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Georgia Historical Commission - Director's Office - Scrapbooks

 Series
Identifier: 061-01-020

Scope and Contents

This series consists of newspaper clippings that relate to publicity on every phase of the Georgia Historical Commission's activities. These include archaeological investigations, restoration and maintenance of historic sites and the erection of historical markers throughout the state. The clippings are bound in six scrapbooks dating from 1953 to 1956. There are, in addition, a separate scrapbook for the historical marker program beginning in 1952 and three scrapbooks devoted to historic sites restored by the Commission, a total of ten scrapbooks in all. The newspaper clippings are pasted in the scrapbooks chronologically within each year.

Dates

  • Created: 1953-1958

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

4.00 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

One of the annual volumes is indexed by subject matter and page number, but none of the other volumes is indexed. There is no apparent order to the boxing of the scrapbooks.

Title
Georgia Historical Commission - Director's Office - Scrapbooks
Author
Georgia Archives
Description rules
Local
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States