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1. Sarah Gertrude Knott papers, 1934-2003

   approximately 4025 items. 14 containers. 4 linear feet. approximately 3900 sheets. approximately 50 publications. 24 photographs : black and white ; 8 x 10 in.. 1 photograph : black and white ; 8 x 6 in.. 1 photograph : black and white ; 8 x 4 in.. 25 photographs : black and white ; 5 x 7 in.. 24 photographs : film, negatives, black and white ; 35 mm. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Materials concerning the Florida Folk Festival and National Folk Festival received from Western Kentucky University and from Sarah Gertrude Knott beginning in 1979.

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2. Eloise Hubbard Linscott collection, circa 1815, 1929-2002

   34 boxes (18 linear feet); 198 folders.. 11 sound cylinders : analog.. 441 sound discs : analog ; various sizes.. 32 sound tape reels : analog ; various sizes.. 1 sound cassette : analog.. circa 200 photographs : photographic prints, negatives ; various sizes.. 12 drawings.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Eloise Hubbard Linscott’s collection of research materials for her book, Folk Songs of Old New England (1939) and other folk music research through about 1955. The collection includes correspondence; music transcriptions; sound recordings of folk music, lectures, and radio broadcasts; photographs of Linscott's informants; documentation of events and trips within New England; plus some materials from her estate, dated circa 1815-2002.

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