Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1948.

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Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1948.

Eleven of the thirteen recordings in the collection were made by Williams in 1948 at a New Orleans carnival booth facility.

13 sound discs : analog, acetate.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6690574

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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