- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Hurt Park's "Fountain of Light" at night, 1963
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jillson, Floyd Edwin, 1926-2011
- Date of Original:
- 1963-07-14
- Subject:
- Fountains
Parks
Night photography
Hurt Building (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Hurt Park, 33.754, -84.38548 - Medium:
- color transparencies
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Printed on negative envelope: "Hurt Park at night (used 7/14/63), The Cover: Shifting colored lights shine on the many jets of water gushing from the fountain in Atlanta's Hurt Park and produce varied effects. At night the Hurt Building provides an impressive backdrop for the sparkling fountain. For 75 years after the Civil War Atlanta had no downtown park. In 1938 Mayor William B. Hartsfield proposed the creation of a park on the triangle in front of the Municipal Auditorium. Two years later Hurt Park was dedicated; it was named for prominent Atlanta builder Joel I. Hurt who had died in 1938. The electric fountain, a gift to the City of Atlanta by the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, was presented by Thomas K. Glenn, then chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation. The downtown park has been a favorite spot of many dating couples, but it has been the setting for only one marriage ceremony - the most spectacular public wedding in Atlanta's history. Other photos and story on Pages 6 and 7. -Photo by Floyd Jillson"
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/10184
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:10184/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCN117-031a, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive;
Photographic Collections; - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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