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Sorghum plant, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Cecil Sharp

Sorghum plant, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Cecil Sharp

1-218-917 - EFDSS/Heritage Images

Sorghum plant, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Sorghum has been cultivated in America mainly as livestock feed. 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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People Information

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
Category Hierarchy

Trade & Industry Agriculture & Fishing

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5067x3729
File Size : 55,356kb

Aliases

  1. 18 (1 CD)
  1. from lantern slide
  1. 0550000006
  1. 1-218-917
  1. 1218917

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