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Series 1: Manuscripts (continued)
Bess at Office of War Information (1945), circa 2000 (continued)
Regarding accusations of Communist sympathies and subsequent recommendation for dismissal from position as Acting Chief of the Music Division of OWI Radio Overseas
BOX-FOLDER 28.11 Ted Carpenter correspondence, 1967-1988
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2811
BOX-FOLDER 28.12 John A. Lomax business, 1987-1998
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2812
BOX-FOLDER 28.13 Bess -- personal correspondence, 1940-2009
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2813
BOX-FOLDER 28.14 Peter Hurd mural fresco event, 1989
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2814
BOX-FOLDER 28.15 Postcards and cards collected and received, 1979-1997
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2815
BOX-FOLDER 29.01 Recorded quotes, circa 1988
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2901
BOX-FOLDER 29.02 Mechanical license for "Arthritic Blues," 2006
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2902
BOX-FOLDER 29.03 Socialization seminar, 1969-1970
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2903
Taken at UC Berkeley with Naomi
BOX-FOLDER 29.04 Alan Lomax archive, 2007
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2904
BOX-FOLDER 29.05 Family clippings from Shirley, circa 1947-2008
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2905
BOX-FOLDER 29.06 Passport, birth, marriage, voting documents, 1921-1995
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2906
BOX-FOLDER 29.07 Santa Monica house, 1985
Photos removed to folder 35.06 in Series 3.
BOX-FOLDER 29.08 Family tree, circa 2005
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2908
BOX-FOLDER 29.09 Bess Lomax Hawes interview with David King Dunaway (1977), 1977-1978
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2909
BOX-FOLDER 29.10 Bess Lomax Hawes condolences and obituaries, 2009
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2910
BOX-FOLDER 29.11 Responses to Bess Lomax Hawes's death (1 of 2), 2009
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2911
BOX-FOLDER 29.12 Responses to Bess Lomax Hawes's death (2 of 2), 2009
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_2912
BOX-FOLDER 30.01 Bess Lomax Hawes biographical, 2007-2009
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_3001
BOX-FOLDER 30.02 Hawes family history (1878-1996), circa 1960-1996
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_3002
BOX-FOLDER 30.03 Lomax book rights -- estate settlement, 1974-1999
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_3003
BOX-FOLDER 30.04 Lomax estate settlement, 1948-1950
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_3004
BOX-FOLDER 30.05 Lomax estate settlement, 1948-1969
Digital content available: afc2014008_ms_3005
BOX-FOLDER 30.06 Bess Bauman Brown's bible, 1897-1903
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Oxford, printed at the University Press, The S. S. Teacher's Edition, circa 1890. Inscribed: "Bessie Bauman Brown from Auntie, Christmas 1897." Also includes a handwritten list of bible verses.
BOX-FOLDER 31.01 Sound recordings documentation: sound tape reels, circa 1960-1975
BOX-FOLDER 31.02 Sound recordings documentation: sound cassettes, circa 1975-2003
BOX-FOLDER 31.03 Sound recordings documentation: sound cassettes, circa 1975-2003
BOX-FOLDER 31.04 Moving images documentation, 1983-2008
Series 2: Sound recordings
Note: Track lists and other documentation exist for some sound recordings, and can be found in Series I, box 31.
Subseries 1: Sound tape reels
Note: Many of the Sea Island Singers recordings are from summer workshops at Idyllwild Arts Foundation in Idyllwild, California.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR001 Bess Hawes beginning guitar class, circa 1960
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR002 Bessie Jones, Barbara Dane and Georgia Sea Island Singers, November 15, 1962
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR003 Interview between Barbara Dane and Bessie Jones, November 15, 1962
After Folk Song Concert at San Fernando Valley State College.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR004 Bess Hawes's beginning guitar class, 1963
Spring semester.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR005 Idyllwild concert; summer, 1964
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR006 Sea Island tape, 1965
Tape 5-2-B.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR007 Sea Island Game tapes; Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-3.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR008 Georgia Sea Island Children's Games, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-4 AB; Tuesday, 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR009 Sea Island Children's Workshop, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-5 AB; Thursday 2nd week
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR010 Sea Island Children's Games, Idyllwild, 1965
Tape 5-6 AB; Wednesday, 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR011 Sea Island; Interview at Ed Pearl's house, July 26, 1965
Tape 5-7, with Bessie and Emma.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR012 Sea Island Singers; children's games, 1965
Tape 5-8-A; Fri. 2nd week.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR013 Georgia Sea Islanders, July 29, 1965
Tape 5-9-AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR014 Georgia Sea Islands, July 29, 1965
Tape 5-10-AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR015 Georgia Sea Islands, August 3, 1965
Tape 5-11-AB; recorded at Fairview Hospital, last day of stay.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR016 Tape #30, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR017 Tape #31, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR018 Tape #37, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR019 Tape #38, circa 1965
Written on leader: Submitted by Joan E. Barber, Esthetics of Non-Literate Peoples, January, 1962; "This is All Our Water".
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR020 Georgia Sea Island Singers at Idyllwild, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR021 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 2.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR022 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 3.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR023 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 4.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR024 Bessie Jones, circa 1965
Tape Number 5.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR025 KPFK Hawes interview with Ed Cray, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR026 Sea Island clapping; John Greenway program, University of Colorado, circa 1965-1967
Summer.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR027 Negro children's games, November 2, 1967
75th St school.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR028 Georgia Sea Island Singers, May 21, 1969
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR029 Georgia Sea Island Singers, May 21, 1969
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR030 John Davis interview, Santa Monica, May, 1972
Note: "Both of us exhausted."
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR031 Molokan tape, circa 1975
May be a sample tape. Bess brought the Molokans to the California Heartland segment of the Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, 1975
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR032 Bessie Jones special dubs, circa 1965
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR033 Dupe of 1965 recordings: Sea Island, circa 1965
Tape 5-5 AB.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR103 "Bess Hoot #2," May 21, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, on Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc002 and afc2014008_dc003.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR104 "Bess Hoot," May 21, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, on Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc001 and afc2014008_dc004.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR105 Various recordings, 1953-1955
Side 1: Tracks 1-5 recorded in 1954 at the home of Frank and Vicky Lang, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 6-18 recorded spring 1953 at the home of Marcia Berman, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 19-20 recorded September 1955 at a concert at Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley. Side 2: Track 1 remnant of a Sam Hinton concert. Tracks 2-6 recorded April 1955 at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 7-15 recorded April 1955 at the home of Everett and Boots (Mary) Jones, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA. Tracks 16-20 recorded September 1955 at a concert at Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc005 and afc2014008_dc006.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR106 "Bess Hoot," August 12, 1955
Recorded at the home of Ralph and Marcy McGlaze, Pico Place, Santa Monica, CA.
Digital surrogates of Sides 1 and 2 of this tape are available in afc2014008_dc009 and afc2014008_dc010.
TAPE-ID AFC 2014/008: SR107 Berkeley Concert; Assistance League Concert, 1953-1955
Side 1: Recorded in 1953 at a concert in Berkeley, CA. Recorded by H. Cohn. Side 2: Recorded in June 1955 at a concert in Los Angeles, CA sponsored by the Assistance League.
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