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Cecil Sharp and Aunt Betsy smoking pipes, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Unknown

Cecil Sharp and Aunt Betsy smoking pipes, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Artist: Unknown

1-218-925 - EFDSS/Heritage Images

Cecil Sharp and Aunt Betsy smoking pipes, 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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People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
Subject
  1. Cecil Sharp: British: Folk music collector, author, writer, editor
  2. Aunt Betsy: American:
People Related
  1. Maud Karpeles: : Editor, folk music collector, author, writer
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Portrait
Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America Appalachian Mountains

  1. 36 00 00 N , 082 40 00 W
Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Sport & Pastimes

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3432x5504
File Size : 55,341kb

Aliases

  1. from lantern slide
  1. 0550000014
  1. 1-218-925
  1. 1218925
  1. 14

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