- Collection:
- Floyd Jillson Photograph Collection, 1957-1992 and n.d., (bulk 1965-1975)
- Title:
- Rich's Department Store
- Creator:
- Jillson, Floyd, 1926-2011
- Date of Original:
- 1967
- Subject:
- Stores and shops--Georgia--Atlanta
Business districts--Georgia--Atlanta
Automobiles--1920-1930
Architectural elements--Georgia--Atlanta
Department stores--Georgia--Atlanta
Rich's (Retail store)
McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Atlanta journalist Ralph McGill outside the entrance to the building on Alabama and Forsyth Streets in downtown Atlanta, Georgia which had once housed Rich's Department Store and the offices of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
Rich's Department Store was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1867 by Morris Rich, a Hungarian-born immigrant. The business expanded over several decades, and eventually was located on the corner of Alabama and Broad Streets in downtown Atlanta. In the 1960s and 1970s the store opened in several other locations. In 1948 a seventy-foot live Christmas tree was first placed on the roof of Rich's downtown department store. Thereafter, the Lighting of the Great Tree became an Atlanta tradition. In 1960, several African American college students protested segregationist policies practiced by Rich's until the store agreed to desegregate its stores in 1961. Rich's department store was phased out in 2005. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 71.63.03
ahc071063003a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/Jilson/id/301
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/Jilson:301/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. color transparency
- Original Collection:
- Floyd Jillson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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