South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982

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Title	South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982
Inclusive Dates	1977-1982
Bulk Dates	bulk 1977
Call No.	AFC 1982/010
Creator	Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress), collector.
Creator	Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, sponsor.
Extent	24,855 items.
Extent	13 containers.
Extent	6.5 linear feet.
Extent (manuscripts)	152 folders.
Extent (sound recordings)	179 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.
Extent (sound recordings)	1 sound tape reel : analog ; 5 in.
Extent (sound recordings)	196 sound cassettes : analog.
Extent (moving images)	8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Extent (still images)	circa 14,000 film negatives : black-and-white ; 35 mm and 2 1/4 in.
Extent (still images)	circa 7400 slides and transparencies : color ; 35 mm and 2 1/4 in.
Extent (still images)	31 drawings : pen-and-ink ; various sizes.
Language	In English.
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af014001
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2010655308
Summary	Collection of documentary materials resulting from an ethnographic field research project conducted by the American Folklife Center in eight counties of south central Georgia, and at Mt. Zion, Georgia, in July and August 1977 in cooperation with the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Topics of research were hymn singing, vernacular architecture, foodways, jokes, and stories from the region. Includes documentation of the exhibition "Folk Art and Folk Life," at the Library of Congress, and proposed publication projects to 1982.