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Municipal Archives Digital Image Catalog
The Digital Image Catalog includes select images digitized from our archival collections as well as born digital collections. Only a portion of our archival holdings are currently digitized and new content is added regularly. Visit the Collections page for more information about our full holdings.
Major collections featured in the Digital Image Catalog include:
- City Manager’s Office photographs
- Engineering Department plans and designs
- Engineering Department Property maps
- Girvin family collection of Savannah stereographs
- History Round-up - Carver Village
- History Round-up - White Bluff Community
- Jack Leigh photographs of employees
- MPC Historic Preservation photographs
- Minis collection of glass plate negatives
- Palumbo collection of Savannah-area materials
- Park & Tree - Applicants for Cemetery Lot Care photographs
- Public Information Office photographs
- Savannah Development & Renewal Authority photographs
- V. & J. Duncan postcard collection
- W. W. Law photograph collection
- W. W. Law moving image & sound collection
City Records Available on Ancestry.com
Several of the City's collections have been made available to the public online through Ancestry.com to increase public access, including:
- Savannah, Georgia, Vital Records, 1803-1966
- Savannah, Georgia, Cemetery and Burial Records, 1852-1939
- Savannah, Georgia, Cemetery Burial Lot Cards, 1807-1995
- Savannah, Georgia, Court Records, 1790-1934
- Savannah, Georgia, Land Tax & Property Records, 1809-1938
- Savannah, Georgia, Naturalization Records, 1790-1910
- Savannah, Georgia, Records of Titles, 1791-1971
- Savannah, Georgia, Registers of Free Persons of Color, 1817-1864
- Savannah, Georgia, Voter Records, 1856-1917
- Savannah, Georgia, City Council Minutes, 1790-1900
City Records Available through the Digital Library of Georgia
Several of the City's collections have been made available to the public online through the Digital Library of Georgia to increase public acess, including:
- Engineering Department – General maps, 1798-1961, no date
- Savannah Cadastral Survey – Ward Survey maps, 1939-1940
- Engineering Department – Major Subdivision maps, 1871-1972, no date
- Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood Documentation Project – Oral History collection, 2003-2004
- Eastside Documentation Project – Oral History collection, 2008-2009
- Ellis Square Oral History Project, 2007-2008
- Annual Reports for the City of Savannah, 1855-1923 (some gaps)
- Mayor’s Office Records, 1869-1904, 1960-1966*
- Minutes of the Park and Tree Commission, 1896-1929
- West Broad Street Appraisals, 1958-1961*
- Westside Documentation Project – Oral History collection, 2005-2006
*These collections were digitized with a policy of digitizing every page, front and back, so you may see blank pages throughout the digital document.
Savannah City Codes, 1854-1945
City Ordinances passed by City Council are recorded in the Ordinance Books in the Clerk of Council’s Office. Periodically, the City publishes all the ordinances on the books at a given point of time, as well as the current City Charter, as the City Code. Digitized City Code Books
Voices of Savannah
Visit the Voices of Savannah page to view oral history recordings across the Municipal Archives Savannah Community Memory Projects (including Savannah History Round-Up Days, the Savannah LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, and the City of Savannah Leadershio Oral History Project). Voices of Savannah
Automobile Registration Books, 1909-1919
Sub-series 5600CL-320 Automobile Registration Books (1909-1910, 1913-1917, 1919) includes six volumes documenting vehicle registration during the beginning of the automobile age. Digitized Automobile Registration Books
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Savannah, Georgia
Sanborn maps (RS 8126-007, 1955-1973) show the size, shape, and construction of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories, as well as fire walls, locations of windows and doors, sprinkler systems, sewer systems, and types of roofs. The maps also indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Digitized Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
Historic Savannah Inventory Ward Notebooks
In partnership with the Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF), the Municipal Archives has digitized HSF’s Historic Savannah Architectural Inventory Ward Notebooks which include surveys of Savannah’s neighborhoods, by ward and lot, for research use by the public. Historic Savannah Inventory Ward Notebooks
First City Network News
In partnership with the First City Pride Center, the Municipal Archives has digitized the First City Network's Network News to document the history of Savannah's LGBTQ+ community and make this resource available for research use by the public. First City Network Network News