- Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Atlanta Municipal Airport
- Creator:
- Johnson, Marion, 1917-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1944/1975
- Subject:
- Airports--Georgia--Atlanta
Airplanes--1930-1940
Airline industry
Aircraft--Georgia--Atlanta
Eastern Air Lines
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Atlanta, Ga.)
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of an Eastern Airlines airplane, part of "the Great Silver Fleet," on the tarmac at Atlanta Municipal Airport, now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
Originally named Candler Field, after Asa Candler, the airport in Atlanta was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport in 1929. In 1971 the airport was renamed William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport and in 2003 it was renamed again as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 33.28.02
ahc033028002a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/MJohnson/id/501
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white safety film
- Original Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
