Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.)
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
1996 Centennial Olympics in Atlanta photograph collection
This is a hybrid (digital and physical) crowd-sourced photograph collection, collected by the Georgia Tech Archives for the 2026 physical exhibit in Price Gilbert Library, "Centennial Summer: Georgia Tech's Olympic Legacy." Crowdsourced digital photos and documents were received from multiple donors via a Qualtrics form, in partnership with the GT Alumni Association, who used the form to collect stories from alumni about their memories of the Olympics.
Billiee Pendleton-Parker collection
This mixed materials collection contains papers, photographs, and artifacts related to Billiee Pendleton-Parker, an employee at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) between 1987 and 2016.
Interactive Media Technology Center Olympic Project retroTECH Collection
This collection contains oral histories, digitized footage, and documentation related to the Interactive Media Technology Center's development of a multimedia system that played a significant role in making the case for Atlanta to host the 1996 Olympics.
Linda Henson Sorrow personal archives
The collection contains materials assembled by Linda Henson Sorrow (IE '84) on various topics including Georgia Tech, the Paralympic and Olympic Games, and politics among others. It contains artifacts and papers ranging from the late 1970s to the early 2000s.
Office of the President: John P. Crecine Records
The Crecine records contain files documenting the day-to-day operations of the upper administration of Georgia Tech from the years prior to Crecine's Presidency through his last year in office.
Olympic Aquatic Center architectural drawings
The Olympic Aquatic Center architectural drawings include overall plans, detailed section drawings, elevations, and schedules for the electrical, plumbing, and materials of this building.
Olympic Village and Georgia Tech Campus architectural drawings
This collection contains architectural drawings that assisted in the creation and design of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Village. This includes buildings on Georgia Tech's campus, Atlanta street maps, sketches, and previous olympic village designs from both California and South Korea.
Olympic Village Photograph Collection
The campus of Georgia Tech served as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. For Tech, the Olympic Village represented the single biggest construction project in the school's history. In addition to the construction of seven new dormitories, such as Sixth Street Apartments and Hemphill Avenue Apartments, Tech also acquired an aquatic center. Although the majority of the photographs are not dated, they all originated around the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.
Olympic/Paralympic Photograph Collection
This collection consists of photographs documenting damage to the Georgia Tech campus and buildings that occurred during the Olympic and Paralympic games as well as drawings and project timelines representing new construction, renovation, and modifications to Tech's campus and buildings in preparation for the Olympics.
Olympic/Paralympic Planning Office Records
Phillip Sparling personal archives
Records of the Office of Jack Pyburn, Architect, Inc.
The bulk of this collection comprises the paper records of the Office of Jack Pyburn, Architect, Inc., from its inception in 1984 through 2007. The office specialized in historic preservation projects, but includes new projects as well, notably the Rowing, Canoe and Kayaking Venue at Lake Lanier designed by the frim for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.