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Photo, Print, Drawing "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County, Georgia; Garrison's Grocery, Fitzgerald, Georgia

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Title

  • "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County, Georgia; Garrison's Grocery, Fitzgerald, Georgia

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Wilcox County, Georgia; Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 3, 1977 - August 4, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Vernacular architecture
  • -  Furniture
  • -  Grocery stores
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Wilcox County
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Ben Hill County -- Fitzgerald

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 Guy Fuller's property, includes his home and a log cabin, Wilcox County GA (near House Creek, which lies 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"), page 89 of David Stanley's fieldnotes ( call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 44a) reports that the cabin was built in about 1930 for Guy Fuller by a local African American man named Edward Fuller, the cabin was constructed of round logs with chinking and features a split shingle roof obscured by pine needles (?) and other leaf litter: 001-005, Fuller's cabin from the northeast, north, northwest, west and northwest; 006-008, corner-notching details for the southeast corner; 009-010, roof corner and window, north side; 011, notching on the northwest corner; 012-015, rocking chair with cowhide seat and back; 016-017, ladderback chair with woven twisted (corn?) shuck seat; 018-019, southeast corner of cabin showing corner notching, chinking, and log footers; 020-022, ladderback chair with woven twisted (corn?) shuck seat and pencil on seat for scale; at Johnnie Garrison's grocery, Fitzgerald GA: 023-024 (on log: 23-25), details, interior of Garrison's grocery, includes signs for Red Rose brand of livestock feeds; 025-029 (on log: 26-29), Johnnie Garrison, showing a wooden container (canister?) used for receipts and money between store and accounting office when store was dry goods (moved via pneumatic tube?); 030-037, store interior, 030, sign "Reach for Sunbeam Bread," 031, shows the string (and string dispenser, called a "tobacco box" in Stanley's fieldnotes) that Garrison uses for a joke about the shadow it casts on the ceiling (cause paint to fade), 032-034, wide shots looking toward front of space, 035, scale, 036-037, changing the calendar hanging on the wall, the one removed includes "Boost Fitzgerald" and "Fitzgerald Federal," a blackboard at the right includes prices for an extensive list of livestock feeds.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 3-17503

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:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County, Georgia; Garrison's Grocery, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Ben Hill County Fitzgerald Wilcox County United States Georgia, 1977. Wilcox County, Georgia; Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 3, - August 4. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17503_3/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. & Stanley, D. (1977) "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County, Georgia; Garrison's Grocery, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Ben Hill County Fitzgerald Wilcox County United States Georgia, 1977. Wilcox County, Georgia; Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 3, - August 4. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17503_3/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David, and David Stanley. "Uncle" Guy Fuller's cabin, Wilcox County, Georgia; Garrison's Grocery, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Wilcox County, Georgia; Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 3, - August 4. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17503_3/>.