- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Rich's Christmas Celebration
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1949
- Subject:
- Audiences--Georgia--Atlanta
Theater audiences--Georgia--Atlanta
Events--Georgia--Atlanta
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
Spectators--Georgia--Atlanta
Theaters--Georgia--Atlanta
Auditoriums--Georgia--Atlanta
Social and civic facilities--Georgia--Atlanta
Rich's (Retail store)
Atlanta Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the audience for Rich's Department Store Christmas Celebration at Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta Georgia.
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 82.98.02
ahc082098002a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/394
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
