{"id":359,"date":"2005-07-06T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2005-07-06T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T09:29:06","slug":"in-the-georgia-archives-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"In the Georgia Archives (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaarchives.org\/\">Georgia Archives<\/a> again this week, with a digital camera taking images of the local superintendents&#8217; reports to the state department of education from the late 30s through the early 60s.  At the moment, they don&#8217;t allow use of flash or tripods, so it&#8217;s an interesting challenge to hold my arms still enough to take decent images.  I&#8217;m doing a good job thus far, with the help of the camera&#8217;s timer.  It&#8217;s just taking a <strong>long<\/strong> time even to do one year, because there are 170-180 school districts in Georgia.  I spent last night thinking about streamlining this to a set of counties by category:  major cities, Atlantic coast, Black Belt near the Alabama border, and the northeastern mountains near SC and TN.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll see if I can get permission to post some of the photographs, less for the age-grade tables I&#8217;m grabbing than some images that illustrate &#8230; well &#8230; it&#8217;s an obvious bureaucratic tip to segregation once you see the images, but I don&#8217;t want to spoil the surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the Georgia Archives again this week, with a digital camera taking images of the local superintendents&#8217; reports to the state department of education from the late 30s through the early 60s. At the moment, they don&#8217;t allow use of flash or tripods, so it&#8217;s an interesting challenge to hold my arms still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-5N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}