Georgia State University Library

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection

Please welcome us in congratulating Georgia State University Library on their newest online resource, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection.

This collection is comprised of more than 300 maps and other documents that date back to MARTA’s beginning in the mid-1960s, and depict the planning decisions that the organization made during the 1960s and early 1970s. There are examples of both projects that came to fruition, and those that did not.

More information about the collection is available at WABE’s blog, which includes an audio version of the story.

May 25, 2015July 6, 2015

Georgia State University Announces New Collection: Works Progress Administration Maps of Atlanta

Map from the 1940 Real Property Survey of Metropolitan Atlanta, showing substandard housing units Our friends at Georgia State University have just launched a new resource, Works Progress Administration Maps of Atlanta. The site features over 950 maps including the 1940 Report of the Real Property, Land Use, and Low Income Housing Area Survey of metropolitan Atlanta, a 1936-1938 Atlanta Cadastral Survey, and a partially incomplete series of Fulton County land use maps from 1937-1940. You can also search the collection within DLG.

For more information, see their collection announcement.