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Photo, Print, Drawing C.L. Talley farm, Tift County, Georgia, tobacco bulk curing barn; Folklife project office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia; Scenes in Tifton, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia

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Title

  • C.L. Talley farm, Tift County, Georgia, tobacco bulk curing barn; Folklife project office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia; Scenes in Tifton, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Tift County, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia, July 20, 1977 - July 23, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Tobacco barns
  • -  Restaurants
  • -  Tobacco--Harvesting
  • -  Barbecuing
  • -  Team fieldwork
  • -  Commercial architecture
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Berrien County -- Enigma

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at a tobacco farm northeast of the intersection of state road 1982 (1977 identification, called Chula Whiddon Mill Road on 2018 maps) and county road 40 (1977 identification, called Shaky Bay Road on 2018 maps), identified as the C.L. Talley farm: 01-08, at a set of tobacco-curing bulk barns, with signs "Powell Bulk Curing/Drying Systems," workers transferring primed tobacco on sticks into the bulk barns, after the sticks were brought from the harvester in the field via special trailer pulled by a pickup truck; 06, farmer C.L. Talley and Mr. White, serviceman for the bulk barns; 09, at the Talley's house, a birdhouse in a tree with "See Rock City" painted on the roof, souvenir of Rock City TN; 10, farm bell for calling hands to meals, now on decorative post behind the Talley house; at Creswell Hall at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton GA, lodging and headquarters for the field team during the project: 11-12, set of marked up county maps, showing travels related to the project, and project poster; near Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in north Tifton GA: 13-14, Bible Baptist Church, built of two mobile homes with an added steeple and central doorway, sign includes "Independent, Fundamental, Missionary" and "Every Visitor a Welcome Guest"; in downtown Tifton GA: 15, Lincoln Continental automobile (mid-1960s model) parked in front of the Hotel Myon and Tift County Drugs on a downtown street, sign reads "Welfare Continental, donated by downtown Tifton Merchants Assoc., free tickets at participating member stores, drawing will be Aug. 13, 5 pm, in front of C&S Bank"; in Enigma GA: 16-20, exterior views of Dempsey's Barbecue, including signs, "Bar-B-Q," "Dempsey Old Fashion Pit Barbecue, Hams, Ribs, Boston Butts, Kids, Chicken, Sandwitch, Foot-long Hot Dogs," "Jack Dempsey Old Fashion Pit Cooked Barbecue," and "Enjoy Coca-Cola, It's the real thing. Coke," also sign in background for Farmers Exchange with advertisements for feeds and farm implements; 18, stand in front of the building displaying and locally produced pickled peppers (and root vegetables?), honey, and sorghum syrup.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-7

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. C.L. Talley farm, Tift County, Georgia, tobacco bulk curing barn; Folklife project office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia; Scenes in Tifton, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Georgia Berrien County Tift County Enigma United States, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia, - July 23, 1977. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_007/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. (1977) C.L. Talley farm, Tift County, Georgia, tobacco bulk curing barn; Folklife project office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia; Scenes in Tifton, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Georgia Berrien County Tift County Enigma United States, 1977. Tift County, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia, - July 23, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_007/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David. C.L. Talley farm, Tift County, Georgia, tobacco bulk curing barn; Folklife project office, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia; Scenes in Tifton, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Tift County, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia, - July 23, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_007/>.