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

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

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.

Cowell, Sidney Robertson

Forms part of: W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection

Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center

1939

Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Franks, Mr.
Lemos, Manuel.
Mendes, Alberto.

Public Domain

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

Photographic prints

https://www.loc.gov/resource/afc1940001.afc1940001_p148-1/?r=-0.142,-0.152,1.557,0.839,0

1 photographic print : silver gelatin

3 x 4 in.