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Photo, Print, Drawing Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia; Milford Hurst humorous objects, Worth County, Georgia; Dog-trot house, Jefferson Davis Memorial, other scenes, Irwin County, Georgia

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Title

  • Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia; Milford Hurst humorous objects, Worth County, Georgia; Dog-trot house, Jefferson Davis Memorial, other scenes, Irwin County, Georgia

Names

  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940-

Created / Published

  • Worth County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, August 14, 1977 - August 15, 1977

Headings

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

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 Bethel Church Homecoming, Worth County GA, sound recordings made at this event are identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20933 to AFS 20940, identified on Lightfoot's field map of Worth County as site 2 (approx. lat-long: 31.344638, -83.667748): 002 (on log: 1), song leaders (or choir?) in the sanctuary at the Homecoming; documentation of materials in the possession of Milford Hurst of Worth County GA, the fieldworker's notes state that "Hurst took me out of church at Bethel to go to his home to photograph (these items)" and "Hurst is the brother of Wallace and Wade Hurst": 003-005, electric corn cob, a visual joke; 006-011, photo and map from a special edition of the Moultrie Observer newspaper, June 26, 1976, including a "tall tale photograph" (aka "freak postcard" photograph) depicting giant ears of corn being cut by a lumber sawmill, the map depicts Moultrie GA in the 1880's; scenes in Irwin County GA: 012-019, house with a "dogtrot" passageway, analogous to a central hallway, located on a county road approximately 2 1/2 miles north of the home of local resident Joe T. Fletcher (also documented by this project), dogtrot house probably identified as site 2 on Lightfoot's field map of Irwin County (approx. lat-long: 31.600790, -83.432829); at the Jefferson Davis Memorial Museum in Irwin County, a building and monument at the spot where Davis was captured by Union troops as he was trying to escape at the end of the Civil War (approx. lat-long: 31.664738, -83.386688); 020-021, the museum building; 022-023, 025-027, statue of Jefferson Davis at capture site; 024-025, sign and old road (now overgrown with grass), sign reads, "This road used during war 1861-65"; 028-037 (on log: 27-36a), a field in Irwin County GA located in the southeast quadrant of the intersection of Georgia State Road 32 and the westernmost country road running north/south in Irwin County (may be Waterloo Rebecca Road, Lightfoot's field map of Irwin County locates this farm field at site 4, approx. lat-long: 31.635680, -83.476569), the fieldworker's notes state that Joe T. Fletcher told him that the field contains wiregrass, i.e., Aristida stricta, botanical identification to be verified, closeup of plants on frames 032 and 034 show divided seed-carrying elements.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 7-17610

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:

Lightfoot, William E, and William E Lightfoot. Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia; Milford Hurst humorous objects, Worth County, Georgia; Dog-trot house, Jefferson Davis Memorial, other scenes, Irwin County, Georgia. United States Irwin County Georgia Worth County, 1977. Worth County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 15, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17610_7/.

APA citation style:

Lightfoot, W. E. & Lightfoot, W. E. (1977) Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia; Milford Hurst humorous objects, Worth County, Georgia; Dog-trot house, Jefferson Davis Memorial, other scenes, Irwin County, Georgia. United States Irwin County Georgia Worth County, 1977. Worth County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 15, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17610_7/.

MLA citation style:

Lightfoot, William E, and William E Lightfoot. Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia; Milford Hurst humorous objects, Worth County, Georgia; Dog-trot house, Jefferson Davis Memorial, other scenes, Irwin County, Georgia. Worth County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 15, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17610_7/>.