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Photo, Print, Drawing Belt buckle creation by Lance Ricci, Wickford Jewelry Shop, Wickford, Rhode Island; Wilcox brothers, stone wall building, Putnam, Connecticut

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Title

  • Belt buckle creation by Lance Ricci, Wickford Jewelry Shop, Wickford, Rhode Island; Wilcox brothers, stone wall building, Putnam, Connecticut

Names

  • Burns, Thomas A. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Putnam, Connecticut, October 1, 1979 - October 31, 1979

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Rhode Island
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Rhode Island -- North Kingstown
  • -  United States -- Connecticut -- Putnam
  • -  Rhode Island -- Connecticut -- Hampton

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1a-9a, Examples of dry wall, stone fence construction by Lloyd Wilcox with picture of Lloyd, medicine man of the Narragansett Indians. The site is the Smokler residence, Rt. 97, Hampton, Connecticut; 10a-12a, Fred Wilcox working on corner of a step, laying in mortar, at the Donn Ladd residence, junction of Rt. 97 and Hampton Hill Rd., Hampton, Connecticut; 13a-16a, Example of mixed stone, dry wall fence, constructed by the Wilcox brothers, Donald Brown residence, Rt. 97 near Abbington, Connecticut; 17a-24a, Example of Wilcox masonry, rear and front porch, quartzite rock set in mortar, Rt. 44, Putnam, Connecticut, built entirely by himself; 28a-30a, Next door to Lloyd's home, the Wilcox family homestead, present residence of Fred Wilcox, showing stone facing of 17th century frame house; 31a, Picture of one area of stone in the facing of the Wilcox family home; 32a-34a, Dragon head belt buckle showing wax build up of mouth and nose area prior to Lance's work in building up and detailing the eyes; 35a-36a, Lance begins to work of applying liquid wax

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/022: 01217

Source Collection

  • Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979 (AFC 1991/022)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Online Format

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Credit line: Rhode Island Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/022), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Burns, Thomas A. Belt buckle creation by Lance Ricci, Wickford Jewelry Shop, Wickford, Rhode Island; Wilcox brothers, stone wall building, Putnam, Connecticut. Hampton North Kingstown Rhode Island United States Connecticut Putnam, 1979. North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Putnam, Connecticut, October 1, 1979. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991022_01217/.

APA citation style:

Burns, T. A. (1979) Belt buckle creation by Lance Ricci, Wickford Jewelry Shop, Wickford, Rhode Island; Wilcox brothers, stone wall building, Putnam, Connecticut. Hampton North Kingstown Rhode Island United States Connecticut Putnam, 1979. North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Putnam, Connecticut, October 1, 1979. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991022_01217/.

MLA citation style:

Burns, Thomas A. Belt buckle creation by Lance Ricci, Wickford Jewelry Shop, Wickford, Rhode Island; Wilcox brothers, stone wall building, Putnam, Connecticut. North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Putnam, Connecticut, October 1, 1979. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991022_01217/>.