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Series 4. Accrual from January 2020, 1939-2019 (continued)
Subseries 3. Southern United States music/Folk music, 1957-2019 (continued)
Photo book: Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road, 1/3, ca. 1957-1980, 2018-2019, 2018-2019 (continued)
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BOX-FOLDER 68/5 Photo book: Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road, 2/3, ca. 1957-1980, 2018-2019, 2018-2019
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 68/6 Photo book: Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road, 3/3, ca. 1957-1980, 2018-2019, 2018-2019
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 69 Photo book prints: Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road, ca. 1957-1980
81 black-and-white photographic prints
BOX-FOLDER 70 Photo book prints: Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road, ca. 1957-1980
80 black-and-white photographic prints
BOX-FOLDER 54/5 Photos/prints, Peru, Cold Mountain cover, Old Time fiddlers, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 68/7 [Ralph] Rinzler memorial, 1995
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 68/8 Research on record collectors, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 68/9 Reverend Gary Davis recordings materials, 2002-2010
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/1 Roscoe film project, Shanachie (Kentucky), 2010
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0135 Roscoe H. "Single Girl" and interview NC, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/2 Roscoe Holcomb film and Musical Holdouts, ca. 1973-1976
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/3 Roscoe Holcomb, High Lonesome Sound, ca. 1963-2003
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/4 Roscoe Holcomb materials, 1/2, ca. 1959-2010
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/5 Roscoe Holcomb materials, 2/2, ca. 1959-2010
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: SR702 Rounder "High Atmosphere," #1-33, undated
1 sound cassette
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: SR703 Rounder "High Atmosphere" comparisons, undated
1 sound cassette
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0136 Sampler key outs: Payne Bros. "Whup Devil," undated
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0137 Sampler key outs: Payne Bros. "Whup Devil"/synch, undated
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0138 Sampler key outs: Trims/"Whup Devil," undated
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: SR714 Sara and Maybelle Carter: "Sweet Fern," and "Cannonball," 1981
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0128 That High Lonesome Sound: Films of American rural life and music by John Cohen, 1996
1 VHS videotape
Subseries 4. New Lost City Ramblers, 1961-2006
Contracts, promotional materials, album-related notes, band playlists, lyrics, fliers, and films about the New Lost City Ramblers band, of which John Cohen was a founding member.
BOX-FOLDER 71/6 Contracts, 1/3, 1965-1968
1 folder, 5 contact sheets (black-and-white); 82 negatives (black-and-white)
Recorded and annotated by Tracy Schwarz
BOX-FOLDER 71/7 Contracts, 2/3, 1965-1968
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/8 Contracts, 3/3, 1965-1968
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0124 Historic Films: New Lost City Ramblers, undated
1 VHS videotape
BOX-FOLDER 71/9 Japan tour, 1990
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/10 NLCR album, 1/2, ca. 1996-1998
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/11 NLCR album, 2/2, ca. 1996-1998
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 71/12 NLCR and other folk revival concert fliers, ca. 1961-1966
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/1 NLCR film, ca. 2007
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/2 NLCR joke book, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/3 NLCR miscellaneous materials, ca. 1963-1965
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0125 New Lost City Ramblers: Philadelphia Folk Festival, 1988
1 VHS videotape
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0126 New Lost City Ramblers: short version for Folk Alliance, undated
1 VHS videotape
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0127 New Lost City Ramblers at Swannanoa, July 3, copy, undated
1 VHS videotape
BOX-FOLDER 72/4 Playlists, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/5 Promotional photographs, ca. 1961-1995
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/6 Publicity, 1997-2006
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/7 Songs and words, undated
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/8 Tom Paley hwinx, undated
1 folder
Subseries 5. New York City-related materials, 1958-2016
Articles, notes, audiovisual materials and digital content related to John Cohen's film and photography work about communities vibrant in New York City, such as African American gospel churches in Harlem, Greek-Americans, and the beat poets and artists.
BOX-FOLDER 72/9 Beats and Harlem magazines, 1958-2005
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/10 Cheap Rents (downtown art scene between 1957 and 1963), ca. 1957-1964, 2014-2016, 2014-2016
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: MV0134 Fifty Miles From Times Square; Tompkins Corner Church Fair, ca. 1970
16 mm color film
BOX-FOLDER 72/11 Harlem: Jubilee Magazine and the Jazz Review, 1959
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 50/12 Journal: Mountain Music of Peru; Pericles in America, prints and videos, ca. 1984-1988
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 72/12 Pericles in America/Finishing notes, 1988
1 folder
ITEM-ID AFC 2011/059: SR661 Pericles in America sound track, undated
1 sound cassette
BOX-FOLDER 72/13 Photography: Beats/Robert Frank prints, undated
1 folder
Sub-subseries. Visions of Mary Frank
DIGITAL-CARRIER afc2011059_dc098 Visions of Mary Frank working files, 2009-2013
Extent: 7,520 files (1 hard drive): 2 TB
Digital ID: afc2011059_dc098_aip_01 through afc2011059_dc098_aip_03
Working digital files related to the making of Cohen's 2014 documentary film, "Visions of Mary Frank." Digital content includes Final Cut Pro project files and a range of audiovisual file formats and still image formats that Cohen accumulated in the process of putting together the film. Files are in their original directory structure. Many of the Final Cut Pro files are very short clips, edits, render files or capture scratch files. Includes files from the film's cinematographer, Harvey Wang. Includes licensed materials subject to their own copyright.
BOX-FOLDER 72/14 Visions of Mary Frank: Mary Frank, Dede Hallack DVDs (removed), 2012-2013
1 folder
Subseries 6. Morocco, ca. 1955-2000
1 folder
Paper prints of Cohen's photographs from Morocco organized topically, and draft materials for a photo book.
BOX-FOLDER 73/1 Morocco photographic prints, ca. 1955
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 73/2 Photo book prints, 1/2, ca. 1955
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 73/3 Photo book prints, 2/2, ca. 1955
1 folder
Subseries 7. There Is No Eye, ca. 2000
BOX-FOLDER 73/4 There Is No Eye, 1/2, ca. 2000
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 73/5 There Is No Eye, 2/2, ca. 2000
1 folder
BOX-FOLDER 73/6 Process "Music for Photographs," Folkways, ca. 2000
1 folder
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