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Washington, D.C. Dance floor at the Uline Arena with Woody Herman's Or...

Public domain photograph of music orchestra, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs welding "the teacher's jeep"

Event: Visit to the home of Woody Boggs. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pile of molly moochers found on Bradley Mountain by Woody Boggs and Da...

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody, W.L.. Glass Plate Negative, American Civil War time.

An old photo of two men with long beards. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs demonstrating how he stores potatoes underground over the ...

Event: Visit to the home of Gail Ballard. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs. Front porch with old saw ...

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Woody Boggs (right) and James Martin in front of a hollowed chestnut s...

Please note that the "date" in this case refers to the date that the historic photos were copied.

Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Contract between RCA Manufacturing Company and Woody Guthrie, April 24...

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 13, 1941

Postcard from California, received January 17, 1941: "I'm down here -- really down." Features image of cowboy and lyrics to "A Cowboy's Life," with handwritten comment about which Lomax cowboy songbook contains... More

Woody Boggs' gasoline-powered wood splitter

Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs splitting wood at Gail Ballard's house

Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Woody Boggs' ramp patch, Pettry Bottom

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Woody Boggs in his vegetable garden

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs' homemade cannon, before a celebratory shot

Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs claiming a molly moocher under a freshly-sprouted mayapple

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs harvesting molly moochers

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

[Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding gu...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Woody Boggs in the ramp patch that he planted on the hill behind his h...

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Woody Boggs rebuilding an engine at Jarrell's Garage

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gail Ballard's house. Gail and carpenter, Danny Pettry, are on the ro...

Woody Boggs with fire rake, used for fighting forest fires

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Terry Bailey, Dave Bailey, and Woody Boggs on Bradley Mountain overloo...

Woody Boggs and Dave Bailey molly mooching

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

[Portrait of Woody Herman, Carnegie Hall(?), New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. ...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

Coal river. Woody Boggs's ramp patch. Southern West Virginia.

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Woody Guthrie Birthplace, Okemah, Okfuskee County, OK

Survey number: HABS OK-22 Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

[Portrait of Woody Herman, Carnegie Hall(?), New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. ...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More

[Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs. Front porch with old saw ...

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Corn crib at the homestead of Jim and Margaret Bailey, Woody Boggs' gr...

"Please note that the "date" in this case refers to the date that the historic photos were copied. Bailey Mountain is now known as Montcoal Mountain."

Corn crib at the homestead of Jim and Margaret Bailey, Woody Boggs' gr...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jim Bailey's homemade hunting pouch and powder horn, on display in the...

Woody Boggs built this cabin from the discarded oak timbers of the bridge to Edwight. Jim Bailey, his great grandfather, made the pouch and did the leather tooling on the strap.

Woody Boggs surveying rusting machinery, probably from the coal mines

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs, laying a foundation of cut sandstone from the chimney and...

Event: Building a Log Cabin. In 1999, Woody Boggs began building a log cabin in Pettry Bottom. This cabin, built of yellow poplar logs, incorporates a kitchen built from the wormy chestnut boards of The Coffee ... More

Woody Boggs, recycling the wormy chestnut timbers from the dismantled ...

In 1999, Woody Boggs began building a log cabin in Pettry Bottom. This cabin, built of yellow poplar logs, incorporates a kitchen built from the wormy chestnut boards of The Coffee Pot at Edwight. The Coffee Po... More

Lyndhurst - a happy Christmas at "Woody Crest," December, 1905

Five boys in costumes, with toys, in front of Christmas tree, Lyndhurst school, Tarrytown, N.Y. No. U-88426.

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 15, 1941

Postcard: "I'd almost learnt to love musicians -- How's the book? Tell it hello." [Possibly referring to Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People.] External display permitted by Guthrie family

Cabin on the hill behind Woody Boggs's cabin. This cabin was moved fr...

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Dave Bailey and Woody Boggs with a harvest of molly moochers in three ...

Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Guthrie Birthplace, Okemah, Okfuskee County, OK

Survey number: HABS OK-22 Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Guthrie Birthplace, Okemah, Okfuskee County, OK

Survey number: HABS OK-22 Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

Family in front of the W.T. Woody farmhouse, Lomax, Nebraska

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Statement of Permission from Woody Guthrie to Library of Congress, Mar...

Statement of Permission authorizing the Library of Congress to release his recording of "Gypsy Davy;" includes the handwritten note "Beat the Axis." External display permitted by Guthrie family

Owl hooter, which Woody Boggs made from a PVC pipe, hollowed out piece...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs, Roger Clay, Dave and Glenna Bailey, Stickney, WV

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Guthrie, Woody

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Violin on the wall of Woody Boggs's log house. This violin belonged t...

Joe Pettry, who lived on Shumate's Branch with his wife Ann (daughter of Jim and Margaret Bailey, from Bailey Mountain), was an acclaimed fiddler. Dave Bailey reminisces about Joe Pettry as farmer and musician ... More

Coal river. Woody Boggs splitting wood. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs in his vegetable garden

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Washington, D.C. Soldier inspecting a couple of "zoot suits" at the Ul...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harvest display besides Woody Boggs' cabin

Event: Visit to the home of Woody Boggs. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs and Mary Hufford in the Bailey/Boggess cemetery

Event: Trip to Montcoal Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs' homemade cannon, after a celebratory shot

Event: Molly mooching on Lillybrook Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs looking for molly moochers

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. Woody Boggs harvesting molly moochers. Southern West Virgi...

Event: Molly mooching on Bradley Mountain. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Columbia, ca. June 17, 1942

Requests audition. External display permitted by Guthrie family

A wooden wheelbarrow made by Joe Pettry, Woody Boggs' grandfather, who...

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Woody Boggs in the ramp patch that he planted on the hill behind his h...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homemade "boom" for hoisting logs, mounted on a flatbed behind Woody's...

In 1999, Woody Boggs began building a log cabin in Pettry Bottom. This cabin, built of yellow poplar logs, incorporates a kitchen built from the wormy chestnut boards of The Coffee Pot at Edwight. The Coffee Po... More

Fishing Holes on Marsh Fork, drawn by Woody Boggs

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Woody Allen Road Bridge, Spanning Oothalooga Creek at County Road 316,...

Significance: Woody Allen Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt half-hip pony truss, the only such bridge recorded in Bartow County. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Histor... More

Letter from Alan Lomax to Woody Guthrie, December 2, 1941

Requests name of the individual in the Department of Interior who made the records of Guthrie's Bonneville Dam songs, in order to get permission to copy them for the Library of Congress. External display permit... More

Statement of Permission from Woody Guthrie to Library of Congress, Oct...

Statement of Permission authorizing the Library of Congress to release his recording of "Gypsy Davy," with Guthrie's signature on a Library-typed form, dated October 2, 1942. External display permitted by Guthrie family

Letter from Alan Lomax to Woody Guthrie, January 21, 1942

Played Almanac songs for Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt; opened up other avenues to getting Guthrie played on the radio; cautions Guthrie to change Almanacs' name; mentions Guthrie's recording of "Gypsy Davy." Extern... More

Letter from Duncan Emrich to Woody Guthrie, December 8, 1947

In reply to Guthrie's letter of November 22, 1947 [missing]; encloses a list of all Guthrie songs recorded for the Library of Congress, and leaflet for the "Gypsy Davy" Library of Congress album. External displ... More

Letter from Duncan Emrich to Woody Guthrie, October 2, 1950

The budget has been cut back tightly, and there are no more funds to record Guthrie; no change in the situation in the near future is expected. External display permitted by Guthrie family

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940

Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Guthrie, Woody

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. January 1941

Written from Columbia, California, an old gold mining town; has decided he wants to "put the works to the man for printing the Tom Joad song." (Downes and Siegmeister, A Treasury of American Song, published Nov... More

Contract between RCA Manufacturing Company and Woody Guthrie, April 24...

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 25, 1940

Essay with comments on radio programming, book-reading. External display permitted by Guthrie family

Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, February 20, 1941

Regrets "Back Where I Come From" is off the air; wired Nick [Ray] about getting back on the show, but the reply was "it was all off." Asks about Pete Seeger; is house-hunting, gives other odds and ends of detai... More

Letter from Woody Guthrie, ca. Fall 1940, English folk song

Sketch on the back of an 8x12" brown envelope containing tongue-in-cheek comments on "The Philadelphia Lawyer" and Reno, Nevada, and on CBS radio rehearsals for "Back Where I Come From," written during breaks. ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Guthrie, Woody

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Pianist with Woody Herman's famous dance band at the ...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs demonstrating how he stores potatoes underground over the ...

Event: Visit to the home of Gail Ballard. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description