Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog
from the American Folklife Center
Photo Captions
Background image: Sample drawer from the American Folklife Center's card catalog. Card shown is catalog number AFS 3762A5, “Cripple Creek,” played on the banjo by Wade Ward, recorded by Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax in Galax, Virginia, January, 1939. Photo by Stephen Winick, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Top left image: Charles Todd at the recording machine surrounded by a group of Mexican boys and men. El Rio FSA Camp in California, 1941. Photo by Robert Hemmig. Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Workers Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
American Memory link (Voices from the Dust Bowl):
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcts.p016
Bottom left image: Blind Willie McTell, with 12-string guitar, hotel room, Atlanta, Georgia. November 1940. John A. and Alan Lomax Collection (Lot 7414), Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
American Memory link (Southern Mosaic):
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00400
Bottom right image: Will Neal playing fiddle and being recorded by Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin. Arvin FSA Camp, California, 1940. Photo by Robert Hemmig. Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Workers Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
American Memory link (Voices from the Dust Bowl):
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcts.p008