The Atlanta History Center (AHC) and the Georgia Historical Society (GHS) have completed a monumental exchange of archival collections.

The exchange, supported by a $500,000 contribution from Atlanta-based railway company Norfolk Southern, consolidates related collections that were previously separated by the two history organizations, in a joint effort to make them easier to access for the public.

As part of the agreement, AHC acquired the Central of Georgia Railway Collection from GHS. Consisting of nearly 1,000 linear feet of documents, the collection will be housed alongside the Southern Railway archives at AHC’s Kenan Research Center, forming one of the country’s most comprehensive catalogs on railroad history, said a release.

In turn, GHS received several major manuscript and phot

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