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Photo(s) of the Week: Unidentified Georgia City

Can you confirm where these photographs were taken?  This is a United States Highway motorcade sponsored by the Atlanta Journal newspaper.  Click on an image to zoom in.

Unidentified Georgia City and Street, ca. 1933. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive

 

Unidentified Georgia City and Street, ca. 1933. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
Unidentified Georgia City and Street, ca. 1933. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive

Online photo sleuthing is one way archivists and other information seekers benefit from collaborative intelligence facilitated by Web 2.0 social software.   Additional information can be found in Joshua M. Avery’s The Democratization of Metadata:  Collective Tagging, Folksonomies and Web 2.0.

To participate in the Photo of the Week forum, please offer a critique of the photograph — its significance, historical value, and importance to you.