Old-time guitar photos - 1935
2 photos taken in Maynardville, TN:www.shorpy.com/node/1172?size=_originalwww.shorpy.com/node/1170?size=_originalSupport musicians in need -- join the Music Maker Relief Foundation
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Nice find!Ben Shahn was famous as a painter, for good reason, but was also one of the best of the photographers documenting the problems of the rural poor in the wake of the depression. He was part of...
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Great photos. Looks to be about a size 2 guitar?-MikePlease help me with the fifty one years, 100,000 Martins Project (Updated each Saturday)My Martin PageMy Mostly Vintage Guitar BLOG
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Fantastic shots...those clothes are way cool too.Thanks for head's up!-- Gretchen
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The guitar player is Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and the guy on the right with the flat cap is Larry Wexer. The car is a 1935 Ford (for sure).Lynn
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Thanks for the ID.Fiddlin' Arthur Smith knows he's just about too cute for this world... I imagine he has some progeny out there!
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Great period pics thanks for posting.Are those Martin guitars?
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Isnt that Goober from the Andy Griffith Show playing the guitar? Great Pictures!!! Like the shot with the end opening leather guitar case. Zane
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Quote:One of the most positive things done by the US government today is making these photographs available. Custom archival, exhibition quality 8"x10" prints, made from the original negatives shot by...
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What terrific images! Makes me want to dig out my old newsboy cap and get an old 0-18!While reading "Grapes of Wrath" a few weeks ago I went searching the web for photos from the period and...
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I'm fairly certain IIRC that the first photo was feaured in one of the Editions of the "Folksinger's Guitar Guide". Those are very nice photographs. '62 D-28; '65 D-12-35; '66 00-21; '67 D-35;
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Quote:The guitar player is Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and the guy on the right with the flat cap is Larry WexerNot sure if that was said in jest, but I don't think that was Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. Here are...
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Come on guys I'm just kidding !!!! Thus the . I still think the guitar player does resemble Smith. Larry Wexer is a prominent vintage dealer and fine musician from NYC and bears a strong resemblance...
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John, thanks for asking. You can see my photos on my web page.I started off including my name whenever I posted, and then I realized that anyone Googling to find my photos might come upon one of these...
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Oops sorry to be so thick as to take the joke literally...well, whoever the fellow was he's a handsome devil!Robert thanks for the link to your Web page. Awesome stuff there!-- Gretchen
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For anyone who might be interested in browsing the FSA collection, here's the link for the home page:memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.htmlNeil********************"You start off playing to get...
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Here are a few more old-time musician photos -- first one is Charlie Poole, the rest are unknowns (to me, anyway)Support musicians in need -- join the Music Maker Relief Foundation
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Thanks for posting these great old photos all..........especially interesting for me because it helps to associate faces and places and history with some of the depression era relics I...
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Robert--Thanks for the link to your photo website. It was a trip browsing your folk music photos, with images of so many people I'd followed intently in the years before I became addicted to old-time...
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