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Grant Park, Zoo, and Cyclorama, Atlanta, GA

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Title	Grant Park, Zoo, and Cyclorama, Atlanta, GA
Notes	City's first major park, designed by Sidney Root; In 1883 Col. L.P. Grant gave 100 acres near his home to the city for a park; Cyclorama and zoo gifts of George V. Gress; Cyclorama painted in 1865, measures 50 feet in height and 400 feet in circumference. It has been in Grant Park since 1893, housed in building designed by John Francis Downing since 1921; Photograph taken May 1981
Description	Aerial view, zoo and cyclorama building
Subject.Persons	Root, Sidney, 1824-1897 Downing, John Francis
Subject.Entities	Grant Park (Atlanta, Ga.) Atlanta Zoo
Subject	Parks Zoos Landscape architecture
Subject.AAT	Aerial photographs
Location	Georgia -- Atlanta
Title.Series	Landslides. American urban parks
Collection Title	Landslides (illustrative aerial photographs)
Publisher.Location	Boston, MA
Publisher	A.S. MacLean
Date.Published	c1992
Copyright Information	http://0-www.unl.edu.library.unl.edu/libArch/copyright.html
Collection information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193