- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Men and a dog surrounding a street car after an ice storm, Gainesville, Georgia, January 31, 1908.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1908-01-31
- Subject:
- Ice storms
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, 34.31689, -83.81968
United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407 - Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Copy negative of 1908 print. Negative envelope inscribed "Ice storm." Print labeled "Photo by Ramsey; Wiles [?] St., Jan. 31, 1908." A postcard with the same view but without the inscription is housed at the Georgia State Archives: "Gainesville, winter 1909. Men standing beside a streetcar on North Green Street during an ice storm. This enclosed winter car ran from the Southern Railway depot at the end of Main Street to Chattahoochee Park at the end of Riverside Drive. Streetcars pulled by horses first made their appearance in Gainesville in 1874. Dr. Robert E. Green was the proprietor of this enterprise. The tracks ran from the Southern Railway depot on Main Street to the public square. The first streetcars to run on electric rails were seen in 1903. Over the years the lines were expanded. In 1928 some of the tracks in the business district were taken up. During World War II the rest of them were removed so that the materials could be used in the war effort." However, this photograph is almost certainly from January 31, 1908. Two ice storms devastated Gainesville one week apart, one on January 31 and the other on February 9/10, 1908. There is a brief account of the ice storms in the Atlanta Constitution, February 11, 1908, p. 7.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/2390
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:2390/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: AJCN147-051b, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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