- Title:
- Scrapbook, Dalton, Ga. bedspread center of the world, Dalton, Georgia, 1948-1949
- Creator:
- Matthews, Ellie
Martin, Mary
Champion Home Town Steering Committee - Publisher:
- Champion Home Town Steering Committee
- Date of Original:
- 1948-11-01/1949-11-01
- Subject:
- City promotion--Georgia--Dalton
Place marketing--Georgia--Dalton
Competitions--Georgia
Municipal government--Public relations--Georgia--Dalton
Economic development projects--Georgia--Dalton
Commerce--Georgia--Dalton - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022
- Medium:
- scrapbooks
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- In this scrapbook created October 1949, local Dalton boosters compete to win the Georgia Power Company's Champion Home Town Contest. Created under the umbrella of Dalton's ad hoc Champion Home Town Steering Committee, the scrapbook was one of several documents, reports, and exhibits submitted for evaluation by the Georgia Power Company. The scrapbook includes photographs, newspaper clippings, original illustrations, and typescript documents created by club and civic community leaders to illustrate progress in the following categories: business and industry, health and sanitation, education, tourism and recreation, agriculture, municipal development, advertising and publicity, transportation, housing and civic improvement, and housing and civic improvement.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/zgk_text
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Dalton Champion Home Town Steering Committee
- Extent:
- 241 pages
- Original Collection:
- Dalton-Whitfield County Library History Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Dalton-Whitfield County Library
- Rights:
-
