Administrative Information
Acquisition
Robert Sonkin donated the collection to the Archive of American Folk Song in 1941, which later became the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center. The collection was formerly referred to as the "Gee's Bend Collection."
Preferred Citation
Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection (AFC 1941/018), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Related Materials
Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection , AFC 1985/001
Ethnographic field collection consisting of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera, documenting the everyday life of residents of the FSA migrant worker camps in 1940 and 1941. See the American Memory website, Voices From the Dustbowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940-1941: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000011.