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

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

Original Collection
Dalton-Whitfield County Library History Collection

Holding Institution
Dalton-Whitfield County Library

Rights