Administrative Information
Acquisition
Art Rosenbaum donated 325 reels of field recordings to the University of Georgia Libraries in 1987. The Media Archives of the University of Georgia Libraries restored the original reel-to-reel tapes and donated a reference set of audiocassettes to the American Folklife Center in January 2000. David Taylor coordinated the donation from the University of Georgia Libraries Media Archives. Katie Lyn Peebles accessioned, arranged, and processed this collection.
Preferred Citation
Art Rosenbaum Georgia Folklore Collection (AFC 2000/003), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Related Materials
Georgia Folklore Collection is located in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Original recordings. An inventory to the Georgia Folklore Collection is available at: http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/georgiafolklore/inventory.html
The Archive of Folk Culture also holds several other Art Rosenbaum collections, including the Art Rosenbaum Duplication Project (AFC 1975/026) http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700397of 27 audio tapes recorded between 1958 and 1971 in Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New York City, Maine, New Hampshire, and Scotland. Some of these tapes were duplicated from original masters at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where they are numbered 1697-1741. These master tapes were recorded in central and southern Indiana. The Art Rosenbaum Collection of Fiddle Music from Iowa (AFC 1977/011) http://lccn.loc.gov/2006700240 includes three audio tapes of fiddle tunes, string band music, and blues from 1970-1972.