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A Georgia Courthouse

Interior of Green County Courthouse, Greensboro, Georgia
Stephen Shore (b. 1947)
[Interior of Green County Courthouse,
Greensboro, Georgia
]
Dye coupler color photograph,
ca. 1975
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Seagram Company, 1980 (88A)

This photograph of the interior of Green County Courthouse in Greensboro, Georgia, is by photographer Stephen Shore. It is one of approximately 1,100 courthouses photographed for the most comprehensive survey to date of a type of American building. Commissioned by Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. to mark the bicentennial of the United States of America, the Seagram County Courthouse Archive was presented as a gift to the Library of Congress in 1980.

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