Jean Thomas poses at her desk in her long black 'Narrator' costume from the American Folk Song Festival. She was being filmed by Jack Jacumski of Georgetown, Ohio. Title supplied by cataloger.
Jean Thomas poses at her desk in her long black "Narrator" costume from the American Folk Song Festival. Three of her publications ["The Singin' Fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," "Devil's Ditties," and "The Traipsin'...
Jean Thomas poses outside a pair of thatched houses (one rectangular, one triangular) in England, possibly in Sonning-on-Thames. Thomas and her sister visited England with Jilson Setters to attend the Festival of the English Folk Song and Dance...
Jean Thomas poses outside a pair of thatched houses (one rectangular, one triangular) in England, possibly in Sonning-on-Thames. Thomas and her sister visited England with Jilson Setters to attend the Festival of the English Folk Song and Dance...
Women; Textiles; Costumes--Great Britain; Costumes--United States; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing her "Narrator" costume of long black dress and white collar, displays a woven spread to two young women and a girl, who are also costumed for the American Folk Song Festival. Jean sits under the archway of her...
Women; Stringed instruments; Zithers; Log cabins; Costumes--Great Britain; Brooms & brushes; Baskets; Flags--United States; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing her Narrator costume (a long black Elizabethan gown with white ruffles at collar and sleeves) for the annual American Folk Song Festival, sits on the steps of her Traipsin' Woman Cabin playing dulcimer. The porch includes a...
Women; Stringed instruments; Zithers; Log cabins; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing her Narrator costume (a long black Elizabethan gown with white ruffles at collar and sleeves) for the annual American Folk Song Festival, sits on the steps of her Traipsin' Woman Cabin playing dulcimer. Title supplied by...
Women; People; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
A woman wearing a cocktail dress and pearl necklace poses in front of a group of people who are gathered at the stage of the American Folk Song Festival in Boyd County, Kentucky.
Women; People associated with politics & government; Dwellings; Books
After having hosted the wife of Kentucky Governor Flem D. Sampson at her first American Folk Song Festival at the Traipsin' Woman Cabin in 1930, Jean Thomas was invited to the Governor's mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky, the following year to discuss...
Women; People associated with politics & government; Dwellings; Books
After having hosted the wife of Kentucky Governor Flem D. Sampson at her first American Folk Song Festival at the Traipsin' Woman Cabin in 1930, Jean Thomas was invited to the Governor's mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky, the following year to discuss...
Jean Thomas (right) and her sister, Trixy Lydia Ross Bell (left), wearing coats and hats, stand on the deck of the ship bound for England, where they will be attending the Festival of the English Folk Song and Dance Society held in Royal Albert...
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; 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; Log cabins; Stringed instruments; Zithers; Accordions; Flags--United States
Jean Thomas, wearing the long black dress with ruffled collar worn by the Ladies-in-Waiting at the annual American Folk Song Festival, sits outside her Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky, holding a mountain dulcimer. She...
Jean Thomas (in tam, holding a broom) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified young man (possibly composer Hamilton Forrest) on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near...
Jean Thomas, wearing a fur coat, poses outside the doorway of a brick Tudor house with a young man. A dog walks in front of them. The house resembles one in an older photo identified as that of Thomas' uncle, Henry Bell, of North Yorkshire,...
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...
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...
Jean Thomas (front, in tam) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified man on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The banner on the cabin reads...
