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Underground Newspaper Cover: The Great Speckled Bird

Date: 01 08 1973
Description: Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietn...
Photograph

Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Photograph

Southern Poets' Monument

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Description: Small monument to southern poets surrounded by benches in a median park on Greene Street. Trees line the street and large stone buildings are in the backgr...
Photograph

Berry School

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Description: A large group of children posed outdoors at a birthday party for a teacher at Berry School. The teacher is at the center and is surrounded on both sides by...
Photograph

Meadow Garden Interior

Date: 1915
Description: Interior of "Meadow Garden," home of Governor George Wallon. The living room is decorated with portraits, paintings, and other ornaments. Tea is set at the...
Photograph

25 Foot Tall White Pearl Corn

Date: 1909
Description: View of a man standing on a ladder, using an axe on a stalk of white pearl corn which is claimed to be 25 feet tall, somewhere in Georgia. A field is in th...
Photograph

"Rattlesnake" Watermelons

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Description: A view of a horse-drawn wagon carrying three huge "Rattlesnake" watermelons. Each watermelon has a weight: 300 pounds, 285 pounds, and 260 pounds. The whee...
Photograph

Giant Pumpkin

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Description: A view of a man standing next to an oxen-drawn wagon carrying a giant pumpkin. Text on the photograph reads: "Just The Right Size For One Pumpkin Pie." Cap...
Photograph

Georgia Military College

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Description: A view of a student formation and band at Georgia Military College.
Photograph

Wilkes County Courthouse

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Description: Interior of the Heard House, built in 1795. The room includes Civil War relics, portraits, and Confederate flags. In the corner two doors lead out of the r...
Postcard

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial

Date: 1929
Description: A colored postcard showing the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial at an early stage of the bas-relief carving. Caption reads: "Stone Mountain Confederate ...
Photograph

Fountain, Savanah, GA

Date: 1866
Description: A large fountain with statues. Two (Union?) soldiers are on the far side.
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Photograph

Berry School

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Description: View of a woman weaving at a loom in the weaving room of the Berry School, which opened in 1902. Blankets are hanging near the ceiling.
Photograph

15th Wisconsin Monument at Chickamauga

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Description: Monument for the 15th Wisconsin Infantry at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Photograph

Colonel Hans Heg Monument

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Description: Monument marking the place where Colonel Hans Heg was mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga.
Photograph

Monument at Andersonville

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of the Indiana Monument at the Andersonville National Cemetery. The monument was made of Montello granite at a cost of $10,000 i...
Photograph

Illinois Memorial at Andersonville

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of the Illinois Memorial at Andersonville National Cemetery. A bronze sculpture depicting Columbia, Youth and a Maiden is mounte...
Map or Atlas

A New and Accurate Map of the Province of Georgia in North America

Date: 1779
Description: Map of colonial Georgia showing cities, towns, Native American land and towns, forts, roads, trading paths, islands, mountains, swamps, and rivers. Annotat...
Map or Atlas

Georgia, From the Latest Authorities

Date: 1795
Description: Map of Georgia, with its borders extending to the Mississippi River. It shows borders, various boundary lines, counties, cities, towns, Native American lan...

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