- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-010 Mrs. Henry R. Slack Collection
- Contributor to Resource:
- Callaway, Alice Hand
- Date of Original:
- 1992
- Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Pamphlets, magazine articles and other literature published between 1906 and 1960 promote LaGrange as a progressive industrial town with antebellum charm. The publications provide statistics such as the number of spindles and looms in operation and include many photographs of textile mills, mill villages and public buildings. A small collection of post cards features public buildings and historic homes. Remarks by Dr. Slack at the 25 March 1904, meeting of charter members of the LaGrange Sanitorium describe the sanitorium's first year of operation. A 1939 address before the 4th District Medical Society recounts his medical career and mentions several other doctors who practiced in LaGrange. The Slacks promoted the organization of the LaGrange public school system. Dr. Slack was a charter member of the Board of Education in 1903. A petition requesting the mayor and council to call an election to organize a school board bears the names of more than two hundred LaGrange citizens. In April 1932, Mrs. Slack presented a talk on the history of Ferrell Gardens to a group from the Garden Club of America when they visited the Gardens. A copy of the talk and two magazine articles on Ferrell Gardens are included. Among other items of memorabilia are a 1916 pattern book and a fashion show invitation from Callaway's Department Store. A hand bill lists the program of observances when Jefferson Davis' funeral train passed through LaGrange in 1889.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/134
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:134/manifest.json
- Original Collection:
- MS-010 Mrs. Henry R. Slack Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
