Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Folk festivals; Folk music--Appalachian Region, Southern; Kentucky--History; Kentucky--Social life and customs
Known as The Traipsin' Woman, Jean Thomas traveled the mountains of eastern Kentucky taking snapshot photographs of the mountain way of life, writing, and promoting mountain folkways. She was particularly interested in the music, crafts, and...
Ruth Duffy, a young woman wearing a long print dress, plays accordion and Walter Friend, a young man wearing shirtsleeves, plays guitar on an outdoor path among trees and grass. They are apparently students at Kentucky Christian College (now...
Ruth Duffy, a young woman wearing a long print dress, plays accordion and Walter Friend, a young man wearing shirtsleeves, plays guitar on an outdoor path among trees and grass. They are apparently students at Kentucky Christian College (now...
Women; Men; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Violins; Guitars; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas wearing her "Narrator" costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, including fiddler J.P. Fraley and his wife Annadeene (who also works as Thomas' assistant) onstage at the...
Women; Men; Children; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Guitars; Zithers; Violins; Banjos; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Various musicians, including children playing hammered dulcimer; men playing guitar and harmonica; a young woman playing guitar; and a string band featuring J.P. Fraley on fiddle join Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and...
Musicians; Log cabins; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Stringed instruments; Violins; Guitars; Banjos; American Folk Song Festival
J.P. Fraley (on fiddle) and his wife, Annadeene (on guitar) perform on stage with another guitar player and a young man on banjo at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky. A...
Women; Men; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and sleeves, is joined by various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume, children doing play-party games, and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival,...
Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Guitars; Zithers; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume; a hammered dulcimer player; a guitar player; a group of children; and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, now held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill,...
Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Primarily photographs of the audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky with a replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" serving as the stage, this...
Musicians; Log cabins; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Stringed instruments; Guitars; American Folk Song Festival
A young man performs with guitar at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky. A replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" serves as the stage. Other performers,...
Musicians; Log cabins; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Stringed instruments; Guitars; American Folk Song Festival
A young man performs with guitar at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky. A replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" serves as the stage. Other performers,...
Music festivals; Folk festivals; Spectators; Log cabins; Musicians; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain
Performers both backstage (behind the replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin") and onstage, and spectators on the grass, at the American Folk Song Festival at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky, June 1969. Title...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a woman wearing a print dress. Another woman with a bun in her hair touches the baptized woman's face, and another man wearing overalls holds onto the woman's arm. A group of boys...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds one hand over the head of a woman as if to bless her. She clutches his other arm with both hands. A man wearing overalls stands, head bowed, holding onto the woman being baptized with one...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds a woman wearing a print dress by the arm. She looks as though her head has just been dunked in the water. Another man holds onto the woman's arm, and another woman with a bun in her hair...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds onto a man wearing overalls, who looks as though he has just been dunked in the water. A group of boys watches the baptism from the bank.
Three women wearing print dresses and two men stand on the bank. At least two of them have just been baptized in the creek: the woman with wet hair holding a pair of white shoes, and the man in overalls with wet hair (another woman holds his hat)....
Two women and three man stand on the bank. Both women and the man wearing overalls are wet, having just been baptized in the creek. One woman holds a pair of white shoes in one hand. Title supplied by cataloger.