Spinning, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Cecil Sharp

Spinning, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Cecil Sharp

1-218-919 - EFDSS/Heritage Images

Spinning, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Photograph taken during Cecil Sharp's folk music collecting expedition: British musician Sharp (1859-1924) and his assistant Dr Maud Karpeles (1885-1976) collected folk songs from the mountain singers of the Appalachians (North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), between 1916 and 1918.


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Creator
  1. Cecil Sharp, attributed to: British: Folk music collector, author, writer, editor
People Related
  1. Maud Karpeles: : Editor, folk music collector, author, writer

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America Appalachian Mountains

  1. 36 00 00 N , 082 40 00 W

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4642x4058
File Size : 55,188kb


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  1. 20 (2 CD)
  1. from lantern slide
  1. 0550000008
  1. 1-218-919
  1. 1218919


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