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Photo, Print, Drawing W.D. Marchant Farm, Tift County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

About this Item

Title

  • W.D. Marchant Farm, Tift County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Marshall, Howard W.

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia, July 15, 1977 - July 16, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County
  • -  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 W. D. Marchant farm, RR 3, Tifton GA 31794 (15 July 1977, Marchant's given name may be William, identified as site D on Marshall's field map of Tift County (lat-long: 31.499765, -83.559227): 000, W. D. Marchant and fieldworker Dave Stanley with some of Marchant's cattle; 001, exterior of double-crib barn, with (some) log construction; 002, W. D. Marchant and fieldworker Dave Stanley measuring an interior segment of saddle-notched-log sections of the double-crib barn; 003-004, W.D. Marchant in his barn; at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA (16 July 1977): 005-006, road with parked cars near the convention; 007-008, Mystic Baptist Church next to the Royal Family Singing Convention tabernacle, visible at left in frame 008; 009-036, views of the Saturday night singing in the tabernacle; 037, Ford sedan with front license plate "Prayer Changes Things" parked for the event.
  • -  The fieldworker's notes add, concerning the Royal Singing Convention, "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 ta

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 3-17382

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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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, David Stanley, and Howard W Marshall. W.D. Marchant Farm, Tift County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic Tift County Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia, - July 16, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_3/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W., Stanley, D. & Marshall, H. W. (1977) W.D. Marchant Farm, Tift County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic Tift County Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia, - July 16, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_3/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, David Stanley, and Howard W Marshall. W.D. Marchant Farm, Tift County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Tift County, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia, - July 16, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17382_3/>.