Archive Reference: GM S1301
Description: Lap dulcimer propped against brick wall; maker is Dennis McGowan in 1911. The instrument features a hollow fingerboard, hourglass shape, and star-shaped sound holes.
Photographed by: Gerry Milnes
Date: May 1991
Location: Big Tyler Mountain, WV
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.
