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Photo, Print, Drawing Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia

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Title

  • Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia

Names

  • Adler, Thomas A. (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia, August 7, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Vernacular architecture
  • -  Barbecuing
  • -  Fieldwork
  • -  Gas stations
  • -  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: along a dirt road in the southwest corner of Tift County GA: 001, landscape with dirt road; 002, cane mill in a field, chimney from former dwelling in background; at Dorsey's barbecue (signs on establishment vary; one states "Dorsey's Ser. Sta. & BBQ"), Ty Ty, GA: 003-005, other signs at Dorsey's, "Air. Oil. Bat. & Tires, Tubes, Use of tools, 25 cents ea. tire C.D." and "Excuses, excuses, excuses, wow, your wife, child. maw. paw. sis. bro. they got sick, Took thim to doctor, Your car radio TV stereo HiFi you name it, they blowed up, you took thim to the shop, now you have to pay thim all out, now you get drunk and the rest of your money took, you come to me, it have made you sick, now I've heard your lies and theyer made me sick, now you have all the pity from the people, but if you don't pay your bill on time you won't have mine, thanks C. Dorsey, P.S. if your bill run past the appointed time the law will 'stop' it, bare that in mind"; 006-007, fieldworker Thomas Adler taking photos of farm field from one of the vans provided to the field team by Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College; at the Flora Emma Dickens log house, location identified on fieldworker Thomas Adler's field map of Tift County GA as site M (approx. lat-long: 31.379822, -83.628938), and on a property with the dwelling currently occupied by Mrs. Flora Dickens: 008-013, Dickens log house, a dogtrot design (house with breezeway, i.e., an open central hallway) with a detached kitchen, from the west, northwest, north, and south, David Stanley's fieldnotes ( call number AFC 1982/010: Box 5, Folder 44b, p. 125; digital sequence 13) report that family member says the house was built circa 1867; 014, detached kitchen behind house; 015-017, dogtrot between the two log pens that comprise the main enclosed space in the house; 018-020, detail showing cantilevered beam for porch roof, frame 019 is incorrectly oriented, flip it vertically, frame 020 is incorrectly oriented, rotate counterclockwise; 021, doorframe, 022-025, chimney and corner details; 026-029, detached kitchen from northeast and north, including collapsed masonry chimney; 030, interior of kitchen showing angled support element in framing; 031, edge of kitchen porch, where the passageway had been connected to the main house; 032-035, house and kitchen from the south; 036-037, house and kitchen from northwest.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: 2-17534

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

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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, David Stanley, and David Stanley. Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia. Georgia United States Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia, August 7. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17534_2/.

APA citation style:

Adler, T. A., Stanley, D. & Stanley, D. (1977) Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia. Georgia United States Tift County, 1977. Tift County, Georgia, August 7. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17534_2/.

MLA citation style:

Adler, Thomas A, David Stanley, and David Stanley. Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia. Tift County, Georgia, August 7. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_17534_2/>.