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Photo, Print, Drawing Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, Georgia; Enigma town sign, Berrien County, Georgia; Field team office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia

About this Item

Title

  • Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, Georgia; Enigma town sign, Berrien County, Georgia; Field team office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Georgia, August 13, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia

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: Sunday service at Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, about 5 miles north of Alapaha, Berrien County GA, open-reel sound recordings made at this service are identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21151 to AFS 21154, and cassette copies by AFS 21201 and AFS 21202: 002-005, group of eight men with hymnals lead the hymn singing at the beginning of the service, in frame 002, one of the men greets and embraces a child in the center aisle; 006, man teaching a lesson or leading a prayer, may be Lonnie Boyd; 007-012 and 015-017, Charles Tyson, preaching; 014 and 018, men (elders? deacons?) on the left side of the sanctuary; 019-024, the offering, gathered at a table at the front of the sanctuary; 025, man interviewed by fieldworker David Stanley (may be on one of the sound recordings cited above, or referenced in Stanley's fieldnotes); 027-028, dinner on the ground(s) in the church fellowship hall; 029-030, fried pies; 031-032, dinner on the ground(s) in the church fellowship hall; 033-035, sign, "Enigma City Limit," Berrien County GA; at folklife project headquarters, Cresswell Hall, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton GA: 036-037, fieldworker Beverly Robinson in the project office.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 7-17554

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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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:

Fleischhauer, Carl, and Carl Fleischhauer. Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, Georgia; Enigma town sign, Berrien County, Georgia; Field team office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17554_7/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, Georgia; Enigma town sign, Berrien County, Georgia; Field team office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17554_7/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, and Carl Fleischhauer. Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, Georgia; Enigma town sign, Berrien County, Georgia; Field team office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia. Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17554_7/>.