Flashback Photos

The restored, vintage replica of the Freedom Riders' 1961 transportation in on display Wednesday, June 23, 2021 on Auburn Ave. near MLK's childhood home. The exhibit is a mobile extension from the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, AL and is now on tour. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

PHOTOS: Freedom Riders Bus replica makes stop at Martin Luther King Center

Atlanta Pride is celebrating 50 years of support, aid, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride in 2021. This rare image of the first march on June 27, 1971, is from unused WSB-TV footage, and shows Gay Liberation Front leader Bill Smith leading the crowd of marchers. (Courtesy of WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)

Flashback Photos: Atlanta's Gay Pride march through the years

Elroy and Sophia Williams hold a photo of Sophia's grandparents, who were born in slavery but accumulated 1,200 acres of farmland and contributed two acres for a Rosenwald school. They are standing in that structure, the former Hopewell School in Bastrop County, Texas, which Elroy is working to preserve Photo: Andrew Feiler

PHOTOS: Atlanta photographer documents Rosenwald Schools

Traffic at Peachtree Street at Five Points in downtown Atlanta in 1943. LBGPNS10-002h, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Flashback photos: 75 years ago in wartime Georgia, 1943

Amoco Gas State at the corenr of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street in January 1958. LBGPNS10-130a, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Flashback photos: 60 years ago on the streets of Atlanta, 1958

From the inscription: "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. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives at Georgia State University

Flashback photos: A brief history of Georgia deep freezes

Astronomers watching the solar eclipse through telescopes and special lenses, somewhere in Fulton County on May 30, 1984.

Flashback photos: Eclipses past in Georgia and beyond

Aerial view at night, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1964. J.C. Lee. »» SEE MORE FLASHBACK FOTOS FROM THE AJC ARCHIVES.

Flashback photos: Aerial Atlanta, the city from above 1905-1988

Standing on a dirt road with a mountain cabin in the background, a widow holds her infant, while five children stand at her side; her husband was killed in a shooting. Georgia mountains, ca. 1930. AJC file.

Flashback Photos: The North Georgia mountains, 1930s-1989

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