- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Gone With the Wind Movie Premiere Festivities
- Creator:
- Lane Brothers
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1939-12-15
- Subject:
- Motion picture premieres--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1930-1940
Military officers--Georgia
Lighting
Lampposts--Georgia--Atlanta
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
United Daughters of the Confederacy - People:
- Ripley, Thomas J., Mrs.
Woolford, T. Guy
Chalmers, Franklin S. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Alabama Street, 33.751816, -84.388998
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Street, 33.798452, -84.3910732
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Whitehall Street - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- [further information on reverse of photograph]
View of Mrs. Thomas J. Ripley, the president of the Atlanta chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), lighting the Eternal Flame of the Confederacy as part of the Gone With the Wind movie premiere festivities, at the corner of Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street) and Alabama Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, with T. Guy Woolford (far right), the commander of Atlanta's Old Guard, and Col. Franklin S. Chalmers (center), also of the Old Guard.
old south
Gone with the Wind was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Author Margaret Mitchell in 1936. The novel concerns a young woman's life in the midst of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1939 the book was made into a film, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. The film premiered in Atlanta, Georgia at Loew's Grand Theater. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.1788.001
ahc1701788001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/659
- 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:
- 11 x 14 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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