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Southern Cotton - 1-K-30 postcard front.tif
Cline photo I-K-30

[editor's note: This postcard uses the language of the period to refer to African Americans.]

Script:
Dear Mom & Pop,
We ran into good weather this side of Atlanta. Lots of mules and darkies. Stopped here for lunch.
Yours…

Smith_s Restaurant - Main Street Ashburn, GA - 2-T-395 - postcard front.tif
2-T-3958

TCP smith's restaurant.jpg
2-T-394

Smith_s Restaurant - best coffee in town matchbook.tif

Smith_s Restaurant - Fried Chicken yellow matchbook.tif
"We serve the best coffee on the Highway"

Smith_s Restaurant - Fried Chicken orange matchbook.tif
"We serve the best coffee on the Highway"

Smith Restaurant - Main Street, Ashburn, GA - 2-T-491 - postcard front.tif
2-T-491

Script:
Rested here last night feel fine this morning eating ham & eggs for breakfast at this restaurant on the front of the card.
See you later
Vernell

Address to:
Mrs. William Kirkman
626 Hall St
Owensboro, KY

Post Office…

Smashed watermelon roadside casualty 7.1.2021.jpg
Location: Hudson Avenue in Ashburn, Georgia

1970 March 26 - Integration - Academy Calls Meeting here.jpg
The new school venture, The Turner County Academy, requires 150 students minimum to be enrolled or the "plans for a private school will be considered dead."

"'Quite frankly, the outlook is bleak,' a spokesman for the board said after its meeting…

Simon Shingler.jpg
Virgil R Boozer Studios
12 Fagon Arcade
West Palm Beach, Florida

shingler 1.jpg
written by Betty Talmadge:
"Simon Baldwin Shingler 16 yr. old 1938
on left
Henry McKenzie 15 yr. old 1938
middle
my 1st cousin
Do not know Boy on right."

Shur-Gain matchbook.tif

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From Bradley Shivers: “This photograph is of the James H. Shivers family taken in Rebecca in October 1941. Pictured are James and Ida Covington Shivers with their children Barney, Myrtle, Mattie Lucy, Belton (front left), Rogers and Roy.

Belton…

Shingler Park, Ashburn, GA - postcard front.tif

Shingler Park, Ashburn, GA - 1915 - postcard front.tif
Script:
Dearest Summers how are you feeling this [missing] in? I have just had a [illegible], it was fine.
Say Burman is going to have a turkey dinner Sunday and she told me to write you and Mr. Summers to come down in the car and bring Johnston…

Shingler Park, Ashburn, GA - 1911 - postcard front.tif
Script:
I was not at all surprised to get your card. Had been expecting one sometime. F. told me you would send me a card.
So warm here we have no fires. Just lovely Spring weather.
F.L.B.

Address to:
Miss Tillie Simpkins
Princess Ann,…

1.jpg
8 photographs of the Shingler Building located on the corner of McLendon St. and College Avenue in Ashburn, GA.

Descriptions:
1 - Front McLendon St. Fascade facing towards First Baptist church; Photographer facing north

2 - J.S. Shingler…

Sheriff [Wesley Fiveash] faces trial tomorrow - The Dothan Eagle 17 Aug 1955 page 3.JPG
"Sheriff Wesley H. Fiveash of Turner County, sentenced to two years in federal prison on a liquor conspiracy conviction, will face trial tomorrow on 28 charges of misconduct in office.
So. Gen. W.J. Forehand filed a petition seeking Fiveash's…

1944 Sep 21 WGF Sgt. Akin writes a letter from Italy [ww2].jpg
Letter from A.V. Akin Jr. to the Wiregrass Farmer Editor Nora Lawrence Smith.

Italy
August 20, 1944

Dear Miss Nora:
I've just learned from home that my subscription to the 'Wiregrass' has been renewed and thanks to you, I'll continue to look…

Sen. Talmadge seeks divorce from Betty Shingler Talmadge - Hattiesburg American [Mississippi] Dec 30 1976 page 12.JPG
page 12

Six days after his 35th anniversary! Mrs. Talmadge was with friends at Sea Island and had not yet been served with copies of the divorce suit.

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