Meyersdale Public Library - Photographs

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  • Subject = Cook, Charlie

About This Collection

The Meyersdale Public Library photograph collections contain approximately 2,000 photographs. From the total collection, about 320 will be selected for digitization based on the selection criteria. The photographs that will be selected for online display are significant because they provide a broad overview of life immediately before, during, and after the Progressive Era in the Allegheny Mountains region (mostly Somerset Co., PA & northern Maryland). The photographs capture families & individuals both in portraits and in natural settings, military men, coal mines, mills, railroads, transportation, education, and African American families. Our photographs have been used in Somerset Magazine and in the book "Allegheny Passage Companion, Guide to History & Heritage Along the Trail" by Bill Metzger. Accessibility to the collection will be enhanced because the images will be searchable online. Currently the photographs are accessioned on paper but are not included in our library catalog. Digitization would allow users easy & free access to historical photographs that would otherwise essentially be hidden in a closet.
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Charlie Cook playing a mandolin and a friend with a guitar
Guitars, Mandolins, Stringed instruments, Musical instruments, Cook, Charlie
Charlie, with his mandolin, and his friend with a guitar, enjoy an evening in the parlor. A piano sits behind them, and pictures hang on the flowered wallpapered wall. A furry throw rug is on top of the flowered carpet. There is a lamp on the table that sits between their chairs. Transcribed from the album page ‘Charlie.’ 4 3/8 x 3 3/4 in. black and white photograph.
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Young girl playing guitar
Guitars, Mandolins, Stringed instruments, Musical instruments, Cook, Charlie
A man sits in the corner having fun wearing a lady’s hat while he plays the mandolin. Beside him in a white wicker rocking chair, a young girl with a dark scarf around the collar of her white blouse holds a guitar. She has her long hair pulled back in a braid. The lady in the dark rocking chair is listening to the man with the mandolin. Her hair is pulled back in a bun, and her skirt is long and dark. 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. black and white photograph.
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