Georgia Historical Society collection of etchings, silhouettes, and other prints, 1800s-1900s.

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Georgia Historical Society collection of etchings, silhouettes, and other prints, 1800s-1900s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181587578

This is an artificial collection created by the Georgia Historical Society by compiling prints, some from other manuscript collections, into a single collection. The prints include etchings and silhouettes, as well as other forms. It is unknown when this collection was created, but most of the materials were processed during the 1980s. The photographs are arranged into 14 series by subject matter: agriculture, architectural elements, art, buildings, birds, events, geographical locations, military, monuments and memorials, occupations and employment, organizations, people, sports, and transportation. This collection contains prints of people and subject matter relating to Savannah and the greater Georgia region. Series 15 includes oversize prints of various topics, mostly depicting civil war images published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly, and the Illustrated London News. An index of personal names follows this finding aid. Series 16 includes negatives, which are restricted from patron use. The unprocessed negatives also include negatives from MS 1361-PH.

17 boxes, 1 oversize box, 6 folders (9.61 cubic feet)

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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...