Gerry Milnes Collection

Folk Arts: Mountain Landscape Mural

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Mountain landscape mural painted by Otto Lehmann for his daughters, originally on the kitchen wall of a hilltop farmhouse. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive catalog reference GM S2642.
(One of ten nearly identical images GM S2642-GM S2652)

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Jakob Klee button accordion

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Jakob Klee holding button accordion (or handorgeli). Photograph (of the original photo courtesy of Rosa Klee Eye) by Gerry Milnes, July 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2545
(one of six nearly identical images GM S2543-2548)

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Jakob Klee, button accordion

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Klee family photograph of Jakob Klee holding a button accordion. Photograph (of the photograph furnished by Rosa Klee Eye) by Gerry Milnes, July 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2548.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Jakob Klee (accordion) and William Kunzler (fiddle)

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Photograph of two men seated on large log, Jakob Klee playing button accordion and his cousin William Kunzler on fiddle. Original photo from the Klee family collection, courtesy of Rosa Klee Eye. Photograph of the original photo by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2567.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Helvetia Community Fair 1992

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Spectators watching Helvetia Folk Dancers performing at Helvetia Community Fair, photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive catalog reference GM S2587.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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View from the music stage at Helvetia Community Fair 1992

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Spectators for Norman Burky, Vernon Burky, and Joe McIlroy performing at Helvetia Community Fair, photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2578.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Norman Burky, Vernon Burky, and Joe McInroy performing at Helvetia Community Fair 1992

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Norman Burky, Vernon Burky, and Joe McInroy performing at Helvetia Community Fair. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference GM S2579.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Vernon Burky, Norman Burky, Joe McInroy Helvetia Community Fair 1992

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Vernon Burky, Norman Burky, Joe McInroy performing at Helvetia Community Fair. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia WV.

archive reference: GM S2580.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Norman Burky, Vernon Burky, Joe McInroy at Helvetia Community Fair 1992

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Norman Burky and Vernon Burky in front of Joe McInroy playing guitar, Helvetia Community Fair, photograph by Gerry Milnes, Sept 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive catalog reference GM S2577.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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Norman Burky, Vernon Burky Grandfather’s cheese house

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Norman Burky and Vernon Burky stand in front of their grandfather’s log cheese house on the Burky family homestead. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1991, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2679.

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 with earlier dates that others sent to him.

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