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[Identification of item], in the David B. Capps Collection #20571, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Donated by Martha Warshaw, Elizabeth Welsh, and Susan Shelly in August of 2019 (Acc.103677)

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• Ann Arbor Blues Festival--History--Photographs.
• Blues festivals--Michigan--Ann Arbor--History--Photographs.
• Blues musicians--Photographs.
• Music festivals--United States--Photographs.
• Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival (Union Grove, N.C.)--Photographs.

• Dick Waterman Photograph Collection (#20553)

Donor provided the following biographical information* in August 2019:

David Bridgman Capps, was a research chemist and photographer. He was born January 25, 1925, in Jacksonville, Ill., and grew up in Berea, Ky. He graduated from Illinois College in 1948, then received a Ph.D. in chemistry from University of Nebraska. After a 30-year career with Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert, he had retired as a Senior Research Scientist in 1986. In the 1960s, he taught himself the art of photography and his work was exhibited in many area galleries and at the Ann Arbor Summer Street Art Fair in Ann Arbor, Mich. He enjoyed travel, a summer cabin on the Old Mission Peninsula (Traverse City, Mich.), and music of all kinds, especially Jazz. He died in Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 11, 2000.

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Photographic images depicting scenes from the Ann Arbor Blues Festival (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ann Arbor Folk Festival (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Benefits for The Ark (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention (Union Grove, N.C.). Many prominent African American blues and jazz musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s are represented in the photographs. Also included are some festival programs and other printed materials related to exhibitions of Capps's photographs.