Ruin of tabby (shell) construction, St. Mary's, Georgia / Walker Evans. – Vintage Print
![Ruin of tabby (shell) construction, St. Mary's, Georgia / Walker Evans., [1936, printed 1974?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6b/6b3a71899303-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Ruin of tabby (shell) construction, St. Mary's, Georgia / Walker Evans. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ruin of tabby (shell) construction, St. Mary's, Georgia / Walker Evans.
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A broken wall of tabby, a concrete-like mix of lime, sand, water, and crushed oyster shell, stands at St. Marys, a Georgia town on the Florida line. Colonial-era builders on the Atlantic coast poured this material into wooden forms, and its survival in such places shows how durable it was. Walker Evans dated the exposure to 1936, when he was photographing the worn-out buildings of the rural South. The 1974 copyright notice suggests the print was made decades after the picture was taken. The ruin shows how much of the region's early architecture survives only in fragments.
| Created / published | [1936, printed 1974?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1970-1980. |
| Notes | Copyrighted 1974 by Walker Evans. |
| Subjects | Ruins--Georgia--Saint Marys--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179926 |
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