- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- 1827 Land Lottery
- Date of Original:
- 1820/1830
- Subject:
- Art
Men--1820-1830
Watercolor drawings - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a drawing with watercolor tinting depicting men drawing for land lots during the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery in Georgia.
The Georgia land lottery of 1827 was an early nineteenth century system of land distribution in Coweta, Lee, Muscogee and Troup Counties in Georgia that allowed citizens to register for a chance to win land lots of 202.5 acres that had formerly belonged to the Creek Indians and the Cherokee Nation. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.2380.001
ahc1702380001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1303
- Extent:
- 20 x 30 in. drawing with watercolor
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
