Male Community Song Group, Summers County, W. Va.

Identifier:
039235
Collection Number:
A&M 3762
Title:
Male Community Song Group, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900/06
Description:
The group of approximately 60 men, wearing bowler, panama and fedora hats, posing with an Irish harp, fiddles, cooking pots and an 8 foot stove-pipe. It was believed to be taken at the Green Sulphur Annual Fair. The man at the extreme right is Timothy Field but all others are unidentified. Other information inscribed on the back includes: "Suspension construction walled circular tent, 2 poles & 4 guide wires, see tent peg at extreme left, Privy at extreme right ...". The photograph was purchased by Stephen Trail in Hinton, West Virginia.
Subjects:
Portraits--Group., Singers--West Virginia--Summers County.
Personal Names:
Field, Timothy.
Corporate Names:
Green Sulphur Annual Fair.
Acquisition Source:
Trail, Stephen & Frederick Long
Acquisition Method:
Acquired
Medium:
print
Projects:
West Virginia History OnView