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Title	Davison-Paxon's grand opening of a new part of its downtown Atlanta, Georgia, store, August 15, 1949. This photo shows the enormous crowd waiting to enter the store.
Identifier	LBCE5-043c
Date of original	1949-08-15
Decade	1940s
Description	There are two Lane Brothers envelopes of negatives for this event (LBCE5-43 and LBCE5-44); they contain a total of 99 negatives, eight of which have been digitized. The 1949 Lane Brothers Assignment Book accounts for only 57 of the 99 images. Envelope description: Davison-Paxon Company; Davison's Event. Description from 1949 Lane Brothers Assignment Book (p. 293) has two entries that describe the contents of the envelope, both on August 15, 1949: "Davison-Paxon, Miss Caruthers; 22 photos of opening"; and "Davison-Paxon Co., [commissioned] by Miss Crimm; 35 photos of opening, new part of store; 2 8x10 men in rug dept.; 8 8x10 prints, rug dept.." The photographs were made by "Dub" Lane, Dan Lane, and Charles D. Jackson.
Creator	Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)
Contributors	Davison's (Retail store) Lane, Dan (Jack Daniel), 1913-1976 Lane, W. C. (William Cox), Jr., 1912-1970 Jackson, Charles D. (Photographer)
Digital publisher	Georgia State University Library
Curatorial area	Photographic Collections
Collection	Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976
Series	Events / Corporate Events
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Citation	LBCE5-043c, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
Location depicted	Atlanta (Ga.) Fulton County (Ga.)
Subject	Department stores Streets Crowds
Subject (names)	Davison's (Retail store)
Source format	black-and-white negatives
Note	4 negative removed to cold storage. Box 74, Sheet 18-19
Type	Image
Format	Image/jp2