1102-025-GSM-gau (USMARC) City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, [GSG (OCLC/LYRASIS)]

Record Series #: 1102-025 Name: Research and Budget Department photographs Dates: 1989 Extent/Size: 1 small document case (0.25 cubic feet) Language: English

Scope & Content: Record Series 1102-025, Research and Budget Department photographs (1989) includes fifty photographs taken by Jack Leigh for the 1990 City of Savannah Service Program and Budget publication. Jack Leigh was hired by Robert “Bob” McAlister, director of the Research and Budget Department, to photograph various departments across the City of Savannah government organization. At the time, the Research and Budget Department was a unit within the Management and Financial Services Bureau. Budget Analyst Robert Keber, who worked with the Research and Budget Department from 1986 to 2003, served as a liaison for Jack Leigh as he visited the various City departments to photograph their staff and functions. A selection of the photographs was then featured in the final publication.

Jack Leigh (1948-2004) began his photography career in 1972, focusing on recording the people and environment of his home, the American South. The author of six photography books, including The Ogeechee: A River and Its People, Seaport: A Waterfront At Work, and The Land I’m Bound To, Leigh is most famous for his 1993 photograph of Sylvia Shaw Judson’s sculpture taken in commissioned for the book cover of the international best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.

System of Arrangement & Ordering: Record Series 1102-025, Research and Budget Department photographs (1989) is arranged alphabetically by organizational bureau and department. See the attached inventory.

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1102-025-GSM-gau (USMARC) 2 City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia [GSG (OCLC/LYRASIS)]

Record Series 1102-025, Research and Budget photographs

Related Publications: City of Savannah 1990 Service Program and Budget. Savannah Area Local Government Documents, #SAV.RB.01-1990. City of Savannah Municipal Archives.

Preferred Citation: Record Series 1102-025, Research and Budget Department – Photographs. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia.

Processed by: L. Spracher, February 2019; revised June 2020

Inventory:

Box 1102-025-1 Folder 1 1990 Service Program and Budget Publication pages, and City of Savannah organizational information, 1989-1990 Folder 2 Central Services – Building Maintenance Folder 3 Facilities Maintenance Bureau – Park and Tree Folder 4 Facilities Maintenance Bureau – Water and Sewer Folder 5 Fire Bureau Folder 6 Leisure Services Bureau Folder 7 Leisure Services Bureau – Civic Center [identified people from left to right: Hermina Washington; Brenda Andrew; Phyllis Young] Folder 8 Leisure Services Bureau – Cultural Arts Folder 9 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Data Processing Folder 10 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Personnel Folder 11 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Recorder’s Court Folder 12 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Research and Budget Folder 13 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Revenue Folder 14 Management and Financial Services Bureau – Vehicle Maintenance Folder 15 Parking Services Folder 16 Police Bureau Folder 17 Police Bureau – Horse Patrol Folder 18 Public Development Bureau – Engineering Folder 19 Public Development Bureau – Housing Code Enforcement Folder 20 Sanitation Bureau Folder 21 Unknown [identified people: Mary E. Mitchell] Folder 22 Unknown [identified locations: City Market] Folder 23 Unknown [identified departments: Radio Shop?]