Helvetia Video Project

Community viewing film footage Helvetia Video Project 1993

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The Helvetia community gathered to watch video footage from their community, which resulted in production of the documentary film Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Oct 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2666.

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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Community viewing film footage Helvetia Video Project 1993

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The Helvetia community gathered to watch video footage from their community, which resulted in production of the documentary film Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Oct 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2665.

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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Community viewing film footage from Helvetia Video Project 1993

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Members of Helvetia community viewing footage of the Helvetia Video Project, which resulted in the documentary film Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Oct 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2667

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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Community viewing video footage from Helvetia

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Helvetia community members viewing footage from the video project that culminated in the documentary film Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Oct 1993, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2668.

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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Entering the barn: Helvetia Video Project 1992

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Backlighting of person entering door of barn during filming which culminated in production of the documentary Helvetia: The Swiss of West Virginia. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1992, Helvetia, WV.

archive reference: GM S2654.

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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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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