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Photo, Print, Drawing Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Collector)
  • Marshall, Howard W.

Created / Published

  • Mystic, Georgia, July 17, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Frame numbers and descriptions: at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA: 000-001, unidentified man standing next to a Volkswagen Rabbit in the tabernacle parking lot, the fieldworker's notes state that the man is a "gospel hymn writer, mainstay of [this convention of] singers for many years"; 002-005, in the tabernacle, the man seated at left at the table (diagonally striped necktie) is Erston B. Royal, the convention president, in frame 005, standing and looking at the camera, is J. C. Cooper, Vice-President of the convention; 006, fieldworker Tom Adler with the Sony video camera and recorder carried on his back; 007-008, tabernacle exterior with memorial to the Royal family; 009-013, singing at the convention; 014-020, interior scenes during midday break for dinner on the grounds, showing hymnals on the benched, public address system microphones, and pianos; 021-023, dinner on the grounds, including participants who have brought plates of food into the tabernacle; 024 (on log: 23A), folklife project Nagra model III tape recorder set up to record the evening equipment; 025-037, dinner on the grounds, frames 029-030 include distribution of beverages from back of a Datsun pickup truck, frame 034 includes fieldworker Bill Lightfoot with plate of food on far side of tables.
  • -  The fieldworker's notes add, "The event (two-day affair) was recorded, documented by [fieldworkers] Marshall, Stanley, Adler, and Lightfoot working as a team. Marshall mostly took pictures and ran the mono Nagra tape recorder, Stanley and Lightfoot mostly

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 1-17382

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, and Howard W Marshall. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Irwin County United States Mystic Georgia, 1977. Mystic, Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_1/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. & Marshall, H. W. (1977) Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Irwin County United States Mystic Georgia, 1977. Mystic, Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_1/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, and Howard W Marshall. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic, Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_1/>.