Georgia Historical Society collection of photographs, ca. 1870-1960s.

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Georgia Historical Society collection of photographs, ca. 1870-1960s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181587577

This is an artificial collection created by the Georgia Historical Society by compiling photographs, some from other manuscript collections, into a single collection. It is unknown when this collection was created, but most of the materials were processed during the 1980s. The photographs are arranged into 23 series by subject matter, which are denoted by a two-letter code. The series are: agriculture (AG); animals (AN); architectural elements (AE); art (AR); buildings (BD); clothing and dress (CD); events (EV); geographical locations (GL); health (HE); industry (IN); machinery (MA); military (ML); monuments and memorials (MM); music (MS); occupations and employment (OE); organizations (OR); people (PO); public utilities (PU); sports (SP); toys; transportation (TR); weather (WT); and negatives. An index of personal names follows this finding aid. This collection includes negatives, which are restricted from patron use. The boxes of unprocessed negatives also include negatives from MS 1361-PR.

48 boxes (24.0 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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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...