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Photo, Print, Drawing Syd Blackmarr family photographs including people, homes, and turpentine still in Ocilla, Mystic, and Chula, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Syd Blackmarr family photographs including people, homes, and turpentine still in Ocilla, Mystic, and Chula, Georgia

Names

  • Blackmarr, Syd (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl

Created / Published

  • Ocilla, Georgia; Chula, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Ocilla
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Chula

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: photographs copied from the collection of Syd Blackmarr, Ocilla GA, and described by her, copied to illustrate Blackmarr's article for a proposed book from the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project; Blackmarr was sponsor of the project in her role as head of the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton GA: 01-02, the John Franklin Willis home as it was in 1940 when Blackmarr was a child, the house was built in 1879 by C.F. Crouch of Ocilla, and it is pictured in one of three snows in a half-century in South Georgia; 03-04, John Marshall Willis with his automobile, Willis was the -owner of several sawmills and turpentine stills in Wiregrass Georgia, pictured here in front of his home in Mystic, Georgia around 1925; 05-06, brother and sister Marshall Burns Willis (called Burns) and Sydney Willis (now Blackmarr) on the steps of their Ocilla home in 1937; 07-08, Sydney Willis with her brother Burns and cousin Jack Eli Vickers, at the Mystic farmhouse in 1939 (Burns may be the boy on the right); 09-10, John Franklin Willis, right, shortly before his marriage to Reba Burns Willis in 1925, with his brother, Eston, at the Willis home place in Mystic, Georgia; 11-12, the John Marshall Willis homeplace in Mystic, Irwin County, Georgia, built in about 1870 of virgin South Georgia heart pine and occupied in 1977 by Jonnie McCranie Willis; 13-14, turpentine still in Wiregrass Georgia at the time John Marshall Willis owned and operated such stills, this example thought to be in Chula, Georgia.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-CF-151

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:

Blackmarr, Syd, and Carl Fleischhauer. Syd Blackmarr family photographs including people, homes, and turpentine still in Ocilla, Mystic, and Chula, Georgia. Irwin County Ocilla Mystic Tift County Georgia Chula United States, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Chula, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_151/.

APA citation style:

Blackmarr, S. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Syd Blackmarr family photographs including people, homes, and turpentine still in Ocilla, Mystic, and Chula, Georgia. Irwin County Ocilla Mystic Tift County Georgia Chula United States, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Chula, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_151/.

MLA citation style:

Blackmarr, Syd, and Carl Fleischhauer. Syd Blackmarr family photographs including people, homes, and turpentine still in Ocilla, Mystic, and Chula, Georgia. Ocilla, Georgia; Chula, Georgia; Mystic, Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_cf_151/>.