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Photo, Print, Drawing Whit Sizemore's band performing at weekly square dance, Ruritan building, Fairview Virginia; Reverend Coy Combs and group, "The Independent Baptist Hour," WHHV, Hillsville, Virginia

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Title

  • Whit Sizemore's band performing at weekly square dance, Ruritan building, Fairview Virginia; Reverend Coy Combs and group, "The Independent Baptist Hour," WHHV, Hillsville, Virginia

Names

  • Wolfe, Charles K. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Fairview, Virginia; Hillsville, Virginia,

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Virginia
  • -  Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Fairview
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Carroll County -- Hillsville

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1, Sizemore band playing at dance; 2, Ray Russell, member of Sizemore band; Sizemore (back to camera) fiddles; 5, Sizemore (fiddle) and Tom Herman (banjo); 4, As for 3; 5, As for 3; 6, Mika Sizemore, mandolin (Whit's son); 7, As for 2; 8-9, Instruments of band on stage behind them; 10-11, Caller Dean Carr; 12-18, Shots centering on Whit Sizemore (bald), though 15 also shows Tom Norman in center; 19, Rev Coy Combs singing with Mrs. Ruth York (Hillsville VA), on; 26, a live radio program at 6;30 Sunday morning over WHHV, Hillsville, show called "Independent Baptist Hour" (N0TE; all shots except 26 and 27 shot through glass in control room of studio); 27-56, Rev Combs preaching on same show

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/009: 20485-3

Source Collection

  • Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection, 1977-1981 (AFC 1982/009)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

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Credit line: Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Wolfe, Charles K. Whit Sizemore's band performing at weekly square dance, Ruritan building, Fairview Virginia; Reverend Coy Combs and group, "The Independent Baptist Hour," WHHV, Hillsville, Virginia. Hillsville Fairview United States Carroll County Virginia, 1978. Fairview, Virginia; Hillsville, Virginia. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20485_03/.

APA citation style:

Wolfe, C. K. (1978) Whit Sizemore's band performing at weekly square dance, Ruritan building, Fairview Virginia; Reverend Coy Combs and group, "The Independent Baptist Hour," WHHV, Hillsville, Virginia. Hillsville Fairview United States Carroll County Virginia, 1978. Fairview, Virginia; Hillsville, Virginia. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20485_03/.

MLA citation style:

Wolfe, Charles K. Whit Sizemore's band performing at weekly square dance, Ruritan building, Fairview Virginia; Reverend Coy Combs and group, "The Independent Baptist Hour," WHHV, Hillsville, Virginia. Fairview, Virginia; Hillsville, Virginia. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20485_03/>.