Florida Memory • Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session

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Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session - Pensacola, Florida.

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Image Number

FS832472

Photographer

Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date

1981

Date Note

Photographed on December 1, 1981.

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Collection

Folklife collection
Series 1577, Ida Goodson Recording Project ; no 22

Geographic Term

Pensacola (Fla.)
Escambia County (Fla.)

Personal Subjects

Goodson, Ida, 1909-2000.

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session - Pensacola, Florida.

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Title

Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session - Pensacola, Florida.

Subject

Religious music

Songs, Blues

Musical traditions, Secular

Musical traditions, Sacred

Musical traditions, African diaspora

Gospel (Black)

Ethnicity, African American

Piano music (Blues)

Pianists

Blues (Music)

Blues (Music)--1981-1990

Blues musicians

Music--Performance

Gospel music

Piano

Musical instruments

Instrumentalists

African American women--Florida--Escambia County--Pensacola

Arts (Performing)--Florida--Escambia County--Pensacola

African American musicians--Florida--Escambia County--Pensacola

Gospel musicians

Creator

Dyen, Doris J., Collector.

Date

1981

Identifier

FS832472

Image URL

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/fpc/folklife/fs832472.gif

Date Note

Photographed on December 1, 1981.

Geographic Term

Pensacola (Fla.)

Escambia County (Fla.)

Color

color

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

Series Title

Folklife collection

Folklife Collection Series 1577, Ida Goodson Recording Project ; no 22

Subject - Person

Goodson, Ida, 1909-2000.

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Chicago Manual of Style

Dyen, Doris J., Collector. Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session - Pensacola, Florida. 1981. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/121379>, accessed 11 June 2026.

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Dyen, Doris J., Collector. Ida Goodson playing piano during a recording session - Pensacola, Florida. 1981. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/121379>

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(State Archives of Florida/Dyen)

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