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Photo, Print, Drawing Interview with Valia Petrenko; Shots of yard decorations on Route 530, Browns Mills; Shots of yardscape, Browns Mills, New Jersey

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Title

  • Interview with Valia Petrenko; Shots of yard decorations on Route 530, Browns Mills; Shots of yardscape, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Names

  • Moonsammy, Rita Zorn (Research team member)
  • Hufford, Mary, 1952- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Browns Mills, New Jersey, October 21, 1983

Headings

  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Browns Mills
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Documentary photographs

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-5, BaIIoon headed effigy, aIong Route 530, G-Brown 's Mills; 21GT; 6, Pinelands Folk life Project Fieldworker Rita Moonsammy at headquarters in G-Lebanon State Forest; 27GT; 7-9, Icons on wal Is of bedroom (at Val ia Petrenko's house in Allentown--SS). Flash not in sync with shutter speed; 10, Kitchen. Painting of Last Supper draped with traditionally embroidered towel; 11, Fieldworker Rita Moonsammy with Valia Petrenko; 12-16, Val ia Petrenko (a member of St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Church in G-CassviIIe; 48GT.); 17, WalI decorations in dining room. Note wooden mushrooms; 18-19, Text of Russian Orthodox mass in Syrilic. (sp?); 20-21, Val ia discussing clump of earth brought from Russia for burial; 22, Harry Payne and his wife Gladys. G-Whiting; 52GT; 25-36, Shots of Taylors: yard. Note beagle graves in 25 & 26. Dog pens, 28-29, for fox hounds; maiIbox with fox decal, 36. G-Browns MiIIs; 21G

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/023: 216898-01

Source Collection

  • Pinelands Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/023)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Pinelands Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/023), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Moonsammy, Rita Zorn, and Mary Hufford. Interview with Valia Petrenko; Shots of yard decorations on Route 530, Browns Mills; Shots of yardscape, Browns Mills, New Jersey. Browns Mills New Jersey United States, 1983. Browns Mills, New Jersey. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_216898_01/.

APA citation style:

Moonsammy, R. Z. & Hufford, M. (1983) Interview with Valia Petrenko; Shots of yard decorations on Route 530, Browns Mills; Shots of yardscape, Browns Mills, New Jersey. Browns Mills New Jersey United States, 1983. Browns Mills, New Jersey. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_216898_01/.

MLA citation style:

Moonsammy, Rita Zorn, and Mary Hufford. Interview with Valia Petrenko; Shots of yard decorations on Route 530, Browns Mills; Shots of yardscape, Browns Mills, New Jersey. Browns Mills, New Jersey. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_216898_01/>.