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A. French Textile Building Architectural Drawings
The A. French Textile Building Architectural Drawings contain the original plans, details, mechanical plans, and equipment layouts for the 1898-1899 construction of the A. French Textile Building on the Georgia Tech campus.

Alpha Tau Omega Photograph Collection
This collection includes photographs of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Georgia Tech. These photographs document the social history of the fraternity during the mid-1940s

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (E. Jo Baker) Photographs
These photographs have been separated from the professional papers of E. Jo Baker, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. One campus scene and one photograph of a group of students at the Capitol Building in Georgia are the highlights of this collection.

Harry L. Baker Photograph Collection
Harry Baker was a 1934 Georgia Tech graduate and the president of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1946 until his untimely death in 1973. The majority of this collection documents Baker's professional career while at Georgia Tech.

John T. Barret Photograph Collection
This collection contains images of room #3 in the dormitory known as Shack #1, 1922-1923 and the cake race of 1924.

Bulletin Photograph Collection
The Bulletin was a Tech publication, which began about 1901. This publication has had numerous forms, such as the General Catalog, the Student Handbook, and the Cooperative Bulletin. This collection contains images of campus buildings, laboratories, and equipment from various periods of the Institute's history.

Harold Bush-Brown Photograph Collection
During his thirty-four years at Georgia Tech, Harold Bush-Brown was a professor, administrator, and architect. He designed numerous buildings on the Tech campus, such as the Brown and Smith Dormitories, the original Ceramics Building, Brittain Dining Hall, and the School of Architecture building. In addition to his duties at Georgia Tech, Bush-Brown was also a District Officer for the Historic American Buildings Survey (United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service) in the 1930s. This collection mainly consists of photographs, notes, and printed materials relating to the United States Department of the Interior/Historic American Building Survey (HABS). However, there are also several Georgia Tech-related items in the collection. .

Center for Information on Women in Engineering Photographs
This collection consists of a single photograph of Bertha Lamme, the second woman in the United States to graduate college with an engineering degree.

Chi Epsilon Photograph
This collection contains one black and white photograph of the dedication of the Chi Epsilon key monument on the Georgia Tech campus in September 1945.

Chipman-Union Mill, Inc. Photograph Collection
Chipman-Union Mill was formed by the merger of Charles Chipman's Sons Company, Inc. and Union Manufacturing Company. These photographs document the history of the mill.

John Saylor Coon Photograph
This collection contains one reprint photograph of John Saylor Coon.

Dorothy M. Crosland Photograph Collection
This collection consists of photographs of the interior of the Georgia Tech library.

John P. Culver, Jr. Photograph Collection
This collection contains numerous photographs from Georgia Tech's Public Relations department. The majority of the photographs depict former United States President Jimmy Carter and Georgia Tech President Joseph Pettit.

Dean and Director of Libraries Photographs
This collection consists of photographs of students using library computers.

Bobby Dodd Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection include images taken at various times during Bobby Dodd's life. The majority of the images were taken during Dodd's career as head football coach for Georgia Tech.

Early Presidents Photograph Collection
This collection consists of numerous photographs of Georgia Tech President Blake Van Leer while in office (1944-1956), but there is also one photograph of William Alexander, Georgia Tech football coach from 1920 to 1944. Several photographs were found in an envelope marked Gasper-Ware Studio (876 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta).

Engineering Experiment Station Photograph Collection
This collection consists of black and white photographs (primarily 8 by 10 inches) that were used in The Research Engineer, a magazine produced by the Engineering Experiment Station from 1946 to 1964. The backs of the photographs contain notes, written in crayon and pencil, about how to prepare the pictures for publication.

James Walter Estes Photograph Collection
J. Walter Estes, a member of the class of 1904, collected these photographs of his classmates.

Facilities Department Drawings
This collection consists of architectural drawings and blueprints documenting the design and construction of numerous buildings on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Bud Foote Photographs
The Bud Foote photographs appear to have been taken during lectures, book signings or conferences relating to science fiction. The photographs frequently include Bud Foote and his colleagues with authors and scholars of science fiction.

Y. Frank Freeman Photograph Collection
The Y. Frank Freeman Photograph Collection contains photographs documenting Freeman’s life, particularly as it related to his career as an executive with Paramount Pictures. The collection is full of photographs of entertainers, movie stars, movie executives, and world political figures. There is also a series of personal images, including images related to his childhood, Georgia Tech, and baseball.

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Architectural Drawings
Founded in Atlanta during the late 1860s, the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills operated under the management of Jacob Elsas and his descendants for more than a century. The architectural drawings document the design and construction of most of the major buildings of the Atlanta site of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, as well as its machinery and equipment. The collection also contains drawings of the housing in the Atlanta mill village, as well as some drawings of other Fulton Bag sites, including Dallas and New Orleans.

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection include a variety of images taken at various times during the mill's operation.

Chester Gavin Photograph Collection
Chester Gavin was a member of the class of 1940. These photographs depict individuals and groups from a much earlier time period.

Georgia Tech Alumni Association Photograph Collection
The photographs within this collection contain images depicting the history of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, which began in 1898. The collection focuses mainly on alumni and past football coaches.

Georgia Tech Alumni Association Slide Collection
The Alumni Association collected these slides documenting faculty, staff, students, buildings, alumni, and athletics at Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech Athletic Association Photograph Collection
The Athletic Association is an independent, non-profit organization that manages Georgia Tech's sports programs. All of the photographs, except for one, are team pictures of the Georgia Tech football team between 1919 and 1938.

Georgia Tech Campus Map Collection
This collection contains maps of Georgia Tech’s Atlanta campus from 1907-2008. The collection includes general campus maps, parking maps, maps for walking or driving tours, perspective maps, and campus master plans.

Georgia Tech Campus Snow Scenes Photograph Collection
This collection contains Georgia Tech campus photographs which were taken during snow precipitation in 1914 and 1936.

Georgia Tech Engineer Photograph Collection
This collection contains photographs published in the Georgia Tech Engineer from 1938 to 1967, mainly depicting laboratories and technical subjects.

Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club Photographs
The Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club, formerly known as the Georgia Tech Woman's Club, was founded in 1921 as a social and service organization for the wives of faculty members and administrators. Later the Club expanded to include women faculty members and administrators.This collection includes loose photographs removed from scrapbooks in the Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club Records (UA301).

Georgia Tech Women's Investment Club Photographs
The Georgia Tech Women's Investment Club was an investment club consisting of members of the Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club. The purpose of this organization was to instruct members in the basic practices of responsible financial investing and to become acquainted with the growth and income theories of investing. It was in existence from 1984 to 2005. The materials in this collection consist of eleven photographs that depict club members and their family members.

A. Harris Goldwasser Photograph Collection
A. Harris Goldwasser graduated from Georgia Tech in 1928 with a degree in Civil Engineering. This collection contains photographs of the Class of 1928 during homecoming.

Helen E. Grenga Photograph Collection
This collection contains photographs and slides from Dr. Helen Grenga, former professor in Georgia Tech's Material Science and Engineering department.

Helen E. Grenga Photographs on Women in Engineering
This collection consists of one photograph of Helen E. Grenga with a group of women, possibly the Georgia Tech chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

George C. Griffin Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection, collected by George C. Griffin, relate to all aspects of Georgia Tech and its history, including students, faculty, administrators, alumni, sports, traditions, and buildings. This collection is particularly strong in athletic and alumni photographs from the first half of the 20th century. Nearly 600 of these images are available for online viewing.

Julian Harris Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection document the studio of sculptor Julian H. Harris and the 1987 exhibit at the Georgia Tech library commemorating his work.

President Edwin Harrison Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection depict the Edison Foundation Conference on Cooperative Education, attended by President Harrison, and aerial views of the Southern Technical Institute and Naval Air Station.

Images and Memories Photograph Collection
The pictorial history, Images and Memories: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985,was one of several projects celebrating Georgia Tech's centennial in 1985. This collection contains copy prints of many of the photographs that appeared in the book.

Dr. Melvin Kranzberg Photograph Collection
Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, leader in the field of history of technology, served as professor in Georgia Tech's history department. These photographs document his personal and professional life.

Ed Lafitte Photograph Collection
Ed Lafitte was a member of the Georgia Tech baseball team in 1906-1907. This collection consists of one photograph of Lafitte in his Georgia Tech baseball uniform.

James Herty Lucas Visual Materials
The James Herty Lucas Visual Materials contains five photographs and three postcards. All items relate to Georgia Tech. Lucas was an alumni and professor of Highway and Civil Engineering at Tech.

Louis Borris Magid Visual Materials Collection
This collection contains visual materials related to sericulture. Although most of the images are general images of silkworm production, machinery, and people associated with sericulture worldwide, there are some images directly related to the Sericulture and Manufacturing Company in Tallulah Falls, Georgia.

Lottye E. Miner Photographs
The Lottye E. Miner photographs consist of a single color image of Lottye Miner.

William F. Montgomery Photograph Collection
William F. Montgomery, Class of 1904, collected these photographs which document his classmates and friends at Georgia Tech, particularly the School of Chemical Engineering.

Robert D. Neill Photograph Collection
Robert Deaver Neill graduated from Georgia Tech in 1943 with a degree in either Industrial Management or Electrical Engineering. While a student at Georgia Tech, he was a member of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity and Navy R.O.T.C. This collection contains silver gelatin prints, which were taken and developed by Robert Neill or photographer John T. Moore of Seneca, South Carolina.

Newman Family Grave Stones Photograph Collection
The Newman Family Grave Stones Photograph Collection contains 11 color photographs. The photographs, taken circa 1987, document the various grave stones in the Newman family lot in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta.

Frances Newman Photograph
This collection contains one photograph of Frances Newman. This is the same photograph that appeared in the 1924 Atlanta Constitution article announcing Miss Newman as the new librarian at Georgia Tech.

Olympic Village Photograph Collection
The campus of Georgia Tech served as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. For Tech, the Olympic Village represented the single biggest construction project in the school's history. In addition to the construction of seven new dormitories, such as Sixth Street Apartments and Hemphill Avenue Apartments, Tech also acquired an aquatic center. Although the majority of the photographs are not dated, they all originated around the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.

Olympic/Paralympic Photograph Collection
The Georgia Tech Olympic/Paralympic Planning Office was directly responsible for planning Georgia Tech's participation in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Georgia Tech served as the Olympic Village and was the venue for boxing and aquatic competitions. This collection consists of numerous photographs documenting damage to the Georgia Tech campus and buildings that occurred during the Olympic and Paralympic games. All photographs were taken from July 23-29, 1996. Negatives are contained in the second box of the collection.

H. Wayne Patterson Photograph Collection
This collection contains two scrapbooks with over 900 photographs from 1902-1913. A large portion of the scrapbooks deals with Patterson's family, his social life, and his days at Georgia Tech (Class of 1912). Also within this collection are copy prints, which were used in the book,

Joseph Pierce Photographs
The photographs within this collection consist of campus buildings while Pierce was a student at Georgia Tech.

Price Gilbert Library Welcome Event Photograph Collection
This collection contains several photographs from Georgia Tech's Price Gilbert Memorial Library's Welcome Event for students. The photographs were taken at the beginning of the fall semester in August 2000.

Luther M. Reeves, Jr. Photographs
The photographs in this collection are possibly related to Reeves' professional projects as an electrical engineer from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Isaac Henry Reid Photograph Collection
This collection contains 20 photographs of friends and classmates during Reid's school years at Georgia Tech. McPherson Company, a studio photographer in Atlanta, took the majority of the photographs.

Rent-A-Kid Photograph Collection
This collection contains numerous photographs of students working on computers in the Georgia Tech library, with the assistance of Miriam Drake and Anne Tinker, former head of the Systems Department.

Research News and Publication Office Visual Materials
The Research News and Publications Office Visual Materials consists of slides and photographs documenting research and innovation at Georgia Tech and organizations related to Georgia Tech. The images in this collection were taken to illustrate articles in one of RNPO's publications.

School of Physics Photograph Collection
The Physics Department was one of the eight original departments created, when Georgia Tech opened in 1888. This collection contains photographs of faculty members from the Physics Department.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Georgia Institute of Technology Chapter Photographs
The Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Club was founded in 1946 and installed as a chapter of the national society of Sigma Xi in 1953. These photographs document club events during the early years of its existence at Georgia Tech.

Tamiami Trail (Fla.) Photograph Collection
The J. B. McCrary Company, owned by Georgia Tech graduate Joseph Boyd McCrary, worked on the Tamiami Trail in Florida, which opened the frontier area known as the Everglades to commerce and settlement. These photographs document the early years of its construction, which was completed in 1928.

Vice President for Student Affairs Photograph Collection
The Vice President of Student Affairs Photograph Collection contains twenty color photographs removed from their correlating manuscript materials, UA325. These photographs include a snap shot of the Roger Wehrle family, the Student Services staff for 1994-1995, and photos of James Dull with the George C. Griffin statue. There is also a photo of the Griffin statue as the casualty of a prank, with a cigarette and puppy slippers.

Frank O. Walsh, Jr. Photograph Collection
This collection contains photographs depicting the Georgia Tech campus and dormitory life during the early twentieth century. The description of the photographs provided is identical to that written on the images.

Homer S. Weber Photograph Collection
Dr. Homer S. Weber was a student and faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering department at Georgia Tech. This collection contains 1 gelatin silver print of the 1953 Georgia Tech Faculty.

Paul Weber Photograph Collection
The photographs in this collection document Paul Weber's life as a faculty member at Georgia Tech and abroad.

WGST Radio Photographs
The photographs document the radio station primarily in the 1950s. The collection includes images of individuals, the studios and buildings, and radio equipment as well as photographs of some of the station's special events.

William Anderson Alexander
The photographs in this collection document the life of William Alexander during his college days at Georgia Tech (1906-1912) through the late 1940s.