Title Page | Collection Summary | Arrangement | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Title | Montana Folklife Survey collection, 1979 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1979 |
Call No. | AFC 1981/005 |
Creator | Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress), collector. |
Creator | Montana Arts Council, sponsor. |
Extent | 11,800 items; 8 containers; 3 1/2 linear feet. |
Extent (manuscripts) | manuscripts: 102 folders. |
Extent (sound recordings) | 144 sound tape reels (73 hours) : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in. |
Extent (sound recordings) | 2 sound cassettes : analog. |
Extent (moving images) | 1 videocassette (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in. |
Extent (still images) | circa 5700 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; various sizes. |
Extent (still images) | circa 3600 photographs : film negatives, transparencies, color ; various sizes. |
Language | In English. |
Location | American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af014005 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2012655473 |
Summary | Collection of field recordings of interviews with Montanans in various occupations including ranching, sheep herding, blacksmithing, stone cutting, saddle making, and mining; various folk and traditional music occasions including fiddle and mandolin music in Forsyth; fiddle and accordion music performed in Broadus; the Montana Old-Time Fiddlers Association in Polson; Irish music, songs, and dance music on concertina and accordion in Butte; a Serbian wedding and reception in Butte; hymn singing of the Turner Colony of Hutterites; the annual Crow Fair in Crow Agency; storytelling on the Milk River Wagon Train, and other documentation of rodeos, trade crafts, vernacular architecture, quilting, and other reminiscences and stories about life in Montana in 1979. One videocassette comprises news coverage of the Montana Folklife Survey, featuring Barre Toelken, KECI-TV, Missoula, Montana, 1979-09-13. |