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Title: Portrait
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ansco Company
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: (Binghamton, N.Y. : Ansco Co.)
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und vessels of large size, sufficient tomake easy sailing even for landsmen, and are equippedwith every modern luxury and comfort. In these daysof palatial ocean liners, the ships of the Savannah Linehold their own and every comfort is assured. A sea voyage is a treat in itself. You have a bigship to ramble over with comfortable smoking, readingand writing rooms, a music room and an observationdining saloon on the hurricane deck with flawlesscuisine, and an uninterrupted view of ocean or passingscenery. You sleep in a spacious, immaculate state-room with, if you wish, a private bath with hot andcold salt or fresh water. You arrive in Savannah, refreshed and invigoratedby the ocean breezes, all ready for the weeks work atthe Convention and the round of entertainments whichis being prepared by the entertainment committee ofthe P. A. of A., whence Atlanta is but a few hours trip. It is well to remember the possibilities of this routewhen making your plans for the Convention. 10 Portvaii,
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Portrait Atlanta Atlanta is seventy-four years old and was first calledTerminus, being a little village at the end of theWestern and Atlantic Railroad. About the time Gen-eral Sherman reached Atlanta the population was 10,000.Today it is 185,000, and the 200,000 mark will bereached in a short time. Atlanta has 200 miles of modernly equipped electricrailway, 600 manufacturing plants, and it covers 26square miles. It is reached by 13 railroads over which there dailyruns 136 passenger trains. Atlanta is justly called the metropolis of the NewSouth. Atlanta is 1050 feet above sea level, at the foot-hillsof the Blue Ridge Mountains. Part of its water drainsto the Atlantic Ocean and part to the Mississippi River.There is always a breeze and a bracing atmosphere. The reports of the United States Weather Bureaushow that the average temperature in June for the lastthirty-four years has been seventy-six degrees, the high-est temperature ninety-eight degrees, and the lowestthirty-nine degrees. G

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