Flashback Photos: Great Georgia group photos

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Flashback Photos: Great Georgia group photos through the years

Flashback Photos: Great Georgia group photos

On April 1, 1897, these members of the Georgia Press Association made the long haul down to that most boring place in the world -- Palm Beach, Florida -- for an association meeting. Obviously, they were miserable on this business trip. What we members of the Fourth Estate won't sacrifice for our craft ...

1937 -- The original caption: "These pretty girls, all of whom live in Stone Mountain, Ga., were photgraphed while on a hike near their summer camp which is at Lake Winfield Scott, a short distance from Suches, Ga."

The Georgia Tech graduating class of 1901 dubbed themselves the "Insubordinate Seniors." Gee... we see absolutely nothing rakish about these fellows at all.

This 1950s photo was taken in a segregated Southern juke joint. We're not sure if it was a Georgia juke joint, but one thing is certain: We wouldn't say no to a night out on the town with this stylish crew.

Here's the Atlanta Constitution staff in the 1930s: From left to right, they are... Managing Editor Francis Clark; Jamis Hollimon, Editorial.; Dr. Sam Small, Editorial; Assistant Managing Editor Pat Hammond; City Editor Nate Noble; Society Editor Bessie Stafford; Hi Romans, Tri-Weekly. SEATED: Mr. Clark Howell Sr., editor and publisher; Lilly Mae Robinson, sections & magazine.

From 1980: University of Georgia coach Vince Dooley, center, and a group of his Bulldogs display their 1980 national championship football rings. The Bulldogs went 12-0 with a victory over Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to give them the championship.

Grady Hospital nurses take time out from their busy schedules to sit for a portrait in 1896.

Original caption: "As a part of their state-wide conservation program, the Conservation Committee of the Georgia Legislature recently took a boat ride through the famous area of 'trembling earth,' which as been proposed as a national park and a wildlife refuge. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was eventually established in 1937."

March 10, 1924: Members of the Major General Samuel Elbert Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution from Tennille, Georgia, place a wreath on Elbert's tomb in Savannah, Georgia.

This photo is a copy from the original: Men identified only as Fricks, Rufus Mincey, Wehunt, Chester and Lingerfelt in front of a still in Dawson County in the 1940s.

This photo, from Nov. 1, 1904, brings together the streetcar conductors of the Georgia Railway and Power Company, which ran the Atlanta transit system from 1902 through 1949.

Atlanta's own Seed & Feed Marching Abominable band in 1982.

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On April 1, 1897, these members of the Georgia Press Association made the long haul down to that most boring place in the world -- Palm Beach, Florida -- for an association meeting. Obviously, they were miserable on this business trip. What we members of the Fourth Estate won't sacrifice for our craft ...

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