{"id":7096,"date":"2018-09-11T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:49:36","slug":"historic-dalton-scrapbook-now-freely-available-at-digital-library-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=7096","title":{"rendered":"Historic Dalton Scrapbook Now Freely Available at Digital Library of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CONTACT: Deborah Hakes, <\/span>dhakes@georgialibraries.org<\/span><\/a>, 404-852-5547<\/span><\/p>\n

DALTON, Ga<\/b> — An historic scrapbook documenting the history and progress of the city of Dalton has been digitized and added to the Digital Library of Georgia. Funding for this project was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, the digitization unit of the Georgia Public Library Service, in partnership with the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scrapbook<\/span><\/a> is a window into Dalton\u2019s past. Created by representatives of civic organizations and community leaders, the scrapbook was part of a submission package to the Georgia Power Company\u2019s 1949 Champion Home Town Contest. The book includes many black-and-white photographs of Dalton during the late 1940s, as well as hundreds of newspaper clippings, typescript documents, and original illustrations all boosting the city\u2019s prolific textile industry. Emblazoned in chenille on the clothbound scrapbook cover are the words, \u201cDalton, Ga., Bedspread Center of the World.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe textile industry and the mill village culture unites many Georgians,\u201d explains Darla Chambliss, Director of the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System. \u201cWe are delighted to partner with HomePLACE to provide greater access to this \u201cfuzzy and irreplaceable piece of history\u201d for many, many neighbors and friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The scrapbook provides details about Dalton\u2019s business and industry, education, agriculture, tourism, and municipal development. Researchers, historians, and genealogists will find rich source material, including economic reports, club rosters, and before-and-after shots of building and infrastructure improvements around town. K-12 students and educators can use these local, historical \u00a0materials to supplement social studies curricula. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe scrapbook a reminder of the broader, national sense of lively small town pride and civic engagement endemic to the post-war years,\u201d says HomePLACE Director Angela Stanley. \u201cViewing artifacts such as this through the lens of history, we can ask important questions about which citizens are included in its pages–and which aren\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Georgia HomePLACE<\/span><\/a> encourages public libraries and related institutions to participate in the Digital Library of Georgia. HomePLACE offers a highly collaborative model for digitizing primary source collections related to local history and genealogy. HomePLACE is supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the <\/span>Digital Library of Georgia<\/span><\/a> is a GALILEO initiative that collaborates with Georgia’s libraries, archives, museums and other institutions of education and culture to provide digital access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture and life. The Digital Library of Georgia also serves as Georgia\u2019s service hub for the Digital Public Library of America and as the home of the Georgia Newspaper Project, the state\u2019s historic newspaper microfilming project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CONTACT: Deborah Hakes, dhakes@georgialibraries.org, 404-852-5547 DALTON, Ga — An historic scrapbook documenting the history and progress of the city of Dalton has been digitized and added to the Digital Library of Georgia. Funding for this project was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, the digitization unit of the Georgia Public Library Service, in partnership with the Northwest … <\/p>\n

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