- Collection:
- Georgia Power Better Home Town Contest Scrapbooks, Sylvester, Georgia
- Title:
- Champion Home Town
- Creator:
- Luke, Gus
Scrap Book Committee (Sylvester, Ga.)
Better Home Town Committee (Sylvester, Ga.) - Contributor to Resource:
- Sylvester-Margaret Jones Library
- Date of Original:
- 1949
- Subject:
- Scrapbooks--Georgia--Worth County
Georgia Power Company
Education--Georgia--Worth County
Youth--Georgia--Worth County
Industry--Georgia--Worth County
Housing--Georgia--Worth County
Religion--Georgia--Worth County
City Development--Georgia--Worth County
City promotion--Georgia--Worth County
Place marketing--Georgia--Worth County
Competitions--Georgia--Worth County
Municipal government--Public relations--Georgia--Worth County
Economic development projects--Georgia--Worth County
Commerce--Georgia--Worth County
Worth County (Ga.)--History
Scrapbooks--Georgia--Sylvester
Education--Georgia--Sylvester
Youth--Georgia--Sylvester
Industry--Georgia--Sylvester
Housing--Georgia--Sylvester
Religion--Georgia--Sylvester
City Development--Georgia--Sylvester
City promotion--Georgia--Sylvester
Place marketing--Georgia--Sylvester
Competitions--Georgia--Sylvester
Municipal government--Public relations--Georgia--Sylvester
Economic development projects--Georgia--Sylvester
Commerce--Georgia--Sylvester
Sylvester (Ga.)--History
Segregation in education--Worth County
Segregation in public accommodations--Worth County
African Americans--Georgia--Worth County
Worth County (Ga.)--Race relations
Brain drain--Georgia
Contests--Georgia
Corporations--Public relations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Worth County, 31.55151, -83.85088
United States, Georgia, Worth County, Sylvester, 31.53092, -83.83693 - Medium:
- scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- From 1949-1954, residents of the town of Sylvester, Georgia formed, then later served on a committee to design and assemble a scrapbook as part of its application to the "Better Home Town" competition sponsored and organized by Georgia Power. The contest was designed to promote and encourage development in Georgia's smaller cities and minimize the trend of young people leaving smaller Georgia cities and towns. The contest required applicants to form committees and create a scrapbook for their town that showcased its attributes. The Worth County scrapbooks include photographs, snapshots, newspaper clippings, illustrations, programs, and detailed typescript reports of improvements made in many categories, such as: education, health, agriculture, civic organizations, infrastructure, tourism, homes, and businesses. Illustrations were drawn for each section by visual artist Gus Luke.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/worth-sylv_bhs_sb03
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/worth-sylv_bhs_sb03#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/worth-sylv_bhs_sb03/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 15 x 22 inches, 198 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Sylvester-Margaret Jones Library
- Rights:
-
