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Finding Resources in the Digital Library of Georgia

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About the Digital Library of Georgia

dlg.usg.edu

crdl.usg.edu

gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) serves as Georgia’s statewide cultural heritage digitization initiative. It is a joint project between the University of Georgia Libraries and GALILEO. The DLG collaborates with Georgia's cultural heritage and educational institutions to provide free online access to historic resources on Georgia. The DLG not only develops, maintains, and preserves digital collections and online resources, but also partners to build digitization capacity and technical infrastructure. It acts as Georgia's service hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and facilitates cooperative digitization initiatives. The DLG serves as the home of the Georgia Newspaper Project, Georgia's print journalism preservation project.

The DLG supports three portals:

* Georgia portal

* Civil Rights Digital Library (nation-wide)

* Georgia Historic Newspapers

In their role as an aggregator, they bring together the primary resources content from cultural heritage institutions all over the state including:

municipal archives

public libraries

historical societies

religious archives

state agencies

colleges and universities

state archives

museums

"one stop shop"

They regularly work with other agencies with state-wide educational and cultural heritage missions ? GALILEO, GPLS, Georgia Humanities Council, Georgia Council for the Arts

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About the Digital Library of Georgia

What’s in there?

Digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources

How much is in there?

over 1,00,000 digital objects
in 1200+ collections
from 170 institutions and government agencies

In addition to a wide variety of types of materials, the resources in the DLG portals cover a wide range of topics and time periods.

From Revolution and Early Republic 1775-1800:

* records of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Augusta, one of the oldest in the state

* records of colonial/early republic governors

* a list of Georgia settlers from 1740 to 1749

Ante-bellum 1800-1860:

* coverage of relations between the early government and the Native peoples of Georgia

* growth of the state and the nation as evidenced by the personal papers of Georgia Statesman John MacPherson Berrien and the records of the mayors of Savannah

* documentation of the plantation system and slavery within the state through the Port of Savannah slave manifests, and a listing of the expenses incurred by medical treatment of Francis T. Tennille's slaves in Calhoun County

Civil War and Reconstruction:

*Documentation of the Confederate troops through diaries and correspondence of soldiers and military records.

*Items of note include telegrams from P.G.T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston, a personal letter signed by Abraham Lincoln, and Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign.

Late nineteenth century 1877-1900:

*Images of Savannah's first public school, photographs of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, and catalogs and other publications related to the emergence of the HBCU's in Atlanta.

Progressive Era to WWII 1900-1945:

*Martha Berry's correspondence, women's club minutes, and documentation of Georgia citizen's participation in WWI and WWII

Civil Rights and Sunbelt 1945-1980s

*Living Atlanta Oral Histories-- Oral history interviews of Atlantans discussing race relations, social life, customs, economic conditions, politics, and government during the twentieth century.

*Newsfilm from WSB-TV and WALB that document the civil rights movement.

Turn of Millennium:

*Development of the city of Atlanta from the 1940s onward as documented in GSU's Planning Atlanta, AUC's Maynard Jackson Administrative Records and AHC's collection of the papers of Mayor Sam Massell.

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DLG website and the Civil Rights Digital Library

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Browsing in the DLG website

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Topics and Time Periods

Browsing by collection will allow you to browse and refine collection descriptions (no actual items are included). You can refine collections in the same way as search results but there are two extra options: topic and time period.

Topics include:

Business & Industry�Education�Folklife

Government & Politics�Land & Resources�Literature�Media�Peoples & Cultures

Religion�Science & Medicine�Sports & Recreation�The Arts�Transportation

Time periods include:

Archaeology & Early History (pre 1733)

Colonial Era (1733-1775)

Revolution & Early Republic (1775-1800)

Antebellum Era (1800-1860)

Civil War & Reconstruction (1861-1877)

Late Nineteenth Century (1877-1900)

Progressive Era to World War II (1900-1945)

Civil Rights & Sunbelt Georgia (1945-1990)

Georgia at the Turn of the Millennium (1990-present)��

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County Items

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Rights Statements

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Collection list

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Enjoy exploring Georgia history and culture!