Portraiture
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso During an interview, Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States, was asked if she would sit for her son George W. [...]
The Camera: Eye of History
This ambrotype was created through a similar process to a daguerreotype although an ambrotype produced a negative image that became visible when the glass plate was backed by dark material. This particular ambrotype is of Nicholas [...]
The FDA: Food, Drugs, and Regulations
The meat counter at Rogers Store in LaGrange, c. 1940. TCA Collections The history of the Food and Drug Administration is also the history of consumer protection as applied to food, drugs, and other products. [...]
Pe-kahn or Pee-can: America’s Original Nut
Many of the foods featured in our latest exhibit, Gather ‘Round the Table: Troup County’s Culinary History, became Southern favorites after long and convoluted journeys from exotic origins. That is not the case with pecans. A [...]
Beyond the Region of Bread: Early Settler and Antebellum Cuisine in Troup County
"Sowing and Reaping," was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on May 23, 1863 in response to the bread riot in Richmond, VA. Protests-turned-riots occurred in a number of cities across the South, including Mobile, AL, [...]
A Fly-By of History: B-29 Superfortress
A photograph of Longshore in the blister of a B-29 Superfortress. TCA Collections donated by Guy Longshore. Guy Longshore, of LaGrange, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a [...]
Pimento Capital of the World
When James Bond enjoyed his martini, “shaken, not stirred,” it is likely that the pimento, stuffed in the olive that garnished his favorite cocktail was grown in Troup or a neighboring county. Of course, Agent 007 is [...]
Cornbread & Hoppin’ John
CORNBREAD & HOPPIN’ JOHN The Contributions of the Enslaved Community The influences for many of the Southern foods we have come to know, descend to us from colonial and antebellum slave quarters. Southern food is derived from [...]
Sweet as a Georgia Peach: the introduction of peaches into Georgia
This page of Mrs. Hill's Practical Cookery and Receipt Book offers just a few of many peach recipes. TCA collections Botanists believe that peaches are native to northwestern China. By the time of the Roman [...]
Records: From Colonial Era to Prohibition Era
This letter from the Marquis de Lafayette is a simple statement regarding supplies but bears his signature. It was donated to TCA in 2018. When you work for an archival repository all kinds of people [...]
