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Centennial Event (Sold Out)

Unfortunately, the tickets for the Georgia Archive Centennial Event are sold out. We looking forward to celebrating this special occasion with everyone who has purchased a ticket for this saturday. For those who will not be with us on Saturday, look for the reveal and initial sales of the 2018 ornament this week.

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Georgia Archives 100th Anniversary Tickets Now Available

Tickets for the Georgia Archives 100th Anniversary. Tickets include food and beverages during the event hosted at the Georgia Archives and National Archives and Records Administration in Morrow, GA. The event begins at 4:30 pm on August 18.

Event Location: 5800 Jonesboro Rd, Morrow, GA 30260

Event Start Time: 4:30

Speakers: Govornor Nathan Deal, United States Archivist David Ferriero, Steve Engerrand, Deputy State Archivist, and Georgia State Senator Valencia Seay

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Georgia’s Rural Churches

Morrow, GA, March 11, 2017 – Join us on Friday April 14, 2017 at 12:00 noon, for our free Lunch and Learn program, where you will learn about Georgia’s rural churches.

Sonny Seals and George Hart, co-authors of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a co-publication of Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press, will discuss efforts to save Georgia’s rural churches.

Georgia has hundreds of rural churches that represent a unique way to look at 18th and 19th century Georgia history. They tell the story of a time when virtually all of Georgia was rural: the story of where we came from, how we got here, and who we are. Seals and his friend Hart decided to form a nonprofit organization, Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (HRCGA), with a mission to research, document, and preserve the history of these icons of the past. They built a website (www.hrcga.org), with photographs of the churches, accompanied by a brief history of each and its historical role in the community.

The success of the website led to the recently released book, and a GPB short documentary series, Saving Grace: The Story of Georgia through the Eyes of Her Rural Churches. Come hear about the ongoing journey of discovery.

The program requires no registration and is free and open to the public. Lunch and Learn programs begin at 12:00 noon and last about an hour.

The Georgia Archives is a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The Georgia Archives identifies, collects, manages, preserves, provides access to, and publicizes records and information of Georgia and its people, and assists state and local government agencies with their records management. This work is done within the framework of the USG’s mission to create a more highly educated Georgia.

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Personal Photograph Preservation

Stephanie Watkins, a conservator specializing in the care of art and historic materials on paper, will speak at the Georgia Archives on Friday March 10, 2017 at 12:00pm, as part of our free Lunch and Learn lecture series.

Watkins will present on the preservation issues surrounding printed photographic materials:  how to handle, care, and store your family photographs for the best survival.  As we now also collect our collective visual memories digitally, she will briefly discuss preservation options with electronic media.

Watkins has over thirty years of experience, including working for institutions such as the University of Texas at Austin, the Missouri State Archives and Local Records Program, The International Museum of Photography, and the Library of Congress, as well as several businesses in the private sector.  She currently owns her own business, Watkins Conservation Services, LLC and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.

The program requires no registration and is free and open to the public.

The Georgia Archives is a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and identifies, collects, manages, preserves, provides access to, and publicizes records and information of Georgia and its people and assists state and local government agencies with their records management. This work is done within the framework of the USG’s mission to create a more highly educated Georgia.

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For more information, please contact Jill Sweetapple at 678.364.3731 or email at [email protected]