Ethridge Home Movie Collection
The Ethridge Collection (1939–56), home movies taken on the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm was made possible by The University of Georgia’s Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The project involved making a new negative of the existing old film from which a new print…
Digital Library of Georgia
The Shields and Ethridge families seldom threw things away; what could not be used was set aside… just in case… Not only is the farm remarkable for its well-preserved buildings and their contents, but also for the rich collection of papers that the family created and kept, including letters, ledgers, photographs, tax records, catalogues, scrapbooks,…
Presenting Mr. Ira’s Masterpiece: A Thesis
Presenting Mr. Ira’s Masterpiece: Two Centuries of Agricultural Change at the Shields-Ethridge Farm By Patricia Stallings University of Georgia Thesis, May 2002 For two centuries, owners of the Shields-Ethridge Farm in Jackson County, Georgia adapted to changes in the larger agricultural scene. Following the pattern of other upcountry settlers, they first cultivated tobacco, then switched…