Photo, Print, Drawing Image 1 of Cecil Bridges selling birdhouses near Albany, Georgia; South Georgia Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Cecil Bridges selling birdhouses near Albany, Georgia; South Georgia Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Collector)
  • Marshall, Howard W. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Tifton, Georgia; Albany, Georgia, April 30, 1977 - May 1, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Dougherty County -- Albany

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Fieldworker's notes about Cecil Bridges provide this mailing address, Indian Lake, Route 3, Moultrie, GA 31768, 985-4343, and state that Bridges "had a pickup truck set up by side of road at old gas station, selling various styles of home-made wood birdhouses (mostly for wrens, he said)." Most of his birdhouse "were clearly built from planbooks (e.g., "castle," Alpine style birdhouses), but one was clearly not from any planbook, patterned after a typical south Ga. folk house type, the saddlebag house." Bridges is retired and "builds birdhouses, doll houses, etc. in home workshop as hobby and as source of a little extra income. He travels around to various towns, stopping to sell his wares for a day and then drives back home to Moultrie."
  • -  Frame numbers and descriptions: Cecil Bridges and homemade wooden birdhouses, U.S. highway 82, near Albany, Dougherty County, GA (Saturday, 30 April 1977): 000-002, Cecil Bridges with his homemade wooden birdhouses; man at left in photograph is Alan Jabbour, director of the American Folklife Center; in the church at Georgia Agrirama (subsequently renamed Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village), Tifton GA: 003-006, Charles Hall (Agrirama staff) and Alan Jabbour rigging microphones to record Sacred Harp singing the next day (Sunday, 1 May 1977); 007-008, exterior views of church; 009-011, interior views; 012-013, museum landscape; 014, interior; 015, Charles Hall, Assistant Director, Agrirama; at the singing event (Sunday, 1 May 1977): 016, Alan Jabbour and Hugh McGraw, singing master, leader of Sacred Harp organization in GA; 17-36A, singing in the church.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 1-16843

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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Chicago citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, and Howard W Marshall. Cecil Bridges selling birdhouses near Albany, Georgia; South Georgia Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia. Albany Georgia Dougherty County Tift County United States Tifton, 1977. Tifton, Georgia; Albany, Georgia, - May 1, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_16843_1/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. & Marshall, H. W. (1977) Cecil Bridges selling birdhouses near Albany, Georgia; South Georgia Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia. Albany Georgia Dougherty County Tift County United States Tifton, 1977. Tifton, Georgia; Albany, Georgia, - May 1, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_16843_1/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, and Howard W Marshall. Cecil Bridges selling birdhouses near Albany, Georgia; South Georgia Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia. Tifton, Georgia; Albany, Georgia, - May 1, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_16843_1/>.