works by Brandon Jan Blommaert
View Larger 1978 view of the North Avenue MARTA Station and Southern Bell Building under construction.
The Southern Bell building looks so sinister…
Lake Clara Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta
If you’ve never seen the Flickr site for The Atlanta Expositions, I recommend a visit. It offers a photo-based look at Atlanta in the late 19th century.
This 1895 photo of Lake Clara Meer in Piedmont Park was taken during the Cotton States and International Exposition, where 800,000 visitors viewed product showcases and new technologies.
Information on the Exposition from Wikipedia:
The Exposition was open for 100 days, beginning on September 18, 1895 and ending December 31, 1895, attracted visitors from the U.S. and 13 countries. Over $2,000,000 was spent on the transformation of Piedmont Park…Also constructed for the fair were the Tropical gardens, now known as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and Lake Clara Meer which was originally a pond but was expanded to 11.5 acres for the event.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Atlanta
(Source: Boing Boing)
“The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men’s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. -Ralph Waldo Emerson” -Doug Allen
(Source: other-wordly)
