Southern Suds: Come for the Beer, Stay for the History
October 23, 2015
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Tickets: $20 and up
Learn about the history and future of brewing in Augusta, get some tips on how to home brew yourself and take your photo in front of the Augusta Brewing Company photo booth. Enjoy music by The Mason Jars, food, and a sampling of craft brews from around Georgia.
For more information on Southern Suds, click here.
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Monday at the Museum
Monday at the Museum is a monthly program aimed at preschool age children. They must be accompanied by an adult.
Time: 10 am
Cost: $4 per child; $2 for a member's child
October 12, 2015
Spooky Augusta: Haunted Pillar
Children will hear the story of the Haunted Pillar in the 1864 exhibit, then create a tornado in a bottle!
November 23, 2015
Native American: Stallings Island Pottery
Children will visit our Stallings Island exhibit, play with the Native American Touch Cart, then create their own pottery!
December 21, 2015
Tis' the Season: Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza
Children will hop on the Polar Express, create their own hot chocolate mugs and gingerbread men necklaces!
Registration is requested by calling 706-722-8454 or email Amy Schaffman at aschaffman@augustamuseum.org.
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All Aboard! The Polar Express
December 6 & 13, 2015
Two performances - 1 pm and 3 pm each day
Cost: $7 per child; $5 for a member's child
Get up, get on, and get ready for the
ride of your life! The story of the Polar Express will be
performed to the delight of the young passengers. At the end:
All will Believe
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Museum members can purchase tickets starting September 23, 2015.
October 1, 2015, tickets will go on sale to the general public.
Limit (2) tickets per adult. Tickets can be purchased at the Augusta Museum of History administrative offices Monday through Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Tickets will not be sold on Saturday or Sunday.
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Limited tickets available!
Drawing Date: October 21, 2015
Tickets: $100
Enter to win 7 nights of accommodations for 4 people in Manciano, Italy, located just 1 1/2 hours north of Rome in beautiful Tuscany. Stay in a casa featuring a full living room, dining room, kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms with views of the rolling countryside. For more information about the casas, contact: Margie Lynch at 770-794-9938. Raffle tickets can be purchased in the Museum Administrative Offices, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Holiday Gingerbread Village
November 19-28, 2015, 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday, November 22 & 29, 2015, 1 pm - 5 pm
For the 10th year, the Augusta Museum of History is proud to present an experience to delight the senses...the annual Holiday Gingerbread Village!
Each historic-themed gingerbread creation will be available through silent auction, with proceeds benefiting Museum programs and exhibitions. The display and the opportunity to bid on the structures are FREE to the public during regular Museum hours.
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From the Executive Director
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New Horizons in Programs
Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years. Computer graphics have become much more sophisticated since then, and game graphics are pushing the barriers of photorealism. Now, researchers and engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell.
The Augusta Museum of History is in the initial stages of developing an augmented reality application for a smartphone and/or tablet. This technology will superimpose an historic image or video on a user's view of the real world by using a smartphone and/or tablet, thus integrating digital information with the user's environment in real time. Selections from the Museum's large photography collections will be used to juxtapose modern-day locations around Augusta-Richmond County with an image from the past.
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Modern Image: Marbury Center, 1259 Broad Street
Historic Image: Augusta Fire Department, 1913 Flood
Augusta Museum of History:
Augmented Reality Application Proposal 2016
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The first stage of this program will showcase downtown Augusta history in combination with a walking tour, which would be available on our website, social media outlets, and the Augusta-Richmond County and the Convention and Visitors Bureau websites. Some of the locations on the tour will include Broad Street, the Golden Blocks (Laney-Walker Boulevard), key areas of Telfair Street, the Augusta Canal, Riverwalk, James Brown locations, including his statue, and the Savannah River. By providing this service to local residents as well as those visiting, not only will it promote Augusta's rich history, but also enhance the overall tourism experience and bolster economic development. The second stage of the program would include locations throughout Richmond County including the Summerville area such as the Augusta Arsenal, areas of South Augusta such as the old racetrack, the East Boundry area such as the post-World War II housing developments, and west Augusta such as the development of Washington Road and the Augusta National.
The Museum is currently seeking funding for the augmented reality application, the staff time to research, to do the historical photograph identification, and eventually to add more images for the project.
Nancy J. Glaser, Executive Director
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QR codes are the small barcode-like squares on these photographs.
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"New Horizons in Programming" is the theme for this Fall Archive! issue. The
Augusta Museum of History is always looking to new and innovative programs for our members and guests to enjoy. Most of the new programming involves the use of technology. If you look closely, you will see QR codes being added to new AMH exhibits. Visitors can scan the code on their smartphone using a free QR reading app and up will pop a website that tells you more about a particular artifact. Sometimes we have more information about an artifact than can be presented to visitors on an exhibit label. The technology of QR codes allows us to bring you the whole story. Try out these QR codes in the museum and see how quickly an object's story unfolds before your eyes.
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Detail of a dress skirt worn by
Louise Benton Walton.
Donated by Isabel Mullen
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The Museum's Wells Fargo Textile case is featuring the
Glamourous Gowns of Centuries Past
exhibit. The three dresses currently on display will be on view until the end of December and then three new dresses will be rotated into the case from January to June. For each display, the Museum has chosen three dresses from historical eras - one from the Victorian era, one from the Flapper era, and one from the Modern era. Coming in January will be a red chiffon gown, a House of Charles Worth flapper dress, and a Victorian gown once worn by Louise Benton Walton. She was a descendent of George Walton and Robert Walton. George Walton was her great uncle, and Robert Walton was her great-grandfather. The dress is incredibly detailed and covered with beautiful beading and embroidered flowers. This exhibit is made possible by the Wells Fargo Foundation.
Lauren Virgo, Registrar
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Collections Care
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Wear nitrile or cotton gloves while placing prints in acid-free sleeves.
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One of the first things we do when we receive a donation is to examine it. To do so, I don a pair of nitrile gloves. Nitrile gloves are one of the most necessary tools of the trade in the collections area of the museum. They are a great barrier between the oils of your fingers and the artifact. You might not think that an object can be marred significantly by your finger oils, but you'd be wrong. Most of the irreversible damage I find on objects, especially photograph negatives and metal objects, comes from fingerprints. So, whether it's a pair of cotton gloves or a pair of nitrile gloves, be sure to protect your family heirlooms from permanent scars by wearing gloves. An additional way to protect your photographic negatives and prints is to store them in acid-free sleeves within an acid-free notebook. Various sized sleeves and notebooks can be purchased from a museum supply store, such as Gaylord Brothers or University Products.
For tips on how to preserve your collections at home, check out our
Collections Care Articles tab online
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Lauren Virgo, Registrar
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The Petersburg Boat Captain
October 10
& November 21
The Other Tubmans
Brown Bag
History Series
- Dr. Lee Ann Caldwell
October 7, 2015
"
Soldiering Over the Past 100 Years"
- Steve Rauch
November 4, 2015
No Brown Bag History Lecture
scheduled in December
Open All Week
November 23-29, 2015
Closed November 26
December 26-31, 2015
Closed December 24 & 25
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For more event information, please visit the following link:
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As always, we appreciate your generous contributions and our wonderful Museum members. To see our current list of Donors,
click here. To view our Members,
click here.
We thank you!
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle M. Glascock
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hull
Mr. and Mrs. George Meinhold
Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles Moye
Mr. and Mrs. H. Monty Osteen, Jr.
Patron Members:
Mr. and Mrs. W. Franklin Abbott III
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell E. Barnhart
Mrs. Jacquelyn M. Blanchard
Mr. Clayton P. Boardman III
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cates
Mr. Albert F. Cheatham
Ms. Octavia Garlington
Ms. Karen Hunt
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Nesbit
Dr. Lloyd B. Schnuck, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy H. Simkins
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Storey
Wells Fargo
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Whitworth
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So Much More to Discover!
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Can you find me?
This syrup pitcher was crafted using Parian. Parian is a type of bisque porcelain that was named after Paros, a Greek island renowned for its fine-textured, white marble of the same name. Invented by Thomas Battam, Parian was essentially created to imitate carved marble with the great advantage of being able to be cast in a mold. This allowed for the mass production of Parian products. This lovely pitcher features a natural design of tree branches and a bird's nest full of eggs.
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County Corner:
McDuffie County, GA
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The Augusta Museum of History is fortunate to be the home for several photography studio collections, including the photography collection of Vinton McFeely. McFeely was active from the mid-1910s to the mid-1940s in the Augusta and surrounding community. The photograph shown here shows a beauty queen in a decorated parade vehicle. This particular beauty queen is Miss Thomson of McDuffie County and she was featured in the McDuffie-Columbia County Fair in the 1920s.
Donated by Mrs. Vinton McFeely
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New Acquisitions
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This sheet of music was written as a funeral dirge for Captain Andrew J. Miller of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry. Capt. Miller was a prominent Augustan who died in 1856. He was commander of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, a county judge, state Senator, and he served as President of the Medical College of Georgia. Miller is best remembered for sponsoring a bill to give property rights to married women. Miller County, Georgia is named after Judge Miller. The music was composed by Robert A. Harper. Harper was a free person of color in Augusta. He studied music and composition in Boston and then returned to Augusta to open a music store. Harper is noted in the book
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege as having accumulated enough wealth as to be in the top 1% of wealthy free persons of color in the state of Georgia. He died in 1876 and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Donated by L. Keith Claussen
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SPLOST VII
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Augusta Museum of History's Board of Trustees unanimously support SPLOST VII.
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Staff Introductions
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Will Dangerfield, originally from Moncks Corner, SC, moved to the area with his wife a few years after his service in the U.S. Air Force. He earned his Bachelors of Arts in History at GRU in 2013 and he graduated from the Veterans Curation Program this past March. He is enjoying the opportunity of interning at the Augusta Museum of History and looks forward to furthering his education in the future. He is a devoted husband and father of three small children who enjoys reading or the outdoors in what little spare time he has.
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Education Update
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Using Primary Sources for Teaching
In the world of history education, teachers find themselves on the front lines of the constant battle to retain student interest in an era that increasingly values quick rewards and constant interactive stimulation. In the age of the iPad and Instagram, teachers can no longer rely on simply using textbooks to relate historical events. While there are those that may bemoan the loss of the traditional lecture format, educators need to embrace new creative opportunities. Such opportunities should include exploiting the rich resources that museums have to offer. Museums, long-time sideline spectators of more traditional education methodology, find themselves in the forefront of this modern instructional approach; they are uniquely poised to actively engage in innovative educational practices.
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Readers might ask where the connection between Museums and education resides. It lies in the use of primary sources. Primary sources represent an actual witness to history. They are the diaries, photographs, newspapers, documents, tools, and structures that tell the story of our past in the first-person. Museums collect, house, preserve, and display these items. In addition to the value
of primary sources for the general public, these resources can also be used
in the classroom to bring excitement, immediacy, and inquiry to historical subjects.
Students can examine differing historical perspectives first-hand
and learn the nuances present within historical perspectives. For instance, if students were to look at The Augusta Chronicle Newspaper from 1894, they could view articles about and displays of factories and business institutions. This would give the impression that manufacturing industrialization within
Augusta and the CSRA was very positive. The factory image shown, however, could suggest a different history; one of labor exploitation. Historians often debate about the interpretation of events. It is important that students learn to discern these historical distinctions and this can best be accomplished by using primary source materials.
Amy Schaffman, Education Manager
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Museum Insights
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Wilkinson Photography Collection
Donated by Linda and Charles Askey
The Wilkinson Studio has approximately 250,000 photo negatives documenting the CSRA's past. To preserve and protect these negatives, the Museum hires interns like me to digitize and care for them. I work with a collection donated by Ms. Linda Askey and Charles M. Askey Jr., family of the local photographer, Robert Wilkinson, Jr.. He was a prominent photographer in the Augusta area from the 1940s-1980s. He worked a number of years for the Augusta Chronicle and captured thousands of portraits for the Exchange Club, school yearbooks and passport images as well as pictures of special events in the CSRA. Below, I've highlighted a few of my favorites.
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Through the 1950s and into the early 1960s, Augusta held an annual Masters Golf parade to celebrate the upcoming tournament. In this photo from April 5, 1960, thousands lined Broad Street to view the extravaganza of bands, floats and beauty queens.
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Augusta Arsenal, still operating in 1948, had been a part of the US military infrastructure in its current location since 1827. Upon the end of the WWII, the Arsenal manufactured various types of equipment and served as a supply and repair point until it closed in 1955. Later that decade the grounds became the campus of Junior College of Augusta, and shortly thereafter renamed Augusta College. In 1996 the name was again changed to become Augusta State University. The name remained unchanged until 2012 when the school was merged with the Georgia Health Sciences University and has since become the Summerville Campus of Georgia Regents University and most recently Augusta University.
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All eyes were on the skies on April 22, 1948, as the Good Year Blimp, "Ranger," gave reporters and businessmen a bird's eye view of Augusta while on a good will tour of the South. The lighter-than-air ship floated effortlessly around the city while viewing the bustling activities of Broad Street, the Savannah River, mills, hospitals, and ballfields.
As I keep working through the collection, I find more and more extraordinary stories captured by Wilkinson. His career can teach us so much about the history of the CSRA. I can't wait to see what I find next!
Will Dangerfield, Intern
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Fitz-Symms: It's a Woman's World
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Mrs. Mary Landrum
Mechanic
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On October 4, 1957, the first episode of
Leave it to Beaver
aired on television. During its six year run Beaver's mother, June Cleaver, came to define the "typical" 1950-1960s woman as a housewife and mother. While many women were like June Cleaver, others worked outside of the home as stenographers or secretaries. These jobs extended the presence of women but were still seen as inherently feminine.
In November 1957, the Augusta Chronicle ran a story titled "It's a Woman's World." Written by Pauline Vonnes and illustrated by Morgan Fitz Photographers Inc., this article detailed some of the ways that women in Augusta successfully broke from tradition to maintain masculine jobs.
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Mrs. Lucille Oellerich
Plumber
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Mrs. Mary Landrum, pictured under the hood of a car, owned the Central Amoco Service Station on Central Avenue. According to the
Chronicle she enjoyed watching the "astonished look on a male customer's face when she crawl[ed] under the hood and fix[ed] his ailing auto."
Similarly, Mrs. Lucille Oellerich supervised her own plumbing business. While she mostly oversaw employees and the general business, she was not afraid to "get her hands dirty" with tools. In this Fitz-Symms photograph she is seated on the edge of a bathtub with her shoes off showing an employee how to attach a fixture.
The other two women featured in the article are Mrs. Dean Smith, a patrol cop, and Judge Iree Pope. Mrs. Pope was the first female judge in Augusta. She began as a typist for the Court of Ordinary and slowly worked her way through every position in that office until she earned her appointment.
Leave it to Beaver
may have been wildly popular, and June Cleaver may have defined the stereotype of women from her era, but women in Augusta proved that it was also a woman's world where they could do a masculine job.
Lauren Fleming, Intern
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