IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A handmade, wooden crank toy in the ...

If there's any instrument in the quiver of American music that can simultaneously summon heartbreak, salvation and joy, it just might be the banjo. It's a simple mechanism of hoop, animal skin, neck ...

Banjo maker Jim Hartel shows us old banjos and plays the minstrel tune "Jim Along Josie." Banjo maker Jim Hartel shows us old banjos, derived from instruments made by African slaves, plays the ...