Georgia Tech Archives Personality Files
Collection
Identifier: UA415B
The personality files consist of a wide range of files relating mainly to people with connections to Georgia Tech. Students, alumni and alumnae, staff, faculty, and administration figures are included. The files contain a variety of newspaper clippings, articles, and ephemera containing biographical information on these individuals.
(16 records cartons)
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Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
20 Linear Feet
The Personality Files form one part of the Vertical Files at the Georgia Tech Archives. They contain biographical information on a wide array of personalities with connections to Georgia Tech and its history. Current and former Tech faculty, staff, and alumni and alumnae are included. Personality files also contain biographical information on individuals important to the other collecting areas of the Georgia Tech Archives, including science fiction, textile mills of the Southeast, and Southeastern architects and architecture.
The Georgia Tech Archives' Vertical Files have been in existence since about the 1980s. Materials have been gathered over the years from a variety of sources, including Atlanta newspapers, Georgia Tech publications, other serial publications, and ephemera.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
This is an artificial collection created by the Georgia Tech Archives. Accession number: 2012.024.
Additions are made to the Personality Files on a regular basis.
(16 records cartons)
See also the collection description for the Subject Files, which forms the other part of the Georgia Tech Archives' Vertical Files.
Christine de Catanzaro, Catherine Quesenberry, Travis Hampton, Lindsay Resnick, and April Martin described these papers beginning in February 2012.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository