- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Atlanta Life Insurance
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Subject:
- Banks and banking--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Life Insurance Company
Bank buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Abandoned buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Street lighting--Georgia--Atlanta
Trees--Georgia--Atlanta
Insurance companies--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Herndon, Alonzo, b. 1858 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The old Atlanta Life Insurance building, pictured in 2005, is boarded up on Auburn Avenue. Established by Alonzo Herndon in 1905, Atlanta Life was one of three financial institutions, all headquartered in the Sweet Auburn district, that served the Black middle class in Atlanta before the civil rights movement.
The photograph shows the old Atlanta Life Insurance building boarded up on Auburn Avenue in 2005. Established by Alonzo Herndon in 1905, Atlanta Life was one of three financial institutions, all headquartered in the Sweet Auburn district, that served the Black middle class in Atlanta before the civil rights movement. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/auburn-avenue-sweet-auburn/m-9933/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/auburn-avenue-sweet-auburn
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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