- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Fort Walker
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1895
- Subject:
- Forts and fortifications--Georgia--Atlanta
Weapons
Clothing & dress--1890-1900
Boys--1890-1900
Children--1890-1900
Trees--Georgia--Atlanta
Fort Walker (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Grant Park, 33.73677, -84.37187 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a man identified as Willie Hughes, leaning against a canon at Fort Walker in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
gun-carriage; wheels;
Fort Walker was a Civil War redoubt built by Confederate forces in 1863 and located in what is now the southeastern corner of Grant Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The fortification was designed and supervised by Col. L.P. Grant of Atlanta, Georgia, and named for Major General W.H.T. Walker, killed in the Battle of Atlanta. Today a state historic maker designates the site. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.3346.001
ahc1703346001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1821
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission ofr use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 8 x 10 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
