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Series III: Graphic materials (continued)
Subseries B: 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
Pencil drawings, possibly designed as advertisements.
BOX-FOLDER 40.09 Young Faces, 1952
Butch Hawes-contributed illustration for "From the gold-darned wheel," in Cowboy Songs by John Lomax, one of 14 folk story fragments that appear in Young Faces: an Illustrated Album of Type Faces for Children's Books (New York: Composing Room, 1952).
BOX-FOLDER 41.01 Illustrations, circa 1940s-1960s
Mostly pen and ink or pencil drawings of human figure; includes notes.
BOX-FOLDER 41.02 Illustrations, circa 1940s-1960s
"Glossy positive" printed in black ink; western theme.
BOX-FOLDER 41.03 Illustration, circa 1950s-1960s
Pencil and paint.
BOX-FOLDER 41.04 Woody Guthrie fiddle tunes album design, circa 1940s
BOX-FOLDER 41.05 John A. Lomax Jr. portrait, circa 1940s-1960s
Charcoal.
BOX-FOLDER 41.06 The Stuff Smith Trio album design, 1944
BOX-FOLDER 41.07 Bagpipes and nurse, circa 1950s-1960s
Painting.
BOX-FOLDER 42.01 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (1 of 13)
Cover illustration.
BOX-FOLDER 42.02 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (2 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.03 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (3 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.04 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (4 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.05 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (5 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.06 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (6 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.07 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (7 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.08 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (8 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.09 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (9 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.10 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (10 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.11 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (11 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.12 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (12 of 13)
BOX-FOLDER 42.13 "The Cowboy and the Wheel" (13 of 13)
Series IV: Moving images
Subseries A: VHS
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV01 Washington, DC Heritage Festival, 1983
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV02 National Heritage Fellowships, September, 1989
Part I: National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program, Washington, DC
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV03 National Heritage Fellowships, September, 1989
Part II: National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program, Washington, DC
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV04 National Heritage Fellowships, September, 1993
National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV05 National Heritage Fellows at the Appalachian Stage, 2003
Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV06 Early Years of Public Sector Folklore Forum, 2003
American Folklore Society.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV07 The Fandango Project, undated
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV08 Banjo Frolic, undated
Video produced Belgian creators of American five-string banjo exhibit, which was financed by Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels.
Subseries B: DVD
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV09 The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes, 2003
Georgia Sea Island Singers (1964); Buckdancer (1965); Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (1967); Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle (1970).
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: MV10 The Heritage Awards Ceremony and Concert, September, 2008
Series V: Artifacts
BOX-FOLDER 43.01 NEA Distinguished Service Award, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 43.02 NEA Distinguished Service Award, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 43.03 Bosque County Ballad Hunter, 1994
Includes a small branding iron in the shape of a letter "A."
BOX-FOLDER 43.04 CSUN Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 2002
Distinguished Achievement award.
BOX-FOLDER 43.05 Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award, 2007
"In recognition of a lifetime of dedicated service to the folk and traditional music community."
BOX-FOLDER 44.01 Awards, 1970-2004
Collection of awards given to Bess Lomax Hawes by the White House Conference on Children, California State University, Northridge, National Endowment for the Arts, and Smithsonian Institution; also includes award given to filmmaker Bernard Wilets for work on Discovering American Folk Music.
BOX-FOLDER 44.02 National Heritage Fellow award template, circa 1982-1992
BOX-FOLDER 44.03 Guam award, 1983
Hawes was named a member of the Ancient Order of the Chammori.
BOX-FOLDER 44.04 UNC Chapel Hill doctorate diploma, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 44.05 NEA Certificate of Retirement, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 45 Address books and business cards, circa 1960s-1990s
Box includes eight items: two rolodexes and six books containing addresses and business cards.

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