Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson’s *Revival!* project is best known for its large drawings and black-velvet pastels of Pentecostal and Holiness worship. But from the late 1960s she also built a substantial body of video and audio recordings documenting the same world in motion and sound.
This is a documentary recording by Eleanor Dickinson of Brother Henry Harrison Mayes, the folk-art sign-maker and lay preacher from Middlesboro, Kentucky, near the Cumberland Gap. The recordings are part of Eleanor Dickinson’s Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection and were made public through the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives. Chapters Opening Introduction Eleanor Dickinson Brother Harrison…
Eleanor Dickinson was very close to the Mayes, visited them, recorded them, and she connected Harrison Mayes with the Smithsonian and got some of his work into their collection. Audio and video recordings as well as drawings and photos by Eleanor Dickinson is archived at the Smithsonian. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/12/eleanor-dickinson-finding-aid/ Search results for Photo, Print, Drawing, Eleanor…
Mailing to a ministry in Jerusalem, asking them to put up an oil cloth sign/cross. (Smithsonian, Eleanor Dickinson Collection, 1967) https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_659735 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?return_all=1&edan_local=1&edan_q=Mayes%2C%20Harrison