Commemorative Events – Page 6

November 23, 2015November 16, 2015

National Adoption Month 2015

Atlanta Child’s Home. The Atlanta Child's Home was founded in 1907 by Mrs. Frank Mason Robinson and was later incorporated in 1915. The home was originally located on Angier Avenue, northeast of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. In 1923, the home moved to a much larger estate on Hightower Road in northwest Atlanta. The organization initially provided facilities for the care of orphaned, underprivileged children and later progressed to an adoption agency. Atlanta History Photograph Collection, Atlanta History Center — Atlanta Child’s Home. The Atlanta Child’s Home was founded in 1907 by Mrs. Frank Mason Robinson and was later incorporated in 1915. The home was originally located on Angier Avenue, northeast of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. In 1923, the home moved to a much larger estate on Hightower Road in northwest Atlanta. The organization initially provided facilities for the care of orphaned, underprivileged children and later progressed to an adoption agency.
Atlanta History Photograph Collection, Atlanta History Center

Did you know that November is National Adoption Month? National Adoption Month was instituted by President Bill Clinton in 1995, and expanded upon National Adoption Week, established by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. The 2015 National Adoption Month initiative is centered around the adoption of older youth in foster care. You can learn more about National Adoption Month 2015 and its goals here.

There are several useful resources in the DLG pertaining to child adoption in Georgia, made available through the Georgia Government Publications database.

Family matters. Georgia. Dept. of Human Resources. Division of Family and Children Services.
Newsletter for foster and adoptive families that supplements parental training, and keeps parents updated about policies and services provided by the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

Fact sheet: questions and answers about adoption. Georgia. Dept. of Human Resources. Office of Communications.
Three-page fact sheet that provides answers to questions about adopting children through the Georgia Department of Human Resources and county Departments of Family and Children Services, or through adoption agencies.

Adoption. It’s a love thing! Georgia. Division of Family and Children Services.
Short guide book on adopting children through the Georgia Department of Human Resources Office of Adoptions and Division of Family and Children Services

We hope that these resources provide you with some helpful information about child adoption in Georgia during National Adoption Month 2015!

October 30, 2015October 19, 2015

200th Anniversary of Crawford Long’s Birthday

Image from Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, discoverer of anæsthesia with sulphuric ether; together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery, by Dr. Joseph Jacobs. Georgia-related Publications from the Hathi Trust Digital Library

November 1 , 2015 marks the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Crawford Long, the North Georgia surgeon and pharmacist acknowledged as the first practitioner of anesthesia.

Long was born in Danielsville Georgia, received his undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia in 1835, then attended medical school, where he began at Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky, and finished at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. Long performed his first surgery using sulfuric ether as an anesthetic on March 30, 1842, but did not publish his findings until 1849. Long opened a medical practice and a pharmacy in Athens, Georgia in 1851, where he remained until his death in 1878. Long finally received national recognition as the discoverer of anesthesia in 1879 (one year after he passed away) by the National Eclectic Medical Association.

For more in-depth reading, you can find the publication Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, discoverer of anæsthesia with sulphuric ether; together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery, by Dr. Joseph Jacobs, who apprenticed as a young man in Crawford Long’s Athens pharmacy.

Also available is Frank Kells Boland’s book The first anesthetic : the story of Crawford Long, published by the University of Georgia Press.

A photograph of Crawford Long’s house on Chase Street in Athens is available as part of Hargrett Library’s Earnest Photographs collection, and several postcards of the Crawford W. Long Monument in Jefferson, Georgia (here and here) are available as part of the Georgia Archives’ Historic Postcard Collection.