Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Frances Densmore papers, 1883-1957 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1883-1957 |
Call No. | AFC 1944/002 |
Creator | Densmore, Frances |
Extent (whole collection) | 3,786 items |
Extent (whole collection) | 23 containers |
Extent (whole collection) | 12 linear feet |
Extent (manuscripts) | 9 scrapbooks |
Extent (manuscripts) | 11 boxes (9,500 pages) |
Extent (graphic materials) | 76 lantern slides |
Extent (graphic materials) | 19 glass negatives |
Extent (graphic materials) | 5 photographic prints: black-and-white |
Extent (graphic materials) | 1 photograph: black-and-white, phonodeik; 38 feet |
Extent (artifacts) | 1 drawing: birchbark |
Language | Collection material in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Italian, Greek, and Russian. |
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.af022004 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2018655205 |
Summary | Field notebooks, correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, scrapbooks, as well as visual material in photographic prints, lantern glass slides and glass plate negatives related to Frances Densmore's collection of Native American music and culture. The materials span 1883 to 1957. The papers include inventories of hundreds of recordings Densmore made over fifty years of studying and preserving American Indian music. The collection includes reprints of Densmore's publications, as well as writings by others. Also included in the collection is a "phonodeik" (a photographic visualization of sound) by Dayton C. Miller and a Chippewa birchbark drawing. |