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Hutchins Library. Special Collections. John C. Campbell Folk School Collection 1909-1981.

Title: John C. Campbell Folk School Collection 1909-1981.

This collection consists of correspondence, publications, photographs, and clippings relating to the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, the school's founders Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler (later Bidstrup), and later directors.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft. (1 mss box)

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John C. Campbell Folk School Records 1923-1985.

Title: John C. Campbell Folk School Records 1923-1985.

The Folk School's non-current records, primarily from 1925-1969, were microfilmed for this collection. These 45 years of meeting minutes, audit and departmental reports, and publications are supplemented by pre-incorporation correspondence, meeting minutes (1923-1924), and publications (1970-1982) that document the Folk Schoool's more recent activities. The 1,913 images, taken between 1923 and 1985, range from those taken for insurance documentation and random snapshots to elaborate photo studies and arrangements depicting various aspects of Appalachian life and culture. Among them are some taken by photographer Doris Ulmann, others taken by Larry Pontier, and a group found in Betty Denash's albums.

ArchivalResource: 7 reels of microfilm and 1913 copy prints (4 linear feet)

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John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell papers, 1836-2005 (bulk 1865-1950).

Title: John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell papers, 1836-2005 (bulk 1865-1950).

Papers include correspondence; articles, speeches, writings and reports by the Campbells and others; clippings, pamphlets, and near-print material; and a large number of photographs. Also included are diaries, 1908-1909 and 1922-1924, of Olive D. Campbell, the former during her travels in the mountain regions of Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee; the latter during her stay in Denmark to study Danish folk schools, and her travels in Sweden, Scotland, and England; and notebooks on American history and on words to folk songs and ballads from eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. The writings series includes a 1923 article on "Midwifery in the Kentucky Mountains" by Mary Breckinridge. The reports series includes materials from the Annual Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, the Council of Southern Mountain Workers, the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Mountain Valley Cooperative, Inc., the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild, and Southern Highlanders, Inc. The Addition of 2011 contains papers primarily relating to Olive D. Campbell, including correspondence, mostly to and from Olive D. Campbell; postcards; writings, including articles, academic compositions, and book drafts and manuscripts written by Olive D. Campbell. Also included are diaries and notebooks written or used by Olive D. Campbell, John C. Campbell, and other members of the Campbell and Dame families, including travel diaries and notebooks relating to Olive D. Campbell's work with southern folk music; personal and family materials, including a transcription of a 1920 conversation between John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell after his death; other materials, including clippings and printed materials relating to the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers and the John C. Campbell Folk School; and pictures, including photograph albums and loose photographs and negatives.

ArchivalResource: About 12000 items (17.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319427 View

Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941,. George Lyman Kittredge additional papers on American songs and ballads, 1905-1937.

Title: George Lyman Kittredge additional papers on American songs and ballads, 1905-1937.

An eclectic group of ballad-related papers, collected by Kittredge for use in his ballad and folklore studies. Also includes: research notes on the books of John Winthrop; letters from others to Kittredge concerning Winthrop, ballad studies and collection in the United States and Scotland; and printed clippings concerning ballads. Includes compilations of American ballad and song texts by Olive Dame Campbell, James Madison Carpenter, John Harrington Cox, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Lydia I. Hinkel, John F. Smith, and Maude Minish Sutton. Includes ballads and folk songs from the areas of Maine, North Carolina, the southern mountains of Appalachia, Virginia, and West Virginia. Materials include both texts of songs and manuscript music.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

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Olive Campbell papers, 1897-1952, 1906-1919

Title: Olive Campbell papers 1897-1952 1906-1919

This collection is built around Olive Dame Campbell’s efforts to collect and publish folk songs of the Appalachian people. The

ArchivalResource: 2.00

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John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell Papers, 1836-2005, (bulk 1865-1950)

Title: John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell Papers, 1836-2005 (bulk 1865-1950)

John C. Campbell was a missionary-teacher in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia; secretary of the Southern Highlands Division (based in Asheville, N.C.) of the Russell Sage Foundation; author of the Foundation's survey of conditions in the Southern Appalachians; and organizer of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers. Olive Campbell assisted her husband; founded and directed the John C. Campbell Folk School and related cooperatives at Brasstown, N.C.; and participated in the formation of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Papers include correspondence; articles, speeches, writings and reports by the Campbells and others; clippings, pamphlets, and near-print material; and a large number of photographs. Also included are diaries, 1908-1909 and 1922-1924, of Olive D. Campbell, the former during her travels in the mountain regions of Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee; the latter during her stay in Denmark to study Danish folk schools, and her travels in Sweden, Scotland, and England; and notebooks on American history and on words to folk songs and ballads from eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. The writings series includes a 1923 article on by Mary Breckinridge. The reports series includes materials from the Annual Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, the Council of Southern Mountain Workers, the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Mountain Valley Cooperative, Inc., the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild, and Southern Highlanders, Inc. The Addition of 2011 contains papers primarily relating to Olive D. Campbell, including correspondence, mostly to and from Olive D. Campbell; postcards; writings, including articles, academic compositions, and book drafts and manuscripts written by Olive D. Campbell. Also included are diaries and notebooks written or used by Olive D. Campbell, John C. Campbell, and other members of the Campbell and Dame families, including travel diaries and notebooks relating to Olive D. Campbell's work with southern folk music; personal and family materials, including a transcription of a 1920 conversation between John C. Campbell and Olive D. Campbell after his death; other materials, including clippings and printed materials relating to the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers and the John C. Campbell Folk School; and pictures, including photograph albums and loose photographs and negatives. Midwifery in the Kentucky Mountains

ArchivalResource: 12,000; 17.0

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Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame), 1882-1954. [Papers] 1897- 1952.

Title: [Papers] 1897- 1952.

Between 1908 and 1909, Olive Dame Campbell accompanied her husband, John, on a trip to explore social and cultural conditions in Appalachia. While traveling through the region, Campbell noted that many of the local ballads had strong ties to English and Irish folk songs. As her interest grew, Campbell began collecting the words and music to these songs, later published as "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians." She also founded and directed the John C. Campbell Folk School and related cooperatives at Brasstown, North Carolina in an effort to preserve the crafts, tools, and techniques of the Appalachian people and to improve their quality of life through education.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. ( 2 boxes )

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George Lyman Kittredge additional papers on American songs and ballads, 1905-1937.

Title: George Lyman Kittredge additional papers on American songs and ballads, 1905-1937.

Primarily papers collected by Harvard professor and ballad scholar, GeorgeLyman Kittredge, concerning American ballads and songs.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linearfeet)

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Kester, Howard A., 1904-1977. Papers, 1923-1978.

Title: Papers, 1923-1978.

Correspondence of Howard A. Kester and his wife, Alice Harris Kester, together with reports, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, organization reports, writings, and other items. Included are materials about Kester's association, beginning in the 1930s, with such organizations as the YMCA, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, the Socialist Pary, and others active in the movement for social change. Also included are materials relating to Kester's work, beginning in the 1940s, with such institutions as the Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., and Montreat-Anderson College in Montreat, N.C. There is also material relating to Kester's later work as an educational innovator and about Kester himself and his development as a Christian radical, social reformer, administrator, and teacher. Kester's correspondents include William Ruthrauff Amberson, Olive Dame Campbell, Thomas B. Cowan, Frank Porter Graham, Harry Leland Mitchell, Nelle Morton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Howard Washington Odum, Arthur Franklin Raper, and Norman Thomas.

ArchivalResource: 1, 200 items (11.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188768 View

Kester, Howard, 1904-1977. Howard Kester papers, 1923-1972.

Title: Howard Kester papers, 1923-1972.

The collection contains correspondence of Howard Kester and his wife, Alice Harris Kester, together with writings, reports, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, organization reports, photographs, and other items. Much of the material relates to civil rights, desegregation, sharecroppers, and labor struggles; there is some material relating to lynching. Included are materials about Kester's association, beginning in the 1930s, with such organizations as the YMCA, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, the Socialist Party, the NAACP, the Delta Cooperative Farm, and others active in the movement for social change. Also included are materials relating to Kester's work, beginning in the 1940s, with such institutions as the Penn School, the John C. Campbell Folk School, Eureka College, Christmount Christian Assembly, and Montreat-Anderson College. There is also material relating to Kester's later work as an educational innovator and about Kester himself and his development as a Christian radical, social reformer, administrator, and teacher. Among the correspondents are William Ruthrauff Amberson, Olive Campbell, Thomas B. Cowan, Elizabeth Gilman, Frank Porter Graham, Charles Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Leland Mitchell, Nelle Morton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Howard Washington Odum, Arthur Franklin Raper, Clarence Senior, Celestine Smith, Norman Thomas, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins.

ArchivalResource: ca. 12000 items (16.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38224023 View

John C. Campbell Folk School. John C. Campbell Folk School records, 1928-1988 [manuscript].

Title: John C. Campbell Folk School records, 1928-1988 [manuscript].

Records relate to maintenance and administration of the School as well as to the activities and programs conducted there. Included is correspondence and other items about day-to-day activities, with a large number of letters describing individual programs and events, including an internship program that brought college students to live and work at the School while working on social, cultural, and environmental issues; proposals for workshops and courses from craftspeople; materials relating to maintenance of the School grounds, construction of new buildings, personnel, food preparation, and other operational topics; reports from meetings of the Board of Directors about general School policies; items relating to the School's relations with outside agencies, including state agencies and colleges and universities in the area; solicitation lists and other fundraising materials; grant proposal materials; general planning materials; and financial records, including auditors' reports, ledgers, and accounting sheets.

ArchivalResource: 23,000 items (28.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49889328 View

Dame family. Dame family papers, 1805-1923; bulk: 1900-1916.

Title: Dame family papers, 1805-1923; bulk: 1900-1916.

Correspondence between Isabel Dame Bacon of Salt Lake City, Utah and her family in Medford, Mass. including her father Lorin Low, mother Nancy Isabel Arnold, and sisters Ruth Alden (later Coolidge), Olive (later Campbell), and Daisy Dame, 1900-1916. Letters describe Isabel's journey from Medford to Salt Lake City by way of Love, Colorado, visiting her husband's family in Chicago, Il., and working to promote education in Utah. Letters from her family describe the deaths of her father in 1903 and mother in 1916, and daily life in Medford. Also includes a receipt kept by Ebenezer Thayer, 1805, and a farm journal kept by an unidentified member of the Thayer family of Braintree, Mass. describing daily farm chores, 1851; a kindergarten journal kept by Isabel containing school lessons, mathematical equations, geometry exercises, and songs, 1888; a typescript of an essay written by Isabel recounting her experience visiting Finland in 1904; family genealogical papers, 1921-23; and a memorial published for Isabel following her death in 1933.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 1 narrow box, and 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49544924 View

Council of the Southern Mountains. Council of the Southern Mountains records 1912-1970.

Title: Council of the Southern Mountains records 1912-1970.

This collection consists of correspondence, project, administrative, and financial records, news clippings and photographs that document the founding and operations of the Council of the Southern Mountains 1912-1970.

ArchivalResource: 99 Linear ft. (295 mss boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50414262 View

History of Indiana University, 1968-1981

Title: History of Indiana University, 1968-1981

This project is a compilation of interviews of subjects with strong ties to and memories of Indiana University, primarily at the Bloomington campus. The interviewees include former students, faculty, and staff, among others. The information contained in the interviews generally spans a little more than the first half of the twentieth century and often deals with the administrations under presidents William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells. The project is a survey of Indiana University's history as a whole including information about various academic departments, athletics, student organizations, campus growth, university development, living conditions, segregation and the treatment of African-Americans, the administration, and the importance of jazz at Indiana University. In addition, the impact of specific events, such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and water shortages, is detailed in many of the interviews in this project.

ArchivalResource: 90 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc053 View