Georgia Tech Archives

Swimming in December got us like...

Groovy pics of retro computer systems and workflow at GT. Can you imagine walking a punch card to a computer room for answers to your computation needs? Maybe it’s easy to imagine because you lived it! We welcome both experiences to explore our vintage computer records in the Archives. Happy Weekend!!

Hope your weekend sparkles!

Georgia Tech Archives updated their address.

Spring notes 1st installment

Happy Pi Day! In celebration of mathematics, here's a photo of a descriptive geometry class in the late 19th/early 20th century from our Digital Portal.
https://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/5635

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Join our colleagues at Emory tomorrow night for their “Create Your Own Culture: Emory's Art-Punk-Fest,” event. It’s the second annual event celebrating the library’s punk, art, and “do-it-yourself” collections with a night of music and hands-on art activities featuring local bands and artists. It will take place on campus on March 6th at 6:30pm and is open to the public free of charge!

Rejoice! You've made it through your first week (back) at it.

We are open for your archival pursuits! Come see our beautiful new reading room in the renovated Crosland Tower and visit the collections. They've missed you.

Feeling all the archival gratitude covered in this piece. We are very thankful for the collaboration with the LMC Brittain Fellows each semester in the GT Archives.

16 Brittain Fellows Write About the Archives They Love - TECHStyle Archives, research libraries, and special collections are the crucial spaces where study begins. While public and school libraries hold a space in the popular imagination as a catalyzing site of intellectual curiosity—as seen in the recent piece “12 Authors Write about the Libraries They Love”...

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Hot town, summer in the city...

We thought you'd enjoy this excerpt from the 1968 BluePrint:

"Summer: The Dead Quarter

Summer Quarter is either the chance to catch up or to get ahead. The relaxed atmosphere and air-conditioned classrooms almost make it bearable. Filling the void left by the vacationing Student Center and Student Council, the Co-Op Club provided entertainment for the three thousand students who came Summer Quarter. During Co-Op Field Day, Freshmen and upperclassmen were treated to a picnic, a watermelon mess, a faculty-freshman softball game, a rat-hat review, a pie-eating contest, and the crowning of a Miss Perfect Lips.

The popularity of school during Summer Quarter has been increasing over the years. Now, because of the tightening of the draft laws, Summer Quarter has gained added utility… it helps one avoid the draft."

GT Exhibits Program Manager, Kirk Henderson and Access Archivist, Amanda Pellerin write about Sci-Fi, Rare Books, Guest Curators and more in the latest issue of Acid Free. Far OUT!

Los Angeles Archivists Collective | Magazine | SPACE the final frontier — and the theme of Issue 7 of Acid Free. Featuring stories on Artists, Archives, and the Lebanese Civil War, Star Trek Publications at UCI, the American Museum of Natural History and more.

Celebrating Jewish Heritage in May, the Archives is spotlighting the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills collection owned by the Elsas family. The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company can be traced back to Atlanta starting in 1868 by Jacob Elsas, an immigrant of German Jewish descent, and then partner Isaac May. First started as a rag, paper, hide business, Elsas soon recognized the need for an Atlanta business for cloth and paper containers for house hold goods by the early 1870s. By 1889, Elsas incorporated his own bag company, which became the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Company. By 1907, Elsas had expanded and had three mill and 50,000 additional spindles. The Elsas furthered his success and opened additional mills in such city as New York and Dallas in the early twentieth century. The mill experienced some changes after World War II in its packaging products. In 1956, Eastern and Midwestern investors bought controlling interest in the company, the nine bag manufacturing companies were sold, and in 1960 the parent company became Fulton Industries Inc. The Atlanta mill, which remained known as Fulton Cotton Mill, continued in operation under the management of Elsas family members until 1968. In that year Fulton Industries Inc. was sold to Allied Products Corporation. Fulton Cotton Mill's last President, Meno Schoenbach, served in that position from 1971 until 1978, the year the Atlanta mill finally closed its doors. In 1997 Aederhold Properties redeveloped the historic Fulton Cotton Mill in Atlanta into apartments and lofts.

This featured photograph is of Clarence Elsas with a Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill bag taken in 1953.

Graduation got us like...The frenzied study sessions and gatherings around white boards in the Library and CULC have diminished and regalia is everywhere around campus. Remember you can always come back to visit the GT Archives for proof of your college experience. Congratulations to the Class of 2018! Welcome to life as a GT Alumni!!

Arthur Murray: A Dancing Engineer ? Before his school franchise took off, Murray sold footsteps cut-outs to teach people how to dance. The cut outs were delivered via mail with instructions. All the dancer had to do was lay them on the floor and follow the steps.

April is Arts Month, and we are spotlighting our own DramaTech. It was founded in 1947 as the Georgia Tech Dramatic Club, but a dramatic organization had been established as early as 1913, when a student troupe later known as the Marionettes was formed. This group disbanded during World War I, and in February 1947, a group of drama enthusiasts on campus met with Glenn James and formed the Georgia Tech Dramatic Club. Their first production, The Drunkard, directed by Jack Pompan, IM '48, was so successful that the English department accredited the fledgling organization, enabling it to obtain financial aid from the university system. Members received academic credit from the English department for their involvement. With this impetus, Zenas Sears, a local Atlanta radio personality, became the first professional director of DramaTech and presented a series of one-act plays in the Tech YMCA auditorium in the spring of 1947.
The featured photo is of a 1949 play, the Room Service.

To Morrow, tomorrow! Come hear more on this topic and others during the Georgia Archives Symposium Celebrating 100 Years of Archival Record Keeping. https://www.georgiaarchives.org/documents/2018_Symposium_Flyer.pdf