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Photo credits
Every photograph on this site is openly licensed and comes from Wikimedia Commons. We print them as one-colour duotones to match the poster look of the site; the originals, in full colour, are at the links below.
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Photo: Harry Warnecke / Robert F. Cranston, Public domain Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, in a colour portrait.
Photo: Harry Warnecke / Robert F. Cranston, Public domain -

Photo: Chris McKenna (Thryduulf (talk)), CC BY-SA 4.0 A bluegrass banjo being picked with fingerpicks.
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Photo: Sanrafae, CC BY 4.0 A pair of cowboy boots standing on cobblestones.
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Photo: Springfulutopia, CC BY-SA 4.0 The sign over State Street in Bristol, which straddles the Virginia–Tennessee line.
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Photo: FaceMePLS from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on Lower Broadway, Nashville.
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Photo: Photographer:Camera-Craft, Seattle., Public domain Buck Owens playing guitar on stage at the Washington State Fair, 1968.
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Photo: Victor Talking Machine Company, Public domain The Carter Family — A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter — in the late 1920s.
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Photo: ABC Television., Public domain Johnny Cash with Cass Elliot on the set of The Johnny Cash Show, 1969.
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Photo: Nyttend, Public domain A white clapboard country church.
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Photo: Van.ike, CC BY-SA 3.0 Inside Gruene Hall, the oldest continually operating dance hall in Texas.
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Photo: The Old Pueblo, CC BY-SA 4.0 An abandoned early automobile and adobe walls on red earth.
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Photo: Iron Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0 The tuning dial of a vintage valve radio receiver.
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Photo: David Gahr, Public domain Dolly Parton in the 1970s.
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Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Gruene Hall and the Gruene water tower in the Texas Hill Country.
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Photo: Dejan Krsmanovic, CC BY 2.0 An acoustic guitar in low light.
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Photo: WSM radio, Public domain Hank Williams at a WSM microphone in a promotional photograph.
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Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Tootsie's and the Second Fiddle, two honky tonks on Broadway in Nashville.
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Photo: Denny Moeller Talent-management/photographer-Fabry, Nashville., Public domain Kitty Wells in a 1965 publicity photograph.
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Photo: Hot Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0 The post office and general store at Luckenbach, Texas.
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Photo: Ky, CC BY 2.0 A vintage bullet microphone beside an amplifier volume knob.
Photo: Ky, CC BY 2.0 -

Photo: bunky's pickle, CC BY-SA 2.0 Bill Monroe at a radio microphone in 1952.
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Photo: Unknown author, Public domain A vintage photograph of the Grand Ole Opry cast on stage.
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Photo: Decca Records, Public domain Patsy Cline in a 1960 Decca publicity portrait.
Photo: Decca Records, Public domain -

Photo: Jeff Davis, CC BY 2.0 Three antique wooden cathedral radios.
Photo: Jeff Davis, CC BY 2.0 -

Photo: G. Lamar, CC BY 2.0 An empty desert highway running toward the mountains at sunset.
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Photo: Victor Talking Machine Company (taken by Moss Photo, NYC), Public domain Jimmie Rodgers, the Singing Brakeman, with his guitar in 1931.
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Photo: Isaac777, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the Mother Church of Country Music.
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Photo: Vane Ruth79, CC BY-SA 4.0 A singer in a cowboy hat performing at a country music festival.
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Photo: Kaldari, Public domain The Nashville skyline at night, reflected in the Cumberland River.
Photo: Kaldari, Public domain -

Photo: Zhyla, CC0 A Fender 1000 double-neck pedal steel guitar.
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Photo: David E. Lucas, Public domain A string band with guitar, banjo, fiddle and bass playing outdoors.
Photo: David E. Lucas, Public domain -

Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 Close-up of a red 1958 Fender Telecaster.
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Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 Radio transmitter towers silhouetted against the dusk sky.
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Photo: RCA Records, Public domain Waylon Jennings with his guitar in an RCA promotional photograph.
Photo: RCA Records, Public domain -

Photo: Bob Jagendorf from Manalapan, NJ, USA, CC BY 2.0 Willie Nelson singing on stage in 2009.
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Photo: University of Missouri, Public domain Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in front of their tour bus.
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Photo: Garrett A. Wollman, CC BY-SA 2.5 The diamond-shaped WSM transmitter tower south of Nashville.
Photo: Garrett A. Wollman, CC BY-SA 2.5
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