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The Rylander Theatre Collection Brings Viewers to Cinephile Jimmy Carter’s Childhood Landmark
In 2020, the Digital Library of Georgia partnered with the Rylander Theatre, providing $7500 worth of services as part of its collaborative
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Issues of the Mission Messenger Now Available Freely Online
19th and 20th-century issues from the journal of the largest group of Protestant women in the world have just been digitized. Mercer University
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Historic Materials from the Rylander Theatre, President Jimmy Carter’s Childhood Theatre in Rural Americus, Georgia, Now Available Online
The Friends of the Rylander Theatre, winners of a 2021 Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC) grant, have partnered with the Digital
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Georgia’s Historic Newspaper Buildings
Newspaper buildings have been an ever-present part of Georgia’s city landscapes large and small for over two centuries. These structures are not
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Scrapbooks from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra documenting the Civil Rights Era are now available online
In partnership with the Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives (Music and Broadcasting Collections) the Digital Library of Georgia
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New collection about pro- and anti-LGBTQ activities in Cobb County, Georgia circa 1995 are now available freely online
Pro- and anti-LGBTQ activities and demonstrations in Cobb County circa 1995 are the main component of a new digital collection belonging to Georgia
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Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Summer 2021
This past spring and summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers
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Birth Registers From Historically Endangered Georgia Nursing Home For Expectant African American Mothers Now Available Freely Online
The Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home in Camilla, Georgia, and the Digital Library of Georgia have worked together to digitize and present online the
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How I Identified The Earliest Surviving Film Footage of African American Baseball Players
“Clip from a home movie of a baseball game between African American employees of the Pebble Hill and Chinquapin Plantations, Georgia, 1919?”
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Two New Digital Collections Provide Genealogical Coverage to Underrepresented East Central Georgia
As recipients of a service grant awarded earlier in 2021, the Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library System has worked in partnership with the Digital
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Civil rights-era issues of Savannah’s leading African American newspaper, the Savannah Tribune, are now available freely online
The Digital Library of Georgia, in partnership with Live Oak Public Libraries, has made the Savannah Tribune (1943 to 1960) available for viewing at
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Two mid-twentieth-century collections, now digitized and available freely online, recall Atlanta neighborhoods lost to urban renewal, and Georgia’s growing Catholic community
Two new collections of digitized films and slides documenting the growth of Georgia’s Catholic community between 1938-1979 are now available
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Our Five Favorite Newspaper Pages
Five favorite newspaper pages of our last 2 million digitized by Digital Library of Georgia as selected by staff members Donnie Summerlin and Daniel
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Issues of the Georgia Bulletin, the weekly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, are now available freely online on the Georgia Historic Newspapers website
ATHENS, Ga. — In conjunction with our partners at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Georgia Bulletin (1963-1980) is now available for
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The Jerusalem Post observes Shavuot, the “Feast of Weeks” with Georgia Historic Newspapers
Chag Sameach (Happy Holiday) from the Digital Library of Georgia this Shavuot. From Sunday, May 16 to Tuesday, May 18, Jewish people worldwide