- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Good Roads Tour vehicle attempting to drive through a muddy roadway, 1910
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1910
- Subject:
- Automobiles
Automobiles, Racing
Roads--Design and construction
Atlanta Journal - Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
United States, Virginia, City of Roanoke, Roanoke, 37.27097, -79.94143 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Printed on front: "Bad roads to Roanoke." Printed on back: "1910 Atlanta Journal Good Roads Tour, Atlanta to New York City. Saved from Journal Editorial on the 8th Floor, 72 Marietta. These 34 photographs were in two large mounted and framed, 4' x 3' photo montages in old Journal Editorial on the south end of the 8th floor at 72 Marietta. Editorial was renovated in 1994, and the framed items stored. I've disassembled the photo montages to permit scanning of the prints, if ever that were our desire - our commitment to our history in this era isn't clear -- and to allow storage in cabinets or file folders, out of the light. According to the June 13, 1910 Atlanta Journal, there was a 1909 New York Herald Good Roads Tour to Atlanta, and a 1910 Atlanta Journal tour in the opposite direction. These photos depict the latter. The copy on the reverse side was the only typesetting anywhere on the two photo montages. For its headline writer, 'early 1900s' was sufficient for dating the Atlanta to New York leg, and he or she alluded to plural 'campaigns' although only one occurred. The copywriter, meanwhile, concluded that the Atlanta to New York leg occurred in 1911. however, if he or she had looked at banners draped upon two of the automobiles in these photos, he could have seen that it was 1910. The photo of President Taft that is alluded to in the copy on the reverse side pictures the president not with some Boy or Girl Scouts, I believe. Rather, he is posing with some Atlantans who went on a 'scouting trip' to the White House - had gone there to pump up the publicity for the Journal's upcoming good roads venture. A photo of a 'road to a mountain house' is frustratingly vague. How many mountains are there between Atlanta and New York City? A photo with five persons in it is labeled simple 'Major John S. Cohen.' After studying several photos of Cohen, I still can't hazard a guess which one here is the person who was managing editor of The Journal from 1900 to 1917; president and editor from 1917 to 1935; and U. S. Senator from Georgia in 1932-33. The handwriting you see on some of the prints is all the guidance there was, all the caption information available. Where guidance was provided, it was replicated in hand under that photo in the montage. The framed montages were 2 of 97 artifacts saved from the 8th, 7th, 6th, and 2nd floors during renovation of the office building from 1994 to 2000. I stored them in shipping and receiving on the R level. In addition to U. S. Road Conditions in 1910, this set of photos also has important images of Ty Cobb, Taft, New York's Herald Square, a Georgia chain gang, automobiles in 1910, the few locales that are identified, and the condition of the Gettysburg battlefield site in 1910. September 2000 Tom Bennett, historian without portfolio. News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/13526
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:13526/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Items may be used for scholarship, educational, and personal use. Additional uses will require permission of the rights holder.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP555-069a, 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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