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Photo, Print, Drawing Shellhorse farm:

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Title

  • Shellhorse farm:

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Georgia, July 14, 1977

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Documented - Sites C, G, and A
  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the farm of Allen Shellhorse, RR 3, Tifton GA (13 July 1977), identified as sites A and B on Marshall's field map of Tift County (approx. lat-long: 31.558939, -83.599012), documented in Marshall's fieldnotes at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 43, image sequence 21-31: 01- 06, Shellhorse's pond boat for fishing on rivers and ponds, wood construction, propelled by poles or paddles, two seats, segment of steel gear drive from a motor vehicle as (anchor?), images 02 and 03 incidentally include pears or apples, the boat is represented by a measured field drawing in Marshall's fieldnotes Shellhorse farm buildings are documented in fieldworker Howard Marshall's fieldnotes (item at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 43, beginning at image sequence number 30); 07- 08, fieldworker's van, provided by Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) in support of the folklife project, at Shellhorse farm, image 08 includes decorative flower hanging in large cast iron kettle (type sometimes used to boil molasses), prickly pear plant, decorative bird bath; 09-13, frame (former) tenant house at Shellhorse farm, image 09 includes accidental daylight exposure on left side, 10 and 11 include hogs near building; 14, the tobacco crew (Shellhorse at left) posed with the truck, the fieldworker's notes state "crew composed of 5 black teenagers plus an older white youth who drives the flatbed truck"; 15-20, tobacco crew unloading "sheets" of freshly cured tobacco and putting them in the log dogtrot house (former dwelling) for storage and "setting up" of the leaf (gain in moisture content) prior to taking to the market in Tifton.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-HM-7

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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Marshall, Howard W. Shellhorse Farm. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_007/.

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Marshall, H. W. (1977) Shellhorse Farm. United States Georgia, 1977. Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_007/.

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Marshall, Howard W. Shellhorse Farm. Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_007/>.