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.
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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:
Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
4. Eric Andersen "Long Troubled Road" 5. Will McLean "Tate's Hell" 6. Bob Dylan (Blind Boy Grunt) "Ballad of Emmitt Till" 7. Bob Dylan (Blind Boy Grunt) "Ballad of Donald White" 8. Peter LaFarge "Drums"
Track Information:
101 Long Time Troubled Road / Eric Andersen. Guitar.
102 Tate's Hell / Will McLean. Guitar.
103 The Ballad of Emmett Till / Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Dylan. Guitar.
201 The Ballad of Donald White / Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Dylan. Guitar.
202 Drums / Peter La Farge. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-1669
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States.
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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.
1. More Good Men Going Down 2. Cruel Years 3. All Will Be Silent in This Land 4. The World Will Taste of You 5. Here I Am 6. Plains of Nebrasky-O (with Eric Andersen) 7. I Should Have Known Better (w/ Eric Andersen) 8. That's the Way Its Gonna Be 9. One More Parade 10. Another Country 11. Celia 12. The Bells 13. Rivers of Blood 14. Remember Me 15. Talking Pay TV 16. Christine Keeler 17. Spanish Civil war Song 18. Hazard, Kentucky 19. Lou Marsh 20. On My Way 21. The Passing of My Life 22. Spaceman 23. I'm Gonna Say What I Have to Say 24. Color Town 25. When First Into This Country 26. Let Me Tell You I'll Be There 27. Ballad of Alfred Packer
Track Information:
101 More Good Men Going Down / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
101 Cruel Years / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
102 All Will Be Silent in This Land / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
103 The World Will Taste of You / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
104 Here I Am / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
105 Plains of Nebrasky-O / Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen. Guitar.
106 I Should Have Known Better / Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen. Guitar.
107 That's the Way It's Gonna Be / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
108 One More Parade / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
109 Another Country / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
110 Celia / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
111 The Bells / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
112 Rivers of Blood / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
113 Remember Me / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
114 Talking Pay T.V / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
115 Christine Keeler / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
116 Spanish Civil War Song / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
117 Hazard, Kentucky / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
118 The Ballad of Lou Marsh / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
119 On My Way / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
120 The Passing on My Life / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
121 Spaceman / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
122 I'm Going to Say What I Have to Say / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
123 Color Town / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
124 When First Unto This Country / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
125 Let Me Tell You I'll Be There / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
126 The Ballad of Alfred Packer / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0028
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States, 1994.
General:
Phil Ochs- Broadside Tapes (from RR-1570, 3181, 3182)
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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.
Phil Ochs- Broadside Tapes From RR-3182 1. No Christmas in Kentucky 2. We Seek No Wider War 3. Green Hills 4. Ballad of John Henry Faulk 5. If I Knew 6. A.M.A. Song 7. Time Was From RR-5475 9.The Passing of My Life 10. Spaceman 11. Changing Hands From RR-2081,2082 12. I'm Going to Say What I Have to Say 13. Color Town 14. Christmas in Kentucky 15. We Seek No Wider War 16. World Will Taste of You 17. A.M.A. Song 18. More Good Men Going Down 19. Cruel Years 20. Plains of Nebrasky-O (w/ Eric Andersen) 21. All Will Be Silent in This Land 22. Green Hills 23. Here I Am 24. When First Unto This Country 25. Let Me Tell You I'll Be There
Track Information:
101 No Christmas in Kentucky (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
102 We Seek No Wider War (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
103 Green Hills (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
104 Ballad of John Henry Faulk, The (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
105 If I Knew (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
106 A.M.A. Song (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
107 Time Was (RR-3182) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
109 Passing of My Life, The (RR-5475) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
110 Spaceman (RR-5475) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
111 Changing Hands (RR-5475) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
112 I'm Going to Say What I Have to Say (RR-2081) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
113 Color Town (RR-2081) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
114 No Christmas in Kentucky (RR-2081) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
115 We Seek No Wider War (RR-2081) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
116 World Will Taste of You, The (RR-2081) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
117 A.M.A. Song / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
118 More Good Men Going Down / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
119 Cruel Years / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
120 Plains of Nebrasky-O / Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen. Guitar.
121 All Be Will Be Silent is This Land / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
122 Green Hills / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
123 Here I Am / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
124 When First Unto This Country / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
125 Let Me Tell You I'll Be There / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0029
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York, United States, 1994.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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.
1. ACT-362 Misc. Solo Master 2. ACT-648 unknown "This is Always" SO-30 10-015A 3. from FW-RR-5475 Michael Nesmith- radio report on 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention from FW-RR-1669 Broadside Out-Takes 4. Eric Andersen "Long Troubled Road" 5. Will McLean "Tate's Hell" 6. Bob Dylan (Blind Boy Grunt) "Ballad of Emmitt Till" 7. Bob Dylan (Blind Boy Grunt) "Ballad of Donald White" 8. Peter LaFarge "Drums" From FW-RR-1668 9. Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" 10. Phil Ochs "Hunger and Cold" 11. Raimon "Its Time to Say No" 12. Sis Cunningham and others "Jesse James" 13. Bobby Donaghey "Only Time Will Tell " 14. Richard Black "Very Close Friend of Mine" 15. Ernie Marrs "Plastic Jesus" 16. Mike Millius "Moon Song"
Track Information:
101 Misc. Jazz (ACT-362).
102 This is Always (ACT-648).
103 Report on the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (RR-5475) / KRLA-FM, Michael Nesmith.
104 Long Troubled Road (RR-1669) / Eric Andersen. Guitar.
105 Tate's Hell (RR-1669) / Will McLean. Guitar.
106 Ballad of Emmett Till, The (RR-1669) / Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Dylan. Guitar.
107 Ballad of Donald White, The (RR-1669) / Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Dylan. Guitar.
108 Drums (RR-1669) / Peter La Farge. Guitar.
109 I Am Gonna Get My Baby Out of Jail (RR-1668) / Bernice Johnson Reagon, Len Chandler. Guitar.
110 Hunger and Cold (RR-1668) / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
111 It's Time to Say No (RR-1668) / Raimon. Guitar.
112 Ballad of Jesse James (RR-1668) / Sis Cunningham. Guitar.
113 Only Time Will Tell (RR-1668) / Bobby Donaghey. Guitar.
114 Very Close Friend of Mine (RR-1668) / Richard Black. Guitar.
115 Plastic Jesus (RR-1668) / Ernie Marrs, Bud Foote, Anna Foote Copello. Guitar.
116 Moon Song (RR-1668) / Mike Millius. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0040
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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.
203 Talking Airplane Disaster / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
204 Paul Crump / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
205 What Are You Fighting For? / Phil Ochs. Guitar.
206 Put Your Finger in the Air / Bob Jones. Guitar.
207 Black Jack Davey (Child No. 200) / Bob Jones. Guitar.
208 Do-Re-Mi / Bob Jones. Guitar.
Local Numbers:
FP-RINZ-LP-1001
Vanguard.9140
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Vanguard
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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.
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:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Fluxus scores and instructions : the transformative years : "make a salad" : selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit / edited by Jon Hendricks, with Marianne Bech & Media Farzin ; with essays by Eric Andersen ... [et al.]
