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Henry Reed: His Life, Influence, and Art


Josh and Henry Reed, ca. 1903. Henry Reed, age 19, plays banjo and his older brother Josh plays fiddle. Photograph from the collection of James Reed, reproduced with permission.

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TITLE:Music school, Syria

CALL NUMBER:LOT 13744-2, no. 116 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-10730 (digital file from original stereograph, front)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11660 (digital file from original stereograph, back)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:School boys gathered a around a man with a single string instrument, probably a rababeh.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1905 June 19.

CREATOR:

Keystone View Company.

NOTES:

H62370 U.S. Copyright Office.

Title on recto of item.

Copyright by B.L. Singley.

No. 20702.

SUBJECTS:

Music education--Syria--1900-1910.
School children--Syria--1900-1910.
String instruments--1900-1910.

FORMAT:

Stereographs 1900-1910.
Gelatin silver prints 1900-1910.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original stereograph, front) ppmsca 10730
(digital file from original stereograph, back) ppmsca11660

CONTROL #:2006681030

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TITLE:[Folk musical instruments including homemade horns]

CALL NUMBER:LOT 7414-G, no. N339 [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsc-00641 (digital file from original)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions. For more information see: "Lomax Collection (LOT 7414) Rights and Restrictions Information," (

MEDIUM:1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1934 and 1950]

NOTES:

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists.

Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.

SUBJECTS:

Musical instruments--1930-1950.

PART OF:Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original) ppmsc00641

CONTROL #:2007660366

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TITLE:Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Musical instruments: dulcimers, fiddles, Viking cello, zitterns, hardanger, Paul Bunyan harp (from Southern Highlands and Wisconsin lumber camps). Some made from cigar box, pitchfork, gourds, cornstalks, and bamboo fishing pole. Pipes, Puerto Rico; table, Tennessee Sunset Mountain holly; stool, Farm Security, Mississippi; ribbonback chair from Delaware

CALL NUMBER:LC-USW316- 056294-B [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USW316-056294-B (b&w film neg.)

MEDIUM:1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 inches or smaller.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1937.

NOTES:

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.

LOT 2192 (Location of corresponding print.)

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

DDE: Need photocopy of print in lot to complete caption.

Film copy on SIS roll 39, frame 6.

SUBJECTS:

United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)

FORMAT:

Safety film negatives.

PART OF:Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa8b00053

CONTROL #:owi2001045065/PP

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TITLE:Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks everything new.

CALL NUMBER:POS - TH - VAU .B62, no. 4 (C size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 74 x 107 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:Cin., U.S.A. : U.S. Printing Co., c1899.

CREATOR:

U.S. Printing Co.

RELATED NAMES:

Manchester, Bob.
Russell-Morgan Print.
Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks.

NOTES:

37101 U.S. Copyright Office

Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A."

"Russell-Morgan Print."

Caption: Our policy - originality.

No. 3701.

SUBJECTS:

African Americans--Performances & portrayals.
Irish--Performances & portrayals.
Jews--Performances & portrayals.
Musical instruments.
Vaudeville shows.

FORMAT:

Theatrical posters American.
Lithographs Color.

PART OF:Theatrical Poster Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) var1077

CONTROL #:var1994001101/PP

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TITLE:The scenery, music & antiquities of Ireland illustrated by MacEvoy's original Hibernicon

CALL NUMBER:POS - TH - SPE, no. 28 (C size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-12430 (color film copy transparency)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Includes portraits of Frank and Marie MacEvoy.

MEDIUM:1 print (poster) : lithograph, b&w ; 61 x 48 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:M. Keogh Litho., [1870]

CREATOR:

M. Keogh Litho.

NOTES:

Created by M. Keogh Litho.

Signed: M. Nevin, 1870.

SUBJECTS:

MacEvoy, Frank.
MacEvoy, Marie.
Entertainers.
Irish--Antiquities & archaeological sites.
Irish--Performances & portrayals.
Theatrical productions.

FORMAT:

Portrait prints.
Theatrical posters American.
Lithographs.

OTHER TITLE:

Hibernicon.

PART OF:Theatrical Poster Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) var0529
(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g12430

CONTROL #:var1993000565/PP

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TITLE:An old Irish bag-pipe, once popular in the Emerald Isle - in a home in Cork, Ireland

CALL NUMBER:STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Ireland--Cork [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-67034 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Four children and a man holding a bagpipe.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:c1904.

NOTES:

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: Ireland--Cork; Music...--Bagpipe; Shelf.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph3b14511

CONTROL #:2003690422

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TITLE:Members of the "Pipers' Club" - fair young musicians of Cork, Ireland

CALL NUMBER:STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Ireland--Cork [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-67981 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Four girls, two of them seated and holding pipes.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:c1905.

NOTES:

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: Ph.Ind.; Music--Flutes; Geogr.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph3b15447

CONTROL #:2004667815

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TITLE:Snake charmers, Morocco, Tangiers

CALL NUMBER:LOT 13551, no. 1 [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-04404 (digital file from original)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions..." (

SUMMARY:One man standing holding a snake, three seated, one playing flute and two playing hand drums.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print: albumen.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1860 and 1900]

CREATOR:

Dumas, Tancrède R., photographer.

NOTES:

Title from item.

Written on mount: "Dumas?".

No. 10.

SUBJECTS:

Musicians--Morocco--Tangier--1860-1900.
Flutes--Morocco--Tangier--1860-1900.
Hand drums--Morocco--Tangier--1860-1900.
Snake charming--Morocco--Tangier--1860-1900.

FORMAT:

Group portraits 1860-1900.
Portrait photographs 1860-1900.
Albumen prints 1860-1900.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original) ppmsca04404

CONTROL #:2004667869

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TITLE:Fourteenth appearance in this country of the celebrated New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders

CALL NUMBER:POS - MIN - .N49, no. 1 (B size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-4558 (color film copy transparency)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 print (poster) : lithograph, b&w ; 50 x 26 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1847.

RELATED NAMES:

Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.
Maddox, J. M.
New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders.

NOTES:

"This evening, Tuesday, March 16th, 1847, the performances will commence with Bellini's celebrated opera, in three acts, La Sonnambula."

At head of title: Princess's Theatre, J.M. Maddox, sole lessee and manager ....

SUBJECTS:

Musical instruments.
Minstrel shows.
African Americans--Performances & portrayals.
Operas & operettas.

FORMAT:

Theatrical posters American.
Lithographs.

OTHER TITLE:

Sonnambula.

PART OF:Minstrel Poster Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) var0231
(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g04558

CONTROL #:var1993000238/PP

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TITLE:Southern Luzon, Philippines: A bamboo band and native homes

CALL NUMBER:STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Philippine Islands--Luzon [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-80715 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:5 men with bamboo musical instruments in foregrd.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:c1906.

NOTES:

Stereo copyrighted by W.S. Smith (Standard Scenic Co.).

No. 2711.

This record contains unverified data from caption card.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph3b27656

CONTROL #:2002709847

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TITLE:Muzykal'nye instrumenty i muzykanty. Muzykal'nye instrumenty
TITLE TRANSLATION:Musical instruments and musicians. Musical instruments

CALL NUMBER:Illus. in DK854.T87 1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 83, no. 275 (Case Z) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-12276 (digital file from original photo)
LC-USZC2-6398 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Photograph shows group of musicians with their instruments.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print : albumen.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1865 and 1872]

NOTES:

Title from item.

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 83.

SUBJECTS:

Musical instruments--Asia, Central--1860-1880.

FORMAT:

Ethnographic photographs 1860-1880.
Albumen prints 1860-1880.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original photo) ppmsca12276
(digital file from color film copy slide) cph 3f06398

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CONTROL #:2003674121

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TITLE:Tanets bachi. Samarkand
TITLE TRANSLATION:Dance of a bacha [dancing boy]. Samarkand

CALL NUMBER:LOT 10338, no. 150[P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-prok-02309 (digital file from print in album)

SUMMARY:A group of musicians playing for a bacha (dancing boy).

MEDIUM:1 photographic print (mounted in album) ; 8 x 8 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1905 and 1915]

CREATOR:

Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944, photographer.

NOTES:

In album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 150.

Forms part of: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

LOT 10338, no. 150

SUBJECTS:

Musical instruments.
Musicians.
Dance.
Dancers.
Uzbekistan--Samarqand.
Asia, Central.

FORMAT:

Photographic prints.
Group portraits.
Portrait photographs.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from print in album) prok02309

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CONTROL #:prk2000001511

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TITLE:[Large group of people gathered around some men with musical instruments, Mombasa, Kenya]

CALL NUMBER:LOT 11356-40 <item> [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-92553 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1900 and 1925]

NOTES:

Photo by Coutinho and Sons, Mombasa.

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

SUBJECTS:

Africans--Music--1900-1930.
Musical instruments--Kenya--Mombasa--1900-1930.
Crowds--Kenya--Mombasa--1900-1930.

FORMAT:

Photographic prints 1900-1930.

DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph3b38848

VIDEO FRAME ID:LCPP003B-38848 (from b&w film copy neg.)

CONTROL #:95519847

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TITLE:Bedouin musicians by their tent

CALL NUMBER:LOT 13691, no. 25 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-10611 (digital file from original stereograph)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:London : Realistic Travels, c1919 February 27.

CREATOR:

Realistic Travels, publisher.

NOTES:

J233151 U.S. Copyright Office.

Title from verso of item.

Copyright by Realistic Travels.

SUBJECTS:

Bedouins--Music--1910-1920.
Musical instruments--1910-1920.
Tents--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

Stereographs 1910-1920.
Gelatin silver prints 1910-1920.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original stereograph) ppmsca10611

CONTROL #:2006676301

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TITLE:[Folk musical instruments including homemade horns, homemade drum, and washboard]

CALL NUMBER:LOT 7414-G, no. N337a [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsc-00638 (digital file from original)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions. For more information see: "Lomax Collection (LOT 7414) Rights and Restrictions Information," (

MEDIUM:1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1934 and 1950]

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists.

Handwritten on back: "Dup."

Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.

SUBJECTS:

Musical instruments--1930-1950.

PART OF:Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original) ppmsc00638

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CONTROL #:2007660363

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TITLE:The celebrated Spanish Students with Abbey's Humpty Dumpty Combination

CALL NUMBER:POS - TH - 1880 .H85, no. 2 (C size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ6-438 (b&w film copy neg.)
LC-USZ62-69771 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 66 x 85 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:Cin., O. : Strobridge & Co. Lith., [1880]

CREATOR:

Strobridge & Co. Lith.

RELATED NAMES:

Morgan, Matthew Somerville, 1839-1890.
Abbey's Humpty Dumpty Combination.

NOTES:

L2393 U.S. Copyright Office

Created by "Strobridge & Co. Lith., Cin., O."

Signed: Matt Morgan.

"Every evening at 7:45 Booth's Theatre, matinees at 2 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday, commencing Tuesday evening, February 3, 1880."

SUBJECTS:

Spanish Students (Musical group)
Music ensembles.
Stringed instruments.
Theatrical productions.

FORMAT:

Theatrical posters American.
Lithographs Color.

PART OF:Theatrical Poster Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) var0652

CONTROL #:var1994000686/PP

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TITLE:Men squatting on sidewalk - two playing stringed instruments in foreground

CALL NUMBER:LC-W7- 433 [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1895]

CREATOR:

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer.

NOTES:

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971.

Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

Street musicians.
Stringed instruments.
India.

FORMAT:

Lantern slides Hand colored.

PART OF:Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20450USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film copy) wtc4a03001

CONTROL #:2004707716

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TITLE:Obshchestvennyia uveseleniia Sredneaziiatsev. Muzykanty. "Kauzchi"
TITLE TRANSLATION:Pastimes of Central Asians. Musicians. Kauz player

CALL NUMBER:Illus. in DK854.T87 1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 82, no. 269 (Case Z) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-ppmsca-12274 (digital file from original photo)
LC-USZC2-6396 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:Photograph shows a musician seated with a small, two-stringed instrument and a bow.

MEDIUM:1 photographic print : albumen.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:[between 1865 anbd 1872]

NOTES:

Title from item.

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl.82.

SUBJECTS:

Asians--Music--1860-1880.
Musicians--Asia, Central--1860-1880.
Stringed instruments--Asia, Central--1860-1880.

FORMAT:

Ethnographic photographs 1860-1880.
Portrait photographs 1860-1880.
Albumen prints 1860-1880.

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original photo) ppmsca 12274
(digital file from color film copy slide) cph3f06396