The London family in front of their farm house, Dahlonega 1890
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Greene County, ca. 1900-1910
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singing school, Gordon County 1914
detail
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Corinth Baptist Church, Gordon County, Georgia, ca. 1900
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Josiah W. Sirmans and a friend, Lowndes County, ca. 1890
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a June singing, Lebanon, Cherokee County, Georgia, 1920
detail

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Three generations of Ectors seated on the steps of the porch of Mrs. William B. McCurry located on Howell Street. John Ector (center) is said to have been a slave and was born in Wilkes County, Georgia. His son "Doc" Ector with guitar is on the left. John Ector's grandson, John Arthur Ector, is on the right.
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detail
Dock King, Mrs. A. B. Forrester, Rabun County, Georgia, ca. 1920
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Toccoa, 1920s
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Virgil Silvers
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woman with violin, Bibb County

[these two images aren't placed for editorial contrast, they came up that way in the long process of making. That there is something to say about them as documents is too obvious to mention.
But these links are about music, and people, and photographs, in Georgia a long time ago; and inasmuch as they're the result of a lot of hard work done by the folks at UG, work that makes my complaint at an hour's tedium seem trivial at best, I'd like to say emphatically, here they are. The narrative is at Vanishing Georgia. This is a very small list. What you see is what you bring to it. There are much subtler keys to the way it was in these images than black poverty and white gentility, if you look for them.]

Bob and his fiddle
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Regina Rambo Benson
[this woman is likely to've been a relative of mine]
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Frances King Thompson
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Cohutta Springs, 1894
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house party, LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, 1890's
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singing group at Rocky Face Baptist Church
detail
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Joe Weston 1915
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Iva Jones, playing the guitar, and her niece

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Miss Macon of The Peach Belt Line
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Vanishing Georgia
Galileo Georgia's Virtual Library