- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of "Bobby" Tyre Jones, Tyrus "Ty" Raymond Cobb, and an unidentified man, Waynesboro, Burke County, Georgia, ca. 194- ]
- Date of Original:
- 1940/1949
- Subject:
- Golfers--Georgia--Burke County
Recreations--Georgia--Waynesboro
Jones, Bobby, 1902-1971
Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Burke County, Waynesboro, 33.08987, -82.01567
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Waynesboro, ca. 1940s. "Bobby" Tyre Jones (left), Tyrus "Ty" Raymond Cobb (middle), and an unidentified man talking during the field trials. Waynesboro became famous for being the "Bird Dog Capital of the World". Both Jones and Cobb were Native Georgians. Jones was renown as an amateur golfer and Cobb was a professional baseball player with the Detroit Tigers of the American League.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_bur080
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:bur080
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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