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Photo, Print, Drawing Cleaning ramps at the ramp house on the night before the ramp supper: (L-R) Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman

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Title

  • Cleaning ramps at the ramp house on the night before the ramp supper: (L-R) Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman

Names

  • Brown, Mabel Miller (Depicted)
  • Bonds, Jenny Miller (Depicted)
  • Gilfillen, Peggy (Depicted)
  • Workman, Delores (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Terry (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • April 21, 1995

Headings

  • -  Community events
  • -  Community space
  • -  April
  • -  Ramp festivals
  • -  Ramp House
  • -  Ramp suppers
  • -  Ramps (Allium tricoccum)
  • -  Spring
  • -  Foodways
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Drews Creek

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Event: Preparations in the Ramp House on the eve of the annual Ramp Supper.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-TE-C006-12

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Brown, Mabel Miller, Jenny Miller Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman, and Terry Eiler. Cleaning ramps at the ramp house on the night before the ramp supper: L-R Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman. Drews Creek Raleigh County West Virginia, 1995. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000278/.

APA citation style:

Brown, M. M., Bonds, J. M., Gilfillen, P., Workman, D. & Eiler, T. (1995) Cleaning ramps at the ramp house on the night before the ramp supper: L-R Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman. Drews Creek Raleigh County West Virginia, 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000278/.

MLA citation style:

Brown, Mabel Miller, et al. Cleaning ramps at the ramp house on the night before the ramp supper: L-R Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Peggy Gilfillen, Delores Workman. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000278/>.