Georgia Historical Society collection of cased photographs, ca. 1840-ca. 1910.

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Georgia Historical Society collection of cased photographs, ca. 1840-ca. 1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181587572

This is an artificial collection created by the Georgia Historical Society by compiling cased photographs, consisting of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and ferrotypes (tintypes) from various sources into a single collection. It is unknown when this collection was created, but most of the materials were processed during the 1980s. This collection of cased photographs consists of portraits of unidentified people.

2 boxes (.50 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6939766

Georgia Historical Society

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In the spring of 1839, three Savannahians—Episcopal divine William Bacon Stevens, renowned autograph collector Israel K. Tefft, and educator, scientist, and American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold—hatched the idea of an organization whose mission would be to “collect, preserve, and diffuse the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of America generally.” In May of that year they held the first meeting of what was christened the Georgia Historical Society, the te...