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Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Ossabaw Island, Georgia

African American with loggerhead turtle, Ossabaw Island. ca 1925
georgiahistory | GHS Manuscript Collection

Monday, September 24, 2012

Ike Sims

Has eleven sons in service. Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service.
1917 - ca. 1919
Source: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) | War Department

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Vintage Store

Spring 1939. "Street scene along the main thoroughfare in Greensboro, Georgia."

Source: junipergallery

Friday, August 31, 2012

Oliver Hardy


Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) and preferred to not stay in school but to go to the vaudeville houses and study the onstage antics of many different groups. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.
Source: filmreferencegeorgiaencyclopedia