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Constructed in 1872, the old City Market building survived
for more than 200 years before succumbing to the wrecking
ball in 1954. The people of Savannah said goodbye to the
building in grand style, throwing a party called the Market
Ball. Photographs of the City Market taken in 1900 and 1914,
along with thousands of other items on the history of Georgia’s
coastal counties may be found in the Digital Library of Georgia
(DLG), housed at the University of Georgia.
“Understanding Georgia’s rich cultural heritage
requires something that even the best text books cannot
convey,” said Toby Graham DLG director. “It
requires access to the original record of the past: the
photographs, letters, memoirs, historical books and newspapers,
government documents, and other sources that depict firsthand
the lives and events that shaped the culture of the state
that we know today.”
The DLG shares via the Internet a half million images
and pages of text drawn from 40 different libraries,
archives and museums, as well as 80 agencies of state
government.
With a single search, visitors can locate items from
across 60 different collections, including the popular
New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Government Publications
database and Vanishing Georgia photographs. The site
provides advanced searching, including the ability to
limit by collection, institution, date or type of material.
In addition to the 1,300 historical images from the Vanishing
Georgia collection, people interested in coastal Georgia
will find the Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah,
1855-1917, aerial photographs, the “Living in Savannah,
1940-1941” photographs from Armstrong Atlantic
State University, Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War diary, and
issues of Savannah’s African-American Tribune newspaper
from 1876.
New features of the DLG include the ability to find resources
from more than 60 databases and web sites with a single
search. The site also has improved browsing features.
By clicking on an online map, users can locate historical
images, aerial photography, encyclopedia articles and
other resources on each of Georgia’s 159 counties.
A clickable timeline allows browsing by historical periods.
Visitors may select collections based on material types – such
as letters or diaries -- or they may view all of the
collections from a particular library, archive or museum.
The DLG site also categorizes its collections by topics,
such as “The Arts,” “Government and
Politics” and “Peoples and Cultures.”
The Digital Library of Georgia is based at the UGA Libraries.
GALILEO is administered by the Board of Regents, University
System of Georgia. GALILEO has more than 2,000 member
institutions across Georgia, including k-12 schools,
colleges and universities and public libraries.
Building the New Learning Environment
The new learning environment is an academic and intellectual
community on the campus of the University of Georgia humming
with the vibrancy of the true college experience—bright
and talented students working with brilliant faculty formally
in the classroom and informally over a cup of coffee or lounging
in the greenspace which stretches from one end of campus to
the other. It is a place which recognizes that new information
technologies are transforming traditional academic disciplines
and embraces those opportunities. |
Left,
Brunswick street car, early 1900s. gly039, President Calvin Coolidge
(left) hunting on Sapelo Island. Sap023 and City
Market, Savannah, Ga., 1914. ctm223, From Vanishing Georgia collection,
Georgia Archives, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
