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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Helvetia Video Project, Milnes Collection Photography