On Sunday night after we got back from our trip to the Nolan House I was digging around online trying to be a detective and find some secret information about the place. Somehow I ended up at Georgia’s Digital Library, which in turn led me to the magical Vanishing Georgia archive. It has thousands of photos from Georgia’s history all scanned in and labeled, and going through it is pretty much heaven for history nerds.
There are photos from as early as the antebellum times, but my favorites are these from the ’20s and ’30s, if only because they remind me of settings for Carson McCullers novels and Flannery O’Connor short stories, complete with dusty old downtowns, crooked and abandoned shacks, cotton fields, barbecues, and river baptisms . . . .
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The river baptism one is fascinating – and the little clapboard hall reminds me of where I grew up!
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Yeah river baptisms!!!! My friends and I are going to try to do a river (lake) baptism photo shoot on our cabin trip. This is exactly what I needed to see right now!
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They really do river baptisms over there? How biblical…anyways, it’s amazing that you discovered so many random stolen moments from so lang ago! I love posts like these…!
These photographs are darling, but I’m dying to see the antebellum pictures!
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Hauntingly Beautiful. I’ve never been to Alabama…
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Oh my goodness, I love this. There are a lot of pictures of my local area in this collection that I never encountered when I worked at the museum here. I’m secretly hoping I find an old photo of my neighborhood buried in here!
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I love when you share your historical discoveries and in this one I even get to see my name in lights, sort of!!!
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aww these are all amazing, what a great finding! Looks exactly like what we’re used to see in movies haha
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I love these kinds of archives now made available thanks to the internet. I am such a history/historic architecture nerd that I could spend hours there even though I’ve never even seen Georgia.I hope seeing images of the historic American built environment will encourage more people to fight to save historic structures.
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These are amazing! What a fantastic find to unearth–perfect for the history geek. ;) There is something I always find so mesmerizing about old photographs like these–I tend to try and imagine myself in the scene and what it must have been like. Such a neat peek into history!
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Oh those are so beautiful and inspiring – I want to crawl right inside the photographs…but I guess painting them will have to do. Thank you for posting these gorgeous images :)
These are amazing. I am not much of a history geek but even I can appreciate these. Thanks for sharing. :) How cool!
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These are so lovely. I love old photos. They always make me wish I new more about the history of my area.
Maybe I’ll take some time this summer to be a detective.
love the baptism photo!
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