Gayther Plummer collection

Graphs, charts, weather reports, papers, records, publications (including weather-reporting manuals), and correspondence. The first series includes a National Weather Service Forecasting Handbook in its original binder and a climatologist's tool of some sort in its original container; its exact nature has not been identified. A series of precipitation graphs document Athens precipitation totals for the years, 1870-1995; they are contained in an oversize folder. The second series contains materials pertaining to Plummer’s work with the Georgia Heritage Trust. The third series contains a folder of soil surveys of Georgia counties collected by Plummer. The folder features Plummer's handwritten explanation of the materials on its front cover. We do not know exactly how this material relates to Plummer's climatology studies. The final series contains a single coil-bound book, The Classic City Athens, Georgia 1928-1929: Some Photographs of Homes and Other Images, assembled by Plummer in 1999. As Plummer’s introductory note explains, the photographs were taken by “botanist-forester-geographer-geologist-photographer” Roland Harper, who worked for Alabama’s Geologic Survey and spent at least a school year at the University of Georgia, during which time he took the pictures. According to this document, the original photographs are found in the Harper collection at the University of Alabama.