- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Crypt of Civilization
- Date of Original:
- 1940
- Subject:
- Time capsules--Georgia--Atlanta
Picture-writing--Georgia--Atlanta
Microfilms
Sound recordings--Georgia--Atlanta
Antiquities--Collection and preservation
Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The interior of the swimming pool-sized time capsule is filled with contents intended to represent an encyclopedic record of life and customs up until 1940, when the crypt was sealed. The crypt's interior resembles a pyramid chamber, and pictographs decorate the walls.
Photograph showing the interior of the Crypt of Civilization, a swimming pool-sized time capsule filled with contents intended to represent an encyclopedic record of life and customs up until 1940, when the crypt was sealed. This time capsule is located at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. Many reels of microfilm and sound recordings were placed in the vault, and electric microreaders and projectors were placed in the vault to ensure that the openers of the crypt could see and hear these records. Artifacts cover the floor of the vault. The crypt's interior resembles a pyramid chamber, and pictographs decorate the walls. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-of-civilization/m-1748/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Oglethorpe University Archives
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-civilization
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/time-capsules
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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