- Collection:
- Georgia Tech Artifacts
- Title:
- textile
- Contributor to Resource:
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Date of Original:
- 1935
- Subject:
- Georgia Institute of Technology--History
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Franklin D. Roosevelt first met Georgia Tech President Marion L. Brittain during a visit to Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt was several times a guest of Brittain’s at Tech football games. On November 29, 1935, President Roosevelt spoke to a crowd of roughly 50,000 people at Grant Field as part of the formal dedication of the Techwood Homes Project, the first low-income housing project in the United States. This woven textile portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt was probably created by Georgia Tech's School of Textile Engineering in commemoration of that event.
- Local Identifier:
- gta.0649
- Metadata URL:
- http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/6044
- Digital Object URL:
- http://history.library.gatech.edu/files/original/gta0649_roosevelt-portrait-cutout_8d5bf44baf.jpg
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department
- Rights:
-
