New Collections

February 2007

• The Georgia Tech Archives has recently made available several significant collections relating to the early history of Georgia Tech.
  
  The Board of Trustees Minutes (UA315) are made up of the records of the Board meetings from 1886 to 1906 and from 1916 to the final meeting in 1932.
  
  A second collection of minutes, the Faculty Minutes (UA317), consists of records of discussions, decisions, rulings, and reports that occurred during faculty meetings at Tech between 1888 and 1965.
  
  The Lyman Hall Correspondence (UA309) includes the outgoing correspondence of Hall, President of Tech from 1896-1905, from the first six years of his presidency.
  
  Correspondence and a ledger of John Saylor Coon, the first Mechanical Engineering and Drawing professor, are found in the John Saylor Coon Collection (MS313).
  
  Researchers are welcome to come to the Archives between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to view these and other collections relating to the rich history of Tech.

October 2006

• Georgia Tech President's Speeches and Presentations Now Available
  The President's Speeches and Presentations Digital Collection includes transcripts, slides, and notes of most of the speeches given by Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough, focusing on the first five years of his presidency. Highlights of the collection include Clough's inaugural speech, State of the Institute Addresses, and reports to the Georgia Tech Foundation and the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, as well as Clough's 2006 interview broadcast on the campus radio station WREK. As more materials are acquired from the Office of the President, this collection will continue to grow. All items included in the collection are full-text searchable.
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  Georgia Tech President's Speeches and Presentations

 

June 2006

• The Athletic Association Records (UA #300) are now available for perusal in the Georgia Tech Archives. This collection primarily consists of contracts, correspondence between university presidents (e.g., telegrams and typewritten letters), and newspaper clippings. Materials that are of particular interest include contracts of head football coaches John Heisman and William Alexander, transcripts of the 1908 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) investigation into Georgia Tech’s recruitment practices, and an extensive collection of University of Georgia vs. Georgia Tech football game programs. 
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  Athletic Association Records (UA #300)

 

March 2006

• Ryan Austin Gravel's 1999 thesis for the College of Architecture, "Belt Line - Atlanta: Design of Infrastructure as a Reflection of Public Policy," is now available online in its entirety through the Library and Information Center's institutional repository SMARTech.  Gravel's highly-requested thesis provides excellent information concerning Atlanta's BeltLine development project and includes an addendum written Dec 2005.
  The thesis can be found at:
  Belt Line - Atlanta: Design of Infrastructure as a Reflection of Public Policy

 

November 2005

• New Technology Assessment Collection in the Georgia Tech Archives

  Throughout their long careers, both Joseph Francis and Vary Taylor Coates worked and published extensively in the field of technology assessment. The newly processed Coates Papers (MS #175) feature printed and manuscript materials in this broad field, particularly documenting the Coates' work for the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an office of the U.S. Congress that functioned from 1972 until 1995. In addition to manuscript materials, the collection contains almost 800 books and monographs, almost 600 of which are publications of the OTA. The wide range of topics in science and technology that are covered in these publications and manuscript materials reflect the depth and scope of American technology assessment in the late 20th century. In addition to the OTA, some materials on international technology assessment and the short-lived Institute for Technology Assessment (1996-1998) are also found in these papers. The 800 print titles are being catalogued and added to the Georgia Tech library's collection, as part of the archival holdings.

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  Coates, Joseph F. and Vary T. Papers (MS #175)
  

• Additions to the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Collections

  Complementing the recent release of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection, Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management has completed the processing of two related collections. The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Architectural Drawings collection (VAMD #004) consists of a large number of drawings, mainly in the form of blueprints. The drawings form part of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Records in the Georgia Tech Archives. Dating from as early as 1889, these blueprints document the design and construction of many of the major early buildings of the mill, and they contain vital information on the layout of the village and its house plans during the early twentieth century. A second new collection, the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills: Related Materials Collection (MS #177), includes news clippings and magazine articles containing general background and historical information on the mill and the textile industry in the South.

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  FBCM Architectural Drawings (VAMD #004)
  FBCM Related Materials (MS #177)

September 2005

• Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management announces the public release of a new online exhibit, the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection. This digital collection consists of scans of selected materials from two newly processed collections held by the Archives: the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Records and the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Photograph Collection. The selected digitized documents include over 300 noteworthy letters, photographs, memos, drawings, reports, and testimonies which highlight the important aspects of both manuscript collections. The digital collection is intended to provide a valuable companion exhibit to the p hysical collections, allowing easy public access to these historic records.
  
  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 processed portion of this collection documents the business activities and concerns of management and workers in the Atlanta mill during the early twentieth century. Materials relating to the 1914-1915 strike in Atlanta include the correspondence of Oscar Elsas, transcripts of testimonies given before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, and a group of operative reports. Correspondence and operative reports also provide some documentation of union activities and working conditions at other Fulton Bag mills, including those in St. Louis, Brooklyn, Dallas, and New Orleans.

August 2005

• Georgia Tech Archives announces the processing of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Records and Photographs.

  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 processed portion of this collection documents the business activities and concerns of management and workers in the Atlanta mill during the early twentieth century. Materials relating to the 1914-1915 strike in Atlanta include the correspondence of Oscar Elsas, transcripts of testimonies given before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, and a group of operative reports. Correspondence and operative reports also provide some documentation of union activities and working conditions at other Fulton Bag mills, including those in St. Louis, Brooklyn, Dallas, and New Orleans.

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  FBCM Records (MS #004)
  FBCM Photographs (VAM #004)