United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981937/1973Inventor, photographer, and crypt archivist T. K. Peters examines the crypt's microfilm. Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and the construction of the Panama Canal. After the crypt project, he restored the collection of Confederate flags in Georgia's capitol.Photograph of inventor, photographer, and Crypt of Civilization archivist T. K. Peters examining a strip of microfilm. He sits at a table, and two stacks of large books sit behind him. The Crypt of Civilization, a multimillennial time capsule, is a chamber that was sealed behind a stainless steel door in 1940 at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. Peters, who supervised construction of the crypt and served as its archivist, was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and the construction of the Panama Canal. After the crypt project, he restored the collection of Confederate flags in Georgia's capitol.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-civilizationForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-civilizationForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaInventors--Georgia--AtlantaPhotographers--Georgia--AtlantaArchivists--Georgia--AtlantaBooks--Georgia--AtlantaMicrofilms--Georgia--AtlantaHistorians--Georgia--AtlantaTime capsules--Georgia--AtlantaOglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)T. K. PetersStillImage