Art & Design Travel

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Inadvertent genius. Random 1970s & 1950s Georgia by photographically unknown people from the Historical American Buildings Survey.

C R O P from HABS GA-1170-C.

198-200 AUBURN AVENUE (King Real Estate) – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA Photos from Survey HABS GA-1170-C.

NORTH FRONT AND ADJACENT BUILDING TO WEST – Wise Sanatorium No. 1, Main Street, between Bond & Hudson Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA. HABS GA-2216.

C R O P from HABS GA-1170-C.

177-179 AUBURN AVENUE (Bell Building) NORTH ELEVATION – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. From HABS GA-1170-C.

Smiling Peanut, South Side of Highway 49, Plains, Sumter County, GA.

Odd Fellows Building & Auditorium, 228-250 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-B.

INTERIOR, DETAIL OF CEILING MEDALLION
IN REAR PARLOR. 215 West Gwinnett Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-1169-A.

C R O P from HABS GA – 1170 – C.

231 AUBURN AVENUE (Herndon Building) NORTH ELEVATION, WEST CORNER – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-C.

3818 East Main Street (Commercial Building), College Park, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-2180.

600 BLOCK EAST GWINNETT LANE, SOUTH SIDE – Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad, West Broad Street & Anderson Lane, Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-1169.

2 City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA. HAER GA-25

C R O P from HABS GA – 1170 – C.

94-196 AUBURN AVENUE, Miracle Revival and Harvey’s Billiards STH ELEVATION – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA.
HABS GA-1170-C

Interior view, looking southeast, of loading bay – Turpentine & Rosin Factors, Inc., Office and Warehouse, Lamar Ward, Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-2393.

See also

“The cold, not cruelty makes her weare Fur in Winter and Wild beast’s haire. For smoother skin at night embraceth her with more light.” The Czech artist Wenceslaus Hollar & his etchings of 17th C. seasonal fashion & accessory collections for London ladies.

Art & Design Obscurity

C R O P from HABS AZ-73-41.

AUBURN AVENUE (Kingsmen Motel) NORTH ELEVATION – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-C.

Kicklighter-Daniel-Morris Building, U.S. Highway 341, 75 feet northwest of Carter Avenue, Odum, Wayne County, GA. HABS GA-2270.

Second floor, looking north from south room 6A, 53-Ruck.v, 1A- – Alexander-Cleveland Farm, County Road 238, Ruckersville, Elbert County, GA. HABS GA-30.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA.
HABS GA-1171.

Interior view of north escalator, 5th floor furniture department in 1924 store. – Rich’s Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-2290.

245 AUBURN AVENUE (Iona’s Cozy Corner) SOUTH ELEVATION – 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-C.

245 AUBURN AVENUE, Iona’s Cozy Corner, 126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-C.

City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA. HAER GA-25.

W. C. Bradley Company, Front Avenue, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA. HAER GA-35

Odd Fellows Hall, Sycamore & Summitt Streets, Gainesville, Hall County, GA. HABS GA-1168.

103-109 East President Street (Houses), Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-1215.

Frank E. Block Company, 281 Broadway Lane, Macon, Bibb County, GA. HABS GA-2366.

Herndon & Atlanta Life Building, 229-243 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-1170-A.

Turpentine & Rosin Factors, Inc., Office and Warehouse, Lamar Ward, Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-2393.

Hampton Lillibridge House, No. 1, 507 East Julian Street (moved from 310 East Bryan Street), Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-1185.

Fox Theater, Ponce de Leon Avenue & East Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-2108.

Fox Theater, Ponce de Leon Avenue & East Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA. HABS GA-2108.

REAR ELEVATION – Hampton Lillibridge House, No. 2, 312 East Bryan Street (demolished), Savannah, Chatham County, GA. HABS GA-1186.