- Collection:
- Cotten Alston Photographs, 1972-1998, undated
- Title:
- Atlanta, West End, Clark Atlanta University
- Creator:
- Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten), 1945-
- Date of Original:
- 1989
- Subject:
- Universities & colleges--Georgia--Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a Clark College sign adjacent to McPheeters-Dennis Hall at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Clark College was founded in 1869 by the Freedmen's Aid Society and the Methodist Episcopal Church as a predominantly African American College in southern Atlanta, Georgia. The college is named after Bishop Davis Clark, first president of the Freedmen's Aid Society, and was chartered as Clark University in 1877. The College merged with Atlanta University in 2003. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 247.013.007
ahc0247013007 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll2/id/932
- Extent:
- 35 mm
- Original Collection:
- Cotten Alston photographs, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
