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Photo, Print, Drawing Visit to salt hay ropemaker, Owen Carney, of Port Norris, New Jersey

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About this Item

Title

  • Visit to salt hay ropemaker, Owen Carney, of Port Norris, New Jersey

Names

  • Hufford, Mary, 1952- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Port Norris, New Jersey, 1983

Headings

  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Port Norris
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Documentary photographs

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-4, Salt Hay mounded up outside of the workshed on Carney's property. G-Port Norris; no codeGT; 5-8, Carney, twisting salt hay into rope, aided by his ropemaking machine; 9, Carney's son, bringing the salt hay (Spartina sp.) in through the back door; 10-11, Carney and his son test the strength of the rope by puIIing on it in tug-of-war fashion; 12-16, Carney with spools of the rope; 17-18, Fieldworker Rita Moonsammy photographs Owen Carney making the rope; 19-20, More shots of the outside of the shed

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMH-001

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:

Hufford, Mary. Visit to salt hay ropemaker, Owen Carney, of Port Norris, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Port Norris, 1983. Port Norris, New Jersey. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_cmh_001/.

APA citation style:

Hufford, M. (1983) Visit to salt hay ropemaker, Owen Carney, of Port Norris, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Port Norris, 1983. Port Norris, New Jersey. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_cmh_001/.

MLA citation style:

Hufford, Mary. Visit to salt hay ropemaker, Owen Carney, of Port Norris, New Jersey. Port Norris, New Jersey. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991023_cmh_001/>.