Topic: Provenance of Photo on the Cover of MS Sheiks 4cd Box Set

[mtzionmemorialfund]

The attached picture is on the cover of a 4cd set w/ notes by Neil Slaven (JSP JSPCD 77151).  Do anyone know where the photo on the right came from (ie, it's provenance)?  It looks like a photo of Bo Carter with his steel-bodied National guitar.  I'm not sure what that long white thing is on the front either. 

Thank you,

[Blues Vintage]

This has been discussed before but with no conclusive answer.

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=3098.15

[mtzionmemorialfund]

This has been discussed before but with no conclusive answer.

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=3098.15

There does not seem to be any discussion of the white thing on the guitar, but the question of its provenance seems to have been left open-ended with some folks planning to inquire outside of the forum.  I have also inquired outside the forum with no answers thusfar, but everyone believes it to be Bo.  I will keep digging and return with an answer on provenance......or not....

Maybe the focus for right now needs to be on the mysterious white thing.

[banjochris]

The white thing looks like a piece of paper to me. Perhaps a check or a folded up contract?

[Zephyrs]

Yeah, I think it's just a piece of paper.

[beljum]

Looks like a sunny day. Maybe that cool National was reflecting right into the camera where the paper is.

[Rivers]

I like beljum's idea re killing reflections from the sun into the lens. My thought was maybe Bo had a crazy trick way of damping the strings or creating a buzzing effect. I'm assuming it is tucked under the string set.

[Randy Meadows]

I can make out "ITTA"  it looks like in pencil, capital letters.
Perhaps it says ITTA BENA.

-- I also have an unknown photo from Bolivar County that resembles him.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bvsl2t9quzz98k/Unknown%20Bolivar%20County%20Group.jpg?dl=0

[CF]

Do one of those guys resemble Bo? Which one?

[RobBob]

Nothing hotter than an all metal National on a sunny day.

[mtzionmemorialfund]

Do one of those guys resemble Bo? Which one?

The ones on the left and right.

[CF]

The gentlemen from Bolivar County, the picture that is linked, which one of them looks like Bo Carter?

[mtzionmemorialfund]

I can make out "ITTA"  it looks like in pencil, capital letters.
Perhaps it says ITTA BENA.

-- I also have an unknown photo from Bolivar County that resembles him.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bvsl2t9quzz98k/Unknown%20Bolivar%20County%20Group.jpg?dl=0

Randy Meadows: Which of the four individuals in the linked photo do you think is Bo?