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Hazel's family in the early 1950s.
Front row, left to right:
Hattie Dickens (Hazel's niece), Kathleen Bailey (niece), Roger Bailey (nephew), Arnold Dickens (brother), Bobby Woolwine (nephew).
Middle row:
Hazel Dickens, Dovie Bailey (sister), Sally Dickens (sister), Tootsie Dickens (sister-in-law), Sarah Dickens (mother).
Back row:
John Dickens, with guitar (brother), Guy Dickens, with mandolin (brother).

Hazel back home in West Virginia on a visit, nineteen or twenty years old.

A studio portrait taken in Baltimore in the early 1950s, before Hazel became a professional musician.

The Pike County Boys and Hazel, 1956, Baltimore.
Front row, left to right:
Dickie Rittler (banjo), Bobby Baker (guitar and lead vocals).
Back row:
Mike Seeger (fiddle), Hazel Dickens (bass, harmony vocals, and some lead vocals), Bob Shanklin (mandolin and vocals).

Hazel Dickens and Ralph Stanley, New River Ranch, Rising Sun, Maryland, 1965.

Bill Monroe and Hazel singing at Tom Gray's home in Kensington, Maryland, November 1965.
Left to right:
Bill Monroe, Russ Hooper, Hazel Dickens. Dave Williams is behind Monroe, and Peter Rowan is playing guitar, toward the camera but out of sight. Photograph by Tom Gray. Used by permission

Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens, 1966 or 1967. Photograph by John Cohen. Used by permission.

Workshop at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, D.C., 1969. Hazel is singing her song “Black Lung” for the first time in public.
Left to right:
Maybelle Carter, Dock Boggs, Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Archie Green. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

CD cover for
Strange Creek Singers,
Arhoolie 9003, 1972.
Left to right:
Tracy Schwarz, Alice Gerrard, Mike Seeger, Hazel Dickens. Lamar Grier, who played banjo on this CD, is not shown here. Courtesy of Arhoolie Records,
www.arhoolie.com
.

Hazel Dickens (
left
) and Patsy Montana at a festival workshop in the 1970s. Photograph by Rosamond Norbury. Used by permission.

Hazel singing on the picket line to striking miners in Stearns, Kentucky, in the 1970s. Photograph by Karen Kasmauski. Used by permission.

Hazel singing on the picket line in Stearns, Kentucky, in the 1970s. Photograph by Karen Kasmauski. Used by permission.