Gerry Milnes Collection

Lee Triplett at Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival 1971

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Lee Triplett on fiddle and Dana Perkins on guitar, performing at the Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, summer 1971, Ivydale, WV.

archive reference: GM S1228.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Hammered dulcimer from Preston County

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Close up of hammered dulcimer from Preston County.

archive reference: GM S1263.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Hammered dulcimer from Preston County

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Hammer dulcimer with hammers. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, March 1989, Preston County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1262.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Stringless hammered dulcimer Belington

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Close up of heart on stringless hammer dulcimer. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, May 1990, Belington, WV.

archive reference: GM S1267.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Patty Looman cabinet model dulcimer

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Close-up inside Patty Looman’s cabinet model hammered dulcimer with hammers. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Aug 1990, Monongalia County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1258.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Patty Looman cabinet model dulcimer

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Three images showing Patty Looman’s cabinet model hammered dulcimer. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Aug 1990, Monongalia County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1257, GM S1259, GM S1283.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Patty Looman cabinet model hammered dulcimer

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Cabinet model hammered dulcimer from Patty Looman’s collection. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Aug 1990, Monongalia County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1260.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Cabinet model hammered dulcimer from Patty Looman’s collection. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Aug 1990, Daybrook in Monongalia County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1261.

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Patty Looman dulcimer

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Close up of artistic design (possibly painted using pokeweed berry ink) on dulcimer in Patty Looman’s collection. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Aug 1990, Daybrook in Monongalia County, WV.

archive reference: GM S1276

Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.‎

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