- Collection:
- Cotten Alston Photographs, 1972-1998, undated
- Title:
- Kool Pro Balloon Tour race
- Creator:
- Alston, Cotten (Robert Cotten), 1945-
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- People--Georgia--Atlanta
Parks--Georgia--Atlanta
Events--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Midtown, 33.7811275, -84.38636
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Piedmont Park, 33.78649, -84.37382 - Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of crowds at the Kool Pro Balloon Tour race in Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia.
The Kool Pro Balloon Tour races took place during the annual Atlanta Free Jazz Festival held in Piedmont Park located in Atlanta, Georgia. The free festival was sponsored by the City of Atlanta, National Endowment for the Arts, and corporate partners, including the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Brown & Williamson sponsored the Kool Pro Balloon Tour, a national series of hot air balloon races, to promote their Kool brand of cigarettes. The tour's finals were held in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 247.039.022
ahc0247039022 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll2/id/957
- Extent:
- 35 mm
- Original Collection:
- Cotten Alston photographs, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
