Duncan Emrich Autograph Album Collection 1843-1923

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Duncan Emrich Autograph Album Collection 1843-1923

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This collection was initiated through an on-air request for autograph albums on the "NBC Weekend" radio program by Duncan Emrich, then head of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress, between 1955 and 1956. It consists of twenty autograph albums and related ephemera from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and New York, with dates from 1843 to 1923.

20 volumes and 2 folders in 2 boxes

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Library of Congress. American Folklife Center

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Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

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