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Photo, Print, Drawing Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia, house interior; Houses in Sylvester, Georgia; Shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Damascus, Georgia

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Title

  • Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia, house interior; Houses in Sylvester, Georgia; Shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Damascus, Georgia

Names

  • Robinson, Beverly J. (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl

Created / Published

  • Ocilla, Georgia; Damascus, Georgia, August 19, 1977 - August 21, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Ocilla
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Worth County -- Sylvester
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Early County -- Damascus

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 Etta Anderson home, Ocilla GA (19 August 1977, related documentation by fieldworker Beverly Robinson): 01-06, in the living room, with Etta Anderson's grandchildren Oscar Anderson and Tisha Bryant in the chair on the far side; in Sylvester GA (21 August 1977): 07-09, board and batten house with residents on the front porch, the fieldworker's notes state "one of a row of 'factory' houses at the west edge of Sylvester"; at the shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion (Missionary) Baptist Church, Damascus GA (21 August 1977, may be lat-long 31.303841, -84.667428), sound recordings made at this event are identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21096 to AFS 21103: 10-12, wide shot of church interior.

Medium

  • 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 black-and-white negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 9-17624

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:

Robinson, Beverly J, Carl Fleischhauer, and Carl Fleischhauer. Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia, house interior; Houses in Sylvester, Georgia; Shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Damascus, Georgia. Early County Irwin County Sylvester Worth County Damascus Ocilla United States Georgia, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Damascus, Georgia, - August 21, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17624_09/.

APA citation style:

Robinson, B. J., Fleischhauer, C. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia, house interior; Houses in Sylvester, Georgia; Shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Damascus, Georgia. Early County Irwin County Sylvester Worth County Damascus Ocilla United States Georgia, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Damascus, Georgia, - August 21, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17624_09/.

MLA citation style:

Robinson, Beverly J, Carl Fleischhauer, and Carl Fleischhauer. Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia, house interior; Houses in Sylvester, Georgia; Shape note singing convention, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Damascus, Georgia. Ocilla, Georgia; Damascus, Georgia, - August 21, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17624_09/>.