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Photo, Print, Drawing Aerial photographs, Sylvester, Georgia; Horton home, Tifton, Georgia, yard decorations; County Extension Agent Gary Tankersley, Irwin County, Georgia

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Title

  • Aerial photographs, Sylvester, Georgia; Horton home, Tifton, Georgia, yard decorations; County Extension Agent Gary Tankersley, Irwin County, Georgia

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl

Created / Published

  • Tifton, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, August 23, 1977 - August 24, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin 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: aerial views of Sylvester GA (23 August 1977): 000-002, aerial view looking north from above and behind the Macedonia Baptist Church, looking toward the two rows of small "factory-type" houses on the other side of the railroad tracks (approx. lat-long: 31.530983, -83.850495) the visible paved street going away from the camera, to the north, is called Carter Road in 2018 maps), in frame 001, the church is visible at the left edge of the frame; at the home of Dorothy (Mrs. Carl) Horton, Tifton GA, postal address Route 1 Box 210 (23 August 1977): 003-005, plants (probably Yucca filamentosa) in the yard where Mrs. Horton has cut up plastic egg cartons for flower-like decoration; on a round of visits to farmers with Gary Tankersley, the Irwin County GA Extension Agent, checking the readiness of the peanut crops for harvest (24 August 1977): 006-007, peanut plants (pulled from the ground) at Charlie Fletcher's farm, Irwin County GA; 008-012, in the foreground, Tankersley with longtime farm employee Marvin Hood, Fletcher in the background, the photographer's notes report that Hood has worked for Fletcher "for his entire life, Mr. Fletcher's eyesight is not so good, and Mr. Hood helps him out by driving the truck and performing other chores"; 013, scenes at the farm, same people; 017-019, peanut plants (pulled from the ground) at Charlie Fletcher's farm; 020-027, Marvin Hood (seated) and Charlie Fletcher (standing) with pickup truck; Tankersley visit to the Grady Morgan farm: 028-034, peanuts have been pulled from the ground (Paulk Peanut Digger, harvesting implement, and tractor in background), the men in the photographs are Grady Morgan (hat with brim), Marcus Fletcher (identification uncertain, man with baseball cap), Tankersley (white shirt), other unidentified men in background of some photographs; 035-036, Grady Morgan in peanut field; 037, Morgan's peanut field.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 1-17648

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. Aerial photographs, Sylvester, Georgia; Horton home, Tifton, Georgia, yard decorations; County Extension Agent Gary Tankersley, Irwin County, Georgia. Sylvester United States Worth County Tifton Irwin County Tift County Georgia, 1977. Tifton, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 24, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17648_1/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Aerial photographs, Sylvester, Georgia; Horton home, Tifton, Georgia, yard decorations; County Extension Agent Gary Tankersley, Irwin County, Georgia. Sylvester United States Worth County Tifton Irwin County Tift County Georgia, 1977. Tifton, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 24, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17648_1/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, and Carl Fleischhauer. Aerial photographs, Sylvester, Georgia; Horton home, Tifton, Georgia, yard decorations; County Extension Agent Gary Tankersley, Irwin County, Georgia. Tifton, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - August 24, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17648_1/>.