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Photo, Print, Drawing Walter Edwards makes a bamboo whistle, Ocilla, Georgia; Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia, buildings, cane mill, and molasses boiler

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Title

  • Walter Edwards makes a bamboo whistle, Ocilla, Georgia; Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia, buildings, cane mill, and molasses boiler

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Ocilla, Georgia; Tifton, Georgia, August 6, 1977 - August 11, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Vernacular architecture
  • -  Syrups
  • -  Whistles
  • -  Agricultural museums
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Tift County -- Tifton
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Ocilla

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the home of Eugene Lane, East 6th Street, Ocilla GA: 01-09, Lane's neighbor Walter Edwards cuts what the men called a "reed" to make a bamboo whistle, fieldworker's notes state "cutting plug"; 10-11, Edwards testing the reed whistle; location not identified: 12, front porch of a modern brick house, with ladderback chairs; at Georgia Agrirama (subsequently renamed Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village), Tifton GA: 13, dogtrot house; 14, cotton gin and church; 15-17, connected house, 18, cane mill; 19-20, large kettle molasses boiler with masonry firebox and chimney.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-28

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. Walter Edwards makes a bamboo whistle, Ocilla, Georgia; Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia, buildings, cane mill, and molasses boiler. Irwin County Ocilla Georgia Tift County Tifton United States, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Tifton, Georgia, August 6, 1977. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_028/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. (1977) Walter Edwards makes a bamboo whistle, Ocilla, Georgia; Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia, buildings, cane mill, and molasses boiler. Irwin County Ocilla Georgia Tift County Tifton United States, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Tifton, Georgia, August 6, 1977. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_028/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David. Walter Edwards makes a bamboo whistle, Ocilla, Georgia; Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia, buildings, cane mill, and molasses boiler. Ocilla, Georgia; Tifton, Georgia, August 6, 1977. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_028/>.