Adolph Rosenberg Papers

Adolph Rosenberg was born in Albany, Georgia on August 14, 1911. He graduated from the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He studied photography under Bill Bradley and Dr. Hefner at the Georgia Tech Night School and later, in Denver at the Air Corps photo school. Stationed in the South Pacific, Rosenberg served as a war-time photographer for three and a half years with a photo mapping unit.

His interest in photography followed him throughout his life as he researched and wrote papers on the history of American Civil War photographers including Mathew Brady, George S. Cook and one of the first successful female photographers in Atlanta, Mrs. L Condon. Rosenberg was an ardent collector of civil war era photography, which he eventually donated to the University of Georgia. He also had an interest in the advent of photo processes such as daguerreotypes and Camera Lucida. He researched and wrote on British Captain Basil Hall’s use of Camera Lucida to examine American life between 1827-1828.

In addition to editing the Southern Israelite for over 30 year, Rosenberg was a founding member of the Atlanta Press Club and held many offices within the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA), including acting as president for several terms. During one of these terms, while in Israel just after the conclusion of the 1967 AJPA conference, Rosenberg chose to remain in the country during the Six Day War, and serve as witness to the events.

Rosenberg was a community leader serving on boards and as member of several organizations including the Southeast Zionist Region, the Atlanta Zionist District, The Temple and the Jewish Community Center, and the Fulton Masonic Lodge. He won many awards and was honored in 1975 by the AJPA in conjunction with his colleague Leo I Goldberger, former editor of the Hebrew Watchman of Memphis. He worked up until his death in 1977 after battling cancer for several years.