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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 |
Notes, circa 1960s
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Most are handwritten notes on various topics, probably transitory in
nature. |
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 |
Malapropisms, circa 1960s
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Typed compilations from various sources. |
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:
H. Spivacke
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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. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH10 |
Folklore store front, in
Chamonix, France, July 1961
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion
print, 8 in. x 10 in. |
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Image of a store front with signage indicating its name or more likely
what it sells is "Folklore." Photographed from the street, with people
and goods in the photo. The photographer's name handwritten on the verso
may be "Mr. Apivailu." |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH11 |
Rae Korson, probably at
the Library of Congress, February 1963
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion
print, 8 in. x 10 in. |
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Rae Korson, seated in a chair next to crates of materials, posed as if
filing a 10-inch commercial sound disc in its sleeve. Photo by Joseph
Silverman (Star staff). |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH12 |
Retirement event for
Pauline Bollenbacher, probably at the Library of Congress; from left:
Robert S. Bray, Pauline Bollenbacher, Dr. L. Quincy Mumford, December 16, 1966
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion
print, 8 in. x 10 in. |
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Robert S. Bray was at that time the Chief of the Division for the Blind.
Pauline Bollenbacher was the selection officer for the Library's
Division for the Blind. Dr. Mumford was the Librarian of Congress
(1954-1974). Photograph taken by Library of Congress staff. |
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Photo ID: AFC 1986/003: PH13 |
Burl Ives in the Library
of Congress recording studio, 1950
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1 photo : black-and-white gelatin emulsion
print, 8 in. x 10 in. |
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Ives is posed before a mic and holding a guitar, as if singing to the
young boy sitting on a desk. Photograph taken by Library of Congress
staff. See the Prints and Photographs Division digital version of the same image. |