Published for the first time, 74 years after Alton's death!
ALTON AND RABON AS TEENAGERS:

Alton, Rabon, Kirk McGhee and Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, 1934

Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, 1934

Different pose

Alton and Rabon in Maces Springs, Virginia, circa 1939

Rabon and Alton, circa 1942

Rabon and Alton, same location, with an unidentified banjo player

Rabon and Alton, same place, with the same person but holding a fiddle

Rabon reading the Folio of Native American Melodies No. 1, circa 1942

Alton reading the Folio of Native American Melodies No.1

Alton around 1939 with his daughters Norma Gail and Billie Anne

Rabon & Alton at Radio WLW, circa 1942

Alton, circa 1944

Roy Lanham, Radio WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1944

Different pose

Rabon, circa 1946

Alton and his wife, circa 1946

Alton and his wife at the Lion's Club, mid-1940s

Merle Travis, Capitol Studio, Hollywood, California, 1946

Wayne Raney, Norman and Maxine Luna, KWEM, West Memphis, Arkansas, circa 1946

Red Foley, mid-forties

Rabon and Alton fishing on the banks of the Mississippi River in Arkansas, 1947

Louis Innis and Zeke Turner, 1948

Homer & Jethro, late 1940s

Clyde Moody, late 1940s

Riggs Studio stamp on back of photo/p>

Alton and Rabon, Riggs Studio, Fort Smith, Arkansas, November 1949

George Vaughn aka Vaughn Horton, late 1940s

Grandpa Jones, late 1940s

Lonnie Glosson, Rabon, Alton, Hank Snow, Wayne Raney, and an unidentified band. Tour in Canada, 1949

Lonnie Glosson, late 1940s

Alton with Lonnie Glosson, 1949

Rabon, 1949

Rabon with his wife Nola King, 1949

Rabon with his parents: Mary and Charlie Delmore, 1949

Alton’s children, 1949. From top to bottom: Billie Anne, Norma Gail, Lionel, and Susan

Alton with his son Lionel, 1949

Rabon with his nephew Joe Brown Junior, 1949

Alton with his wife Thelma Neely, 1949

Wayne Raney, Schaeffer Studio, Hollywood, California, 1950

Henry Glover, circa 1950

Rabon, Wayne Raney, and Alton at Hank Thompson’s home. Rabon and Alton are playing Hank’s guitars. Circa 1950

Zeke Turner and Ulysses "Red" Turner, early 1950s

Alton, his mother Mary, and his daughter Debby, around 1954

Alton and Debby, circa 1954

Same here, around 1956
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