Banjo, front view, mechanical drawing

Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995, collector.

1938-01-01

photo, print, drawing

Library of Congress

A mechanical drawing of an American 5-string banjo, Drawing No. 14, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell. Drawing caption: American 5 string banjo. Drawing No. 14. Original in Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting the WPA California Folk Music Project in Northern California, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell from 1938 to 1940.