- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Great Atlanta fire, Atlanta, Georgia, May 21, 1917.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rogers, Kenneth
- Date of Original:
- 1917
- Subject:
- Fires
Disasters
Old Fourth Ward (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This may be the only photo of the fire that has survived. Newspaper caption attached to print verso: "Flames jumped from roof to roof across blocks of wood-shingled houses. More than 4,000 Atlantans were homeless before the wind changed and the fire died." Photographer was Kenneth Rogers, or at least, the photograph was collected by Rogers who worked for the AJ from around 1923. The fire was centered in the Old Fourth Ward.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/519
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:519/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: AJCP552-033a, 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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