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Photo, Print, Drawing Irene Hester at home, neighborhood scenes, Tifton, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Irene Hester at home, neighborhood scenes, Tifton, Georgia

Names

  • Robinson, Beverly J.

Created / Published

  • Tifton, Georgia, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: images of unidentified buildings, probably in Tifton GA, this summary does not fully align with the typed log sheet, images 01 through 07 may have been made by a different fieldworker (possibly Rusty Marshall) and accidentally mixed into this set: 01-04, white frame houses, all with verandas; 05, frame church with Gothic revival stained glass windows and two steeples; 06, ruin of a former dwelling, collapsed roof and walls, standing chimney and fireplaces, corn field in background; 07, two-story frame building, double-door entrance in gable end, fan-light window decoration (type sometimes called "Palladian") on second floor; second segment of set begins with images 08 through 26, made by fieldworker Beverly Robinson: unidentified neighborhood, probably at or near at the home of Mrs. Irene Hester, Tifton GA: 08, houses on an unpaved street; 09, similar scene, including a distant painted cement block store with Coca-Cola logo sign, "Southside Seafood and Market"; at the home of Mrs. Irene Hester, Tifton GA, other documentation by fieldworker Beverly Robinson includes sound recordings of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hester, made 17 July 1977, at call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21109 and AFS 21110: 08-09 (call numbers vary in project inventories): 10-14, framed photograph of Mrs. Hester's father hanging on the wall in the Hester home; 15-19, breakfront cabinet with china, in the Hester dining room; 20-22, Hester living room with television set and electric fan, adjacent rooms visible through doorway; 23-25, Hester bedroom; 26, hairbrush, the fieldworker's log assigns this image number 19, and comments, "a very old hair brush."

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-BR-1

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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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. Irene Hester at home, neighborhood scenes, Tifton, Georgia. United States Tifton Tift County Georgia, 1977. Tifton, Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_br_001/.

APA citation style:

Robinson, B. J. (1977) Irene Hester at home, neighborhood scenes, Tifton, Georgia. United States Tifton Tift County Georgia, 1977. Tifton, Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_br_001/.

MLA citation style:

Robinson, Beverly J. Irene Hester at home, neighborhood scenes, Tifton, Georgia. Tifton, Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_br_001/>.