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| Series 1: Manuscripts (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Subseries O: Oversize materials and unframed items (manuscripts) | |||||||||||||
| Items that arrived at AFC in frames were unframed and treated by Library of Congress Conservation staff in 2005. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/1 | Unframed manuscript 1 | ||||||||||||
| 14 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| "A Miner's Prayer." Copy of a broadside originally printed by C. Erb, York, Pennsylvania, in 1904. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/2 | Unframed manuscript 2, April 15, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 14 in. x 11 in. or smaller (certificate and mat) | |||||||||||||
| Korson named as a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. Printed certificate (matted), with handwritten additions and blind stamp. A significant amount of the handwriting has faded. Original ID 4:2. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/3 | Unframed manuscript 3, October 19, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| 10 in. x 15 in. | |||||||||||||
| "Machines Only Music Left in Mines," from The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.). Matted newspaper clipping. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/4 | Unframed manuscript 4, November 10, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 10 in. x 12 in. (including the mat) | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper report on the celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Pottsville Free Library. Matted newspaper clipping (from The Pottsville (Pennsylvania) Republican and clip-service citation. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/5 | Unframed manuscript 5, December 6, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 9 in. x 12 in. | |||||||||||||
| Korson granted lifetime honorary membership by the Pennsylvania Folk Lore [sic] Society. Printed certificate, with handwritten additions. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/6 | Unframed manuscript 6, January 7, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| 10 in. x 11 1/4 in. | |||||||||||||
| Typed letter (signed) and typed envelope from Carl Sandburg to Korson. The letter and envelope are matted and mounted. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/7 | Unframed manuscript 7, December 15, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| 9 in. x 12 in. | |||||||||||||
| "30 Million TV Fans See Inside of Mine." One-page article from United Mine Workers Journal. Newsprint clipping (received by AFC already laminated). | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/8 | Unframed manuscript 8, June 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 12 in. x 9 in. | |||||||||||||
| "The Singing Miners." One-page article from Junior Bazaar. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/9 | Unframed manuscript 9, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Citation of distinguished service awarded to Korson by the University of Pennsylvania. Printed certificate with handwritten additions. Original ID 4:2. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/10 | Unframed manuscript 10, January 22, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| 9 in. x 7 in. or smaller (for the letter) | |||||||||||||
| Typed letter (signed) and typed envelope from John L. Lewis to Korson. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/11 | Oversize certificate 1, June 25, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 13 in. x 10 1/2 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Certificate awarded to Korson, granting him associate member status in the Pennsylvania German Society. Printed certificate with handwritten additions and foil seal. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/12 | Oversize certificate 2, September 15, 1968 | ||||||||||||
| 17 in. x 13 3/4 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Certificate awarded (posthumously) to Korson, on the Golden Jubilee of his service during World War I in the Jewish Zealand; presented by the Zionist Organization of America. Printed certificate with handwritten additions. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/13 | Small poster, circa 1965 | ||||||||||||
| 14 in. x 11 in. | |||||||||||||
| Illustrated page, possibly from United Mine Workers Journal, with images of United Mine Workers of America International presidents, 1890-1965. Coated heavy-stock paper, with black marker added over three images. See box-folder 28/7 for a photocopy (received with the collection). | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 94/14 | Black rock (page proofs), circa 1960 | ||||||||||||
| 10 3/4 in. x 13 or smaller (each page) | |||||||||||||
| Printed pages, with handwritten notations. About 100 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries P: Maps | |||||||||||||
| OVERSIZE_FOLDER 1/1 | Map of the Swartara coal region, by Henry K. Strong, circa 1838 | ||||||||||||
| 32 in. x 47 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Printed map; black ink on white paper, possibly a lithograph. The date of the printing is probably much later than the date on the map itself. Accompanied by a county map of Pennsylvania (8 1/2 in. x 11 in.), which originally accompanied it when received from King's College. | |||||||||||||
| OVERSIZE_FOLDER 1/2 | Literary map of Pennsylvania, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| 25 1/4 in. x 38 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Published by the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English. 1959 is the copyright date. Blue and orange printing on white paper. | |||||||||||||
| OVERSIZE_FOLDER 1/3 | West end of Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, January 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 14 in. x 20 1/2 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Handwriting and notations on both sides of the map, including a typed note to Korson from Carl Maurer, who sent the map to him. Printed map; black ink on white paper, with black ink spill marks along some formerly folded areas at center. | |||||||||||||
| OVERSIZE_FOLDER 1/4 | Schuylkill and neighboring counties, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 21 in. x 46 in. or smaller | |||||||||||||
| Probably a map of mines in Schuylkill and neighboring counties in Pennsylvania. White print on blue background. | |||||||||||||
| OVERSIZE_FOLDER 1/5 | County and town map, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| 22 in. x 34 in. | |||||||||||||
| Half the item's 34-inch measurement is the map, and the other half is a location index for counties, cities, and towns | |||||||||||||
| Subseries Q: Index card file for books and magazines | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 95 | Index cards | ||||||||||||
| Original index cards for published books in the George Korson Folklore Archive. Approximately 625 cards. See Appendix A for a list of books retained with the current collection. | |||||||||||||
| Subseries R: Angus K. Gillespie research files | |||||||||||||
| Files donated by Professor Angus K. Gillespie to Rutgers University, documenting his research regarding Korson and Korson's work, for the book Folklorist of the Coal Fields. The original order of the files, as they were received at AFC, has been retained. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/1 | Transfer of Gillespie papers, September 27, 1990 | ||||||||||||
| One item of correspondence from Ronald L. Becker (Rutgers University) to an unidentified person at King's College, to document that he would ship the Gillespie papers to King's College for inclusion in the George Korson Folklore Archive. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/2 | Out-of-print book searches, 1972 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence from Books-On-File (book search service) to Gillespie. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/3 | Correspondence - Exposition Books, Ltd., 1974-1975 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence between Gillespie and the publisher of his book on Korson, plus an announcement for the 1974 James Mooney Award. Original file heading: Publication. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/4 | Red Cross, 1946; 1970 | ||||||||||||
| Research on the Red Cross | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/5 | Reviews and research (1 of 9), 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of a review of The miner sings, by Melvin LeMon and George Korson (published 1936), plus a letter dated May 8, 1936 from LeMon to Eugene H. Fischer. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/6 | Reviews and research (2 of 9), 1926-1928; undated | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of Korson's book Songs and ballads of the anthracite miner (published 1937), with a typed paragraph introducing the material. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/7 | Reviews and research (3 of 9), 1938-1966; undated | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of Korson's book Minstrels of the mine patch (published 1938), plus pages from the book, with handwritten annotations, and a paper submitted by a student in a class taught by Gillespie. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/8 | Reviews and research (4 of 9), 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of a contemporary review of Korson's book Black land (published 1941), published correspondence to and from Korson and others, and a draft of a prospectus from the "Way of Life" series published by Row, Peterson, and Company. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/9 | Reviews and research (5 of 9), 1943-1975; undated | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of Korson's book Coal dust on the fiddle (published 1943), with handwritten notes, plus a copy of a paper written by a student in a class taught by Gillespie. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/10 | Reviews and research (6 of 9), 1947-1952 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of A child's book of folklore (published 1947; co-written by Korson and Marion Vallat Emrich), a publication announcement, and a royalty statement. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/11 | Reviews and research (7 of 9), 1947-1965 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of sound recordings from Korson's fieldwork, and articles about the Archive of Folk Song. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/12 | Reviews and research (8 of 9), 1945-1962 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of Korson's book Pennsylvania songs and legends (published 1949), plus an article on "Unrecorded folk traditions in Pennsylvania," by Samuel P. Bayard (1945). | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/13 | Reviews and research (9 of 9), 1960-1963 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of contemporary reviews of Korson's book Black rock (published 1960), plus a letter from Korson to Archie Green, and published materials for Gillespie's research. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/14 | Mine safety, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Two newspaper articles on mine safety. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/15 | Henry W. Shoemaker, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied newspaper articles. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/16 | Strip mining, 1957-1974; undated | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied newspaper articles, plus an original flyer (incomplete on Sen. Dick Schweiker, and original newspaper articles. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/17 | Tape recording, August 1, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| "A short history of tape abuse," by Brock Bower (satiric article from Esquire magazine). | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/18 | Studs Terkel, May 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied article from Book of the Month Club News. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/19 | Title and copyright pages, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of the title and copyright pages from Gillespie's dissertation, plus an original, typed (unsigned) copy of the title page. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/20 | William S. Troxell, 1957 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied newspaper articles. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/21 | United Mine Workers of America, 1972-1973; undated | ||||||||||||
| Original and photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings, a subscription receipt for United Mine Workers Journal, and handwritten notes. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/22 | Wales - mining folklore, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied essay Folk Life, vol. 9: "Aspects of mining folklore in Wales," by Lynn Davies. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/23 | West Virginia, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Original newspaper clippings. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/24 | Wilkes-Barre, 1958-1966; undated | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied newspaper clippings, and photocopied and original promotional materials about the city. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/25 | Wyoming Historical and Geological Society (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), 1974; undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence between Gillespie and William H. Toner (director of the Society), a photocopied newspaper article, photocopied pages from an unidentified publication or dissertation, a brief typescript essay (an appreciation of Korson), and Gillespie's reader's card for the Society. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/26 | The Dream and the deal: Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 (book review), 1972 | ||||||||||||
| Original copy of a book review, published in Newsweek. Original folder heading: WPA. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/27 | Fran Wruble, circa August 28, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Handwritten questions for an interview with Wruble, and notes from a phone conversations; all on legal paper. Wruble was Korson's sister. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/28 | "Jaws" (movie reviews), 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Original clippings from magazines. Original folder heading: 261 - Benchley Jaws. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/29 | "The Swing Era" (demonstration record), undated | ||||||||||||
| 1 sound disc (flexi-disc) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 7 in. | |||||||||||||
| A sample recording published by Time-Life. Original folder header: 303 - Nostalgia - Music. This item has not been assigned an AFC ID number. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 96/30 | The Valley gazette, January 1977; March 1977 | ||||||||||||
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