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Photo, Print, Drawing Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, children's games, arts and crafts; Preston Newell music party (21 July 1977), Tift County, Georgia

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Title

  • Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, children's games, arts and crafts; Preston Newell music party (21 July 1977), Tift County, Georgia

Names

  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
  • Adler, Thomas A.

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia, July 20, 1977 - July 21, 1977

Headings

  • -  Jam sessions
  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Children's games
  • -  Bluegrass music
  • -  Art
  • -  Country music
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift 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 at the home of Janie and Keith Doss, Rt. 2 Box 280B, Tifton, GA (20 July 1977), location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County GA as point H (lat-long: 31.380925, -83.489494): 000-001, Tracy Doss; 002-003, Janie Doss, "pulling a string through her neck"; 004-007, Tracy and Mark Doss playing string games; 008-009, felt-pen drawing by Janie: "Beauty is a Thought"; 010-011, Bird Dogs, painted wood-burning art by Janie; 012, collage made by Janie; 013, crocheted rug made by Janie on the front porch; 014, shed in back of the house; 015, beginning of biscuits; 016, fieldworker David Stanley doing an interview on TV; 017, the fallen tree used as a clubhouse/fort by Mark and Tracy; at the home of Preston Newell south of Tifton, GA (21 July 1977), location identified on fieldworker Howard (Rusty) Marshall's field map of Tift County (lat-long: 31.417836, -83.484604), sound recordings made at this event are identified by call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21045 to AFS 21050: 018-019, Preston Newell's house; 020-021, entering Preston Newell's (overexposed film); 022-25, scenes of the picking party in progress; 026, fieldworker Marshall operating the Nagra tape recorder; 027-029, musicians at the picking party; 030, spouses chatting in the corner; 031-033, girls listening to themselves on the Nagra; 034, women, sitting opposite the pickers; 035-036, kids listening to the recording on the Nagra.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 2-17384

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:

Adler, Thomas A, and Thomas A Adler. Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, children's games, arts and crafts; Preston Newell music party 21 July , Tift County, Georgia. Georgia United States Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia, - July 21, 1977. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17384_2/.

APA citation style:

Adler, T. A. & Adler, T. A. (1977) Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, children's games, arts and crafts; Preston Newell music party 21 July , Tift County, Georgia. Georgia United States Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia, - July 21, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17384_2/.

MLA citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, and Thomas A Adler. Janie Doss, Tift County, Georgia, children's games, arts and crafts; Preston Newell music party 21 July , Tift County, Georgia. Tift County, Georgia, - July 21, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17384_2/>.