- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-059 Troup County Chapter American Red Cross Records
- Date of Original:
- 1985-10
- 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:
- Chapter records include scrapbooks and photographs detailing activities of the Red Cross and the Junior Red Cross. Four scrapbooks were prepared as part of the International Red Cross scrapbook exchange program and reflect the activities and thoughts of school groups in Japan, Washington State, and Siedlce. Scrapbook #1 is particularly valuable since its newsclippings and correspondence reflect early organizing efforts of residents to establish a local chapter of the Red Cross. Also reflecting the work of the chapter are scrapbooks #3 and #4 (now in folders). These scrapbooks date 1953 and 1958-60 and contain clippings and photographs about fund campaigns, blood drives, and such special projects as the Gray Ladies, Junior Red Cross and safety courses. Scrapbook #6, 1947-1967, reflects the activities and concerns of the Junior Red Cross in elementary schools and high schools throughout Troup County, but especially LaGrange. The remaining scrapbooks focus more generally on LaGrange and LaGrange High School or are from students participating in the Red Cross Scrapbook Exchange program. A more complete description follows in the container list. Photographs which had come loose from scrapbook pages are filed with the Archives' Red Cross photograph collection. A complete listing of the photos follows this inventory.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/418
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:418/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
