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Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection, 1941-1943

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Series I: Manuscripts, 1939-1947 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 Correspondence, 1943
From Turner Johnson, Jr. to Alan Lomax, January 4, 1943
From Jim Henry to Alan Lomax, February 21, 1943
From Sid Hemphill to Alan Lomax, February 23, 1943
BOX-FOLDER 1/23 Correspondence, 1947-1948
From Alan Lomax to Charles S. Johnson, January 2, 1947
From Alan Lomax to John W. Work, January 2, 1947
From John W. Work to Alan Lomax, December 28, 1947
From Alan Lomax to Harold Spivacke, January 2, 1948
BOX-FOLDER 1/24 Project planning documents, undated
Includes equipment lists, reading lists, reports, research materials, lists and forms.
BOX-FOLDER 1/25 Recording logs, original numbers, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 Recording logs, AFS numbers, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/27 Recording logs, concordance, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/28 Film logs, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/29 Song lists by performer and topic, ca. 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/30 Report on Preliminary Work in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1941
BOX-FOLDER 1/31 List of Records on Machines in Clarksdale Amusement Places, September 1941
BOX-FOLDER 1/32 Interview with S.L. Mangham, September 10, 1941
BOX-FOLDER 1/33 Field Trip to Coahoma County, Mississippi, ca. 1942
BOX-FOLDER 1/34 Accessions record, October 27, 1942
Series II: Graphic Images, ca. 1942
68 songs on 46 photostat sheets
Song transcriptions by John W. Work
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Ain't Goin’ Be Bad Blues / sung by “Son” House
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Blues (harmonica and voice) / sung and played by Turner Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 All My Trouble Will Be Over / sung by Ella Williams
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Rock-a My Soul
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 The Blind Man / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 David / led by Rev. C. H. Savage
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Done Taken my Lord away / sung by Mrs. Mary Johnson, Lulu, Miss.
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Form the Line
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Go Loggy, Loggy, Loggy / led by Ruby Brown
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Four O'clock Blues / sung by Willie Blackwell
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Mississippi Blues / sung by William Brown
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Fox Hunters’ Song / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Get Right Church / sung by E. M. Martin and Willie Dale
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Levee Blues / sung by “Son” House
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Green Gravel / led by Ruby Smith
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 The Late War / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 All Power is in His Hands
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Here Come Two Gents from Holly Springs / sung by Ruby Harris and Ruby Hughes
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Daniel
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 I'm Goin’ Let it Shine
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Red Wasp is Stingin’ Me
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Were marchin’ roun’ the levee / led by Sarah Lena Teague
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Holler by “Muddy Water”
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Levee Holler
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 I Got a Bull Dog / sung by Houston Bacon
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Motherless Children Has a Hard Time
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Gonna Keep My Skillet Greasy / sung by Sid Hemphill
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 I Got a Hiding Place / sung by the Holiness Church*
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 I Got a Letter Blues / sung by Blind Lemon ?
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 I Got on the Train / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say / “long meter” style of hymn sung by four Negro women of Hillhouse, Miss.
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I'm Going to Lean on the Lord / sung by Mrs. Roxie Threadgill
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Sorry, Sorry for to Leave You / sung by Mrs. Threadgill
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 O Lord Will You Come by Here!
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Glory Hallelujah
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I'm Going to Stay on the Battlefield
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I'll Fly Away
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I Done Got Over
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Hallelu, Hallelu
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Moan
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Cryin’ “Holy Unto the Lord” / sung by Rev. E. N. Martin
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Hold the Wind / sung by Rev. E. N. Martin
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 I'm Making to the City (harmonica and voice) / sung by Turner Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Late on the Evenin’ Blues / sung and played by “Muddy Water”
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Lining Railroad Track / dialogue and songs by Houston Bacon and Elias Boykin
4 sheets
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Low Down the Chariot and Let Me Ride
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Needle Eye / led by Rosie Shelby
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Didee-o / led by Ruby Harris
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 This is the Hammer / sung by Sid Hemphill
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 No Condemnation / sung by the Holiness Church
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Sermon / John W. Work
8 sheets
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Stagolee / sung by David Edward
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 I'm Goin’ Keep My Skillet Greasy / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 This Old Tampin’ / sung by Houston Bacon
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Stagolee / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Steal Away (voice and harmonica) / played and sung by Turner Junior Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Sittin’ on Top of the World (voice and harmonica / played and sung by Turner Junior Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Swing Down Chariot* / sung by the Mississippi Gospel Quartet
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 These Days Got Ev’rybody Troubled / sung and composed by Charles Haffer, Jr.
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 This Here's My Buryin’ Ground
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Calvary
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 When I Lay This Burden Down (harmonica and voice) / sung and played by Turner Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Let Yo’ Heart (harmonica and voice) / sung and played by Turner Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 When You Lose Your Money Learn to Lose / sung by Will Starks
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Willie Over the Water / led by Rosie Shelby
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Now Go on Down / led by Etherene Harris and Ann Williams
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 You Got to Reap Your Own Damnation / sung by Mrs. Roxie Threadgill
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Rock Daniel / sung by Mrs. Roxie Threadgill
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 You Pray on / sung by the Mississippi Gospel Quartet
Series III: Sound Recordings
97 sound discs
Approximately 37 .wav files were created from the sound discs (one file represents one side of a disc). Digital IDs indicate which discs have digital copies. All sound recordings also have preservation and reference copies on audiotape.
AFS 04757
1 16 inch sound disc : analog, 78 rpm, mono.
Performed by Rev. Ribbins and congregation and recorded by Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones in Mississippi.
Side A
1. I'm Packing Up, Getting' Ready to Go, 1942
2. Prayer, 1942
Side B
1. Get Right with God, 1942
2. Long Meter Hymn, 1942
3. Presentation of Rev. Ribbins, 1942
AFS 04758
1 16 inch sound disc : analog, 78 rpm, mono.
Performed by Rev. Ribbins and recorded by Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones in Mississippi.
Side A
Presentation of Rev. Ribbins (continued), 1942
Side B
Presentation of Rev. Ribbins (continued), 1942
AFS 04759
1 16 inch sound disc : analog, 78 rpm, mono.
Performed by Rev. Ribbins and congregation and recorded by Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones in Mississippi.
Side A
1. End of Sermon, 1942
Side B
1. Calling the mourners, 1942
2. Long Meter Hymn, 1942
3. Mourners' Bench scene, 1942
4. Soon One Morning, 1942
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