Richie M. White, Sr. & Richie M. White, Jr. Film Collection
Scope and Contents
Mr. White, Sr. started taking silent motion pictures of local events in the 1920s and his son continued this practice. In the 1970s, Richie White, Jr., created a version of this footage that dealt with public rather than family activities through the 1940s. He showed this film at local civic clubs, and it included parades, the country club, Columbus Centennial, swimming, the collapse of the bug house in the 1930s, Fort Benning, Phenix city, Alabama and the major fire at St. Luke Methodist Church in the 1940s. In 1982, he showed the film in a local history class at Columbus College and his narration was taped; this is also available in the Archives.
Dates
- Creation: 1915-1950s
Biographical / Historical
Richie White, Sr., was the local Kodak dealer in Columbus, Georgia.
Full Extent
1 Folder (2 16mm film and VHS cassette)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The video is split into multiple videos on various topics. They are:
1) Parade of Fords, 1926
2) Mary White Graduation, 1926
3) 12th Street, 1926
4) Pablo Beach, 1926
5) Pablo Beach, Fl., 1926
6) Showman vs. Clothesmen at Golden Park Baseball Game
7) Friends with Ritchie White, 1926
8) Girl Scouts at Camp Bellebrook, Summer 1926
9) Dead Lake, Florida Fishing Trip
10) Aviation History, 1926-1927 (footage of Linburg)
11) Fly over with Good Year Blemp, 1928
12) Columbus Flood, 1929
13) LA over Columbus, 1932 (Blimp over Columbus)
14) "Bug house" Collapse, Phenix City, Alabama, 1938
Custodial History
Gift of the White Family in 1982
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
4225 University Ave
Columbus Georgia 31907 United States