- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Ground breaking ceremony at Buford Dam with Governor Herman Talmadge, Weldon Garner, E. L. Hart, W. B. Hartfield, J. Larry Kleckley, Col. B. L. Robinson, and Roy Otwell, Buford, Georgia, March 2, 1950.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fitzpatrick, Jimmy (James C.), 1916-2014
- Date of Original:
- 1950-03-02
- Subject:
- Dams--Design and construction
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Forsyth County, Buford Dam, 34.16038, -84.07352
United States, Georgia, Forsyth County, Lake Sidney Lanier, 34.16038, -84.07352
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, 33.96173, -84.02363
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Buford, 34.12066, -84.00435
United States, Georgia, Hall County, 34.31689, -83.81968 - Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Negative envelope: "Buford Dam, Herman Talmadge, William B. Hartsfield, and Neal Ellis." Newspaper caption: "Buford, March 2 - at left (left to right) Gov. Herman Talmadge, H. Weldon Garner, E. L. Hart, Mayor W. B. Hartsfield, Larry Kleckley, Col. B. L. Robinson and Roy Otwell push on shovels as ground was broken Wednesday for the start of the $42,000,000 Buford Dam. At right, a tractor on the muddy road to the dam site tows the car of Fulton's Chief Neal Ellis out of the mud. The work started was on a $300,000 saddle dam, a subsidiary element of main dam." Also present were Col Walter K. Wilson and Lt. Col. J.R. Jewett, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/5693
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:5693/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCNS1950-03-00b, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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