Photo, Print, Drawing Image 30 of Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Mystic, Georgia, July 17, 1977 - July 18, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Mystic

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Frame numbers and descriptions: at the Royal Singing Convention in the Royal Singing Tabernacle, Mystic GA (17 July 1977): 000, Fred Johns at piano and singers; 001-003, Erston Royal being presented with a gift by "Ma" Bethea; 004, fieldworker Howard (Rusty) Marshall with camera; 005, Melita Easters and fieldworker Thomas Adler; 006-007, inside of roof (showing construction) of the tabernacle; 008-009, Mrs. Eva Mae Vickers, in the fieldworker's field notes, he reports that Mrs. Vickers is the oldest living grandchild of William Jackson "Uncle Billy" Royal; 010-011, attendees at the convention, including an African American woman (center), Mrs. Mary Belle Hays; 012-013, front and back of memorial to convention founder William Jackson "Uncle Billy" Royal; 014, pianist Fred Johns and Mr. Spivey; 015-017, at the convention closing ceremony with Erston Royal speaking (light suit and necktie), the fieldworker's notes state that the older man (second from right, with suspenders) is Mr. Bussell, the secretary for the convention for 50 years; 018-019, J. C. Cooper (John Carlton Cooper?), the emcee of the convention, dark suit, speaking; 020, the closing hymn; 021, left to right, Mr. Spivey, J. Wallace Franks (president of the Tift County Convention, and J.C. Cooper; 022, participants singing the closing hymn; 023-024, J.C. Cooper leading the closing hymn, 024, left to right, unidentified, (Js. Royal), Ma Bethea, J.C. Cooper, Zebedee Parsons, Mr. Bussell, D.O. Davis, and Erston Royal; at a conversation with students in Creswell Hall at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (project headquarters, 18 July 1977): 025-029, student Marty Weathers (Martin Elmer Weathers); 030-034, student Bill Henry (William Edward Henry); 035-037, student Clenton Bishop (David Clenton Bishop).
  • -  Regarding the Royal Singing Convention, sound recordings are identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 20874 through AFS 20881 and AFS 20997 through AFS 20999; video recordings are identified by field project identifiers GA7-V1, GA7-V2, and a portion o

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 2-17393

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:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. United States Mystic Georgia Irwin County, 1977. Mystic, Georgia, - July 18, 1977. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17393_2/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. & Stanley, D. (1977) Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. United States Mystic Georgia Irwin County, 1977. Mystic, Georgia, - July 18, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17393_2/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia. Mystic, Georgia, - July 18, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17393_2/>.