PHOTOS: From the Georgia State University Archives

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PHOTOS: From the Georgia State University Archives

Images from the Georgia State University photo archives

A commercial photo company's store of images are part of Georgia State University's photo archive. They include this image from the Varsity during a busy day in 1958. Photo: Tracy O'Neal

Former Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. gets a hug and the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence Peace Prize" from Coretta Scott King in 1981. Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution collection at Georgia State University.

The Georgia State University photo archive includes a deep collection of images from the LGBT community.

Roustabouts arrive at Lakewood Park in 1950 to set up tents for the Ringling Brothers circus.

Amateur photographer David Lennox used an illegal police radio to keep up with accidents and disasters, putting him on the scene when Eastern Airlines Flight 21 crashed while preparing to land at Candler Field on Feb 26, 1941. Eight were killed. Among the injured was the airline's president, Eddie Rickenbacker. Photo: David Lennox

Shirley Temple and Johnny Mercer perform together in a photo from the Johnny Mercer collection at Georgia State University.

A variety of audience members enjoy a free concert in Piedmont Park by the Celestial Voluptuous Banana in a photograph from 1970. Photo: Tom Coffin

Cousin Emmy performs on WSB radio.

Participants in the 25th annual Gay Pride Parade in 1995 head north on Peachtree, carrying a rainbow banner. Photo: Dwight Ross Jr.

Former debutante Diane Love prepares to serve with the Red Cross in the Vietnam War, circa 1960s. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

ACT/UP stages a demonstration outside a Winn-Dixie store in the Age Hill shopping center, over firing of an HIV positive employee, in a photo from 1991. Dwight Ross Jr.

Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy speaks in Atlanta during the 1960 campaign. The colors in this image have shifted toward magenta, a typical problem in photos from this era. Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution collection at Georgia State University.

Director John Boorman is seen on the set of "Deliverance" which was filmed in North Georgia in 1971. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mayor Andrew Young poses with former mayor Ivan Allen atop the 10 Park Place building overlooking Woodruff Park. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hosea Williams leads an Atlanta sanitation workers strike, on April 13, 1970. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Eastern Airlines employee Arleen Whelan poses in front of an Eastern Air Lines Silverliner at the Douglas Aircraft plant, circa 1940. Eastern Airlines

Bill McKinney on the set of "Deliverance" preparing for death scene, 1971.

Poet, novelist and screenwriter James Dickey chats with star Burt Reynolds on the set of 1972’s “Deliverance.”

Christina Zamon, Georgia State University Head of Special Collections and Archives, holds a selection of old film while searching through the photographic archive at the Georgia State University main Library. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

A vault door to a former Trust Company records management and storage room still stands as the entrance to what will be the new Georgia State University photographic archive room, located inside the T Parking Deck at the Georgia State University main Atlanta campus. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Georgia State University library photographic associate Michelle Asci shows a photograph printed on glass of Georgia Tech football players from 1930. The glass negative is part of a collection of 10 million images in the Georgia State University archive. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution).

The photo archive at Georgia State University contains photos and negatives in a variety of media, including glass negatives. This image shows a pair of Georgia Tech football players from 1930. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Christina Zamon, Georgia State University head of Special Collections and Archives, looks through the photographic archive in the main Library on the downtown Atlanta campus. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

The photo archive at Georgia State University, overseen by Christina Zamon, head of special collections, includes 10 million images. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

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A commercial photo company's store of images are part of Georgia State University's photo archive. They include this image from the Varsity during a busy day in 1958. Photo: Tracy O'Neal

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