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On February 1, 1806, the University of Georgia’s first acting president, Josiah Meigs, reported in the Augusta Chronicle that construction of the university’s new building has finished. He reports on the accommodations of the new building: its…

This is the earliest known photograph of Old College, taken circa 1875, 71 years after the building was constructed.

This 1692 petition for bail was written by ten women who were unlawfully held in the Ipswich Jail for several months during the Salem Witch Trials.

This document lists many of the Massachusetts Colony laws that were worthy of execution if broken. Witchcraft is listed as the second offense.

Mary Frances Early records her daily life from her time the University of Georgia . Her entries provide insight to her raw emotions of the discrimination she experienced.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter to Mary Frances Early congratulating her for graduating the University of Georgia.

This is a 2 page document paired with a preamble which was written in order to establish the University of Georgia, a public university.

A member of the US Army sprays disinfectant over the bodies of Jonestown victims before placing them into plastic body bags for removal to Georgetown

Cadets of the U.S. Navy Academy training at Sanford Stadium in 1942