- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- United States Post Office Annex
- Creator:
- unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1936
- Subject:
- Buildings--Atlanta--Georgia
Post offices--Georgia--Atlanta
Architectural elements--Georgia--Atlanta
United States Post Office (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Forsyth Street
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, 33.752388, -84.463131 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Uncle Sam employs a vast army to look after the big job of handling the nation's mail, an $8,715,587.67-a-year business. In Georgia there are 14 first-class post offices, 67 second-class, and 212 third-class, 700 fourth-class. A Georgia, Thomas E. Watson, was the author of a Congressional bill which has proved a vital factor in the growth of this business. A small appropriation for rural delivery was made in 1893. The first route in the United States was established at Quitman, Ga. Today, there are 1,113 rural carriers serving the state. 1. Atlanta's handsome post office, built of Georgia marble.
View looking southwest of the U.S. Post Office Annex in Atlanta, Georgia, located at 77 Forsyth Street from Forsyth Street and Hunter Street.
structure, federal, parking, ramp, viaduct, street light, windows
The Atlanta Central Post Office was built in 1933. In 1980 the Post office discontinued use of the building and it now houses government offices, it has been renamed as the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building. The building is located at 77 Forsyth Street in Atlanta, Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.1742.001
ahc1701742001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1197
- 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.
- Extent:
- 7 x 9 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
