AND HIS TEETH,

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I love the wording of this. any science news, especially relating to space (and webb) automatically sound like poetry to me and then when they're also written like that... oh how beautiful.

i should have been born a flamboyant aesthete fag in the early 20th century so i could go to audacious parties and write mediocre poetry and die of alcohol poisoning at 32 without having contributed anything to society except serving cunt in a fur coat and semiregular emotional breakdowns

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We’re on a roll with UGA’s Film Library of days past!  After prior postings and Tweets this week, we did a quick search in the Hargrett Library finding aids and found these negatives in envelopes labeled, handily, “Film Library.”  A few of the images are too brightly lit and a little out of focus, but they do illustrate that a lot of people were employed to keep the films in good condition as they were shipped out and returned from all over the state, educating people in dark rooms.

The film cans we have from those days still have the painted item numbers on the edges of the cans that correspond with matching numbers in the rack shelving, as shown in the photos.

The photos were taken when the Film Library was housed on the 3rd floor of the Old College building in the 1950s, right at the center of the north campus.

According to the UGA Architects’ office, “Old College is the oldest remaining structure on UGA’s historic north campus, constructed in 1806… . Over the years, the building has served as a dormitory, classroom, barracks and administrative offices. [T]he restored Old College building houses offices for the Dean of Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Associate Vice President for Public Service and Outreach.”

We’re hoping that the woman in the first two images above is Meredith D. Hart,  the Film Librarian in the early 1950s.