Laurel Wheeler and family, Buena Vista, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA, 1916-1918. Artist: Cecil Sharp

Laurel Wheeler and family, Buena Vista, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA, 1916-1918. Artist: Cecil Sharp

1-218-950 - EFDSS/Heritage Images

Laurel Wheeler and family, Buena Vista, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA, 1916-1918. 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.


Image Details


People Information

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

Medium
  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States Virginia

  1. 37 00 00 N , 080 00 00 W

World North and Central America Appalachian Mountains

  1. 36 00 00 N , 082 40 00 W

Category Hierarchy

Society & Culture Family Life

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3584x5256
File Size : 55,188kb


Aliases

  1. AC 29
  1. AD3
  1. 0550000039
  1. 1-218-950
  1. 1218950
  1. 39


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