A dulcimer shell leans against a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. This wooden frame will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by cataloger.
A dulcimer shell sits on a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. This wooden frame will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by cataloger.
Two dulcimer shells lean against and lie on a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. These wooden frames will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by...
Figure in a robe with a harlequin design playing a stringed instrument similar to a lute [possibly a troubadour]. In the background is a castle. Above the castle is the phrase "Ex Libris." The musician and castle are framed by a peaked...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man in tunic seated among four male lions; knights on horseback jousting outside castle; girl and boy listening to man seated on porch smoking pipe and holding skull; number 11; man wearing turban and...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left (all images signed "Hartwell" unless otherwise noted): "Abyssinia" [now Ethiopia/Eritrea], with three people, stringed instrument, and spear and shield; procession...
Five children play musical instruments outdoors. Three boys, wearing overalls, play stringed instruments (two banjos and a fiddle). A little girl, seated on the chair, and very little boy standing next to hear appear to be holding percussion...
Five children play musical instruments outdoors. Three boys, wearing overalls, play stringed instruments (two banjos and a fiddle). A little girl, seated on the chair, and very little boy standing next to hear appear to be holding percussion...
Twenty-two men, women, and a girl pose with musical instruments (stringed instruments, a trumpet, and a drum) in a row on the grass in front of leafy trees, presumably in Persimmon, Kentucky.
Women; Costumes; Stringed instruments; Banjos; Mandolins; Guitars; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
The Sloane sisters of Rowan County, Kentucky pose in long dresses, two in gingham and one in white, and bows in their hair, likely for a performance at the American Folk Song Festival. They each hold a stringed instrument: from left to right,...
The Sloane sisters of Rowan County, Kentucky, wearing mid-calf-length print dresses, pose in front of a picket fence with stringed instruments: from left to right, Bessie Sloane with guitar, Nannie Sloane with banjo, and Ada Sloane with mandolin....
The Sloane sisters of Rowan County, Kentucky, pose in a field with stringed instruments. From left to right: Ada Sloane with guitar; Bessie Sloane with guitar; and Nannie Sloane with banjo). Title supplied by cataloger.
