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Photo, Print, Drawing Georgian style house, Sylvester, Georgia; Harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Georgian style house, Sylvester, Georgia; Harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County, Georgia

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl

Created / Published

  • Sylvester, Georgia; Berrien County, Georgia, August 15, 1977 - August 16, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Berrien County
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Worth County -- Sylvester

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: Georgian style house, 103 North Westberry, Sylvester GA (documentation drawing by fieldworker Howard Marshall at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 43, digital sequence image 173): 003-005, gable detail in back of house; 006-007, ladderback chair found in shed at the house; harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County GA, on a farm rented from Mrs. Carolyn Akins's father, J.L. (Lonnie) Yawn, location indicated on fieldworker Howard (Rusty) Marshall's field map of Berrien County (approx. lat-long: 31.457657, -83.316254): 008-009, Akins tobacco field, two figures in distance, fieldworker David Stanley on left with cameras, Jimmy Akins on right, assessing tobacco leaves; 010, Jimmy Akins loading tobacco sticks on the trailer, the sticks clamp together, with nails that pierce and hold the leaves after priming; 011-012, Lonnie Yawn wearing cap with Bank of Alapaha advertisement; 013-018 (on log: 12-18), Carolyn Akins primes tobacco (picks ripe leaves), wearing cap with advertisement "Vigortone pre-mixes"; 019-024, on the harvester, clamping the primed tobacco leaves into the sticks, Becky Akins with Lonnie Yawn and Terry Williams; 025, Terry Williams hands off a finished stick of tobacco; 026, Lonnie Yawn; 027-037, Becky Akins with Lonnie Yawn preparing sticks of tobacco.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 4-17607

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:

Fleischhauer, Carl, and Carl Fleischhauer. Georgian style house, Sylvester, Georgia; Harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County, Georgia. Berrien County Georgia United States Sylvester Worth County, 1977. Sylvester, Georgia; Berrien County, Georgia, - August 16, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17607_4/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Georgian style house, Sylvester, Georgia; Harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County, Georgia. Berrien County Georgia United States Sylvester Worth County, 1977. Sylvester, Georgia; Berrien County, Georgia, - August 16, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17607_4/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, and Carl Fleischhauer. Georgian style house, Sylvester, Georgia; Harvesting tobacco with the Akins family, Berrien County, Georgia. Sylvester, Georgia; Berrien County, Georgia, - August 16, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17607_4/>.