*Note: The language below may be a little antiquated because they are excerpts and transcriptions from a the book –Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey By Weymer Jay Mills .J. B. Lippincott Company – written in 1902 The Belcher Mansion in New Jersey was a place were many important people in the colonies were entertained. […]
Greensboro is the county seat of Greene County, Georgia. Photojournalist Marion Post Wolcott took these photographs in 1939 of Greensboro, Georgia as she traveled in the area. Traveling to Greensboro, Georgia was very different in 1939. Horses on the road were once a common occurrence This was a small black community outside of Atlanta toward Greensboro, […]
A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long-term. The word Freelance actually came from the Middle Ages when freelances were soldiers who fought for anyone who would hire them. They were literally freelancers who used their lances wherever they were directed.
These photographs taken in 1939 of the Thornton House in Union Point, Greene County Georgia were submitted to the Library of Congress by Frances Benjamin Johnston. It was built by Thomas Redmon Thornton. Thomas Redmon Thornton came to Georgia by way of Virginia in the late 18th century. He operated an indigo farm in Union […]
In 1939 when Photojournalist, Marion Post Wolcott, traveled to Georgia, she took many photographs. Some of her pictures included these three photographs of mill houses in Greene County, Georgia. One photo was of a ‘tornado’ fence around the cotton mill. I wonder if it was meant to divert tornadoes. In this group of photographs, […]
Downtown Atlanta, Georgia looked much different in the 1930’s. These photographs were taken in 1939 by Marion Post Wolcott when she toured Georgia and took many photographs documenting life at the time. The Henry Grady Hotel no longer exists. The Henry Grady Hotel was a 13-story hotel located at the corner of Peachtree Street and Cain St. (now Andrew Young […]
This is Independence Day and a good time to reflect upon the 1st time it was celebrated. Read more about U. S. connection with Big Ben here. Did you know that Big Ben in London, England and the Liberty Bell have something in common. Both Bells were made by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in […]
This letter was written by John Adams to a friend the day after the Declaration of Independence and was later reproduced in a newspaper. “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever decided among men. A resolution was passed unanimously ‘That these United States are, and of right ought to be, free and independent […]
Photojournalist Dorothea Lange took many pictures of people and the Georgia countryside when she toured the area in the spring of 1937. The photographs reveal much about the residents of Georgia. Here are some of these photographs with comments she made about the people and places. Bank at Homerville, Georgia Photograph shows the removal of […]
Jackson Plantation House Greene County, Georgia In the spring of 1939, photographer Marion Post Wolcott traveled to Greene County, Georgia and took photographs in the area and photographer Jack Delano visited there in 1941. They took many photographs of old abandoned plantation houses such as theses of Jackson Plantation House. In the late 1840s, James Jackson […]
