Joan, Sr., 1942.

© Albert Baez

Almost-two-year-old Joan, Jr., 1942.

© Albert Baez

Popsy, 1942.

© Joan Baez, Sr.

Storytime for Joanie and Pauline, ages three and five.

© Joan Baez, Sr.

Mom . . . sedate . . . and beautiful, 1940.

© Albert Baez

 

Chiquita Juanita, age seven.

© Albert Baez

 

Early family portrait, by me, 1953.

With the Royal Hunt Club, Baghdad, 1951.

© Albert Baez

Joanie (seven), Mimi, and Pauline. I am wearing my favorite dress ever: red velvet with plaid satin.

© Albert Baez

A revealing self-image . . . 8th grade.

Self-portrait from class photo, age sixteen.

 

My high school rendition of my second screen crush.

The Baez women: total noncooperation with the photographer, Popsy, 1953.

© Albert Baez

Faces from sketch pad, 10th grade.

 

We were crossing Jordan River—Bob Gibson and me at Newport, 1959.

© Lawrence Shustak; courtesy of Manuel Greenhill

 

Friends and family and the hearse that took me to Newport, 1960.

Tuesday night at Club 47, 1959.

Time magazine cover, November 23, 1962. I felt like death and was depicted accurately. . . .

Jordan Hall, Boston, 1961.

© 1962 Time Inc., all rights reserved; reprinted by permission from Time

 

Postcard of a Romanian gypsy, sent from Popsy to Manny, 1965. “Dear Manny, Cover the mouth and it looks like a folk singer we all know (but the Roumanians don’t).”

After the cross country ride with Michael, visiting the family in Claremont, 1961.

© William Claxton

Eric Von Schmidt’s famous poster.

© Eric Von Schmidt

Two shots of early “Renaldo and Clara.” 1963 (Bob’s first Newport).

© David Gahr

 

“How many fair and tender maids will love as she did then?” Michael and me, 1959.

 

Michael and me, 1960.

 

Lovely Kim.

© Jim Marshall

 

And again . . .