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Photo, Print, Drawing Vernacular buildings, Irwin County, Georgia; Buildings at the W.D. Marchant farm and other sites, Tift County, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Vernacular buildings, Irwin County, Georgia; Buildings at the W.D. Marchant farm and other sites, Tift County, Georgia

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, July 12, 1977 - July 14, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Vernacular architecture
  • -  Agricultural buildings
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County

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: scenes in Irwin County GA (13 July 1979): 001-003, frame-construction barns in southwest Irwin County, south of US highway 319; 004, overlapping two-frame exposure of a frame-construction central-chimney house (and a barn, with front porch furniture, may have been converted to a dwelling) in southwest Irwin County, on US highway 319 (this possible dwelling conversion is typed on the fieldworkers log as frame 5, "Spread-wing barn, now converted to house," 005-007, spread-wing barn in southwest Irwin County, described on log as "next to house in A4" (probably refers to left side of overlap-exposed frame 004), frame 007 is an overlapping exposure, on the right is a frame double-pen house, southwest Irwin County, typed in the fieldworker's log as frame 9; 008-009 (on log: 10-11), Clorox-bottle martin houses, southwest Irwin County, frame 008 is an overlapping exposure of the martin houses; 010 (on log: 12), another martin house with outbuildings, fieldworker's notes state "next to other martin houses"; scenes in Tift County GA (14 July 1979): 011-012 (on log: 13-14): barn with large sprawling sheds, west of Tifton, just north of US highway 82; 013-015 (on log: 15-17), haystack, northwest Tift County, at the junction of Whiddon Mill and Zion Hope Church Roads, frame 015 is an overlapping exposure and the left half is the haystack, the right is the barn also documented in the frames that follow; 016-024 (on log: 18-29); at the W.D. Marchant farm, double-crib log barn with attached sheds, on Zion Hope Church Rd., northwest Tift County GA (Marchant's given name may be William), marked as site D on Rusty Marshall's field map of Tift County (approx. lat-long: 31.499765, -83.559227): the digital file represented in frame 019 is inverted, rotate online version 180 degrees; the fieldworker David Stanley's log for the Marchant barn photographs states that additional information is provided in his fieldnotes at call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 44a (pages 3-4, 9-10, and interspersed drawings; image sequence 14-15, 20-24) and in photographs at call number AFC 1982/010: 6-17476 (frames 019-036).

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 3-17351

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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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, David Stanley, and David Stanley. Vernacular buildings, Irwin County, Georgia; Buildings at the W.D. Marchant farm and other sites, Tift County, Georgia. United States Georgia Irwin County Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - July 14, 1977. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17351_3/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W., Stanley, D. & Stanley, D. (1977) Vernacular buildings, Irwin County, Georgia; Buildings at the W.D. Marchant farm and other sites, Tift County, Georgia. United States Georgia Irwin County Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - July 14, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17351_3/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, David Stanley, and David Stanley. Vernacular buildings, Irwin County, Georgia; Buildings at the W.D. Marchant farm and other sites, Tift County, Georgia. Tift County, Georgia; Irwin County, Georgia, - July 14, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17351_3/>.