Christmas 1921
Vintage Christmas Greeting Card 1922 Christmas 1921 The front page of the LaGrange Graphic, December 15, 1921, was devoted entirely to children’s letters to Santa. At the time, these were simple requests from children, however, [...]
HDV Forklifts
HDV Forklifts This photo, from the cover of the October 1, 1951 Callaway Beacon, shows a line of new forklifts that had just recently been purchased for Callaway Mills with each forklift’s driver. The caption reads, “Drivers [...]
E. E. Willamson
Within our stacks, we have a small collection of just over thirty photographs. Surprisingly, these photographs dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s are not rendered in the black and white that is common to the [...]
Dr. John Henry Jordan
Dr. John Henry Jordan The images show Dr. Jordan Henry Jordan, his wife, Mollie, and their son, Edward. In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. Dr. [...]
Dorthey K. Harrison
Dorothy K. Harrison In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions and history of African-Americans in Troup County. So often, important people of color have slipped through the cracks of history. One of those [...]
Black Drink
image shows the berries and foliage of the Yaupon holly While neither coffee—brewed from the seeds of shrubs in the genus Coffea—or tea—brewed from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis—are native to North America, the [...]
Freedom Riders
Beginning in May of 1961, Civil Rights activists began staging protests against the enforcement of public bus integration in the South. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing integration, many Southern states continued to enforce state and [...]
Franklin Heard
In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. From 1949 to 1968, Callaway Mills published the Callaway Beacon, a regular newsmagazine for its employees. Within the magazine’s pages are [...]
