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Series 1: Manuscript Materials (continued)
Newspaper Clippings
Note: Originals are contained in oversized Box 23 (Folder 240 to Folder 250) and in oversized Box 24 (Folder 251 to Folder 261); photocopies of these originals are located in Box 20.
BOX 20 FOLDER 240 Map of Kansas and Missouri, American Automobile Association, 1996.
BOX 20 FOLDER 241 Alcohol
BOX 20 FOLDER 242 Character sketches
BOX 20 FOLDER 243 Dialect
BOX 20 FOLDER 244 Folk belief and superstition
BOX 20 FOLDER 245 Guns and gunplay
BOX 20 FOLDER 246 Hidden treasure (1 of 2)
BOX 20 FOLDER 247 Hidden treasure (2 of 2)
BOX 20 FOLDER 248 Legend
BOX 20 FOLDER 249 Literature
BOX 20 FOLDER 250 Music (as subject)
BOX 20 FOLDER 251 Place-names
BOX 20 FOLDER 252 Politics
BOX 20 FOLDER 253 Prehistoric Ozarks
BOX 20 FOLDER 254 Randolph, Vance. Book reviews and articles authored by him.
BOX 20 FOLDER 255 Randolph, Vance (as subject)
BOX 20 FOLDER 256 Religion
BOX 20 FOLDER 257 Starr, Belle
BOX 20 FOLDER 258 Tall tales
BOX 20 FOLDER 259 Miscellaneous: neighborliness, death, sorghum making
BOX 20 FOLDER 260 Weather
BOX 20 FOLDER 261 Writing: Habits and methods of professional writers
Series 2: Sound Recordings
Note: For song titles, see Archive of Folk Culture card catalog; photocopy in Folder 1c in this collection contains photocopies of catalog cards for 5236 A-5270 B3, an annotated manuscript of catalog entries for 5271 A1-5425 B3, an annotated list of fiddle tunes played by Lon Jordan (5314-5317, 5319-5326, 5376-5379, 5401-5402, 5404-5405), and two lists of fiddle tunes played by Bill Bilyeu (6897 A1-6904 B3).
The originals and preservation masters are located in Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound (M/B/RS) at the Library of Congress. See Collection Concordance by Format.
AFS: 5236-5425 191 12-inch glass-based acetate records of original field recordings in the Ozarks, 1941-42; 5270, 5320, 5341, 5425 missing; 5300 broken. Duplicated on LWO 3493, reels 14-26.
AFS: 6397-6464 4 16-inch, 45 12-inch, 2 10-inch, 5 8-inch glass and aluminum-based records of "Dear Mr. President," January and February 1942. 6398 missing; 6400 n/g; 6463 badly broken. Duplicated on LWO 3493, reel 42.
AFS: 6897-6904 8 12-inch glass-based acetate records of original field recordings in the Ozarks, 1943; 6897 damaged; 6900 broken. Duplicated on LWO 3493, reels 56-57.
BOX 21 FOLDER 262 "Some talk about Belle Starr." Contains the 5-inch reel-to-reel original master and a reference copy on a 60-minute audio cassette of an interview with Florence Watts.
Series 3: Graphic Materials
Note: For a complete description of images, see Folder 1b: Log of Visual Images.
BOX 21 FOLDER 263 "Photos in Folksong MS, Dec., 1944."
Contains a list of photographs selected for inclusion in Ozark Folksongs (1946-50), including the name of the subject and the place of the photograph. Also contains front-and-back album covers entitled "Photographs of Singers."
BOX 21 FOLDER 264 Photographs 1-10.
Contains 12 photoprints identified by subject and place, corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21 FOLDER 265 Photographs 11-23.
Contains 11 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place, corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21 FOLDER 266 Photographs 24-35.
Contains 12 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place, corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21 FOLDER 267 Photographs 36-50.
Contains 9 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place, corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21 FOLDER 268 Photographs 51-60.
Contains 11 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and/or annotated.
BOX 21 FOLDER 269 Photographs 61-69. .
Contains 11 photoprints, of which P61-64 are annotated and P65-67 are identified by subject
BOX 21 FOLDER 270 Photographs 70-83.
Contains 14 photoprints, all unidentified.
BOX 22 FOLDER 271 Photographs 84-96.
Contains 13 photoprints, of which P84-86 are unidentified, P87-92 are annotated, and P93-96 are identified by subject.
BOX 22 FOLDER 272 Photographs 97-102.
Contains 6 photoprints, all unidentified.
BOX 22 FOLDER 273 Photographs 103-12.
Contains 10 photoprints, all annotated.
BOX 22 FOLDER 274 Photographs 113-22.
Contains 10 photoprints, of which only P121 is not annotated but identified by place.
BOX 22 FOLDER 275 Photographs 123-34.
Contains 12 photoprints, all annotated.
BOX 22 FOLDER 276 Photographs 135-43.
Contains 9 photoprints with annotations and 1 negative.
BOX 22 FOLDER 277 Photographs 144-47.
Contains 4 photoprints and 2 negatives, all unidentified.
BOX 22 FOLDER 278 Photographs 148-58.
Contains 9 photoprints, of which P148-51 are annotated and P154-56 are identified. Also contains 1 negative with a note from Ruth Tyler, a photocopy of the 1958 Folklore Institute photograph, and the annotated captions for 2 photographs.
BOX 22 FOLDER 279 Prints and Photographs Division, Lot 5580.
Contains photographs 1-39 (photocopies of originals), most of which are tentatively identified. Described by subject, place, and visual image in Table B of the Log of Visual Images (Folder 1b).
BOX 23 (oversize) Original Newspaper Clippings: A to N
Photocopies of these originals are in Box 20.
BOX 24 (oversize) Original Newspaper Clippings: O to Z
Photocopies of these originals are in Box 20.
Series 4: 2021 Accrual
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Introduction (1 of 4)
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Introduction (2 of 4)
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Introduction (3 of 4)
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Introduction (4 of 4)
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Correspondence: Columbia Univ. Press
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Correspondence: Halpert, Herbert
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Correspondence: Other
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/8 More jokes and head-notes
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/9 The Man from Pyatt, Spring 1964
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Life among the Dragonflies, Little Blue Book #818
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/11 Headnote material
1 folder of manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 25/12 Photo prints of Vance Randolph
3 photographic prints, black and white, various sizes

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