Georgia Quick Facts & Resources

This interactive map provides census, geographic, and political information on each county in the state.

Album provides access to more than 16,000 photographs and audio and video recordings from the collection of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.

Atlanta Studies is an open access, digital publication that features original scholarship on Atlanta’s past and present. This multimedia web-based journal is published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

The ATLmaps platform, a collaboration between Georgia State University and Emory University, combines archival maps, geospatial data visualization, and user contributed multimedia location pinpoints to promote investigation into any number of issues about Atlanta.

The channel for the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection provides streaming content through various databases, including the archives’ website.

The CRDL promotes an enhanced understanding of the civil rights movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.

The Digital Library of Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO, partners with the state’s libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions to provide access to key digital resources on Georgia history, culture, and life.

A project of GALILEO, this database contains born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies from 1994 to the present. GGP participants are actively scanning documents printed before 1994.

A project of the Digital Library of Georgia, the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archives includes over one million digitized newspaper pages between 1786 and 1986.

This collection of videos, produced by Georgia Public Broadcasting, tells the stories of the state’s history and supports the Georgia Performance Standards for eighth-grade social studies.

The Virtual Vault provides electronic access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives.

Compiled by the Georgia Historical Society, this index provides location information, full text, and images of all the historical markers in the state.

Available via the Digital Library of Georgia, this collection provides 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 Georgia municipalities. Fire insurance maps document the changing face of towns and cities, providing highly detailed information for each neighborhood and block.

A collaborative effort of the Georgia Archives and the Digital Library of Georgia, this collection features nearly 18,000 photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, that span more than 100 years of Georgia history.