Title Info Lomax Collection of Photographs Depicting Folk Musicians
Alternative Title Info Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Name Aquifer submitter Library of Congress cmah@loc.gov Christa Maher
Associated Project Aquifer American Social History Online http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
Type Of Resource still image
Genre Photographs / slides / negatives
image
Origin Info Completely irregular
District of Columbia 20540 United States Library of Congress [National Library]
Language eng
Physical Description image/gif
image/jpeg
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Dublin Core (simple or qualified)
MODS
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Abstract Roughly 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song. The photographs, which were transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division from the Archive of American Folk-Song in 1950, depict African American, Mexican American, and white musicians, singers and dancers, primarily in the southern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia) and the Bahamas (Nassau, Andros Island, and Cat Island). In addition to posed portraits, the images show musicians performing in various settings: at home, in concert, and while performing prison labor outdoors. Views of children engaged in singing games, scenes of daily life, and some landscape views are also included. Musicians depicted include, among others, Henry Truvillion, James "Iron Head" Baker, Moses "Clear Rock" Platt, Leadbelly, Crockett "Davy" Ward, Bill Hensley, Uncle Bob Ledbetter, and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who assisted the Lomaxes on expeditions to Georgia and Florida, has been identified in a few photographs.
Note Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Subject North America (continent)
Middle 20th Century (1934-1967)
Modern (1701-present)
General Resources
Music
Social Studies--United States history
Social Studies
Folk music--20th century.
Folk songs.
American Culture
Related Item Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress and from the holdings of the Manuscript Division
Identifier http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry/Collection/71025
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Location http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=lomaxpp
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=lomaxpp
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lomaxhtml/lomaxabt.html
Access Condition Permitted; subject to P&P policy on serving originals. As a preservation measure, when possible, the Library serves digital "surrogates" in lieu of original images.
There are no known donor restrictions on the Lomax Collection. Most images were taken by the donors, but a few images are marked with the names of other sources and these may be restricted. Privacy and publicity rights may also apply.
Record Info Records originated with the DLF Newsletter, 2000-2005, from which they were converted into a FileMaker database. The FileMaker DB was imported into a database system currently maintained by the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Records for collections added after 2005 were created in this database as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. This database is currently being maintained as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. 2008-04-23 eng English Digital Library Federation (DLF) oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:71025
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