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    Noel Paul Stookey

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    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives in Central Park, New York, 1940

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    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    Josh White testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, accompanied by his wife, 1950

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    Image Credit: Courtesy Harold Leventhal Collection, photographed by John Halpern

    Flier for the Weavers’ reunion concert at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve, 1955

  • The Weavers in Greenwich Village, December 1958

    Image Credit: Estate of David Gahr

    David Gahr, The Weavers on a New York City rooftop, December 1958.

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    Image Credit: Courtesy Ronald D. Cohen Collection #20239, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / image © Ronald D. Cohen

    Ray Sullivan, Izzy Young introduces blues singer and guitarist Reverend Gary Davis at a Folk Festival at Town Hall, March 8, 1958

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    Image Credit: Courtesy Ronald D. Cohen Collection #20239, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / image © Ronald D. Cohen

    Aaron Rennert, Ralph Rinzler of the Greenbriar Boys, Woody Guthrie, Oscar Brand, and the Kossoy Sisters at a party at the apartment of Shanty Boys member Lionel Kilberg, August 1959

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    Image Credit: Museum of the City of New York/Courtesy Ronald D. Cohen

    Flier for Bob Dylan’s first official solo concert on November 4, 1961, at Carnegie Chapter Hall

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    Image Credit: Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Rena C. Kelly

    Frederick Kelly, Musicians in Washington Square, April 1962

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    Image Credit: Courtesy Photo

    Original Manuscript of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” 1962

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    Image Credit: © Estate of David Gahr

    David Gahr, We Shall Overcome: An encore ensemble at the Newport Folk Festival (from left: Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Pete Seeger), July 1963

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    Image Credit: Courtesy Harold Leventhal Collection, photographed by John Halpern

    Tickets to two Bob Dylan concerts, 1963

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    Image Credit: Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Nat Norman

    Nat Norman, Musicians in Washington Square Park, 1955-65

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