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Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 700 items) |
Abstract | Joan Shagan (1936-2023) was a white clinical psychiatrist, amateur photographer, and dedicated folk music fan. She was close friends with musician Alice Gerrard and folklorist Ralph Rinzler, and companion of bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker. Collection contains approximately 700 color 35mm slides taken by Shagan of folk musicians, audiences, and folk festivals during the 1960s. |
Creator | Shagan, Joan, 1936-2023 |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Andrew Crook, June 2024
Encoded by: Dawne Lucas, July 2024
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Joan Shagan (1936-2023) was a white clinical psychiatrist, amateur photographer, and dedicated folk music fan. She was close friends with musician Alice Gerrard and folklorist Ralph Rinzler, and companion of bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker.
Back to TopCollection contains approximately 700 color 35mm slides taken by Joan Shagan of folk musicians, audiences, and folk festivals during the 1960s.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Contains approximately 700 color 35mm slides taken by Joan Shagan of folk musicians, audiences, and folk festivals during the 1960s. Locations photographed include: Deep Gap, N.C., Newport Folk Festival (1966, 1967, 1968), Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the Berryville Bluegrass Festival (1967). People photographed include: Bill Monroe, Bessie Lee Mauldin, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter, Doc Watson, Merle Watson, Nancy Watson, Rosalie Watson, the Stanley Brothers, Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens, Ralph Rinzler, Lamar Grier, Tom Ashley, Tex Logan, Yomo Toro, Doc Boggs, Rosalie Sorrells, Jim and Jesse McReynolds, Clark Kessinger, Jimmie Driftwood, Dick Spottswood, Dave Freeman, Mike Seeger, Sam McGee, Willard Watson, John Jackson, Bill Clifton, Almeda Riddle, Clyde Moody, Bill Keith, John Cohen and Sonya, Richard Greene, Kenny Baker, Osborn Brothers, Pete Kuykendall, Melvin Goins, George Shuffler, Larry Sparks, MS Fife and Drum, Elizabeth Cotten, Mance Lipscomb, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Grandpa Jones, Fred Price, Jean Ritchie, Joe Heaney, Kilby Snow, Price Howard, Rev. Kirkpatrick, Alan Lomax, Bess Lomax Hawes, Ethel Raim, Jim Rooney, Moe Asch, Pete Seeger, Buell Kazee, Rich Nevins, Anne Romaine, Ola Belle Reed, and Charlie Monroe.
Image Folder PF-70186/1 |
July 1960; August 1961Slide Tray 1; Includes images of the Stanley Brothers and Maybelle Carter |
Image Folder PF-70186/2 |
August 1961; August 1963; September 1962Slide Tray 2; August 1961; August 1963; September 1962; Includes images of Doc Watson and the Stanley Brothers |
Image Folder PF-70186/3 |
August 1964, Watsons; September 1965, FestivalSlide Tray 3 |
Image Folder PF-70186/4 |
1966Slide Tray 4; 1966; Includes images of Bill Monroe |
Image Folder PF-70186/5 |
Newport Folk Festival, July-August 1966Slide Tray 5 |
Image Folder PF-70186/6 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1967Slide Tray 7, Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1967 |
Image Folder PF-70186/7 |
Bluegrass Fest, Berryville, September 1967; Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1967Slide Tray 9 |
Image Folder PF-70186/8 |
Newport Folk Festival, July 1967; Bluegrass Fest, September 1967Slide Tray 10 |
Image Folder PF-70186/9 |
Bluegrass Fest, September 1967Slide Tray 11 |
Image Folder PF-70186/10 |
Bluegrass Fest, Berryville, September 1967Slide Tray 12; Includes images of Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley |
Image Folder PF-70186/11 |
June 1968; September 1967Slide Tray 13; Includes images of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Kenny Baker |
Image Folder PF-70186/12 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1968Slide Tray 14; Includes images of Ralph Rinzler and Ralph Stanley |
Image Folder PF-70186/13 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1968Slide Tray 15; Includes images of Merle Watson, Doc Watson, Sea Island Singers and Elizabeth Cotten |
Image Folder PF-70186/14 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1968Slide Tray 16; Includes images of Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie |
Image Folder PF-70186/15 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1968; Newport Folk Festival, 1968Slide Tray 17; Includes images of Elizabeth Cotten, Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie |
Image Folder PF-70186/16 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1968Slide Tray 18 |
Image Folder PF-70186/17 |
Newport Folk Festival, August 1968Slide Tray 19 |
Image Folder PF-70186/18 |
Snapshots, 1965; August 1968; WorkshopsSlide Tray 20 |
Image Folder PF-70186/19 |
September 1968Slide Tray 21 |
Image Folder PF-70186/20 |
October 1968; June 1969Slide Tray 22 |
Image Folder PF-70186/21 |
Smithsonian Folk Festival, July 1969Slide Tray 23; Includes images of Del McCoury, Kenny Baker, Elizabeth Cotten and Bill Monroe |
Image Folder PF-70186/22 |
Undated Slide TrayIncludes images of Hazel Dickens, Bill Monroe, John Cohen and Kenny Baker |