Bill Wilson Photographs

Album is an online resource of over 20,000 digital assets, mostly photographs of Atlanta, and the state of Georgia from 1863 to 1998. Subjects include political history, the Civil Rights Movement, the New Deal in Georgia, military history, sports, entertainment, transportation, Atlanta neighborhoods, rural and coastal Georgia, and aerial views and street scenes of Atlanta. Most images were created by Atlanta photojournalists and corporate photographers such as Kenneth Rogers, Bill Wilson, Marion Johnson, Floyd Jillson, Boyd Lewis and Cotten Alston.

In addition to still photography, Album features moving images and audio from oral history interviews and home movies. Collections include Veterans History Project oral history recordings, Living Atlanta oral history recordings and many others. Album also provides text-searchable access to publications including The City Builder and Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.

Resources on Album are available for publishing, academic or private use. To obtain pricing and licensing information please download our licensing agreement or call our Reprographics Department at 404.814.4067.

Album contains digital reproductions of only a small fraction of the Kenan Research Center's holdings. Additional collection information is available through our online catalog, Terminus or through archival finding aids.

The Atlanta History Center recognizes the following institutions and individuals for their generosity in funding the Kenan Research Center’s digital initiatives.

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Film Preservation Foundation

Scott Hudgens Family Foundation

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Metro Atlanta Chamber

Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation

Atlanta Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Fidelity Foundation

Digital Public Library of America

Georgia Humanities Council

Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council

Southern Architecture Foundation

Frank O. Walsh, III

Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation