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Photo, Print, Drawing Pope's Museum, Grady County, Georgia

About this Item

Title

  • Pope's Museum, Grady County, Georgia

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl

Created / Published

  • Grady County , Georgia, August 25, 1977 - August 26, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Grady County

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Art environments created by Laura Pope Forester (aka Forrester, 1873-1953) and Eddie Owens Martin (also known as St. EOM, 1908-1986) were documented as part of the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project in 1977 in support of the "Folk Art and Folklife" exhibition, installed at the Library of Congress, January 26-April 2, 1978. This exhibition brought together materials from the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project and the art exhibition "Missing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art 1770-1976," which had opened in 1976 at the Atlanta Historical Society and included works by Forester and Martin.
  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at Pope's Museum, the former home of Laura Pope Forester (aka Forrester, 1873-1953), Grady County GA: 01-03, items on porch of Pope's Museum, includes figure with "Goddess of the Sea" inscribed at bottom; 04-05, front of the porch (entry zone), with decorative framing and sculpture of woman damaged at neck (behind her are "Scarlett" from Gone with the Wind and Uncus [sic] from The Last of the Mohicans); 06-08, side view of entryway and porch and decorated balcony; 09-12, front (street-facing) wall at Pope's Museum.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-CF-130

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. Pope's Museum, Grady County, Georgia. Grady County United States Georgia, 1977. Grady County Georgia, - August 26, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_130/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Pope's Museum, Grady County, Georgia. Grady County United States Georgia, 1977. Grady County Georgia, - August 26, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_130/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl. Pope's Museum, Grady County, Georgia. Grady County Georgia, - August 26, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_130/>.