- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Peyton Anderson
- Date of Original:
- 1958/1962
- Subject:
- Publishers and publishing--Georgia--Macon
Businessmen--Georgia--Macon
Businesspeople--Georgia--Macon
Philanthropists--Georgia--Macon
Men--Georgia--Macon
Newspaper publishing--Georgia--Macon
Newspapers--Ownership
Newspaper presses--Georgia--Macon
Anderson, Peyton Tooke, 1907-1988 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Publisher and philanthropist Peyton Anderson poses in the Macon Telegraph pressroom in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Anderson assumed control of the Telegraph from 1951 until 1969.
Photograph of publisher and philanthropist Peyton Anderson posing in the Macon (Georgia) Telegraph pressroom in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Wearing a suit and tie, he holds a folded newspaper in his left hand and smiles. He stands among large pieces of printing machinery.
Anderson assumed control of the Macon Telegraph from 1951 until 1969. At his death in 1988, the bulk of his fortune, approximately $35 million, was bequeathed to the Peyton Anderson Foundation to be used for the benefit of Macon and middle Georgia. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/peyton-anderson-1907-1988/m-7641/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy Peyton Anderson Foundation
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/peyton-anderson-1907-1988
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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