Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection 1937-1944

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Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection 1937-1944

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The collection is comprised of fieldrecordings made in Akron, Ohio, by John A. Lomax (on June 27-28, 1937), and AlanLomax and Elizabeth Lomax (on November 3, 1937), of songs performed by Pearl R. Nyerelated to life on the Ohio and Erie Canal, plus photographs of canal life (somehand-decorated by Nye), and correspondence between Nye and Harold Spivacke of theLibrary of Congress, and manuscript and typed transcriptions of song lyrics sung andcollected by Pearl R. Nye.

18 folders total (Folders 1-16 and Folder 18 in 1 box, plus Folder 17, oversize).; 22 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.; 7 photographic prints : black and white, color ; various sizes.

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Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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Library of Congress. American Folklife Center

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The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibitions, publications, and training. Designated by the U.S. Congress as the national center for folklife documentation and research, the American Folklife Center continues to collect and document living traditional culture, while preserving for the future its unparalleled coll...

Nye, Pearl R., 1872-1950

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Biographical History Pearl R. Nye was born on February 5, 1872 aboard the canal boat "Reform." He spent his life on canal boats on the Ohio and Erie Canal and researched and documented the songs and traditions of canal life. He died in 1950. From the guide to the Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection, 1937-1944, (Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home) ...

Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program

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Archive of American Folk Song, collector.

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Archive of American folk song

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Biographical History Pearl R. Nye was born on February 5, 1872 aboard the canal boat "Reform." He spent his life on canal boats on the Ohio and Erie Canal and researched and documented the songs and traditions of canal life. He died in 1950. From the guide to the Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection, 1937-1944, (Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home) ...

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...

Waterhouse, Helen Stocking, 1892-1965

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Helen Waterhouse was born in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1893 and received her education at the Boston Naval Art School and Fenway School of Illustration. She worked for the Springfield, Massachusetts Union and the Toronto, Canada Star Weekly. After moving to Akron, Ohio she became county correspondent for the Amherst Newspaper for two years. In 1925, John S. Knight, editor of the Akron Beacon Journal, asked Waterhouse to cover news at the Akron Art Institute (now the Akron Art Muse...