Archive Reference: GM S1472
Description: Jimmy Dowdle from Cowen holding an old Dobson peghead banjo made in Baltimore, possibly in the 1890’s. Metal plate on banjo could contain the name of the original owner.
Photographed by: Gerry Milnes
Date: January 1988
Location: Cowen, WV
Notes: Related content is a recording featuring Jimmy Dowdle playing Dusty Roads and Home Sweet Home on banjo (beginning at 28:40). Related content reference: A ACS 6055
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.
related content:
Russell Higgins, John Christian, Jimmy Dowdle, Dona Gum; Banjo music; 11/1975