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    • Memphis Blues

    • Memphis Blues

    • Fiddle music; Blues music;

    • Pender Rector (1893-1979) plays fiddle with Stanley Masters on the guitar. This recording session, Initiated by David Holt, takes place in Pender's home. Pender's wife and Robin McGalliard, a student helping David, are also present. W.C. Handy...
    • Warren Wilson College
    • St. Louis Blues

    • St. Louis Blues

    • Autoharps; Mouth organs

    • James plays the autoharp and the harmonica during a recording session in his home in Canton, North Carolina. The recording was made by David Holt. He plays this tune in the key if C, with a Bb-harp. W.C. Handy wrote this song in the 1910's.
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Women approach small log house

    • Women approach small log house

    • Dwellings

    • Two women in dresses and coats walk up to a small cabin. A woman stands in the doorway of the house wearing a white apron. Palmer's note with photo reads, "Log cabin near Reynolds Handy's orchard."
    • Ferrum College
    • Log cabin in a mountain landscape

    • Log cabin in a mountain landscape

    • Dwellings; Fences

    • A log house with a wood shingle roof and a stone chimney stands in a clearing on a mountain. Bushes and weeds are grown up along the house and the post and wire fence along the left edge of the photo. Palmer's note with the photo reads,...
    • Ferrum College
    • Boy on porch of small house

    • Boy on porch of small house

    • Dwellings; Children

    • A boy stands on the tiny porch of a small cabin. A wooden barrel sits on the ground in front of the porch. A wood ladder leans against a pole frame structure to the left of the house. Palmer's note with the photo reads, "Mountain cabin...
    • Ferrum College
    • Small log cabin beside dirt road

    • Small log cabin beside dirt road

    • Dwellings; Roads

    • A small log house with a steep wood shingle roof stands beside a dirt road. An open pole frame or structure abuts the house on the left side. Palmer's note with the photo reads, "Mountain cabin south side Blue Ridge near Reynolds Handy's...
    • Ferrum College
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