UGA ARCHIVES

WELCOME TO THE EXHIBIT HALL

While anyone can examine the Archives first hand by coming to the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (see Using the Archives), we plan to serve up select images for your edification here in the Exhibit Hall.  Please recall that permission  to use these images must be granted by the Hargrett.

The Wallace Richter Photo Album 1941-1943
		Selected from over 500 negatives taken by the late Wallace Richter, class of 1944, these photographs show campus life at the start of the Second World War. Click here to swing, sway and jump to attention.

An Earlier View of the Campus? Is this the earliest close view of the campus? Did it predate and inspire the better-known 1854 Gleason's print? Click here to judge the Louis Moore lithograph (UGA 06-026) for yourself in this online exhibit.

 

The Old College Compendium Click Here to view an illustrated timeline of the University's oldest and most noteworthy building, created in anticipation of its renovation dedication on October 13, 2006

	The Case of the Poisoned Capsule... ....Ah - the impulse to bury a time capsule for the future - how human, how irresistible.    We bury our treasures, we cast our bread into the waters of the future, knowing we probably shall not be around to be blamed.  But is it a good idea?  Click Here to consider the tragic tale of the 1872 UGA time capsule...

~ Click on the Document to Go to the Exhibit ~

The 1785 Charter of the University of Georgia ~ Following restoration, the University of Georgia Charter has returned to campus for its 220th anniversary on  Founders' Day, January 27, 2005 when it will be on display in the Hargrett Library. ~   In addition to a high-quality scan of the restored document, our online exhibit features a history of the document and a transcription, courtesy of The Georgia Review (http://www.uga.edu/garev).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE LIBRARY! IN 2003 WE CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GALA DEDICATION OF THE ILAH DUNLAP LITTLE  LIBRARY.  COME ENJOY SOME OF THE EXCITEMENT BY TOURING THROUGH THE PROSE, PHOTOGRAPHS & POETRY OF THE  COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET ISSUED IN 1953 http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/libraryintro.html

 

Still We Remember: Memorial Items Left at the UGA Arch following the Attacks of September 11, 2001  An online exhibit of photographs by Katie Gentilello and Frank Hamrick at: http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/gallery/

 

* CELEBRATED  &  UNPARALLELED * VIEW  of the  UNIVERSITY in  1854 *

LADIES & GENTLEMEN ARE REQUESTED TO CLICK UPON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO ATTEND THE EXHIBIT

A rich assortment of UGA images can be viewed ..
 

...in the University of Georgia section of Hargrett Library's  Historic Images of Athens, Georgia at http://www.libs.uga.edu/ hargrett/selections/ athens/university.html

An earlier popular UGA Archives exhibit...
 

...is open in the Exhibits & Events Gallery of the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, at:  http://www.libs.uga.edu/ hargrett/pexhibit/ You can click on the exhibit icon at the left to go directly to the exhibit.

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