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DeKalb County plat map books, years 1912-1936
DeKalb History Center (Decatur, Ga.)Ten DeKalb County plat map books dating from 1912-1936, containing maps that show various subdivisions, streets, and property owner names throughout DeKalb County, created by the DeKalb County government for showing boundaries of properties for tax purposes. Each book contains approximately 100 maps.
Suwanee First Methodist Church Historic Documents
Suwanee First United Methodist Church (Suwanee, Ga.)Historic documents created by Suwanee First Methodist Church (Suwanee, Ga.) leaders that reflect the church’s history from the 1880s through the 1950s, including vital statistics (records of marriages, infant baptisms, and dates of death) before the state of Georgia began retaining such information in 1919.
Chase Street Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) scrapbooks
Athens-Clarke County LibrarySeventeen scrapbooks, a newsletter, and a photo album spanning almost 100 years of the Chase Street Elementary School in Athens, Georgia, dating from 1926-2000 and containing records of the school’s parent-teacher organization (PTO) from 1926-early 2000s.
Eva Thornton scrapbook
Elbert County LibraryScrapbook compiled by Eva Thornton of Elberton, Georgia, from 1909 through 1922. This scrapbook contains postcards sent between residents of Elbert County to Thornton and her relatives. Thornton also received postcards from friends and family outside of Elbert County, including one relative stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, during World War I.
Civil Rights Digital Library
The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. The CRDL provides educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia, delivering engaging online articles and multimedia.
CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative received support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Georgia Historic Newspapers
Georgia's print media history began in 1763 with the establishment of the state's first newspaper, the Savannah Gazette. Considered history's "rough draft," newspaper journalism has wide ranging impact. Beyond a reporting of facts, newspapers reflect the social and cultural values of the time in which they were compiled and as such, are invaluable to scholars and the general public alike. These publications document not only cities and counties throughout the state, but also record the activities of the state's various ethnic, religious, and educational groups.
The Georgia Historic Newspapers portal provides free, full-text searchable access to over 1 million pages of Georgia newspaper content dating from 1763 to 1968. Newspaper titles are regularly digitized and added to the archive.
The Georgia Historic Newspapers database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePlace. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Additional support has been made available by the R.J. Taylor Foundation, Flint Energies, and a number of other local foundations and public libraries.
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Coming Full Circle: Building Scrapbooks for a Dedicated Library Trustee using Georgia Historic Newspapers
Lace Keaton, director of the Newton County Library System, shares her staff's experience building a scrapbook for a dedicated library trustee and public servant using the Digital Library of Georgia and Georgia Historic Newspapers as resources.
Online Exhibit Intern Inspired By Georgia LGBTQ+ Artists in the DLG
Sarah Mayo, Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Georgia, shares her experiences preparing for her exhbit display by researching Georgia LGBTQ+ history and experiences in the DLG.
Flannery O’Connor’s Appearances in the Georgia Catholic Diocesan Paper The Bulletin
From 1956 to 1964, Georgia writer Flannery O'Connor regularly contributed to the book reviews section of the Georgia Catholic diocesan paper The Bulletin, that show her intellectual engagement with Catholicism.