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Series 2: Sound recordings (continued)
Subseries 3: Digital files (continued)
Digital ID: afc2014008_dc010 Digitization of SR106, Side 2
10 sound files (WAV) from 1 CD
Digital ID: afc2014008_dc007 Digitization of SR107, Side 1
23 sound files (WAV) from 1 CD
Digital ID: afc2014008_dc008 Digitization of SR107, Side 2
22 sound files (WAV) from 1 CD
Series 3: Graphic materials
Subseries 1: Photographic materials
BOX-FOLDER 32.01 Almanac Days, circa 1940s
Includes photos of Bess Lomax Hawes, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Stern, Butch Hawes, Sis Cunningham, Millard Lampell, Chisolm Trail cast, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 32.02 Pete Seeger, 1958-1964
BOX-FOLDER 32.03 SFVSC, circa 1950s-1970s
Includes official faculty photos and photos from Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest.
BOX-FOLDER 32.04 Performing, circa 1950s-1970s
Includes photos from Newport Folk Festival. People include Bess Lomax Hawes, Arlo Guthrie, Rev. Kirkpatrick, Butch Hawes and Oscar Brand, Guy Carawan, Sis Cunningham, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax and Arthur Stern, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 32.05 Bess guitar classes, Los Angeles, circa 1950s-1996
Most photos likely from 1950s and 1960s.
BOX-FOLDER 32.06 Films, circa 1960s-1970s
Includes photos of Bessie Jones (Georgia Sea Island Singers) and Earl Collins (Say Old Man Can you Play the Fiddle?; includes handwritten note from Frankie Quimby, Bessie Jones's relative.
BOX-FOLDER 32.07 Georgia Sea Island Singers, circa 1967-1974
BOX-FOLDER 32.08 Carter inauguration, 1977
Includes photos of Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax and Bess Lomax Hawes.
BOX-FOLDER 32.09 Berkeley Folk Festival, circa 1960s-1970s
Includes photos of Sam Hinton and Leslie Hinton, in addition to a number of portraits of Bess Lomax Hawes.
BOX-FOLDER 32.10 Party, San Fernando Valley State College, 1975
Spring party for Step It Down; includes photos of Bessie Jones and Bess Lomax Hawes, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 32.11 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, circa 1975-1976
BOX-FOLDER 32.12 Washington -- Smithsonian, NEA, circa 1975-2000
BOX-FOLDER 32.13 American Folklife Center board of trustees, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 32.14 NEA, 1977-2000
BOX-FOLDER 32.15 Conferences, 1981-2004
Includes meetings of American Folklore Society, Fife conference, Wenner Gren conference, and Texas Folk Culture Program.
BOX-FOLDER 32.16 Bess's NEA retirement party, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 32.17 National Medal of Arts family photos, 1993
Includes photos of Nick Hawes, Lisa Hawes, Anecka Mihalik, Corey Denos, Alan Lomax, Michael Mihalik, as well as Bess Lomax Hawes, among others; includes note from Ann Stock, White House Social Secretary.
BOX-FOLDER 32.18 Kenyon College honorary degree, 1994
Photos taken at Kenyon College commencement, at which Bess Lomax Hawes was awarded an honorary degree.
BOX-FOLDER 32.19 Bess Lomax Hawes Folklore Archive opening, 1998
At California State University, Northridge (formerly SFVSC); includes photos of Bess Lomax Hawes and Alan Dundes.
BOX-FOLDER 32.20 Phenomenal Woman award ceremony, 2004
At California State University, Northridge (formerly SFVSC); includes photos of Bess Lomax Hawes speaking at ceremony.
BOX-FOLDER 33.01 Trip to Hawaii and Micronesia, 1981
With Corey Denos, Bess Lomax Hawes's daughter.
BOX-FOLDER 33.02 Hawaii, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 33.03 Samoa and Saipan, circa 1987-1992
Includes postcards in addition to photographs.
BOX-FOLDER 33.04 Cook Islands trip, Festival of Pacific Arts, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 33.05 South Pacific, 1993
Includes letter possibly about Festival of Pacific Arts.
BOX-FOLDER 33.06 Bess's balloon trip, circa 1993-1996
Includes photos of Naomi Bishop, John Bishop and Amanda Bishop.
BOX-FOLDER 33.07 New Zealand trip, 1994
Includes photos of Naomi Bishop.
BOX-FOLDER 33.08 Australia trip, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 33.09 Northern Ireland trip, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 33.10 Trips, 1974-1998
Includes photos taken in Canada, Alaska and the Soviet Union.
BOX-FOLDER 34.01 Bess, circa 1930s-2006
BOX-FOLDER 34.02 Lead Belly, circa 1933-1934
BOX-FOLDER 34.03 Early married life and mothering, 1940s-1950s
Includes photos of Corey Hawes, Naomi Hawes, Nick Hawes, Danny Seeger, Shirley Mansell, Bess Lomax Hawes, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 34.04 Cambridge to California trip, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 34.05 Topanga Canyon, circa 1950s
Includes photos of Topanga house and possibly Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest
BOX-FOLDER 34.06 Lomax family, circa 1890s-1950s
Photos mostly of family members. People include Bess Bauman Brown (Lomax), Ruby Terrill Lomax, Shirley Lomax, John Lomax Jr., John Nova Lomax, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Margaret Lomax among others.
BOX-FOLDER 34.07 Lomax family, circa 1960s-2000s
Photos mostly of family members. People include Nick Hawes, Naomi Hawes, Core Denos, Jesse Denos, Lisa Smith, Shirley Mansell, John Bishop, Butch Hawes, Mike Denos, Pat Mansell, Alan Lomax, Virginia Brown, John Nova Lomax, Amanda Lomax, Isabelle Hawes, Joshua Hawes, Ornstein family members, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 34.08 Baldwin (Butch) Hawes, circa 1940s-1970s
BOX-FOLDER 34.09 Butch's art, sculpture, circa 1965-1973
BOX-FOLDER 34.10 Alan Lomax, circa 1930s-1990s
Includes photos of Joe Lomax, John Lomax Jr., John Lomax III, Charles Seeger, Penny Seeger, Woody Guthrie, among others; includes photos from Memphis Blues Festival in 1994.
BOX-FOLDER 34.11 Alan Lomax, circa 1960s-2000s
Includes photos of Alan Lomax, Shirley Mansell, John Lomax Jr., Anna Lomax, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.01 John A. Lomax Jr. and John Nova Lomax, circa 1960s-1970s
Includes photos of Alan Lomax, John Lomax III, Joe Lomax, Margaret Lomax, Susan Mansell, Shirley Mansell, Anna Lomax, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.02 Corey's wedding shower, 1966
Includes photos of Corey Lomax, Naomi Lomax, Margot Slocum, Nell Rosenblum, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.03 Lomax family reunion, New Braunfels, Texas, 1962
Includes photos of Nicholas Hawes, John Marabel Lomax, John A. Lomax, Joseph Lomax, Anne Lomax, Antoinette "Toni" Lomax, Margaret Marabel Lomax, Naomi Hawes,
BOX-FOLDER 35.04 Lomax family reunion, New Braunfels, Texas, 1988
Includes photos of Corey Denos, Naomi Bishop, Noah Bishop, Amanda Bishop, John Henry Faulk, Kristy Mihalik, Drew Mihalik among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.05 Lomax family reunion, Boulder Creek, California, 2000
Includes photos of members of Mihalik family, Mansell family, Hawes family, Bishop family, Denos family, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.06 Santa Monica house, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 35.07 Trip with Shirley and Pat, Panama Canal, 1992
Includes prints and negatives, as well as small albums.
BOX-FOLDER 35.08 Old friends, 1940s-1997
Includes photos of Guy Carawan, Evan Carawan, Fred Stone, Lee Hays, Tinya Seeger, Jimmy Driftwood, Wayland Hand, Toshi Seeger, Brownie McGhee, Alan Lomax, Henry Cowell, Tom Duggan, Fran Hood, Claire Bergey, Barry Bergey, Marcia Berman, Vicki Lang, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 35.09 Unidentified, circa 1950s-2000s
BOX-FOLDER 36.01 Shirley Mansell's family album (1 of 2), circa 1920s-1975
Includes photos of Naomi Hawes, John Lomax Jr., Joe Lomax, Margaret Marable Lomax, Chris Mansell, Susan Mansell, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 36.02 Shirley Mansell's family album (2 of 2), circa 1920s-1975
Includes photos of John Lomax Jr., Mansell family members, Alan Lomax, Corey Hawes, Anna Lomax, John Nova Lomax, Bob Gordon, Chris Gordon, Mihalik family members, Shirley Lomax Mansell, Sister Virginia Margaret, among others.
BOX-FOLDER 36.03 Shirley's album: weddings, birthday party, Austin (1 of 2), circa 1910s-1980s
Includes photos of John A. Lomax and Ruby Terrill's wedding, John Lomax Jr.'s wedding, Bess Lomax and Butch Hawes's wedding, Naomi Hawes and John Bishop's wedding, Tom Duggan and Shirley Mansell's wedding; Alaska cruise; Tom's birthday.
BOX-FOLDER 36.04 Shirley's album: weddings, birthday party, Austin (2 of 2), circa 1910s-1980s
Includes photos of Shirley Lomax Mansell, Alan Lomax, John Lomax Jr., Bess Lomax Hawes, Corey Hawes, Anna Lomax, Naomi Hawes, John Henry Faulk, Mihalik family members, Chairetakis family members.
BOX-FOLDER 37.01 Shirley's album, circa 1970s-1980s
Includes photos of Bess Lomax Hawes, Alan Lomax, John Lomax Jr., Shirley Lomax Mansell, Lisa Gordon, Mihalik family members, Duggan family members, Bishop family members, Corey Hawes.
BOX-FOLDER 37.02 Family album, 1948-1978
Includes photos of Naomi Hawes and John Bishop's wedding; Fred Stripp, Corey Denos and Mike Denos, Peter Bishop, Nick Hawes, Jesse Paul Denos, Butch Hawes, Megan Denos, Lisa Gordon, Shirley Lomax Mansell, Ralph Rinzler, Kate Rinzler, Anna Lomax, Bob Jeffrey, Ted Carpenter, Alan Cary, Noah Bishop, Amanda Bishop, Isabelle Hawes, Joshua Hawes,
BOX-FOLDER 38.01 Oldest family pictures album, circa 1880s-1940s
Includes early photos of Bess Bauman Brown and members of the Brown family, as well photos of Shirley Lomax, John Lomax Jr., Alan Lomax and Bess Lomax in childhood and early adulthood.
BOX-FOLDER 39.01 Oversize photographs, circa 1935-1980s
Includes photos of Bess Lomax Hawes as a teenager, and during NEA period; Pete Seeger in 1950s; photos of Butch Hawes sculptures.
Subseries 2: Butch Hawes artwork
Note: Butch Hawes's illustrated version of "The Cowboy and the Wheel," also known as "The Gol-Darned Wheel," was accepted for publication but never published.
BOX-FOLDER 40.01 Sketches, circa 1940s-1960s
Mostly pen and ink and pencil studies of human figure.
BOX-FOLDER 40.02 Sketches, circa 1940s-1960s
Mostly pen and ink and pencil studies of human figure and trees; includes notes on cartoon sketches.
BOX-FOLDER 40.03 Illustrations in various media, circa 1940s-1960s
Illustrations in pencil, pen and ink and/or paint; includes proof copy of illustration in Young Faces.
BOX-FOLDER 40.04 Bird sketches, circa 1940s-1960s
Pencil studies.
BOX-FOLDER 40.05 Come visit my ranch, circa 1950
Possibly clippings.
BOX-FOLDER 40.06 Prater Violet book jacket, circa 1940s
Proposed design for Christopher Isherwood novel.
BOX-FOLDER 40.07 Winter scenes and waiter, circa 1950s-1960s
Illustrations in paint and possibly pen and ink.
BOX-FOLDER 40.08 "Look Ma, he did it himself...," circa 1940s-1960s
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