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Photo, Print, Drawing Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; WALB-TV crew films Allen Shellhorse farm, Tift County, Georgia, including former tenant house

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Title

  • Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; WALB-TV crew films Allen Shellhorse farm, Tift County, Georgia, including former tenant house

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Collector)
  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
  • Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Irwin County, Georgia, July 17, 1977 - July 20, 1977

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  See field notes: 25-31, 35-36
  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA: 01-02, attendee Mrs. Mary Bell Hays, age 89, cites page 30 in his fieldnotes at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 44a; 03, attendee posed with two hand fans (for cooling); 04-06, interior of tabernacle, empty after the end of the convention; 07-09, posed group of folklife project fieldworkers at the tabernacle, behind the monument with a bust dedicated to convention founder Uncle Billy Royal (William Jackson Royal 1850-1931), team members include David Stanley, Howard (Rusty) Marshall, William Lightfoot, and Thomas Adler; at Creswell Hall at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton GA, lodging and headquarters for the field team during the project: 10, set of marked up county maps, showing travels related to the project as of 18 July 1977; at the farm of Allen Shellhorse, RR 3, Tifton GA (20 July 1977), identified as sites A and B on Howard (Rusty) Marshall's field map of Tift County (approx. lat-long: 31.558939, -83.599012): 11-15, television crew from station WALB-TV, Albany GA, with fieldworkers, shooting 16mm film footage at the farm, these photographs made by project sponsor Syd Blackmarr; 11, left to right, fieldworkers Howard (Rusty) Marshall and David Stanley, Allen Shellhorse, and two members of the WALB crew; 14, Allen Shellhorse, David Stanley, and WALB crew member; 16, the Shellhorse farm former tenant house, from the northeast; 17, same, from the north.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-4

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

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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:

Marshall, Howard W, Thomas A Adler, William E Lightfoot, and David Stanley. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; WALB-TV crew films Allen Shellhorse farm, Tift County, Georgia, including former tenant house. Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Irwin County, Georgia, - July 20, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_004/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W., Adler, T. A., Lightfoot, W. E. & Stanley, D. (1977) Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; WALB-TV crew films Allen Shellhorse farm, Tift County, Georgia, including former tenant house. Georgia Irwin County United States, 1977. Irwin County, Georgia, - July 20, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_004/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, et al. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; WALB-TV crew films Allen Shellhorse farm, Tift County, Georgia, including former tenant house. Irwin County, Georgia, - July 20, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_004/>.