Historical Portrait
Pen McCready, portrait, photograph
Archive record
Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John McCready performing Anglo-American songs on July 31, August 2, and August 5, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Groveland, Tuolumne County, California.
About this photograph
This portrait was made during fieldwork for the W.P.A. California Folk Music Project. Sidney Robertson Cowell, who led the project from 1938 to 1940, traveled across Northern California documenting traditional musicians from the state's immigrant communities. The project recorded and photographed performers of Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Mexican, Irish, and Serbian backgrounds, among others.
The caption indicates the photograph belongs to a set of materials from sessions with John McCready, who performed Anglo-American songs in Groveland, Tuolumne County, on July 31, August 2, and August 5, 1939. The archive catalogues the subject as Pen McCready.
The recordings and photographs from Cowell's fieldwork are held by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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