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Photo, Print, Drawing Bluegrass jam session, Carl Shockley's Shell Station, Hillsville, Virginia

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Title

  • Bluegrass jam session, Carl Shockley's Shell Station, Hillsville, Virginia

Names

  • Wolfe, Charles K. (Research team member)
  • Adler, Thomas A. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None 1978, 9

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 2-5, Daughter of one of the bluegrass fans, other early arrivals; 6, 7, Loungers on the bench, just outside the office; 8-10, The Interior of the office, where the music will be, with Wendell Cockerham, Lonnie Cole (w/ banjo), and Charles Wolfe; 11, Ronnie Lyons with mandolin, and fans, in back room; 12-14, Wendell Cockerham and Lonnie Cole (w/ banjo); 15, Fans looking through window at C. J. Shockley; 16, Lonnie Cole claw hammering the banjo; 17-22, Bobby Harrison arrives, and the four musicians begin to tune up; 23-30, Picking: Wendell Cockerham (banjo); Lonnie Cole (fiddle); Bobby Harrison (guitar); Ronnie Lyons (mandolin); 31-33, Pickers, fans, and Charles Wolfe recording; 34-36, The musicians; 37, Older man in cowboy hat and overalls, watching and listening

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/009: 20544-40

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, and Thomas A Adler. Bluegrass jam session, Carl Shockley's Shell Station, Hillsville, Virginia. Hillsville Carroll County Virginia United States, 1978. Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_40/.

APA citation style:

Wolfe, C. K. & Adler, T. A. (1978) Bluegrass jam session, Carl Shockley's Shell Station, Hillsville, Virginia. Hillsville Carroll County Virginia United States, 1978. Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_40/.

MLA citation style:

Wolfe, Charles K, and Thomas A Adler. Bluegrass jam session, Carl Shockley's Shell Station, Hillsville, Virginia. Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_40/>.