American Dialect Society Collection (a.k.a. The Hanley Collection; The Hanley Discs) 1931-1937

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American Dialect Society Collection (a.k.a. The Hanley Collection; The Hanley Discs) 1931-1937

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The American Dialect Society Collection contains field recordings of samples of regional American speech recorded between 1931-1937 for the (LANE) and the (DARE), as well as related materials. Linguistic Atlas of New England Dictonary of American Regional English

28 boxes; 24 linear feet; 2,662 items (includes 893 recordings, 1,766 pages of manuscript materials, 2 graphic images, and 1 zip disk)

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Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6355958

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Lomax, John A. (John Avery,), 1867-1948

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Collector and publisher of North American folk songs, born in Mississippi; settled near Meridian, Texas (1869); served University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. He published collections of folk songs (1910, 1927-1947) and a memoir (1947); and served as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. Married Bess Baumann Brown (1904), who died in 1931, and Ruby R. Terrill (1934). Fathered four children: Shirley Lomax Mansell Duggan; John...

Garner, Sarah, interviewee.

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Quarterman, Wallace, interviewee.

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American Dialect Society, collector.

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Thompson, Susanna Rebecca Wright, interviewee.

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Polite, Samuel, interviewee.

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Turner, Lorenzo Dow, interviewer.

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Hill, Archibald A., 1902-1992

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Bloch, Bernard, 1907-1965

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Bernard Bloch was born in New York City in 1907. He received the B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas, and the Ph.D. from Brown University. He was instructor of English at Mount Holyoke College (1931-1932) and instructor of English and German at Brown University (1937-1943). At Yale University Bloch was professor of linguistics (1943-1965), chairman of the Department of Indic and Far Eastern Languages and Literatures (1952-1963), and director of graduate studies in linguistics (1952-1965)...

Boyd, Phoebe, interviewee.

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Brooks, Sarah Ashton, interviewee.

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Hanley, Miles L.

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Scott, Ann, interviewee.

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Ashton, Sally, interviewee.

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American Dialect Society

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Administrative History The American Dialect Society was founded in 1889 for the study of the English language in North America, and other languages and their dialects of other languages as they relate to North American English. The Society produces the journal American Speech, and related monographs, holds annual and regional meetings, and sponsors the Dictionary of American Regional English . From 1889-1939, it published the journal Dialect ...

Quall, Susan A., interviewee.

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White, Dave, interviewee.

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Lowman, Guy Sumner, 1909-1941

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