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1. Connie Regan-Blake collection, 1974-2014

   11,879 items; 44 containers; 27 linear feet. 1 sound tape reel : analog; 10 in.. 8 sound cassettes : analog.. 12 sound disc (CD): digital; 4 3/4 in. : analog.. 5 videocassettes (U-Matic): sound, color. . 5 videocassettes (Beta) : sound, color. . 53 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color. . 1 videodiscs (DVD): digital. . 942 photographic prints : black-and-white, color ; various sizes.. 3231 film negatives : color.. 597 film negatives : black-and-white.. 111 slides : color.. approximately 6875 items.. 38 items.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Papers and audiovisual materials comprising the professional archive of storyteller Connie Regan-Blake created and produced during her career from the 1960s to 2014. Includes video and audio interviews of Connie Regan-Blake; recordings of her performances and those of other storytellers at folk festivals, storytelling festivals, and media events and television programs. Regan-Blake performed at the National Storytelling Festival beginning in the 1970s and for many years as part of the storytelling duo, Folktellers, with her first cousin Barbara Freeman. The collection includes the Folktellers play, Mountain sweet talk, (Asheville, North Carolina's longest running theatrical production). Correspondents include Frank and Anne Warner, David McClosky, Rosa Hicks, English folklorist Katharine Briggs, Ashley Bryan, Kathryn Windham, Joan Bloss (Newberry Award winner), and Jimmy Neil Smith among many others; with photographs, programs; contracts; diaries; and artifacts.

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2. Jean Ritchie and George Pickow collection, 1923-2015

   78,521 items. 119 containers. 108 linear feet. manuscripts: 41,650 sheets. 7 wire sound reels : analog. approximately 642 sound tape reels ; various sizes. 1 sound only videocassette (VHS). approximately 766 film elements : analog, black and white, color ; various sizes. approximately 255 videocassettes ; various sizes. approximately 35,000 photographs, various formats : black and white, color ; various sizes. 1 award. approximately 100 lanyards. approximately 100 buttons. 1 Appalachian dulcimer ; length 808 mm. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Multiformat materials that document the careers of folksinger and folklorist Jean Ritchie, and her husband, photographer and filmmaker George Pickow, from the 1940s to 2000.