- Collection:
- Cotten Alston Photographs, 1972-1998, undated
- Title:
- Atlanta Olympic Games parade
- Creator:
- Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten), 1945-
- Date of Original:
- 1990
- Subject:
- Parades & processions--Georgia--Atlanta
People--Georgia--Atlanta
Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a man holding copies of the Atlanta Journal announcing Atlanta's selection to host the 1996 Olympic Games during a parade in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
A parade was held in September, 1990 following Atlanta’s selection by the International Olympic Committee to host the 1996 Olympic Games. The ticker-tape parade featured Mayor Maynard Jackson and other dignitaries with an estimated fifty thousand people in attendance. Atlanta Public Schools excused children with parental approval to attend the parade. Atlanta won the Olympic bid over Athens, Greece after an expensive campaign led by former mayor Andrew Young. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 247.031.002
ahc0247031002 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll2/id/1685
- Extent:
- 35 mm
- Original Collection:
- Cotten Alston photographs, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
