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Photo, Print, Drawing Hickory Springs Baptist Church

About this Item

Title

  • Hickory Springs Baptist Church

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Georgia, July 13, 1977

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the Hickory Springs Primitive Baptist Church in northwest Tift County near Whiddons Mill (Whiddons Mill Road?), fieldworkers notes state, "C.D. Moore, Jr., pastor"; 01, roadside sign for the church; 02-05, Hickory Springs church building and cemetery, fieldworker's notes for the black and white photographs at call number AFC 1982/010: 2-17342 report that the "cemetery (is) said to be haunted by college students at (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) in Tifton," image 05 includes Spanish moss on trees; 06-20, graves in the cemetery; 06, new burial with funeral flowers, 08-09, headstone consisting of (plant material?) inside a transparent glass block; 10, stone identified "infant son of James & Mary Gibbs, born Jan. 23th 1900, died the same day, asleep in Jesus"; 12, includes family stone with name Branch; 17 and 20, scene includes family stone with name Sutton; 18, slab on ground, hand-inscribed legend includes "Rolland" and "died June 17" (image is incorrectly oriented, rotate the online version 90 degrees clockwise for correct presentation).

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-HM-3

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Marshall, Howard W. Hickory Springs Baptist Church. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_003/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. (1977) Hickory Springs Baptist Church. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_003/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W. Hickory Springs Baptist Church. Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_003/>.