Photo, Print, Drawing Image 15 of House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia, fishing and swimming at the boils (springs)

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia, fishing and swimming at the boils (springs)

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Ben Hill County, Georgia, July 16, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Ben Hill County

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  See field notes: 13-19
  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: along House Creek, near the border between Ben Hill and Wilcox Counties GA, fieldworker's notes state "behind Uncle Guy Fuller's house, southeast Wilcox County GA" and "east of Bowen's Mill, northeast Ben Hill County": 01-06, landscape views on House Creek; 07-09, sand road on the way to the boils; 10-14, "the boils," described by the fieldworker as springs at a point on House Creek; 15, Clenton Bishop on swing above the boils, released and heading for the water feet first; 16, Bishop swimming in the boils; 17, two men observing the creek at the boils, fieldworker's notes describe them as fishermen and "Troy ? and son"; 18-19, the boils; 20, fisherman ("Troy ?").

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-1

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. House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia, fishing and swimming at the boils springs. Georgia United States Ben Hill County, 1977. Ben Hill County, Georgia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_001/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. (1977) House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia, fishing and swimming at the boils springs. Georgia United States Ben Hill County, 1977. Ben Hill County, Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_001/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David. House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia, fishing and swimming at the boils springs. Ben Hill County, Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_ds_001/>.