Object Details
- Author
- Minor-Penland, Laurie
- Subject
- Festival of American Folklife
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in Torch, July 1994
- Summary
- A performer plays the harmonica in the "Masters of Traditional Arts" program at the Smithsonian's 1994 Festival of American Folklife. Some 1 million visitors from many parts of the United States and abroad attend the Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. At the festival, craftspersons, musicians, dancers, storytellers and cooks demonstrate and discuss their traditional skills. The festival is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Park Service.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: July 1994
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1988
- Standard number
- 88-15145-7
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Music
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Musicians
- Musical instruments
- Folk festivals
- Blues (Music)
- Folk music
- African Americans
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10189
