Monthly Archives: January 2025

Lunch and Learn about David Drake, Enslaved Potter

Lunch and Learn ! Come with us to meet David Drake in Discovering Dave: Spirit Captured in Clay on Tuesday, February 18th from 12:00 pm-1:00 pm in the Headquarters Library Auditorium.  Archaeologist George Wingard presents his award-winning documentary based on … Continue reading

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R. Williams And Son: Clear Pictures, Cloudy Records

Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Joseph M. Lee., the Georgia Room has a small collection of studio portraits, taken by various studios which conducted business in Augusta in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a document of … Continue reading

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Needles & Threads: Piecing Together African American Families

The Georgia Heritage Room is doing something a little different for the winter programming quarter. In February and March we’re offering three Lunch & Learn programs and invite you to bring a bag lunch to the third floor computer lab … Continue reading

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Maria Bryan Harford and Her Five Slaves

  In a letter written to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming, on the night of her nineteenth birthday, Maria Bryan, a planter’s daughter born on New Year’s Day in 1808 at Mt. Zion, Georgia, anticipated the coming year and wondered, … Continue reading

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