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Photo, Print, Drawing Raymond Green, Ocilla, Georgia, log house, homemade bean picking seat; Rural scenes, Irwin County, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia

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About this Item

Title

  • Raymond Green, Ocilla, Georgia, log house, homemade bean picking seat; Rural scenes, Irwin County, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942-

Created / Published

  • Ocilla, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia, August 21, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Restaurants
  • -  Vernacular architecture
  • -  Barbecuing
  • -  Grocery stores
  • -  Log buildings
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Irwin County -- Ocilla
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Berrien County -- Enigma

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Image numbers and descriptions: at the home of Raymond Green, vicinity of Ocilla GA, described as near U.S. highway 129 south of Reedy Creek: 01-04 Raymond Green (wearing bib overalls and tan shirt) with his brothers; 5, view from the south of the dovetail-notched log house Green moved onto his property from a site about two or three miles to the southwest; 06-07, Green picking field peas using a rolling seat he invented for picking peas (and beans?); scenes along US highway 129 near the Irwin County-Berrien County line: 08-09, tobacco field, on US 129, extreme southern Irwin County; 10, Lott's Grocery, near the same location, two gasoline pumps, ice cooler, and Coca-Cola advertisement; 11-13, pastureland and hayfields on US 129 in extreme northern Berrien County, may be large hay bales in distance in image 12; 14, flue-curing tobacco barn, in about the same location, appears to be frame construction covered with material (sheet metal?) to seal interior; 15, frame farm building behind trees, same location, described by fieldworker as mule barn; at Jack Dempsey's Barbecue in Enigma GA: 16-18, sunset scenes of Dempsey's Barbecue, signs include neon pig and "Bar-B-Q," painted signs, "Jack Dempsey Old Fashion Pit Cooked Barbecue" and "Groceries, Bar-B-Que. Ice Cream, Entrance," also a masonry firebox and chimney at one end of the screened porch (may no longer be operational?).

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: GA7-DS-62

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. Raymond Green, Ocilla, Georgia, log house, homemade bean picking seat; Rural scenes, Irwin County, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Enigma United States Irwin County Berrien County Georgia Ocilla, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_062/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D. (1977) Raymond Green, Ocilla, Georgia, log house, homemade bean picking seat; Rural scenes, Irwin County, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Enigma United States Irwin County Berrien County Georgia Ocilla, 1977. Ocilla, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_062/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David. Raymond Green, Ocilla, Georgia, log house, homemade bean picking seat; Rural scenes, Irwin County, Georgia; Jack Dempsey's Barbecue, Enigma, Georgia. Ocilla, Georgia; Enigma, Georgia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1982010_ds_062/>.