For those of you with specialized architectural interests, please note the following:

 

New from The History Press

 

Mantelpieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture and Southern Culture

 

By William Baldwin and Elizabeth Turk

 

 

Taken from the Historic American Buildings Survey, or HABS, collection – which began as a Depression-era works program – the images in this anthology, compiled by William Baldwin and Elizabeth Turk, provide a visual history of Southern architecture and design.

 

More South Carolina titles from the History Press:

• Hidden Images: Discovering Details in the Wright Brothers’ Kitty Hawk Photographs, 1900-1911
• Cornices of Charleston: The Paintings of Susan Romaine & Photography of Jack Alterman.

 

ISBN 1-59629-058-7 – 216 pages – 188 duotone photographs – $34.99

 

The History Press

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PS: This is a marvelously photographed book by the ACA’s Photography Department Head, Elizabeth Turk.

 

Moira

 

Moira Steven
Director of Library Services

Atlanta College of Art 

 

Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta GA 30309
404 733 5021 ph
404 733 5312 fx 

 

Atlanta College of Art, founded in 1905, is the oldest private college of art and design in the Southeast. A founding division of the Woodruff Arts Center, ACA shares its campus with the High Museum of Art, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Young Audiences. A major cultural force in Atlanta, it extends programs to the public through ACA Gallery exhibitions, community education and the Georgia Artists Registry. For more information about the college, visit www.aca.edu.