Printed by Samuel H. Lifshey. Credited on the mount Ulmann was assisted on her rural travels by John Jacob Niles, a musician and folklorist who collected ballads while Ulmann photographed. She suffered a collapse in August 1934 while working near Asheville, North Carolina. A foundation was created between 1934 and 1937, Samuel H. Lifshey, a New York commercial photographer, developed the negatives that Ulmann had exposed during her final trips, for the Foundation.
