- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Brown Residence
- Date of Original:
- 1821/1894
- Subject:
- Houses--Georgia--Atlanta
Facades--Georgia--Atlanta
Streets--Georgia--Atlanta
Fences--Georgia--Atlanta
Snow--Georgia--Atlanta
Winter--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Washington Street, 33.744054, -84.392697
United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Washington-Rawson, 33.744577, -84.380817 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View after a snowfall of the residence of Senator Joseph E. Brown, on Washington Street on the block between Jones Street and Rawson Street, in the Washington-Rawson neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894) was a prominent Georgia political leader and judge. Brown was born in South Carolina but was raised in the mountains of north Georgia. After attending Yale Law School he became a Georgia State Senator in 1849 and a judge in Superior Court in 1855. He served four terms as Georgia's Governor from 1857-1865. He served on the Georgia Supreme Court as Chief Justice from 1868-1870, and served in the United States Senate from 1880-1891. He was President of the Western and Atlantic Railroad from 1870-1890. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.786.001
ahc170786001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/418
- Extent:
- 5 x 8 in. silver gelatin print
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
