Progress & Discussion
http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=510&ID=4223
Please look at the linked page. You will see some relative data.
Phase 1.
. overview of the main issue over the period by defining the subject area
. forground general concepts, data through your lens
Members discussion
Hey guys,
This is what is going down.
Note the new divisions of work. It is no longer by building but by years.
In order to upload to the COA folder FROM YOUR OWN COMPUTER GO HERE! http://128.61.179.140/~info/WebDAV/PC%20WebDav%20Info.html and follow the instructions. For the network address type in https://gtcoaweb.coa.ad.gatech.edu/Courses/COA-1060-A-200708/Work-Area/g6-Economic%20and%20Political%20Conditions
Post Wednesday Oct. 24th by Midnight:
- 1. Post 30 images—Images should be collected that represent Economic and Political Conditions. Remember the 5 levels of focus: International, National, State, City, and Tech Campus. Only focus on events from your assigned time period (image examples: Newspaper Headlines, History Book-esque Images, Graphs/Trend Lines).
- 2. One excel document—I have attached an excel template. The purpose of this is to document where you got you images and provide info about key pictures. You will select one image from each year to be included in the power point (indicate this image with an before the title name). For that image you will also type out important info that is worthy to be presented in the power point for the weak. Keep in mind that there are 30 years, so there will be 30 images on the power points. For that reason, be concise with the amount of info.
The course folder will be organized as follows:
>Course Folder
Robby 1880-1883
Dylan 1884-1887
Alyssa 1888-1891
Abi 1892-1895
Crimson 1896-1900
Andrew 1901-1904
Jason 1905-1910Jason is presenting this week. A reminder to Jason, The Power Point is due Thursday Night at Midnight.
To get the images use these resources.
3 Books in Arch Library-Reserve
Daily life in the industrial United States, 1870-1900: the industrial USA
By Julie Husband
E 168 .H965 2004
Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain
by David E. Kyvig.
E 169 .K985 2001
Century
by Bruce Bernard.
D 426 .C46X 1999
2 Books in Main Library- Reference Section on 2East
American decades (9 Vol.)
By edited by Richard Layman.
E 169.12 .A419 1994 (main library 2East)
Chronicle of the 20th century
by Clifton Daniel
D422 .C53 1995 Reference (main library 2East)
Online
Britannica Online (access from Library website> Databases >E > Encyclopedia Britannica)
Contains an interactive Timeline with categories: architecture, art, daily life,
literature, technology
Economic and Political Conditions
Encyclopedia of American political history
By Finkleman
E183 .E48 2001 (main library Reference 2East)
Jumpin Jim Crow: southern politics from civil way to civil rights
By Dailey
F215 .J86 2000
National Trauma and Collective Memory: major events in the American century
By Neal
E741 .N43 1998
United States business history, 1602-1988: a chronology
by Robinson.
HC103 .R595 1996 (main library Reference 2East)
Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history
By Carson
HC102 .G35 1999 (main library Reference 2East)
Any question call me,
Andrew Harvard
678.360.4635
Here's a resource I found:
1880
By threatening to cut off the street lights, the city forces a rate reduction on coal gas to $23 per light per year.
When school opens in September, 3,328 students attend, while 300 six and seven year olds are turned away for lack of room.
Joel Chandler Harris publishes the first in his Uncle Remus series.
1881 The International Cotton Exposition, America's first "World's Fair" of a sort, is held in Atlanta's Oglethorpe Park. Headed by the once-discredited Hannibal Kimball, it features a model cotton factory 720 feet in length and has seven foreign countries participating.
Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary opens. It later moves to McPherson Barracks and becomes Spelman Seminary, later to become Spelman College.
1882
Amid public demand for more city parks, Col. L.P. Grant offers 100 acres just east of town, later to become Grant Park, home of Zoo Atlanta and the Cyclorama, and a surrounding neighborhood to bear its name.
Young Woodrow Wilson moves to town, is admitted to the bar, and sets his up office at 48 Marietta Street.
1883 The Atlanta Journal, an evening paper, is launched by Edward Hoge. A subscription costs 10 cents a week.
In what some called the "biggest blaze since Sherman," the huge Kimball House hotel is gutted by fire. The Atlanta Journal hits the streets with the city's first "extra" edition. A new Kimball house is planned and construction begins.
1884 Plans are announced for a Southern baseball league to include Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock and Atlanta.
City Hall is demolished and the ground is broken on that site for the new (and present) state Capitol.
Grover Cleveland becomes the first Democrat to be elected president since pre-Civil War days. Henry Grady, who had a small brass cannon made in anticipation of the occasion, fires it and leads a cheering crowd to the Capitol.
1885 Prohibitionists win a referendum barring liquor from Fulton County. (Two years later, another referendum will make the country wet again.)
Fearing Fulton going dry will hurt sales of his French Wine Cola, pharmacist John Pemberton goes into his lab at his 107 Marietta St home and comes out with a new headache remedy he calls Coca-Cola.
1886 Jefferson Davis comes to town and joins a crowd estimated at 100,000 for the dedication of a monument to the recently-departed Georgia statesman, Benjamin Hill.
The state establishes a technological school and Atlanta beats out other cities for what will become Georga Tech.
Henry Grady declares the reality of "The New South," thus popularizing the phrase, in a speech at Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City also attended by Gen. William Sherman.
1887 A circular painting of the Battle of Atlanta by a group of German artists goes on display in Detroit. The picture is 50 feet high, 400 feet around, and cost $40,000.
Hoke Smith, a 37-year-old attorney, buys into the Atlanta Journal for $10,000 and becomes its president.
1888
The city contracts for 400 electric street lights for $30 per light per year.
1889
George Gress buys a bakrupt circus and donates the animals to the city to found a zoo.
Decatur Female Seminary opens in Decatur with 57 day students and three boarders. It will later become Agnes Scott College.
Henry Grady dies.
1890 The circular painting of the Battle of Atlanta is auctioned to Paul Atkinson of Georgia.
Atlanta toilet census:2,829 indoor; about 9,000 in outhouses.
1891
President Benjamin Harrison comes to town. When he asks to visit the site of the Battle of Peachtree Creek in which he fought, the guide takes him to the wrong creek, so he never gets to see it.
Asa Candler buys Coca-Cola for $2,300. (Next year, he will incorporate it.)
1892 Score of the city's first intercollegiate football game: Auburn 10, University of Georgia 0.
The new Grady Memorial Hospital on Butler Street is dedicated with 100 beds and 10 rooms for "pay patients."
1893 A new opera house, DeGive's Grand Theatre, opens on Peachtree. (It will become the first theatre in town with electric lights, the host of the world premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in 1939, and will burn in 1978.)
Georgia Tech and University of Georgia meet for the first time on a football field: Tech wins, 22-6, with help from Leonard Wood, who will later command Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
1894
The waterworks property and lake on the southside is converted for recreational use, including rowboats and launches on the lake, a bath house, a music stand and open-air theatre, and a "large and elegant pavilion." It will open the next year as Lakewood Park (but for whites only.)
Several rail systems serving Atlanta are reorganized (by J.P. Morgan and others) as the Southern Railway.
1895 The huge Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 opens in Piedmont Park with a switch thrown long-distance by Pres. Cleveland in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Before the 6,000-exhibit fair closes in December (after running up a nearly $3-million tab), it will be the temporary home of the Liberty Bell, and will be visited by over 800,000 visitors, including the president and his cabinet. One expo attraction: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. John Philip Sousa will compose "King Cotton March" in honor of the fair and premiere it there.
Among speeches at the exposition is the famous "Atlanta Compromise" address of Booker T. Washington, who pleas that blacks compromise their demands for the sake of getting jobs. Whites cheer while many blacks are critical.
1896 Atlanta University Professor W.E.B. DuBois begins leading conferences on living conditions of urban blacks. DuBois will later be a founder of the NAACP.
Atlanta's first golf course built: seven-holes laid out on the grounds of the Piedmont Driving Club.
1897 The English-American Building, now known as the Flatiron Building, is erected on Peachtree north of Five Points. (At this writing, it still stands.)
1898
Named headquarters of the new military Department of the Gulf in anticipation of the invasion of Cuba, Atlanta devotes the entire year to participation of the Spanish-American War, culminating in the December visit of Pres. William McKinley and some of his cabinet for a post-war Peace Jubilee.
1899
The Retail Credit Company begins operation in a one-room office in the Gould Building. It will later become Equifax Corporation, one of the three major American credit services.
1900
The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company is licensed by Coca-Cola to bottle the beverage locally. It begins operation in a building that still stands at 125 Edgewood Ave.
1901 Bicycle dealer William Dawson Alexander builds three 650-pound "Locomobile Steamers," Atlanta's first horseless carriages. He then joins with partner C.L. Elyea and forms Atlanta's Oldsmobile dealership.
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary and Training School for Christan Nurses is founded, later to become Georgia Baptist Medical Center.
1902
Carnegie Library opens.
A race riot, later known as the "Pittsburgh Riot" after that section of the city, leaves three policemen, two black and one white civilian dead.
1903
Edwin Ansley begins developing a neighborhood that will bear his name.
The Independent begins publication. It is Atlanta's first black newspaper.
1904 A bad year for cars: After one of Atlanta's first auto accidents (car collides with trolley and horse-drawn surrey on Peachtree; car wrecked, horse fine), the City Council says drivers must get license from city clerk and sets speed limit of 8 MPH. Less than two months later, a Marietta chemist dies after losing control of his car on Marietta Street, becoming Atlanta's first auto accident fatality.
Rhodes Hall is erected by furniture chain founder A.G. Rhodes at 1516 Peachtree St. The building still stands at this writing.
1905 The new Terminal Station opens at Mitchell Street and Madison Avenue with the playing of "Dixie" by the 16th US Infantry Band.
Under leadership of former slave and ex-barber Alonzo Herndon, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company is formed. Herndon is Atlanta's first black millionaire. His home still stands near Morris Brown College and is open to visitors.
1906
Four days of race rioting in September leave ten blacks and two whites dead. A report issued by the Chamber of Commerce blames whites for the disturbances. The riot began after a gubernatorial campaign in which one candidate, Hoke Smith (of Atlanta Journal and Grover Cleveland cabinet fame), promised to take away the black vote.
1907
Governor Hoke Smith is inauguarated.
1908 Prohibition wins a state referendum but Atlanta bars win right to sell "near beer."
Joel Chandler Harris dies at age 59. The Uncle Remus Memorial Association is formed and will eventually buy his home, "Wren's Nest," and keep it up in his honor.
1909 Atlanta Taxicab Company introduces the city to taxis, eight of them. The fare is 30 cents for the first half-mile, then 10 cents each additional quarter mile.
Atlanta's first black-owned bank, Atlanta State Savings Bank, is formed.
1910
Atlanta's population: 154,839, 33.5 percent being black.
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