Scope and Content
Manuscript materials, including programs, newspaper clippings, handbills, programs, small posters, and black-and-white photographs, documenting Swapping Song Fair, a folk music production company and concert series founded in New York City in 1955 by Lou Gordon and Paddy Clancy, which produced "A Musical Tribute to Woody Guthrie" in 1956, and Folk Song '59. The collection documents musical and other events in the folk music revival in New York City during the 1950s.