of an engraving depicting life in an area of Atlanta, Georgia known as Shermantown.
shanty; hut; african american; life; poor; poverty
Shermantown, named after General William T. Sherman, was a late 19th-century African American shantytown in what is now the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.917.001
ahc170917001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1151
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
