Historic Schools Photograph Collection
The Historic Schools Photograph Collection contains approximately 1,800 images taken by the Georgia Department of Education in the 1950s of White and African American school buildings.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
1950/1959
Subject
African American schools--Georgia
Schools--Georgia
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
Medium
black and white negative
black and white print
Type
StillImage
Description
The Historic Schools Photograph Collection contains approximately 1,800 images taken by the Georgia Department of Education in the 1950s. The images show Georgia primary and secondary public schools that were scheduled for demolition. The collection includes both white and African American schools from across the state.
The Georgia Department of Education undertook a building program in the 1950s in response to a 1947 survey which found that the State had too many small poorly built schools. The survey also found that general schoolhouse conditions were deplorable and that African American schools were in worse shape than the white schools. As a result, schools were consolidated, some new buildings constructed, and small or poorly built schools were demolished. Between 1942 and 1956, the total number of schools in Georgia dropped from 3,205 to 2,480.
These photographs are from Record Group 48-2-1.
Contributing Institution
Georgia Archives
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