Current progress
18,884 digitized records
11,240 records cleaned (59%)
61 contributors
Date last updated: 2/16/23

1958 City Directory

The 1958 City Directory of Athens provided information on not just residents' names and addresses, but additional variables related to employment, housing status, and race. The CML is digitizing this directory to create a public database of the Athens at this time which can be used to map the landscape of employment and residential segregation, as well as the footprint of the University of Georgia within the city. This will include scanning the directory itself and also creating a period street network that will allow those records to be geocoded.

For those who are contributing to this effort, links to resources are found below:

• Download a PDF of the directory
• Sign-in page with a link to the spreadsheets
  
• Slides used for the introduction to our project (see video below)

Some examples of maps made from our preliminary data: