ethnographic photography

Man-a-toi, Neolithic site in Cornwall, England. Summer in the old country

Charlie Hill, Chula, Georgia. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer.  AFC 1982/010: 3-17534.  South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress ( http://bit.ly/2nM6sL )

Big heads on parade in Detroit

J. Borges woodcut, finest artist in the Brazilian literatur de cordel tradition

morning commute #libraryofcongress #stantonparkdc

Philadelphia 30th st station

Script with chord changes from Alan Lomax first CBS radio broadcast, October 10, 1940. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Signature of one David Riley, Esquire, high sheriff of Bedford County, Pennsylvania 1804

Amazing penmanship. 1871 surveyor's sketch, Fulton Co., PA

Newly discovered Alan Lomax 1942 field notebook. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Willie Nelson absolutely fab at constitution hall tonight. Top bill for his own party! #libraryofcongress #gershwinprize

Repair bill for Alan Lomax's Citroen, 1953. Alan Lomax collection, Library of Congress

Andros Island, Bahamas. Photo by Alan Lomax. Library of Congress.

State theater poster, Lindale, Texas, June 1953

Stith Thompson tale motif X1622.1(c): Lies about cold weather. Drops from man's nose freeze into ropes which extend to behind his ears, like twin boar tusks.

John A. Lomax in the field for the Library of Congress, ca. 1933. Can anyone ID the man on the right? (Bess Lomax Hawes collection, American Folklife Center)

Edward Weston and Marguerite, 1922. Photo by Imogen Cunningham. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs division http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90709823/