Lamar Q. Ball World War II collection
Scope and Contents
Reports and subject files consisting of photographs, news clippings, correspondence, bulletins, booklets, manuals, field notes, maps, press releases, census reports, and manuscripts. These were collected and created to document World War II in Georgia. Topics include: the war in Georgia, especially in Atlanta and DeKalb County; war work, such as Red Cross blood drives and consumer rationing; African-Americans and white women in Georgia; social and health aspects of the war as developed in Georgia; shipbuilding, such as the Liberty ships, in Brunswick, Glynn Co., GA; bombers, specifically the Bell Aircraft Corporation, known as the Bell Bomber plant, in Marietta, Cobb Co., GA; and many folders on regiments of the army and navy, and their camps, such as Fort Benning.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1939 - 1946
Creator
Biographical / Historical
Lamar Q. Ball worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution. He was appointed official World War II historian for the state of Georgia by Governor Ellis Arnall (1943-1947). He was tasked with writing a multi-volume history of Georgia's contribution to the war effort. With the help of Mary Louise Cobb, research assistant, Ball prepared Volume I (1939) of GEORGIA IN WORLD WAR II, probably published in 1946. Although Ball had accumulated material to document Georgia all the way through the war years, no other volumes were published.
Extent
17 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by folder heading within each box.
Other Finding Aids
Unpublished finding aid in repository.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Originally placed in Record Group 22, Series 14, Dept. of Defense,Adjutant General. Determined to be a private record by Archives director and transferred to Private Collections by 1968.
- Title
- Lamar Q. Ball World War II collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States