We are pleased to announce a new collection from our partners at the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System. The new collection, the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System Collection, includes photographs from the Augusta flood of 1888, nineteenth century stereographs, a 1922 Augusta Motor Club travel guide, and Confederate States Patent No. 60. Digitization of the […]
National Radio Day is Thursday, August 20th. Celebrate the radio and its role in mass communication by tuning into your favorite radio station today! While you’re at it, we hope that you enjoy a few photographs, available in the DLG, that show radio broadcasters working and radio listeners engaged with radio programming. […]
The Digital Library of Georgia remembers the life of activist, politician, writer, and educator Julian Bond who passed away Sunday at the age of 75. As a student at Morehouse College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bond co-organized the the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, a civil rights group that successfully desegregated Atlanta’s public facilities. In 1960, […]
Have you explored Georgia Government Publications? The Georgia Government Publications database (GGP) was developed in 1996 as GALILEO’s first digital conversion initiative and redesigned in 2009. It serves as a comprehensive digital repository of more than 60,000 born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies published from 1994 to the present. Georgia […]
Happy National Clown Week! National Clown Week was founded by President Richard Nixon on August 2, 1971. It is celebrated during the first week of August. This week, the DLG is happy to share several resources of clowns making people happy. From the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection’s WSB-TV collection, a […]
We are excited to announce the availability the Southern Voice newspaper collection, 1988-1995 thanks to our partners at Kennesaw State University (KSU) Archives. The Southern Voice newspaper, also known as SOVO, was an alternative news source for lesbians and gay men in the greater Atlanta area and Southeast for over 20 years. The paper was […]
We are excited to announce the arrival of the Georgia Folklore Collection through our partnership with the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. The Georgia Folklore Collection includes over one thousand hours of music, interviews, and storytelling. The Georgia Folklore Collection consists primarily of field recordings made by Art Rosenbaum donated to the University […]
Please welcome us in congratulating Georgia State University Library on their newest online resource, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection. This collection is comprised of more than 300 maps and other documents that date back to MARTA’s beginning in the mid-1960s, and depict the planning decisions that the organization made during the 1960s and early 1970s. There are examples […]
We would like to welcome two new collections from our partners at the Atlanta History Center: the Sam Massell Papers Collection and the Living Atlanta Oral History Collection. The Sam Massell Papers collection contains a diverse set of materials representing the life and career of Sam Massell, Jr., who served as mayor of Atlanta from […]
We are eager to announce the arrival of four new collections from our longstanding project partner, the Middle Georgia Archives. The Middle Georgia Archives, located in the Genealogy and History Room of Macon’s Washington Memorial Library, serves middle Georgia as a resource center for archival and manuscript collections. Muriel Jackson, the head of the […]