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Series 2: Sound Recordings
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR11 1 sound wire reel (30 min., 44 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 17 selections: folk songs and spoken word segments in Pennsylvania German and in English. The songs are sometimes sung a cappela, and sometimes accompanied by instruments. Several of the songs were published in the book Songs Along The Mahantongo. Recorded at the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center (later the Pennsylvania Folklife Society).
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR12 1 sound wire reel (15 min., 45 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 16 selections: spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English. The songs are sung a cappela. Sporadic, brief talk can be heard between songs. Many of the songs are included with text and notation in Pennsylvania Spirituals.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR13 1 sound wire reel (part 1: 17 min., 11 sec.; part 2: 13 min., 47 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 43 selections: hymns and songs in Pennsylvania German.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR14 1 sound wire reel (31 min., 16 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 36 selections: songs in Pennsylvania German and in English. Nine hymns in Pennsylvania German are repeated from SR12.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR15 1 sound wire reel (19 min., 55 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 24 selections: religious songs in Pennsylvania German, as well as spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English. The first thirteen songs are repeated from SR14. The latter group of songs appear, with text and musical notation, in Pennsylvania Spirituals.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR16 1 sound wire reel (11 min., 20 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 28 selections: fragments of spirituals sung in English by the same unidentified male singer, with no instrumental accompaniment.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR17 1 sound wire reel (22 min., 2 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 29 selections: spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English. Only one selection is in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR18 1 sound wire reel (30 min., 56 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 28 selections: folks songs, spirituals, a counting rhyme, and a lullabye in Pennsylvania German. A prayer, possibly in Pennsylvania German, is sung. Also included are songs and ballads in English, and Pennsylvania German stories told in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR19 1 sound wire reel (12 min., 45 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 11 selections: folk songs and spoken word passages in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR20 1 sound wire reel (31 min., 24 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 12 selections: ballads and songs in English, and spoken word passages with some Pennsylvania German dialect mixed in. Sophia Bailer talks about powwowing.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR21 1 sound wire reel (17 min., 48 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 23 selections: spirituals in Pennsylvania German and a brief statement in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR22 1 sound wire reel (14 min., 32 sec.) : analog
Recorded January 20, 1951. 20 selections: spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR23 1 sound wire reel (15 min., 59 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 27 selections: spirituals in Pennsylvania German.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR24 1 sound wire reel (14 min., 57 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 8 selections: includes spirituals in Pennsylvania German.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR25 1 sound wire reel (19 min.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 61 selections: includes folk songs in German and Pennsylvania German, songs in Pennsylvania German, a story in Pennsylvania German and English, songs in English, and jokes in Pennsylvania German (with some English).
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR26 1 sound wire reel (21 min., 5 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1950. 37 selections: includes spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR27 1 sound wire reel (26 min., 13 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 32 selections: includes spirituals in Pennsylvania German and in English, and a Pennsylvania German-style German hymn.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR28 1 sound wire reel (15 min., 14 sec.) : analog
Recorded July 13, 1960. 25 selections: includes folk songs, a lullabye, a joke, and a parody of a spiritual in Pennsylvania German; a humorous Pennsylvania German song in English; and a humorous song, folk songs, and a local prison ballad in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR29 1 sound wire reel (4 min., 9 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 3 selections: includes two Pennsylvania German folk songs, and a conversation in English and Pennsylvania German between a male interviewer and a young girl.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR30 1 sound wire reel (23 min., 59 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1951-1960. 28 selections: includes stories and folk songs in Pennsylvania German and other spoke-word segments, also in Pennsylvania German; also stories and an evangelical song (with a bawdy parody of the same song), and spoken-word segments in English.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR32 1 sound wire reel (14 min., 45 sec.) : analog
Recorded circa 1952. 4 selections: includes three recordings of radio broadcasts, and a spoken word segment, all in Pennsylvania German. John Brendel was the host for at least two of the broadcasts.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR33 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container: New Years wish – Jerome Fenstermaker
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR34 1 sound wire reel : analog
Mr. MacG...le .
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR35 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container: Reinholds / Sup. with roanler [?] / Happy Hen .
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR36 1 sound wire reel : analog
Recorded June 27, 1955. Transcribed from reel container: Miss Susan Balsbaugh.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR37 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container: Peter Kershner / Transcribed by BBill Frey / DY [Don Yoder]: type words!!! .
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR38 1 sound wire reel : analog
Recorded May 23, 1951. Transcribed from reel container and spool: Pete Kershner II / May 23, 1951 (Wednesday) / Transcribed July 25, 1955 / Nos. 10-30 / Orig.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR39 1 sound wire reel : analog
Recorded 1951. Transcribed from reel container and spool: Mrs. Jacob Sherk / [1951] [sic] / Bellgrove [sic] / Transcribed July 25, 1955 / Nos. 1-9 / Orig.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR40 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container and spool: Geschimats [?] / Shoemakersville PA.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR41 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container and spool: Rev. Mentzer / In the New Jerusalem / [other words, in Pennsylvania German].
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR42 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container and spool: Copy / 1) Emma Sherk 2) Pete Kershner / I.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR43 1 sound wire reel : analog
Transcribed from reel container and spool: Copy: 1) Pete Kershner 2) Susan Balsbaugh 3) Geo [George] Shaveley [?] / II.
reel ID: AFC 1970/004: SR44 1 sound wire reel : analog
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Appendix A: Logs and Notes for Sound Recordings

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