Gerry Milnes Collection

Mary Hicks wool working demonstration

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Mary Hicks with wool carding paddles, demonstrating the process of making sheep’s wool into yarn. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2536

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 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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Mary Hicks and Irene Hartmann working wool into yarn

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Mary Hicks and Irene Hartmann on porch with spinning wheel and wool carding paddles, demonstrating the process of making yarn. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2535.

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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Mary Hicks and Irene Hartmann working wool

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Mary Hicks and Irene Hartmann on porch with spinning wheel and wool carding paddles, working wool into yarn. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference GM S2534.

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 Log House

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Half dovetail notch architecture on log house. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, May 1991, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2476

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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Hofer family Coat of Arms

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Photograph showing the coat of arms which reads Hofer 1342 Grosshochstetten, photograph by Gerry Milnes, March 1992, Helvetia WV.

archive reference GM S2523.
(1 of 3 nearly identical images)

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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Mountain landscape mural painted on old wood Helvetia WV

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Mountain landscape mural, photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive catalog reference GM S2642.
(1 of 12 closely identical photographs)
 
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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