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Photo, Print, Drawing Survey of Medford, New Jersey, and Kirby's Mill, New Jersey

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About this Item

Title

  • Survey of Medford, New Jersey, and Kirby's Mill, New Jersey

Names

  • Cartwright, Christine A., 1955-1983 (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Medford, New Jersey; Kirby's Mill, New Jersey, October 6, 1983

Headings

  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Medford
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Kirby's Mill
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Documentary photographs

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-2, A man mowing his lawn, Main Street, G-Medford-18GT. Mr. Greg Tabasso prepares a sandwich for a customer in the Medford ViIIage Deli on its opening day. The deli has just moved into the old Stage Stop buiIding, whose exterior is shown in 18-19; 13-17, Interior shots of the Medford Village Deli, Main Street, Medford; 20, Closeup of display of bro om corn being prepared by Dr. Sam Moyer, a biologist who is also a member of the American Broom Makers' Association, a smalI network of about thirty people who make various traditional American styles of brooms by hand. This display is being arranged on the grass near G-Kirby's Mill; 18GT, in preparation for the Apple Festival to be held there on October 8, sponsored by the Medford Historical Society and featuring only early Amercian and Victorian crafts and fooods associated in some way with apples; 21- 22, Dr. Sam Moyer shows how high the broom corn grows before he cuts it. He uses the tassel tip of the corn, which is highly developed in this species, for the brush part of the brooms, and makes over twelve different styles. He grows the corn on leased land in various areas, because he does not have enough land of his own to support his expanding broom business. Dr. Moyer teaches at one of the local branches of Burlington County College; 23, The grounds around G-Kirby's Mill; 18GT; 24, The old carriage mending houses across the road from the miII house, which were owned and operated as repair shops by the Kirby family from the mid-eighteenth century through the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Taken from the steps leading to one for the doors in the front walI of the millhouse; 25, Kirby's Millhouse. Too dark to s ee well; 26, Kirby's MiII house, wide angle shot; 27-28, Grounds beside Kirby's MiII house; 29, Carriage works which is covered with wire. (This was the best I could do under the circumstances to get this kind of angle on the building, showing its roofline and environs well; the carriage house is the only available vantage point, and it is fulI of rotten floorboards and dust and old machinery and signs saying "danger."); 30, A smaller variety of broom corn being displayed by Dr. Sam Moyer. Se Joseph Czarnecki's shots of the Apple Festival for some pictures of the finished brooms, which he had not yet brought to the site when I was there. See PFP83-CCC022 for a picture of the old chiId's bicycle that he uses to knock the seeds from the corn tassels (where, in this kind of corn, the seeds grow rather than in the ears). It was under some cornstalks when I was there, but he explained that he was going to set it up amd let the kids get on and pedal, and watch how the beaters attached to the wheeI (the bicycIe is mounted on some kind of a stand, I gather) gently knock the seeds off the tassels. G-Kirby's MiII; 18GT; 32, The Mill pond beside G-Kirby's MilI ; 18GT, where Melvin Greenhowe and a man named Peter (Can't find his last name; it's in Christine's notes or logs somewhere.--SS) were fishing. Picture taken ffrom the "fishing hole" near the bank, close to the bridge across the road, where they were standing. Ducks were swimming on the far side; 32, Peter, an ex-Air Force man living in Brown's Mills displays a small bluefish he has just hooked in Kirby's Millpond; 33, Closup of Peter hooking a smalI brown cricket, running the hook along its intestinal tract so that it remains alive and kicking on the hook, to attract the fish; 34, Longer shot of Peter baiting a hook; 35, Blurred. Peter holds a baited hook up for me to photograph (and I blew it); 36, Peter and Melvin. Melvin holds the bag of crickets and chats with us while Peter baits his hook; 36a, Three bluefish, already caught, swimming in a bucket of pond water, waiting to be taken home and frozen for winter supply.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/023: 216395-07

Source Collection

  • Pinelands Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/023)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Chicago citation style:

Cartwright, Christine A. Survey of Medford, New Jersey, and Kirby's Mill, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Medford Kirby's Mill, 1983. Medford, New Jersey; Kirby's Mill, New Jersey, October 6. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216395_07/.

APA citation style:

Cartwright, C. A. (1983) Survey of Medford, New Jersey, and Kirby's Mill, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Medford Kirby's Mill, 1983. Medford, New Jersey; Kirby's Mill, New Jersey, October 6. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216395_07/.

MLA citation style:

Cartwright, Christine A. Survey of Medford, New Jersey, and Kirby's Mill, New Jersey. Medford, New Jersey; Kirby's Mill, New Jersey, October 6. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216395_07/>.