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Talking drums at a procession,
Ghana 1936

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Picking cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Lomax Collection, Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, [LC-USZ62-124414]

African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, drying cotton, about 1879

Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington [LC-USZ62-68076]

African Americans working, Charleston, S.C: Street vendors, 1879

The Kilburn Brothers
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-USZ62-68072

Jitterbugging in a juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi

Marion Post Wolcott 1910 - 1990
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-fsa-8c36090]

True lovers of the muse

William Henry Jackson 1843-1942
Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-D401-9117]

Old African-American man posed walking with a stick and a banjo.
About 1905.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-46755]

Baptist congregation, Alma Plantation, False River, La. July 1934

Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002)
Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsc-00321]

Man posing holding a drum, Cat Island, July 1935

Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002)
Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsc-00492]

John Canoe and friends, Bahamas, 1935

Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002)
Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [ LC-DIG-ppmsc-00506 ]

Young men and women
humming a spiritual

At UCPAPWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) meeting, Bristow, Oklahoma.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-DIG-fsa-8b22390]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Half-length portrait, facing front
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection [LC-USZ62-126559]

The Last Drummers, performing on the New York City Subway

Drumming groups like this are found on the subways, subway stations and streets of urban centres around the USA.
© Devorah Romanek 2010