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Joni Mitchell

Artist:
Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, born 1942  Search this
Sitter:
Joni Mitchell, born 07 Nov 1943  Search this
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 34.3 x 22.9 cm (13 1/2 x 9")
Sheet: 35.4 x 28 cm (13 15/16 x 11")
Type:
Photograph
Place:
United States\California\Los Angeles\Los Angeles
Date:
1969 (printed 1978)
Topic:
Vehicle  Search this
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Female  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist  Search this
Portrait  Search this
Credit Line:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
Object number:
NPG.2012.31
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Copyright:
© Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal
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National Portrait Gallery Collection
Location:
Currently not on view
Data Source:
National Portrait Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm41882ad74-c200-47e2-b9e9-0c628329ea5d
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npg_NPG.2012.31

Joni Mitchell

Artist:
Robert M. Peak, 30 May 1927 - 1 Aug 1992  Search this
Sitter:
Joni Mitchell, born 07 Nov 1943  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor, ink, graphite pencil, colored pencil and cut paper on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 76.2 × 59.1cm (30 × 23 1/4")
Type:
Painting
Date:
1974
Topic:
Music\Musical instrument\Guitar  Search this
Personal Attribute\Teeth  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Female  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this
Joni Mitchell: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist  Search this
Portrait  Search this
Credit Line:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine; conserved with funds from The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
Object number:
NPG.78.TC592
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Copyright:
© Robert Peak
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National Portrait Gallery Collection
Location:
Currently not on view
Data Source:
National Portrait Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm459e575de-7e90-4563-897c-ab0a6df6e413
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npg_NPG.78.TC592

Diana Davies photographs

Photographer:
Davies, Diana, 1938-  Search this
Gahr, David  Search this
Performer:
Bread and Puppet Theater  Search this
Everly Brothers  Search this
New Lost City Ramblers  Search this
Pentangle (Musical group)  Search this
The Pennywhistlers (Musical group)  Search this
The Young Tradition (Musical group)  Search this
Andersen, Eric  Search this
Bikel, Theodore  Search this
Brand, Oscar  Search this
Cameron, John A.  Search this
Chandler, Len  Search this
Collier, Jimmy  Search this
Collins, Judy, 1939-  Search this
Fuller, Jesse  Search this
Gerrard, Alice, 1934-  Search this
Guthrie, Arlo  Search this
Hartford, John  Search this
Hjorth, Ole  Search this
Joplin, Janis  Search this
Kennedy, Norman, 1934-  Search this
Kershaw, Doug  Search this
Killen, Louis  Search this
Kirkpatrick, Frederick Douglass  Search this
Koerner, John  Search this
McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996  Search this
Mitchell, Joni  Search this
Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996  Search this
Muddy Waters, 1915-1983  Search this
Ochs, Phil  Search this
Perkins, Carl  Search this
Proffitt, Frank, Jr., 1946-2005  Search this
Rachell, Yank  Search this
Raim, Ethel  Search this
Ramsey, Frederic, 1915-1995  Search this
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-  Search this
Rinzler, Ralph  Search this
Sainte-Marie, Buffy  Search this
Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009  Search this
Stabi, Björn  Search this
Sykes, Roosevelt, 1906-1983  Search this
Taylor, James  Search this
Traum, Artie  Search this
Traum, Happy  Search this
Watson, Doc  Search this
Watson, Merle  Search this
White, Elaine (Vocalist)  Search this
Wiseman, Mac  Search this
Names:
Newport Folk Festival  Search this
Philadelphia Folk Festival  Search this
Asch, Moses  Search this
Chandler, Nancy  Search this
Dunson, Josh, 1941-  Search this
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006  Search this
Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010  Search this
Young, Izzy, 1928-2019  Search this
Musician:
Bosco, John  Search this
Extent:
3.83 Cubic feet (8 binders containing contact sheets, slides, and prints; 7 boxes (8.5"x10.75"x2.5") of 35 mm negatives; 2 binders of 35 mm and 120 format negatives; and 1 box of 11 oversize prints.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Contact sheets
Slides (photographs)
Black-and-white negatives
Photographic prints
Place:
New York (N.Y.)
Saint Simons Island (Ga. : Island)
Date:
1963-2009
Summary:
The Diana Davies photographs consist of images taken by Diana Davies at various stages of her career. Locations include the Festival of American Folklife, the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's Campaign, various peace and protest marches and outdoor performances, New York City, and the Georgia Sea Islands. The collection includes contact sheets, negatives, photographic prints, and slides. Original photographs, negatives, and color slides taken by Diana Davies. Materials date from 1963-2009. Bulk dates: Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1969, 1987, 1992; Philadelphia Folk Festival, 1967-1968, 1987.
Scope and Contents:
The Diana Davies photographs, 1963-2009, consist of black and white negatives, contact sheets and prints, as well as color slides and negatives. The bulk of materials depict major festivals and protest movements (including the Poor People's March of 1968) documented by Diana Davies (located in Series 1: Newport Folk Festival, Series 2: Philadelphia Folk Festival, Series 6: Festival of American Folklife, and Series 11: Social Justice). Also well-represented are non-festival performances (in locations such as clubs, concert halls, and homes), recording sessions, and other music-related images, mainly of notable figures in the American folk music revival (located in Series 3: Broadside Magazine, Series 4: Sing Out! Magazine Concerts, Series 5: Miscellaneous Concerts and People, Series 7: Recording Sessions, Series 8: Instruction Book Shots, and Series 9: Jazz, Blues, and Salsa Musicians). Series 10: Georgia Sea Islands consists of photographs depicting the culture, environment, and daily life of these coastal islands in 1966. Series 12: New York City Scenes contains photographs taken on the street depicting everyday life in NYC in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection also contains related papers in Series 13: Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence.
Arrangement note:
Each item in the Diana Davies Photographs has been assigned an accession number, and like materials have been put together such as the Newport Folk Festival photographs, in a chronological sequence as much as possible. Materials in the three more recent donation batches (1998, 2004, and 2006) were numbered and integrated into the collection. In some series, the accession numbers are in numerical order, and in others, the numbers are random because like items with different number sequences were pulled together in a series for subject coherence. The best way to find occurrences of a particular subject is to use the ctrl+F function. Please consult the archivists if you have any questions about the collection contents.

Contact sheets, slides, and prints arranged in 8 binders; negatives and oversize prints are stored separately.

Arranged in 14 series:

Series 1: Newport Folk Festival

Series 2: Philadelphia Folk Festival

Series 3: Broadside Magazine

Series 4: -- Sing Out! -- Magazine Concerts

Series 5: Miscellaneous Concerts and People

Series 6: Festival of American Folklife

Series 7: Recording Sessions

Series 8: Instruction Book Shots

Series 9: Jazz, Blues, and Salsa Musicians

Series 10: Georgia Sea Islands

Series 11: Social Justice

Series 12: New York City Scenes

Series 13: Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence

Series 14: Oversize Materials
Biographical/Historical note:
Diana Davies is a well-known photographer of folk performers and festivals. Davies photographed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in its earlier years. Born in 1938, Davies grew up in Maine, the Catskills, New York City, and Boston. Her grandparents were local union organizers and Debs socialists; one grandfather was a gandy dancer with the railroad, and her grandmother was a textile worker in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Davies finds that her family background was later expressed in her own activist efforts.

Davies left high school at 16, and worked sweeping out coffeehouses, which gave her the opportunity to listen to music while she worked. She became interested in theater and music. In Greenwich Village, she began doing some sound technician work, and then got interested in photography. She taught herself how to develop and print photographs in a darkroom, and began photographing in theaters, shooting from behind the scenes. Her theater photos are at Smith College in Northampton, where she presently lives. In the early 1960s, she began working with the editors of Broadside Magazine, Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. She developed an interest in human rights work, which grew from her contact with Sis and Gordon, and also her own family background. She also worked as a photographer in a wide range of settings, including night clubs, weddings, and doing portrait photography. This led her to work for major national and international media including the New York Times, covering such events as the war in Biafra, and traveling to Mexico, Cuba, and Portugal on assignment.

Davies' folk photographs represent about one-quarter of her body of work; her other major photographic work includes the Civil Rights Movement, the Peace Movement, and theater. Davies began photographing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, which she covered for a number of years. She knew Ralph Rinzler, and found him a vibrant, alive person excited by all aspects of culture. He introduced her to Bessie Jones from the Georgia Sea Islands, and in 1966 she made a photographic journey to the islands. Her work from this trip is included in the collection. Davies has also been a musician. She became involved with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, and felt that there was a connection between the hard-hitting songs from the punk world and the songs being published in Broadside Magazine. In 1975, she became part of a folk/punk women's band in Boston, and later moved to Western Massachusetts. In addition to being a photographer and musician, Davies is also a writer. She wrote a play entitled "The Witch Papers" in 1980, which was produced in Boston and other locations. The play was a vehicle for her human rights activism, comparing the technology of inquisition with labor sweatshops. In 1998, her play "The War Machine" was produced in Amherst, Mass. She lives in Northampton, and enjoys and participates in street performance, which she describes as the "most essentially communicative stuff you can come up with."
General note:
All contact sheets from the collection are digitized and accessible through this finding aid. Series-level slideshows accessible through this finding aid represent a small sampling from the collection.
Shared Stewardship of Collections:
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://doi.org/10.25573/data.21771155.
Provenance:
The Smithsonian Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections acquired portions of the Diana Davies Photograph Collection in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Ms. Davies photographed for the Festival of American Folklife. More materials came to the Archives circa 1989 or 1990. Archivist Stephanie Smith visited her in 1998 and 2004, and brought back additional materials which Ms. Davies wanted to donate to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. These two more recent donations of additional photographs (contact sheets, prints, and slides) consisted of documentation of the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's March on Washington, the Civil Rights Movement, the Georgia Sea Islands, and miscellaneous personalities of the American folk revival. In a letter dated 12 March 2002, Ms. Davies gave full discretion to the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to grant permission for both internal and external use of her photographs, with the provison that her work be credited in any use.
Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Topic:
Peace movements  Search this
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963  Search this
Civil rights -- United States  Search this
Genre/Form:
Contact sheets
Slides (photographs)
Black-and-white negatives
Photographic prints
Citation:
Diana J. Davies photographs, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

or

Photo by Diana J. Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and COllections, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
CFCH.DAVIE
See more items in:
Diana Davies photographs
Archival Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk59fa9fef6-8287-4b3c-8f47-119c519dd318
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-cfch-davie
Online Media:

Newport Folk Festival

Photographer:
Davies, Diana, 1938-  Search this
Performer:
Chambers Brothers  Search this
Ian & Sylvia  Search this
New Lost City Ramblers  Search this
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Musical group)  Search this
Barker, Horton, 1889-1973  Search this
Beers, Bob, 1920-1972  Search this
Bikel, Theodore  Search this
Bloomfield, Mike  Search this
Blue, David, 1941-1982  Search this
Camp, Hamilton  Search this
Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978  Search this
Cohen, John, 1932-2019  Search this
Dane, Barbara  Search this
Davis, Gary, 1896-1972  Search this
Donovan  Search this
Dylan, Bob, 1941-  Search this
Glover, Tony  Search this
House, Son  Search this
Koerner, John  Search this
Mitchell, Joni  Search this
Odetta, 1930-2008  Search this
Rose, Biff  Search this
Schwarz, Tracy  Search this
Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009  Search this
Siggins, Bob  Search this
Sky, Patrick  Search this
Spoelstra, Mark  Search this
Walker, Jerry Jeff  Search this
Names:
Newport Folk Festival  Search this
Emmy, Cousin, 1903-1980  Search this
Robertson, Eck  Search this
Folklorist:
Hawes, Bess Lomax, 1921-2009  Search this
Long, Worth W.  Search this
Collection Photographer:
Davies, Diana, 1938-  Search this
Extent:
24 Contact sheets (b&w)
8 Photographic prints (b&w, 10 x 8 in.)
5 Slides (photographs) (col.)
25 Negatives (photographic) (b&w)
Type:
Archival materials
Contact sheets
Photographic prints
Slides (photographs)
Negatives (photographic)
Date:
1964-1992, undated
1965
Scope and Contents:
Photographs taken by Diana Davies at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. This series includes black-and-white contact sheets, negatives for the contact sheets, photographic prints, and slides. The photographs feature various performers and audience members at the Newport Folk Festival.
Restrictions:
Access by appointment only at the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.
Rights:
Authorization to publish or reproduce requires written permission from Diana Davies. Please contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections for further information.
Topic:
Folk festivals -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Photographs  Search this
Genre/Form:
Contact sheets
Collection Citation:
Diana J. Davies photographs, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

or

Photo by Diana J. Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and COllections, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
CFCH.DAVIE, Series 1
See more items in:
Diana Davies photographs
Archival Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5ed8bf2db-5dab-4703-b0b1-f3e803a5f556
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-cfch-davie-ref12

Mitchell, Joni "Clouds" Reprise Records RS 6341 nd

Collection Creator:
Wisner, Tom, 1930-2010  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Tom Wisner collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklikfe Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
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Tom Wisner papers
Tom Wisner papers / Series 5: Audio Recordings on Reels / Not in Box because it is too large
Archival Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5f2719851-e3ee-45c5-8308-c2b2786b809f
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-cfch-wisn-ref1471

Buffy Sainte-Marie the authorized biography Andrea Warner ; foreword by Joni Mitchell

Author:
Warner, Andrea  Search this
Writer of foreword:
Mitchell, Joni  Search this
Physical description:
298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Nonfiction
Place:
Canada
Date:
2018
Canada
Topic:
Women singers  Search this
Women composers  Search this
Cree women  Search this
Indian women singers  Search this
Indian women activists  Search this
Native activists  Search this
Chanteuses  Search this
Compositrices  Search this
Cries  Search this
Femmes activistes indiennes d'Amérique  Search this
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal  Search this
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music  Search this
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician  Search this
Musicians  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1115102

Joni Mitchell, voices / [Gilles Hébert, editor]

Title:
Voices, the work of Joni Mitchell
Author:
Mitchell, Joni  Search this
Hébert, Gilles 1955-  Search this
Mendel Art Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Mitchell, Joni  Search this
Physical description:
63 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 x 27 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Canada
Date:
2000
[2000]
Topic:
Musicians as artists  Search this
Call number:
N40.1.M678 M46 2000
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_631605

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