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This message was sent from Georgia Magazine (http://uga.edu/gm/). UGA libraries acquires almost century-old films - Around the Arch September 2012 Issue UGA may have acquired the earliest movies taken in the state of Georgia through a partnership between the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection and the Pebble Hill Plantation Foundation in Thomasville, Ga. The reels of 28mm, 16mm and 8mm films in the donation span from approximately 1917 into the 1960s. Pebble Hill Plantation was the winter home for the Howard Melville Hanna family of Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth “Pansy” Ireland Poe, granddaughter of Howard Melville Hanna, was the last family member to live in the plantation’s main house until her death in 1978. Earlier, she created a foundation to ensure the property became the historic house museum and environmental preserve it is today. Pebble Hill’s trustees donated the family’s films to the university in order to protect their unique scenes of the family and property. Many of the home movies feature “Miss Pansy” and extended family members at home, as well as friends and plantation workers, a summer home … Read full article at http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?/single/2012/09/1599/.