Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | Connie Regan-Blake collection, 1974-2014 |
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| Inclusive Dates | 1974-2014 |
| Call No. | AFC 2015/003 |
| Creator | Regan-Blake, Connie, 1947- |
| Extent | 11,879 items; 44 containers; 27 linear feet |
| Extent (sound recordings) | 1 sound tape reel : analog; 10 in. |
| Extent (sound recordings) | 8 sound cassettes : analog. |
| Extent (sound recordings) | 12 sound disc (CD): digital; 4 3/4 in. : analog. |
| Extent (moving images) | 5 videocassettes (U-Matic): sound, color. |
| Extent (moving images) | 5 videocassettes (Beta) : sound, color. |
| Extent (moving images) | 53 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color. |
| Extent (moving images) | 1 videodiscs (DVD): digital. |
| Extent (graphic images) | 942 photographic prints : black-and-white, color ; various sizes. |
| Extent (graphic images) | 3231 film negatives : color. |
| Extent (graphic images) | 597 film negatives : black-and-white. |
| Extent (graphic images | 111 slides : color. |
| Extent (manuscripts) | approximately 6875 items. |
| Extent (artifacts) | 38 items. |
| Language | In English. |
| Location | American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af018007 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2017655211 |
| 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. |