[Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instruments, Galax, Virginia Includes band leader, Doc Davis, with autoharp; Uncle Alex Dunford with fiddle; Crockett Ward with fiddle; Wade Ward with banjo; Fields Ward with guitar]
Summary
Handwritten on back: "These people in 1940, January, put on under my direction for the American School of the Air, CBS, a programme on "Square Dances" which won the Columbia, Ohio, prize of the best music education programme of the year. A.L."
Accompanying note reads: "These pictures were made by CBS photographer at the time of the A. Lomax School of the Air Broadcast in Galax."
Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.
Tags
Date
01/01/1937
Location
Galax (Va.), 36.66111, -80.92389
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For more information see: "Lomax Collection (LOT 7414) Rights and Restrictions Information," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/159_loma.html