Mr. Franks playing an English guitar, Manuel Lemos and Alberto Mendes playing violas d'arame, group portrait, photograph

Mr. Franks playing an English guitar, Manuel Lemos and Alberto Mendes playing violas d'arame, group portrait, photograph

- Franks,--Mr
- Lemos, Manuel
- Mendes, Alberto
- English guitar
- Viola d'arame
- Portuguese Americans--California--Richmond

Left to right: Mr. Franks, Manuel Lemos and Alberto Mendes. Photograph caption: Manuel Lemos' viola d'arame has a fan-shaped tuning mechanism; Alberto Mendes' viola d'arame has guitar-type tuning pegs. All three instruments were made by Alberto Mendes. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Alberto Mendes, Manuel Lemos, and Mr. Franks performing Portuguese songs and music from the Azores on February 6 and March 3, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Richmond, California on January 19, 1939.

Sidney Robertson Cowell

Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610

January 19, 1939

Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995, collector.

Franks, Mr.

Lemos, Manuel

Mendes, Alberto

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1 photographic print : silver gelatin ; 3 x 4 in.

English

Group portraits

Photographic prints

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1 photographic print : silver gelatin

3 x 4 in