Joseph Boyd McCrary Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS158
Joseph Boyd McCrary graduated from Georgia Tech in 1891, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. These papers document his business, the J. B. McCrary Company.
(one half-sized document case)
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Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
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The Joseph B. McCrary Papers include printed materials pertaining to McCrary's business, the J. B. McCrary Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
Joseph Boyd McCrary graduated from Georgia Tech in 1891, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, McCrary worked for Moore and McCrary, a mechanical engineering company in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1916, Dade County Government (Florida) floated a bond issue for building the Tamiami Trail and contracted Joseph McCrary's firm to build thirty-two miles of road west of Miami. However, in 1923, the McCrary firm withdrew from the project after completing seventeen miles. The Florida State Road Department completed the trail in 1928.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accession #2001.049 (old number: 2001.49).
Photographs have been separated and cataloged as VAM158, Tamiami Trail Photograph Collection.
(one half-sized document case)
Jody Lloyd Thompson processed these photographs in 2002.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository