Cedell Davis [graphic]. [197-?]

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Cedell Davis [graphic]. [197-?]

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Negative of CeDell Davis plays guitar in an unidentified house with an unidentifed man watching taken from the book "Blues Music in Arkansas" by Louis Guida, Lorenzo Thomas, and Cheryl Cohen (1982). CeDell Davis was born June 9, 1927 in Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas. At the age of 10, he survived a bout with polio which left him with a crippled right hand. He learned to play a left-handed bottleneck style guitar and played locally in Arkansas in the 1950s and 60s with Robert Nighthawk, Big Joe Williams, and Charlie Jordan.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Davis, CeDell

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Guida, Louis, 1947-

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