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Photo, Print, Drawing Houses, Patrick County, Virginia; Bluegrass music-making at Shockley's Shell, Hillsville, Virginia

About this Item

Title

  • Houses, Patrick County, Virginia; Bluegrass music-making at Shockley's Shell, Hillsville, Virginia

Names

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

Created / Published

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

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-4, Exteriors of abandoned log house, northwest side, showing small dry stone chimney; 5-7, Door of log cabin, with very faintly visible ornamental compass figure inscribed above handle; 8-11, North wall of log cabin, showing construction at eaves; 12, 13, Abandoned saddlebag house, sided, about 75 yards southeast of abandoned log cabin; 14-16, Sign on tree at driveway entrance to McAlexander house, identifying "Good Karma Farm"; 17-22, Shockley's Shell station, Hillsville, Va. by day; 23, By night; 24-28, Office area, with a few early arrivals; 29-35, Just outside the office, between the station and the first row of pumps.; loungers and leaners; 36, In the office- Carl J. Shockley with cigarette

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/009: 20544-44

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

  • image

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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. Houses, Patrick County, Virginia; Bluegrass music-making at Shockley's Shell, Hillsville, Virginia. Patrick County Virginia Hillsville United States Carroll County, 1978. Patrick County, Virginia; Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_44/.

APA citation style:

Wolfe, C. K. & Adler, T. A. (1978) Houses, Patrick County, Virginia; Bluegrass music-making at Shockley's Shell, Hillsville, Virginia. Patrick County Virginia Hillsville United States Carroll County, 1978. Patrick County, Virginia; Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_44/.

MLA citation style:

Wolfe, Charles K, and Thomas A Adler. Houses, Patrick County, Virginia; Bluegrass music-making at Shockley's Shell, Hillsville, Virginia. Patrick County, Virginia; Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, None , 9. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982009_20544_44/>.