Missouri Folk-Lore Society ballads, songs, rimes, games, riddles, etc. collected between 1903 and 1917, 1916-1917.

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Missouri Folk-Lore Society ballads, songs, rimes, games, riddles, etc. collected between 1903 and 1917, 1916-1917.

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Typescripts and manuscript music of ballads and folk songs collected between 1903-1917 by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society. Compiled for publication by University of Missouri professor, Henry Marvin Belden.

1 box (1.5 linear ft.)

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Jesse James.

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Belden, Henry Marvin, 1865-1954

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Henry Marvin Belden (1865-1954) was a professor of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia and a scholar of American ballads and folk songs. He was one of the founders of the Missouri Folklore Society organized in 1906 and helped them collect ballad text and music in Missouri. In 1916-1917 he took a leave of absence to study at Harvard University, where he produced a complete copy of the Missouri ballad collection (prior to publication) to give to George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Profess...

Francis James Child, ed.

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