New Picture of Joel Chandler Harris
Well, it’s not really new, but it’s new to the internet. This was Joel Chandler Harris in 1873. He was about 28.
This picture has been sitting in an old scrapbook for years, along with a million other old clippings, pictures, and memorabilia. I figure we need a few interns working in 24 hour shifts for a couple years to scan in everything.
Anyway, I think this picture is phenomenal.
Huey Partners–the folks who designed our handsome brochure–scanned it in. They’re designing some old-timey advertisements for us, and I think this image may make the cut.
Now all we need is a place to print the advertisements on the cheap.
And by cheap I mean for free!
Back in the day, when we had a representative from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, we’d get a couple thousand dollars worth of donated ad space. That isn’t the case anymore.
Anyone want to hook us up?
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Amber Suitt
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Lain Shakespeare
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5 Comments to New Picture of Joel Chandler Harris
I will give you some money for ads if you promise to grow a moustache and cut your hair like that.
When I’m 28, maybe I’ll be able to grow a mustache like that, but I doubt it.
I am due for a haircut, however!
Have we talked to AJC about a sponsorship? They might do that in return for being listed as a sponsor. We should also talk with JoAnn Haden-Miller at ACVB – they sometimes have opportunities for non-profits to get free advertising through them.
Good call Ronni. I haven’t spoken with anyone at the AJC personally. But then again, I wouldn’t know who to talk to.
The ACVB might be a great route! I hadn’t thought about that before. While these adverts will look best in a newspaper, I don’t think they’d do too poorly in a glossy magazine like Atlanta NOW, and would certainly be appropriate for the tourist demographic.
I would pay money to see Lain wear a button up shirt with the Wren’s Nest Logo Embroidered on it and a hair cut.
I think i know a couple of other ladies who would too.
The question is can we get Lain to do tricks and compromise himself, for us, to earn money for the Wren’s Nest. Maybe that’s not fair.