Flashback Photos: Scenes from Middle and South Georgia, Pt. 1

Flashback Photos

Flashback Photos: Scenes from Middle and South Georgia, Pt. 1

Venture to the Fall Line and south to the wiregrass, coastal shore and rich farmlands of Georgia in this trip through the AJC photo archives.

Original caption: "A famous landmark At Brunswick: Beneath this spreading tree, now known as 'Lanier's Oak,' Sidney Lanier, beloved poet of the South, received his inspiration for the immortal poem, 'The Marshes of Glynn.'" WALTER FRANK WINN / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1930s -- A sheep ranch in southwest Georgia. KENNETH ROGERS / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1978 -- Gregg Allman performs with the Allman Brothers Band at the annual Capricorn Picnic in Macon. JEROME McCLENDON / AJC FILE

1940 -- Aerial view of Albany after the February tornado of the same year. Photo shows crowds of people walking in the streets. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1982 -- Pedestrians cross Cherry St. in downtown Macon. RAY WEST / AJC FILE

1934 -- Ada Walden, Lucille Canady and Marion Roach from South Georgia Teachers College try their hands at tapping a pine tree in the Charles H. Herty Pines Nature Preserve, Bulloch County.

1925 -- A flooded Georgia and Florida Railroad track at the Altamaha River.

1910s -- World War I soldiers training with various artillery and tanks at Fort Benning near Columbus. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1920s -- Original caption: "Tobacco market at Baxley on U.S. Route 1. This scene is typical of South Georgia tobacco markets at the height of the marketing season. Tobacco growers bring their 'weed' to large warehouses, where buyers for tobacco manufacturers look over and grade each grower's product and buy it on the basis of competitive bidding." AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1930s -- Original caption: "Where a Georgia Industry began. Selma Sherrer and Elizabeth Brannon inspect an historic grinding stone at the Stevens Pottery Co., nine miles from Milledgeville. This pottery was founded by J.H. and W.C. Stevens in 1861. The stone is painted with the inscription: 'This rock ground the clay that made the first sewer pipe manufactured in the South, 1861.'" AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1934 -- Thelma McPhail and Dulce Duckwortle pose in vintage firefighter uniforms in front of steam fire engine, Albany. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1974 -- The front gate of Luther Williams Field in Macon. The ballpark was built in 1929 and was the home of the Class A Macon Braves before the team moved to Rome in 2003. BILL WILSON / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1924 -- D.A.R. State Conference Memorial Wreath placed by the Major General Samuel Elbert Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Tennille, Ga., on the tomb of Major General Samuel Elbert whose re-interment took place, with full military honors in Savannah on March 10. FOLTZ PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO / SPECIAL TO AJC

1925-- Original caption: "This poplar log was felled by employees of Jansen Bros. Co. of Valdosta and [skidded] out of the swamp by agents of International Harvesting Machine Co., demonstrating their tractor and skidder attachment and their three-ton truck and trailer. The log measures fifty-seven inches across the stump and thirty-three inches at the top; fifty-seven feet long. Measuring over thirty-three hundred feet and weighs over 35,000 pounds." AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1936 -- Skeleton in fetal position found inside Ocmulgee Indian Ceremonial Mound. Macon. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1950s -- Weavers Worm Ranch owner and helpers in Columbus. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1945 -- Original caption: "The city council enters the temporary city hall and chamber of commerce building for a session. The politicos are (left to right) Irwin Parker of Albany, Norman Taylor of Waycross, Mayor Gene Poss of Atlanta, Melvin Lavier of Albany and Sonny Taylor of Waycross." AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1930s -- Broadway, looking south from 12th Street, Columbus, Ga. DON JOHNSON / AJC FILE

1950 -- Wismer Holland, of Valdosta, makes a right turn without disrupting traffic as he drives his converted Ercoupe airplane through town. Fliers all over the country are interested in fixing their planes like his. CAROLYN WILLIAMS / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1920s -- Georgia State Route 3, winding through a forest of stately pines, south of Albany. Photo by Hart Studio, Albany. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1988 -- A sign on a Plains, Ga., storefront touts the southwest Georgia town's fame as the home of President Jimmy Carter. LOUIE FAVORITE / AJC FILE

1978 -- Original caption: "Dorothy Longstreet: 'Time's terrible now,' says the woman who worked as a maid in Americus until her disability retired her. 'I worked five days a week, eight and nine hours a day for $5 a day.... But nowadays since the government making 'em pay maids $2.65 an hour, ain't that much call for maid work 'round here.'" RAY WEST / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1931 -- Robert Woodruff on horseback, leading a hunting party with mule-drawn wagon at his hunting estate, Ichauway Plantation, in south Georgia on the Flint River. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION / GSU

1938 -- B. R. Bowden and J. A. Hightower stamping some of the first liquor to be removed from the warehouse for the start of Albany's legalized sale. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

1950s -- Aerial view of Columbus near the Chattahoochee River. AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

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Original caption: "A famous landmark At Brunswick: Beneath this spreading tree, now known as 'Lanier's Oak,' Sidney Lanier, beloved poet of the South, received his inspiration for the immortal poem, 'The Marshes of Glynn.'" WALTER FRANK WINN / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES

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