Georgia Library Quarterly

Volume 56 Issue 4 Fall 2019 Article 16

10-1-2019

News - Digital Library of

Mandy L. Mastrovita , [email protected]

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Digital Library of Georgia cultural or social values can be studied through the lunacy and guardianship records that Bartow History Museum Vertical File Records contain information on how people were from 1850 to 1929 Now Freely Available Online diagnosed and labeled, as well as how children were legally handled in cases of custody or The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to guardianship. Some of the indenture records announce the availability of the Bartow History show the plight of children after the Civil War, Museum vertical file record collection at and some further contain information that speaks to matters of race relations.” 30TUdlg.usg.edu/collection/barhm_bhmvfU30T. The collection, which belongs to the Bartow History Museum, is available online thanks in part to Genealogist Yvonne Mashburn Schmidt noted the DLG's Competitive Digitization grant "this area's rural, agricultural, and yeoman program, a funding opportunity intended to families generally were unconcerned with broaden DLG partner creating records participation for themselves...This statewide historic record collection held digitization projects. by the Archives contains uncommon The digital collection records such as consists of a portion mercantile and of a compilation of miscellaneous county documents receipts, voter lists, that include topics smallpox lists, pauper such as guardianship lists, indentures, and (1850–1929), estray records. These indentures (1860– county records 1929), lunacy (1866– generally are not 1929), pauperism available to (1866–1879), land researchers. grants/deeds (1866–1929), and other records. Ancestral names in these records might be Court officials created the records to document found when no other record for the ancestor legal proceedings and transactions. exists...Historical migration routes and early land grants make Georgia's records especially Trey Gaines, the director of the Bartow History important. Ancestors from northern and mid- Museum, said: “the digitization of these items Atlantic states often settled in or passed provides documentation of under‐represented through Georgia. Some of these and their subjects, particularly citizens of lower economic descendants who settled or stayed for a time standing, from the Civil War through the Great participated in Georgia land lotteries. Cass (now Depression. The movement and financial status Bartow County) was one of the original counties of families and individuals that lived and moved created after Cherokee County's division, and in and out of Bartow County are demonstrated this county's land was part of the 1832 Georgia through the collection's land, indenture, and land lottery. Many of this collection's loose guardianship papers. Family dynamics and records were created between 1850 and 1880

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and include land grants and deeds that may not and more for K–12 history researchers exist in any other local or state repository. (available via GALILEO affiliated K–12 These grants and deeds are original records." schools. Contact GALILEO at

30Tgalileo.usg.edu/contact/30T for details) The Bartow History Museum, located at 4 East Church Street in downtown Cartersville, In a joint statement, Joy Hatcher, social studies Georgia, documents the history of Northwest program manager, and JoAnn Wood, social

Georgia's Bartow County. Visit 30Tbartowhistory studies program specialist, both with the

museum.org/ 30T. Georgia Department of Education, said “the primary sources from GALILEO and DLG provide DLG Provides Back-to-School Educator Georgia’s teachers with a wealth of excellent Resources for the 2019–2020 School Year teaching materials. It is clear that they are working diligently to see that sources are The DLG welcomed this year’s back-to-school teacher-friendly and aligned to the Georgia season by making new educator resources Standards of Excellence. We are fortunate to based on the Georgia third, fourth, and fifth have such a collection and experts determined grade Georgia Social Studies Standards of to make them usable.”

Excellence (GSE) available at 30Tsites.google.

com/view/dlg-educator-resources30T. These items provide high-quality, standards- aligned materials that help teachers meet the New items include: diverse academic interests and needs of students. • A frameable poster and printable postcard featuring Georgia third, Topics include: fourth, and fifth grade GSE themes, released monthly • Early Native American cultures • “Link lists” to DLG and Digital Public • European exploration in North America Library of America (DPLA) resources, • British colonial America organized by Georgia third, fourth, and • The American Revolution fifth grade GSE themes and topics • The creation of the Constitution • American westward expansion These new items accompany our existing • The abolitionist and suffrage resources: movements • The Civil War and Reconstruction • A quick-start guide that supports • The turn of the 20th century educators and students in their • American involvement in World War I research of original materials and World War II • A sample slide deck for educators • The Great Depression and New Deal • A guide on using DLG materials • The Cold War • A postcard of DLG portals with features • Historical developments between available for educators 1950–1975 • National History Day resources that • Important events from 1975–2001 connect K–12 history researchers to primary source documents in the DLG Materials come from museums, archives, • A customized National History Day libraries, historical societies, and other cultural GALILEO portal, designed to simplify heritage organizations that have contributed access to primary documents, articles, more than 800 collections to DLG’s website, and

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all provide insight into the state’s diverse systems have a great potential to illuminate the population and geography. history of a place...from learning and teaching to voting and playing, they are institutions that Fulton County Superintendent’s Annual reflect the social and cultural milieus of the Reports now Available Online districts they reside within. The Superintendent’s Annual Reports of Fulton The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to County Schools document this story by offering announce the availability of superintendent’s a look at the growth of metro Atlanta annual reports for the Fulton County, Georgia throughout some very crucial decades of the

school system at 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/ 20th century. The oldest portion of this

fcs_superintendents30T. These resources have collection provides evidence of a largely rural been made available online thanks in part to and segregated district during the Great the DLG's Competitive Depression, while the Digitization grant latter portion is a program, a funding culmination of the opportunity intended to movement to integrate broaden DLG partner the schools after the participation for Brown v. Board of statewide historic Education decision of digitization projects. 1954—a process that lasted 17 years. In this These annual reports respect, the reports help were submitted by local, to clarify one of the public school districts to defining issues of the Civil the State School Rights Movement.” Superintendent’s Office as part of their operations The Fulton County to receive accreditation Schools Archives and funding, and contain preserves and maintains a demographic information wide range of historic pertaining to the growth materials such as board of the school system minutes, school located in and around yearbooks, and Atlanta between the audiovisual recordings years 1929 and 1977. Data was collected on while serving the public as a repository for

both African American and white schools and these historical collections. Visit30T fulton

was expressed using the “dual school system” schools.org/archives30T. terminology of “colored” and “white.” The reports also contain material related to school Thomasville History Center's Cutler Collection employees, building materials and valuations, Now Freely Available Online as well as transportation and supply costs. A small portion of this collection includes reports The Cutler Collection is now available at

from Milton and Campbell counties just before 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/tchs_cutcol30T. These they merged with Fulton County. resources belong to the Thomasville History Center and have been made available online Michael Santrock, the archives and collections thanks in part to the DLG's Competitive specialist at Fulton County Schools Archives Digitization grant program, a funding noted: “information gathered from school opportunity intended to broaden DLG partner

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participation for statewide historic digitization Anne McCudden, executive director of the projects. Thomasville History Center, noted: "having these items digitized will allow our staff and The digitized items from this collection consist outside researchers to more fully engage with primarily of diaries, letters, and family papers the collection. Currently, we only have a cursory dating from 1800–1980 belonging to Hazel knowledge of the content. Being able to access Beamer Cutler, a dancer on Broadway who the collection (specifically the diaries) will allow performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s, interested parties to see into the daily life of and who resided in Thomasville, Georgia Hazel Beamer [Cutler] while she was living in throughout much of her life. Included in the New York City in the early 1920s...This materials is genealogical research on the collection also documents her time spent with Quarterman and Baker families, pioneers of Ben Ali Haggin III, who was from a prominent South Georgia; correspondence with visual Kentucky family of artists and authors." artists Dora Wheeler Keith and Ben Ali Haggin, III, and Vermont banker Henry Miles Cutler. The Thomasville History Center is a non-profit There is also some information about Candace community organization dedicated to ensuring Wheeler, founder of the American Decorative that the appreciation of Thomasville's unique Arts movement. history remains an intrinsic and unbroken thread connecting the past and future through These materials are useful to researchers settings that advance the town's story. The looking into the history of American illustrator, History Center is supported by approximately portrait artist, and muralist Dora Wheeler Keith 300 personal and business members, hosts (1856–1940), who was Hazel Beamer Cutler's approximately 3,000 visitors each year, and guardian in New York City; and portrait painter engages another 2,000 through community and stage designer Ben Ali Haggin, III (1882– outreach. Nearly 20% of the Thomasville History 1951). Some materials in the collection refer to Center's audience are students and teachers. Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), Dora Wheeler Visit the Thomasville History Center at

Keith's mother, who founded the Society of 30Tthomasvillehistory.org/30T. Decorative Arts in 1877 and was associated with the Colonial Revival, Aesthetic Movement, and Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) Awards Six the Arts and Crafts Movement throughout her Competitive Digitization Service Grants to long career. The Thomasville Baker and Beamer Georgia Cultural Heritage Institutions Across families developed a friendship with the New the State York Wheelers and Keiths while the Wheelers vacationed in Thomasville, Georgia during the Six institutions are recipients of the fifth set of Resort Era of 1875–1905. These items will shed service grants awarded in a program intended light into the early 20th century happenings to broaden partner participation in the DLG. within the field of decorative arts as well as the The DLG solicited proposals for historic artistic work of Ben Ali Haggin, III and Dora digitization projects in a statewide call, and Wheeler Keith. The Georgia-related materials applicants submitted proposals for projects on the Quarterman, Baker, Mallard, and with a cost of up to $7,500. The projects will be Schaffer families collected by Hazel Beamer administered by DLG staff who will perform Cutler's aunt, Sallie Baker (1862–1953), a digitization and descriptive services on textual Thomasville, Georgia educator, will be useful to (not including newspapers), graphic, and audio- genealogists. Hazel Beamer Cutler's diaries visual materials. This subgranting program was provide a rich history of life in New York City presented the 2018 Award for Excellence in and Thomasville, Georgia during the 1920s. Archival Program Development by a State

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Institution by the Georgia Historical Records of the Confederate States Naval Iron Works Advisory Council (GHRAC). (sometimes referred to as the Columbus Iron Works), which operated from 1862–1865. The The recipients and their projects include: ledger also includes entries as late as 1866 as Warner worked with the Navy in Columbia Theological Seminary (Decatur, GA) turning over naval equipment to the United States government. Digitization of the Joseph R. Wilson papers, late 1800s (containing the sermons of Joseph University of Georgia Map and Government Ruggles Wilson, the pastor of First Presbyterian Information Library (Athens, GA) Church in Augusta from 1858–1870); John Newton Waddel papers, 1821–1881 (materials Digitization of Sanborn fire insurance maps belonging to John Newton Waddel (1812–1885) produced in 1923 for 21 Georgia towns and and his father (1770–1840), cities in 17 counties. both Georgia Presbyterian ministers and educators); and the Presbyterian Church in the Valdosta State University Archives and Special US Presbytery of Hopewell minutes, 1797–1866 Collections (Valdosta, GA) (minutes from Georgia's first Presbytery belonging to the Presbyterian Church from the Digitization of Georgia deeds and plats period following the Revolutionary War through representing Southeastern and South Georgia the Civil War). counties (including Camden, Glynn, Wayne, Brantley, Ware, and Worth counties) dating Dougherty County Public Library (Albany, GA) from the 1700s–1899.

Digitization of city directories for Albany, Preference in the selection process was given to Georgia, dating from 1922–1949. proposals from institutions that had not yet collaborated with the DLG. Dougherty County Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Public Library and the National Civil War Naval (Atlanta, GA) Museum are both new partners for the DLG. Sheila McAlister, director of the Digital Library Description of archival documents that highlight of Georgia noted: "since the start of DLG’s notable events and accomplishments during subgranting program in 2016, we’ve funded 26 Jimmy Carter’s presidential administration from projects and added 10 new partners. 1977–1981 that include the Camp David Documenting the entire state, the collections Accords (1978), the hostage crisis in Iran (1979– illuminate the lives of Georgia’s African- 1981), the Panama Canal Treaties (1977–1978), American, LGBTQ, and Asian-American the president’s daily diary (1977–1981), communities, as well as the state’s educational, presidential directives (1977–1981), political, cultural, and industrial past." presidential review memoranda (1977–1979), and legislation towards the progression of the Berry College’s Southern Highlander Now Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Freely Available Online

National Civil War Naval Museum (Columbus, The DLG has recently digitized 3,124 pages from GA) Berry College’s Southern Highlander covering the period of 1907 to 1942. The Southern Digitization of a ledger from the James H. Highlander, the official magazine of and Warner Collection containing correspondence published by the Berry Schools in Mount Berry, from Warner, commander and superintendent Georgia, documents the early history of the

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schools founded by philanthropist Martha Berry “While the Southern Highlander is rich in in 1902 to serve the rural poor. The magazine history, it is also an excellent representation of also details social conditions and the Berry’s focus on a comprehensive education of importance of community-based education. the head, heart, and hands,” said Jessica Hornbuckle, digital initiatives librarian; “working The Southern Highlander is a unique publication with the Digital Library of Georgia to digitize the that raised money while promoting the mission Southern Highlander is the perfect opportunity of the Berry Schools worldwide. The Southern to share Berry’s oldest publication and the Highlander offers firsthand knowledge of social school’s legacy beyond the campus gates.” and historical topics of the day, including agriculture, the influenza epidemic of 1918, The digitized materials are available at

World War I, educational philosophy, and 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/gbc_berry-19330T. religious work on campus and in North Georgia. The Berry College Archives was established in The digitization of the Southern Highlander will 1986 and serves as the primary repository for provide access to some of the oldest and most materials pertaining to the Berry Schools, Berry frequently requested Berry Schools materials, a College, and founder, Martha Berry. The boon for scholars, students, historians, alumni, principal purpose of the archives is to appraise, and community members interested in studying collect, preserve, maintain, and make accessible the rich, early history and cultural heritage of records of historical value. In addition, the the Berry Schools, Martha Berry, and early 20th archives seeks to educate its constituents about century culture and history in rural, North its holdings, policies, and procedures through Georgia. outreach and instructional activities.

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