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Photo, Print, Drawing Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia

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Title

  • Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W.

Created / Published

  • Georgia, July 17, 1977 - July 29, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Worth County -- Sylvester
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Chula
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Turner County -- Ashburn

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: set of selected photographs from various locations categorized by fieldworker Rusty Marshall as vernacular-commercial-building related, limited identifications and from various dates: 01, masonry wall of a commercial building in Ashburn, Turner County GA, with a coin operated scale (for passers-by?), "Deposit coin in slot opposite month born," "Character readings," "Your future?"; 02, main street, Ashburn GA, police cruisers parked at right; 03-04, storefronts in the African American section of Sylvester GA, including the Bon Go Longe (Lounge), a barber shop with two signs, "Citizen Barber" and "Nethers Barber Shop" (22 July 1977); 05, Marbro drive-in theater (showing "92 in the Shade" and "Vigilante Force"), Tifton GA (27 July 1977); 06, Lincoln Continental automobile (mid-1960s model) parked in front of the Hotel Myon and Tift County Drugs on a downtown street in Tifton GA, sign reads "Welfare Continental, donated by downtown Tifton Merchants Assoc., free tickets at participating member stores, drawing will be Aug. 13, 5 pm, in front of C&S Bank" (26 July 1977); 07-09, Sumner's Gro. & Mts. store, Chula, Tift County GA, signs advertise Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, "We give King Kotton Stamps," bench on front porch behind ice cooler; 10, J.P. Young Pit Bar-B-Que, Tifton GA, in the rain; 11-12, store (or former store?), Tifton GA, underexposed photographs (17 July 1977); 13-15, store in Coverdale, Turner County GA, sign includes Coca-Cola logo and "Tucks" (?), Texaco Fire Chief gasoline pump in front, RC Royal Crown advertising sign (25 July 1977); 16-17, building with sign "Shelled Pecans, Adcock Pecans, Handful or Truckloads," Tifton GA, and storage area with bins marked "Adcock Pecans" (29 July 1977); 18, warehouse (railroad tracks in foreground), "Houston Peanut Company, Buyers an Shellers of Runners, Spanish, & Virginias," Sylvester, Worth County GA (21 July 1977); 19, cement block store, signs "Donut Shop" and "Open, 4 AM, breakfast anytime, sandwitches, lunch") Ocilla, Irwin County GA (19 July 1977).

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-HM-47

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:

Marshall, Howard W. Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia. Sylvester Worth County United States Tift County Ashburn Georgia Turner County Chula, 1977. Georgia, - July 29, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_047/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. (1977) Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia. Sylvester Worth County United States Tift County Ashburn Georgia Turner County Chula, 1977. Georgia, - July 29, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_047/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W. Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia. Georgia, - July 29, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_hm_047/>.