Kennesaw State University Archives

TBT! Did you know that the mace used during KSU's commencement ceremonies was designed and built by the Kennesaw State School of Art and Design? It debuted on Founder's Day in 1989 and has since been updated to reflect our name change from Kennesaw State College to Kennesaw State University. Image from Kennesaw Magazine, Tom Scott Papers, KSU Archives.

Best of luck on your exams and final projects, Owls! You can do it! Image: Student in Johnson Library, 1972 Southern Tech yearbook.

Congrats to Kennesaw State University College of the Arts on the approval of their first graduate degree program, a Master of Arts in Art and Design! Image: Excerpt from Kennesaw College brochure, 1981. @KennesawStateSchoolOfArtandDesign

Rounding out our November celebration of food, we have several photographs showcasing restaurants and food-related artifacts from the Save Acworth History Found...ation collection at the Kennesaw State University Archives. [1] Stuckey's Candy Shoppe, Acworth, Georgia [2] Barbeque pits on Seminole Drive, Acworth, Georgia [3] Football players at Gold House, Acworth, Georgia, October 1954 [4] Silver Trolley, Acworth, Georgia [5] Seminole Dairy grade A pasteurized milk packaging #archive #archives #archivists #georgiaarchivists #sga #societyofgeorgiaarchivists #food #georgiahistory #resturants #localhistory

Happy Thanksgiving! This cookbook was created in 1998 to celebrate SPSU's 50th Anniversary by the Social and Community Building Committee.

New digital collection! The Historic Black Acworth Image Collection includes photographs, letters, and documents created and preserved by Black residents of Acworth, Georgia, from the 1890s to the 2010s. Items in the collection contributed to the "Our Side of the Tracks" exhibit, which was curated for the @CityOfAcworth by the Special Projects unit in the Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books and opened in fall 2020 at Doyal Hill Park in Acworth. Images: Rosa Lee Summerour Washington, Clarence Young, and Helen Hardin Hill at the Rosenwald School "Community House," Cherokee Street, Acworth, Georgia, June 1959.