Atlanta, Georgia "The Metropolist of t he New South" as seen through the Camera
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content: Imperial Post Card Company
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content: This is a blank color postcard that has not been addressed or mailed. The image depicts the Atlanta skyline. Below the skyline is a photographer underneath a dark cloth behind a view camera mounted on a tripod. A poem about Atlanta is located to the right of the photographer:
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content: Atlanta, Georgia
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content: "The Metropolis of the New South" as seen through the Camera.
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content: Never was a town quite so rare as is Atlanta
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content: The ladies nowhere quite so fair as in Atlanta
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content: The girls are now here quite such belles
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content: And nowhere else, the truth to tell
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content: Are men such sports, and howling swells,
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content: As in Atlanta.
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content: Business nowhere is so brisk as in Atlanta.
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content: Money lenders run no risk here in Atlanta
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content: The wages nowhere are so high
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content: And no one here for work need cry
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content: For hard times sure have passed us by,
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content: Here in Atlanta.
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content: People are nowhere so gay as in Atlanta.
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content: No one is ever in the way here in Atlanta
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content: And when I reach the pearly gate
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content: I'll not have to stop and wait
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content: Merely to St. Peter relate
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content: I'm from Atlanta.
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content: Made by Imperial Post Card Company
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Citizenship
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content: Georgetown Pharmacy
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0066.076
label: accession number
content: 2016.0066
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0066.0076
objectType: label: Object Name
content: picture postcard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm