Administrative Information
Provenance
Robert Winslow Gordon; Donation; 1928-1932.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Robert Winslow Gordon papers were processed by Sara Ludewig and Ying-Ting "Serena" Chiu in 2023. Some of the materials in Series 5 and Series 6 were treated by Grace Walters and Jennifer Evers in Conservation. Prior to processing in 2023, these papers received various rehousings, conservation treatments, and rearrangements.
Related Material
Related materials in the Library of Congress's collections:
- American Folk-Song Collection: Gordon Manuscripts, 1921-1930 (bound copy of Series 1 from AFC 1928/003)
- Robert Winslow Gordon cylinder collection, 1922-1928 (AFC 1928/002)
- Robert Winslow Gordon songsters collection, 1844-1886 (AFC 1928/004)
- Robert W. Gordon collection of disc recordings, 1932 (AFC 1969/002)
- Kodish, Debora G. "'Good Friends and Bad Enemies': Robert W. Gordon and American Folksong Scholarship." MA thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977. (AFC 1978/011)
- Kodish, Debora G.Good Friends and Bad Enemies: Robert Winslow Gordon and the Study of American Folksong. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
- Debora G. Kodish collection on Robert Winslow Gordon, 1968-1985 (AFC 2004/019)
Additional papers belonging to Robert Winslow Gordon, primarily folk songs collected by Gordon, can be found in the Robert W. Gordon collection at the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives in Eugene, Oregon.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of the Robert Winslow Gordon papers is available on 15 reels in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. The collection is not duplicated in its entirety on microfilm and the arrangement of the physical papers has changed over time and no longer mirrors the arrangement of the papers on the microfilm. Researchers wishing to use the microfilm version of these materials should contact the Performing Arts Reading Room at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.home
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Robert Winslow Gordon papers (AFC 1928/003), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.