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| Series I: Manuscripts (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Administrative | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 1 | Collection Guide; additional concordances listing: 1) disc and reel-to-reel recordings in the collection and 2) a complete listing of commercial recordings transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) at the Library of Congress | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 2 | Administrative Information for Sam Eskin Collection, 1939-1969 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 3 | Correspondence (1 of 7) A-C | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: Sally Adams; Dwight Akers; Charles B. Barker; Yvonne Belmont (Gregory); Julie Bidou; Homer Brown; Terrence Burrow; Ken Carter; Norman Cohen; Al Cox; and Marian Curtis | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 4 | Correspondence (2 of 7) D-H | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: R. Davidson, Arthur Drayton; Jacob Elder; Frank Fletcher; Folkworld Inc. (Beth Bryant); Laurie Forti; Livingston Gearhart; Clifford Gessler; Sylvia Woodall Gibson; Edmund Gilligan; Arthur [Harp]; Mrs. James H. Haight; Frances Hannett; Bess Lomax Hawes; Joseph Hickerson; and Frank Hoffman | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 5 | Correspondence (3 of 7) I-L | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: Indiana University (George List); Instituto Indigenista Nacional (Jorge Luis Arriola); Norma Keleti; Mr. D. Joshlin; Edgar C. Leaycraft; George Lennon; Liberty Mutual; Seymour B. Liebman; Alan Lomax; and Ben Gray Lumpkin | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 6 | Correspondence (4 of 7) M-R | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: Mrs. Guy Manley; Mrs. John T. Manning; [?] Manning; Archie Musick; New American Library (E.L. Doctorow); Tom Paxton; Joe Nicholas; Royal McBee Corp.; Clem Richardson; Nathan Resnick; Mrs. Peter R. [Paris]; Joseph Opperman; Dan O'Meara; Raymond Olitt; William Oliver | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 7 | Correspondence (5 of 7) S-Z | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: Salisbury State College (Grace S. Chaires); Pete Seeger; C.A. Southwick Jr.; O. Strong; Lannis Sutton; [Mrs. I. Taylor]; Tiger Thompson; Arnold Tubman; United States National Student Association; Virginia Folklore Society (Arthur Kyle Davis Jr.); [A. Weaver]; WHAT-FM (Richard Harvey); Helen Wolfert; and Parker Woods | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 8 | Correspondence (6 of 7): Sender Signed Only First Name | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence with: Barry; Bob; Carmelia; Des; Edith; Joe; Margaret; Paul; Ruth; Sara; and [Stan] | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 9 | Correspondence (7 of 7): Unsigned/Illegible Signature | ||||||||||||
| Six letters with illegible signatures | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 10 | Business Contracts/Receipts | ||||||||||||
| 1) Release forms signed by the following performers
(additional information written on the back of some slips): Luvicie Beasley;
Ruth Ellen Becker; Mrs. F.A. Cogswell; Dorothy Cravath; Jaime de Angulo; Myrtle
G. Street Downing; Lloyd Fowler; Francis Frost; Emma Gibson; Sara Hinton;
Willie [Holt]; Mary Ellen Miller; Moon Mulligan; Vernon Nash; Desmond S.
Powell; Isabel Seabrook; Kathleen Anna Seabrook; Lannis Sutton; Mrs. Peggie
Tharp; and Fred A. Uncklus 2) Royalty receipts for the album Songs and Ballads by Sam Eskin |
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| BOX 2 FOLDER 11 | Organizations (1 of 3): Canadian Folk Music Society | ||||||||||||
| Three form letters, dated 1963 and 1964 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 12 | Organizations (2 of 3): International Folk Music Council | ||||||||||||
| Three form letters, dated 1957, 1962, and 1963; two conference programs; member rules; and one newsletter dated 1963 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 13 | Organizations (3 of 3): Ulster County Folklore Society | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence that discusses Eskin's role in the formation of the society | |||||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 14 | Newsletters | ||||||||||||
| Contains the following: New York Folk Guitar Club (n. 5/6, 6 pp.; n.11, 6 pp.); The Folknik (v.7.1, 5 pp.; v.7.2, 2 pp.; v.7.5, 4 pp.); John Edwards Memorial Foundation (v.1.1, 12 pp.; pamphlet, 1 p.); North East Folklore Society (form letter); Old Town School of Folk Music (n.4, 2 pp.); and Philadelphia Folk Song Society (March 1964, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 15 | Festivals (1 of 3) A-M | ||||||||||||
| Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song Folk Festivals in the United States and Canada (1963-1964, 4 pp.; 1973, 40 pp.); Breton Folklore Festival program (1962, 4 pp.); 6th Annual Berkeley Folk Music Festival (1963; staff card); Cornell Folk Festival program (1962, 2 pp.); English Folk Music Festival program (1959, 12 pp.); Florida Folk Festival program (1963, 3 pp.; 1964, 13 pp.); Georgia Festival of Music Registration flyer (1966, 2 pp.); England Haslemere Festival program (1967, 12 sides); Hootenanny: A Folk Song Festival program (1962, 4 sides); Indian Neck Folk Music Festival (invitation, 3 pp.; directions, 1 p.; program, 1 p.); Long Beach Institute of Folklore and Mythology program (no year, 1 p.); and 11th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival (form letter, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 16 | Festivals (2 of 3) N | ||||||||||||
| Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: National Folk Festival Inc. (form letters, information, lectures/essays, updates, 22 pp.; 30th Annual Folk Festival program, 7 pp.; 33rd Annual Folk Festival flyer, pp.); New England Folklore Weekend flyer (1962, 1 p.); and Newport Folk Festival corporate structure, organizational outline (1963, 5 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 17 | Festivals (3 of 3) O-Z | ||||||||||||
| Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: 15th Annual Ozark Folk Festival program (three copies, 8 pp.); Philadelphia Folk Festival (1962; flyer 1 p., program 8 pp.); and Western Folklore Conference program (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 18 | Staging/Voice Exercises | ||||||||||||
| Eskin's performing requirements (typed form letter, 1 p.) and pre-performance voice exercises (handwritten notations, 4 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Song Lists | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 19 | Song Lists in Alphabetical Order | ||||||||||||
| Five lists of American folksongs: List 1 (typed; indicates major and minor keys, 3 pp.); List 2 (typed, 1 p.); List 3 (typed, 2 pp.); List 4 (typed, 4 pp.); and List 5 (handwritten, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 20 | Song Lists by Genre | ||||||||||||
| Six lists of American folksongs: List 1 (handwritten, 1 p.); List 2 (typed, 2 pp.); List 3 (typed, 2 pp.); List 4 (typed, indicates major and minor keys, 2 pp.); List 5 (typed, 1 p.); List 6 (typed, 1 p.). Genres include: American; ballad; British ballads (tragic; other); British songs (humor; other); carousing; children; history; holler; humorous; Irish; lawbreakers; lively; loggers; love; miners; moral; Negro secular work songs; non-folk; nostalgia; outlaws; pioneer/cowboy; shanty; short sentimental; spiritual; trouble; White spirituals; and work songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 21 | Song Lists in Numerical Order | ||||||||||||
| Eleven lists of American folksongs: List 1 (typed, 2 cards); List 2 (typed, 6 cards); List 3 (typed; 4 cards); List 4 (typed; 1 card); List 5 (typed; 10 cards); List 6 (typed; 2 cards); List 7 (handwritten; 20 cards); List 8 (2 cards); List 9 (typed; 1 card); List 10 (handwritten; 12 leaves); and List 11 (handwritten; 5 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 22 | Song Lists | ||||||||||||
| Eight lists of American folksongs: List 1 (3 copies, typed, indicates major and minor keys, 1 p.); List 2 (typed, indicates major and minor keys, 1 leaf); List 3 (handwritten, 1 card); List 4 (typed, 1 leaf); List 5 (typed, 1 leaf); List 6 (typed, indicates full running times, 1 leaf); List 7 (typed, 1 leaf); and List 8 (typed, 1 leaf) | |||||||||||||
| Folksong Alive | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 23 | Information for Folksong Alive (manuscript for publication, unfinished) (1 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes correspondence with: Cy Grant; E.L. Doctorow; Nathan Resnick, and Irwin Silber. Also includes: header notes and background information on fourteen songs (typed, 14 pp.); notes on folk music taken from other published sources (typed, 16 pp.); quotations and notes defining folk music (typed and handwritten, 35 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 24 | Information for Folksong Alive (manuscript for publication, unfinished) (2 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes quotations and notes on the following folk music topics: evolution (typed and handwritten, 14 leaves); interpretation (typed and handwritten, 3 leaves); miscellaneous (typed and handwritten, 21 leaves); and vocabulary (typed and handwritten, 10 leaves). Also includes a list of bibliographic resources (typed, 2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 25 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive --untitled | ||||||||||||
| Includes a title index of American folksongs, 87 songs. Also includes song notations and transcriptions from field interviews and recordings (typed and handwritten, 34 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 26 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (1 of 5) A-B | ||||||||||||
| 14 songs; includes a title index of American folksongs (1 draft and 2 final copies, typed, 94 songs), and a genre index to American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 27 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (2 of 5) C-G | ||||||||||||
| 21 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 28 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (3 of 5) H-L | ||||||||||||
| 22 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 29 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (4 of 5) M-R | ||||||||||||
| 15 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 30 | Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (5 of 5) S-Z | ||||||||||||
| 19 songs | |||||||||||||
| Songs by Genre | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 31 | Song Genre: Children's Songs | ||||||||||||
| Notations and/or transcriptions of songs; also includes notes on individual songs and/or performers (typed and handwritten, 11 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 32 | Song Genre: Cowboy Songs (1 of 2) A-L | ||||||||||||
| "As I Walked..." to "Little Old..."; lyrics to cowboy songs (typed, 15 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 33 | Song Genre: Cowboy Songs (2 of 2) M-Z | ||||||||||||
| "My Love..." to "Zebra..."; lyrics to cowboy songs (typed, 13 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 34 | Song Genre: Flamenco | ||||||||||||
| Notations of songs in the following Flamenco styles: Bulerias, Farruca, Granadinas, Sevillanos, Soleares, and Zambra (handwritten, 22 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 35 | Essays and Notes: Flamenco | ||||||||||||
| "Andalusian Music" (essay, typed, 3 pp.); "Randolph Victor" (essay, typed, 10 pp.); "Cante Flamenco" (essay, typed, 23 pp.); notes on Andalusian music (handwritten, 2 leaves); "Ramon Montoya" (essay, typed, 3 pp.); and "The Rasgueado" (essay, typed, 3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 36 | Song Genre: Humor (1 of 8) A-B | ||||||||||||
| "A soldier..." to "Bully-O-Rio" (16 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 37 | Song Genre: Humor (2 of 8) C-D | ||||||||||||
| "Canadian..." to "Down in the..." (15 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 38 | Song Genre: Humor (3 of 8) E-H | ||||||||||||
| "Engineer's..." to "Humoresque" (14 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 39 | Song Genre: Humor (4 of 8) I-L | ||||||||||||
| "I Don't..." to "Lydia..." (15 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 40 | Song Genre: Humor (5 of 8) M-N | ||||||||||||
| "Mademoiselle..." to "Now My..." (14 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 41 | Song Genre: Humor (6 of 8) O-P | ||||||||||||
| "Of all the..." to "Prettiest..." (15 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 42 | Song Genre: Humor (7 of 8) Q-S | ||||||||||||
| Song Genre: Humor (7 of 8) Q-S (20 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 43 | Song Genre: Humor (8 of 8) T-Z | ||||||||||||
| "Tailor's..." to "Winnipeg..." (19 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 44 | Song Genre: Loggers' Songs (1 of 2) C-J | ||||||||||||
| "Canada I.O." to "Jimmy Whalen"; includes Eskin's title index to loggers' songs. Also includes notations and/or transcriptions to loggers' songs (typed and handwritten, 8 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 FOLDER 45 | Song Genre: Loggers' Songs (2 of 2) L-S | ||||||||||||
| "Lass of..." to "Shanty-man's Life"; includes notations and/or transcriptions of loggers' songs (typed and handwritten, 13 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 46 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (1 of 6) A-B | ||||||||||||
| "Alabama" to "Boston Come..."; also includes Eskin's title index to shanty songs (10 songs;) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 47 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (2 of 6) C-D | ||||||||||||
| "Calton Weaver" to "Dreadnought" (9 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 48 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (3 of 6) F-J | ||||||||||||
| "Firedown Below" to "Joshua..." (11 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 49 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (4 of 6) L-R | ||||||||||||
| "Leave Her..." to "Roving" (8 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 50 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (5 of 6) S | ||||||||||||
| "Sailor Loves" to "Sur la route..." (10 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 51 | Song Genre: Sea Shanties (6 of 6) T-W | ||||||||||||
| "There's a fire..." to "Whiskey..." (6 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 52 | Song Genre: Sea-Island Songs | ||||||||||||
| Transcribed sea songs from Lydia Parrish's Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (handwritten, 5 songs) | |||||||||||||
| Songs by Personal Name | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 53 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Christman, Henry | ||||||||||||
| 16 anti-rent songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 54 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (1 of 4) A-E | ||||||||||||
| 3 lists, 7 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 55 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (2 of 4) F-I | ||||||||||||
| 7 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 56 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (3 of 4) J-P | ||||||||||||
| 9 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 57 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (4 of 4) Q-Z | ||||||||||||
| 7 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 58 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Miller, Mickey | ||||||||||||
| 1 list, 12 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 59 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Nevins, Ann (1 of 2) A-F | ||||||||||||
| 4 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 FOLDER 60 | Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Nevins, Ann (2 of 2) G-Z | ||||||||||||
| 8 American folksongs | |||||||||||||
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