Papers, 1910-1944.

Mackaye, Benton, 1879-1975

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Moser, Artus

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Artus Monroe Moser (1894-1992), writer, educator, and historian, spent much of his life collecting ballads in and around his home in Western North Carolina in an effort to document the folk traditions of Appalachia. Moser wrote extensively about the folk songs, folklore, and history of Appalachia, and recorded numerous Appalachian performers onto acetate discs. In 1945, the Library of Congress provided Moser with the equipment to collect and record more material, which was later placed in the LC...

Henry, Florence Stokes.

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Eddy, Mary O. (Mary Olive), 1877-1967

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Damon, S. Foster

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American poet. Professor in Department of English, Brown University, 1927-1963. Curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University, 1930-1963. From the description of Letter, 1956, January 17, Providence, Rhode Island, to Mr. Jonah. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122639408 Poet, dramatist, Blake scholar. Professor of English at Brown University and Curator of Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. From the d...

Henry, Mellinger Edward, 1873-1946

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Brown Class of 1899. High School teacher of English; folklorist and ballad scholar; avid hiker. Collected ballads, songs, and folk tunes from the Southern Appalachians. Collaborated with his wife Florence Stokes in compiling song data collected in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. From the description of Papers, 1910-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145430260 ...

Barry, Phillips, 1880-1937

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Phillips Barry (1880-1937) was an American ballad scholar. He studied folklore, theology and classical and medieval literature at Harvard and founded the Folk-Song Society of the North-East and edited its Bulletin from 1930 until his death. He collected mainly in New England and collaborated with scholars in Vermont and Maine. (from: Grove Music Online) From the guide to the Songs and ballads from Maine, 1843-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Gordon, Robert Winslow.

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Robert Winslow Gordon, born September 2, 1888 in Bangor, Maine, was one of the first and foremost authorities on American folksong. He studied and later taught at Harvard University; while teaching there he began research on folk poetry and song. In 1918 he accepted a position in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. During his tenure there he collected and recorded a vast array of folk song material from regions spanning the entire United States. He moved East in 1...

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948

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Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518646 Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Ruth Fulton Benedict papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576400 ...

Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946

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Historian, of Brewer, Me. From the description of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm correspondence, 1941-1943. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978327 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, naturalist, historian, folklorist, and writer, was born on June 18, 1865, in Brewer, Maine. She attended Bangor High School, Abbott Academy in Andover, Mass., and graduated from Smith College in 1888. In 1893 she married Rev. Jacob A. Eckstorm of Chicago and they had two childre...