In the first set of Barnard photographs, I presented some artificially assembled panoramas of Atlanta. The only true panoramic photograph Barnard shot was from the roof, or cupola, of the Female Institute, located at the northeast corner of Collins and Ellis Street, or modern-day Courtland and Ellis streets.

The panoramic view is roughly of the southwestern quadrant of the city. Some landmarks have been identified in the photograph and they are identified and discussed here. In the map at the right, the Female Institute is shown as a blue block, while other landmarks within sight of the building are listed by corresponding number.

Built in 1860 on a hilltop which once belonged to pioneer settler Hardy Ivy, the Institute was one of Atlanta's first efforts at public education, a proposal so controversial that, in the end, planners compromised on a school for girls only. However, the girl's school operated for only a short time. In 1863 the Confederate government requisitioned the building for treatment of wounded soldiers and renamed it the Confederate Surgical Hospital. The students and faculty were relocated to the vacant home of Judge Richard Lyon – the same building that would serve as Sherman’s headquarters during the occupation of the city.

The building had been designed by William Gabbit (the man who had laid out and named the City Park near the Car Shed) and built by contractor E.A. Allen. Being on a hilltop and featuring a cupola, the building was useful to Federal artillerists who used the building to gude their shells into the city. The first such shell is said to have killed a 10-year-old girl as she and her parents were crossing the corner of Ivy (Peachtree Center Avenue) and East Ellis streets.