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Series 1:
Correspondence
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Items include typed and handwritten correspondence (letters, notes, and
postcards). While most are originals there are duplicates and drafts. Some items
are accompanied by the original postal envelopes. Some ephemera (newspaper
clippings, brochures, etc.) accompany items. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/1 |
Correspondence, 1947-1959
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Correspondents and recipients include Dorothy Berliner Cummins, Helen Bullard
Kreckniak, Edward M. Coffman, Ray M. Lawless, and Duncan Emrich. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/2 |
Correspondence, 1960
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Correspondents and recipients include Arthur McAnally, Howard Mitchell, Gordon
Hitchcock, Alfred Frankenstein, Lou Blachly, Andrew Forest Muir, Theodore
Alevizos, Henry Allen Moe, Dena Epstein, Perkins Bass, William Widnall, and
Alta and Austin Fife. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/3 |
Correspondence, 1961
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Correspondents and recipients include Gottfried Wolters, Jean Woodward Steele,
Sherman Lee Pompey, Philip Joseph Philbin, Rolf Myklebust, Ray M. Lawless,
Wilfried Brennecke, Lila Cheville, Wayland Hand, Rolf Italiaander, Robert Nye,
and Adeline McCall. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/4 |
Correspondence, 1962
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Correspondents and recipients include Joseph Hall, Ben Gray Lumpkin, Alta Fife,
Maud Karpeles, Henry Allen Moe, Howard Mitchell, Ruth Rubin, Joe Hickerson,
Joan Shigekawa, Richard Dorson, John Burrison, Herbert Halpert, Peter Nabokov,
Vince Martin, Francis Lee Utley, and Helen Hartness Flanders. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/5 |
Correspondence, January-June 1963
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Correspondents and recipients include Maud Karpeles, Sarah Gertrude Knott, Ed
Cray, Willard Rhodes, William N. Fenton, Anne Grimes, John Burrison, Mamie
Meredith, Jan Brunvand, Annabel Morris Buchanan, and Halim El-Dabh. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/6 |
Correspondence, July-December 1963
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Correspondents and recipients include Arthur Luce Klein, Kenneth Goldstein,
John Greenway, Sterling A. Brown, Jac Holzman, Bruno Nettl, John Greenway,
Harold Spivacke, Bruce Jackson, Ruth Rubin, Willard Rhodes, and Ellen
Stekert. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/7 |
Correspondence, 1964
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Correspondents and recipients include Negley K. Teeters, Jac Holzman, Archie
Green, James G. Fulton, Ann Moray, Harry Oster, Evelyn K. Wells, Donald Shaw
Ramsey, Charles Seeger, Norman Cazden, Ralph Rinzler, James J. Fuld, Bruce
Jackson, Henrietta Yurchenco, and Wayland Hand. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/1 |
Correspondence, 1965
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Correspondents and recipients include Hubert Humphrey, Frank Warner, Helen
Bullard [Helen Bullard Kreckniak], Frank Gillis, Sandy Ives, Arthur F>
Schrader, Judith McCulloh, Jan Brunvand, Laura Boulton, Maud Karpeles, Helga
Sandburg, Annabel Morris Buchanan, Pete Seeger, Dick Waterman, Helen Hartness
Flanders, Alice Hutchins Drake, Harold Spivacke, and Willard Rhodes. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/2 |
Correspondence, 1966
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Correspondents and recipients include Archie Green, Sandy Ives, Helen Bullard
[Helen Bullard Kreckniak], Beatrice Kane McLain, Herbert Halpert, Austin Fife,
Harold Spivacke, Charles Seeger, D.K. Wilgus, Frank Gillis, Sidney Robertson
Cowell, and Will Geer. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/3 |
Correspondence, 1967
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Correspondents and recipients include John Meredith Langstaff, Charles H.
Faurot, D.K. Wilgus, Barbara Krader, Harry Oster, Bernard Klatzko, Edith Fowke,
Alan Jabbour, Frank Gillis, Ruth Rubin, Don Yoder, Bruce Jackson, Austin Fife,
Alta Fife, Henry Glassie, and Benjamin Botkin. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/4 |
Correspondence, January-May 1968
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Correspondents and recipients include Don Yoder, Bernard Klatzko, Benjamin
Botkin, Austin Fife, Ruth Rubin, Archie Green, Oscar Brand, Dick Reuss [Richard
A. Reuss], Alfred Frankenstein, Marie Kiersted Pidgeon, Wayland Hand, Helen
Hartness Flanders, Archie Green, Richard Dorson, Carl Withers, Michael Cooney,
and Richard Nixon. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/5 |
Correspondence, June-December 1968
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Correspondents and recipients include Willard Rhodes, Alfred Frankenstein,
Marie Kiersted Pidgeon, Wayland Hand, Helen Hartness Flanders, Archie Green,
Richard Dorson, Oscar Brand, and Michael Cooney. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/6 |
Correspondence, 1969
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Correspondents and recipients include Willard Rhodes, Helen Creighton, William
N. Fenton, Helga Sandburg, Hilda Kring, Joe Glazer, Francis Utley, Theodore
Grame, Dieter Christensen, and L. Quincy Mumford. A black-and-white photo of a
house in this folder, sent by Hilda Kring. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/7 |
Correspondence, 1982
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Correspondents and recipients include Willard Rhodes and Claire Marwick. |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/8 |
Correspondence,
undated
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Correspondents and recipients include Charles Seeger and Carolyn Hester. |
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Series 2: Library of Congress and
the Archive of Folk Song
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BOX-FOLDER 3/1-2 |
LC Information Bulletin, circa 1950s-1960s
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Includes complete and partial issues. Most are originals, with some
photocopies, plus a typed draft notice for the April 1, 1966 issue. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/3 |
LC press releases, 1962-1967,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 3/4 |
LC official communications,
1961-1969,
undated
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Includes memos, orders, regulations, announcements, and circulars. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/5 |
Recommending officers, 1960-1969,
undated
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Lists of LC staff members from various divisions and their area(s) of
expertise. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/6 |
Music Division, Library of
Congress: inventories, 1960-1969,
undated
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Includes inventories related to the Archive of Folk Song. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/7 |
Archive of Folk Song:
descriptions and holdings, 1940-1966,
undated
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Also includes a page from the annual report, for the year ending 1959. |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/8 |
Reading room visitors: Archive
of Folk Song and Recording Laboratory, 1960-1967,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 3/9-10 |
Serial orders: administrative
documents and notes, 1954-1966,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 4/1 |
Personnel file: Rae Korson,
1947-1969,
undated
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Korson's copy of documents related to her employment, rather than the official
personnel file. Includes job descriptions, performance rating documents and
notices related to promotions and advancements, handwritten notes, selected
pages from the LC Information Bulletin, and other documents. The folder also
includes the vita sheet for Donald H. Winkelman, and a copy of a memo to Mr.
Berry, recommending the appointment of Alan Jabbour to the position of Head of
the Archive of Folk Song. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/2 |
Travel, 1954-1968,
undated
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Travel itineraries, copies of official leave requests, and related
documents. |
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Series 3: Folk studies and
activities
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Events, organizations, and promotional materials related to folk studies and
activities. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/3 |
Professional meetings,
organizations, and related documents, 1961-1969,
undated
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Documents related to meetings of the American Folklore Society (AFS) and the
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), as well as travel-related documents. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/4 |
Institutional news, public
events, and announcements, 1957-1982,
undated
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Includes a program inscribed and signed by Odetta. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/5 |
Writings, reviews, and related
documents, 1960-1967,
undated
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Includes typed and handwritten documents, most in draft form. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/6 |
Notes, circa 1960s
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Most are handwritten notes on various topics, probably transitory in
nature. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/7 |
Malapropisms, circa 1960s
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Typed compilations from various sources. |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/8 |
New books and recordings, 1961-1968,
undated
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Includes announcements for new publications and sound recordings, and related
promotional literature. A Passover haggadah (in Hebrew and English) is
included; kept with related materials received together, to preserve the
integrity of the materials as a group. |
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Series 4: News
coverage
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BOX-FOLDER 5/1-4 |
Clippings, circa 1950s-1960s
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Includes magazine and newspaper clippings, and some complete sections. |
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Series 5: Offprints and
serials
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BOX-FOLDER 5/5-7 |
Offprints and serials, 1952-1968,
undated
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Offprints from various publications, selected complete issues of serials, and
other publications. Includes music booklets, bulletins from folk music and
folklore-related organizations, writings by folklore scholars including Archie
Green and Benjamin A. Botkin, and Library of Congress publications. Some items
are inscribed by authors to Rae Korson. |
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Series 6: Graphic
materials
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BOX-FOLDER 5/8 |
Black-and-white
photos |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH01 |
The family of Thomas Wolfe,
before his birth, July 4, 1899
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 5
3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. or smaller |
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Copy of the original image. The family of Thomas Wolfe; his siblings and
parents, in front of their Asheville home at 92 Woodfin Street. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH02 |
Thomas Wolfe, circa 1937
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 5
3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. or smaller |
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Assumed to be a copy of the original image. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH03 |
May Kennedy McCord, circa 1940s-1950s
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1 photographic image : blue and white on coated
paper stock, 5 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in. or smaller |
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Copy of a promotional image. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH04 |
Vance Randolph, July 1958
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 5
in. x 4 in. or smaller |
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Photo credit:
Jan Brunvand
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH05 |
Archer Taylor, July 1958
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 5
in. x 4 in. or smaller |
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Photo credit:
Jan Brunvand
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH06 |
Jim Smart and Rae Korson, July 1963
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 2
1/2 in. x 2 1/2 in. or smaller |
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Photo credit:
M. Spinacre [?]
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH07 |
Rae Korson, an unidentified
man, and an unidentified woman, 1968
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1 photo : black-and-white print, 5 1/2 in. x 3 1/2
in. or smaller |
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Memento photo in a presentation/keepsake holder, printed with the words
"Vacances 1968 / Courchevel 1850." Courchevel 1850 was and is a resort in
Courchevel, France. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH08 |
Grotto at Old Economy Village,
Cambridge, Pennsylvania, undated
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 4
1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in. or smaller |
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Handwritten on the verso: "The Grotto at old Economy, Cambridge, Pa. Enclosed
is Myra's letter. Thought you could stay at the same place. Looking forward to
seeing you. Fondly, Hilda." The photo is stored in Box-folder 2/6 with Hilda Kring's letter. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH09 |
Sam Holmes, June 1964
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion print, 3
1/2 in. x 5 in. |
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Photo credit:
Bruce Jackson
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The photo is stored in Box-folder 1/7, in the
folder with the Bruce Jackson letter. |
