Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City
by Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
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About this eBook
- Author
- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
- Credits
- Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F206: United States local history: The South. South Atlantic States
- Subject
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31822
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31822
- Release Date
- March 29, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ATLANTA — A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CITY — ISSUED BY THE — Atlanta Chamber of Commerce — 1904
- 2.How Atlanta Grew.
- 3.The New Atlanta. — Population, Area and Government. — Area and Expansion. — City Government. — Police. — Fire Protection. — Sanitary Department. — Mortuary Record. — Waterworks. — Sewers. — Streets. — Boulevards. — Prominent Structures. — List of Fire-Proof Office Buildings. — Car Wheel Works.
- 4.Business. — Atlanta Manufactures in 1904. — Atlanta Banks. — Deposits December 1st Each Year. — Government Receipts in the Southeast. — Growth of Postal Business. — Insurance. — Cotton. — Transportation. — The Radius of Distribution. — Street Railways. — Light and Power. — Great Power Plant. — Rapid Growth of Business — Chamber of Commerce. — Daily Newspapers.
- 5.Educational Facilities. — The Carnegie Library. — Institutions for Negro Education. — Theatres.
- 6.Residential Advantages. — The Climate. — Monthly Mean Temperature. — Department of the Gulf. — Fort McPherson. — Hospitals. — Churches. — Orphan Asylums. — Other Asylums.
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