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Albert Armor home movies, 1946-1949
Home movies of the Greensboro, Georgia-based Armor family from 1946 to 1949
More About This Collection
Creator
Armor, George Albert, 1907-1979
Date of Original
1946/1949
Subject
Armor family
Armor, Anne
Armor, Bill
Armor, E. H.
Armor, George Albert, 1907-1979
Boston Braves (Baseball team)
Cleveland Indians (Baseball team)
Cotton gins and ginning--Georgia
Sawmills
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
World Series (Baseball) (1948)
Location
United States, Georgia, Greene County, Greensboro, 33.57568, -83.18238
United States, Georgia, Wheeler County, Oconee River, 31.95963, -82.54374
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
Medium
home movies
motion pictures (visual works)
Type
Moving Image
Description
This collection contains four reels of 16mm color film shot by Albert Armor on various trips from 1946-1949. These home movies include shots in and around Greensboro, Georgia showing rivers, forest, downtown, sawmills, and cotton gins. Most of the film shows the Armor family including E.H. Armor, as well as Anne and Bill Armor. There is also footage of a 1948 World Series game in Boston; sights in Boston; the New York skyline; and President Harry Truman's 1949 inauguration. The three of the films were examined as part of the 2014 Association of Moving Image Archivists' conference in Savannah, Georgia., George Albert Armor was born in 1907 in Greensboro, Georgia to Edgar Harvey Armor, Sr. and Alberta Hall Armor. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1928. After moving to California Albert married Wilma Tomer and had two children Ann and Bill. He would returned to Greensboro to visit his brother Edgar H. Armor, Jr. and family. E.H. Armor, Jr. was born in 1917 and attended the University of Georgia. He remained in Greensboro where he worked with the Farm Bureau Board and was a Wildlife Ranger. He enjoyed history and genealogy and authored The Cemeteries of Greene County, Georgia. Albert Armor died in Fresno, California in 1979, his brother E. H. Armor died in 2002 in Greensboro, Georgia.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Albert Armor home movies, MS 2504, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia
Holding Institution
Georgia Historical Society
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