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[Professional and institutional files] [manuscripts] / Benjamin A. Botkin.

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These materials consist of files relating to Botkin's work as a professor at the University of Oklahoma and his fellowship and employment with the Library of Congress and the Archive of American Folksong. Botkin worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and the Joint Committee for Folk Arts, which he also chaired. Botkin served as a member and as one of the board of directors for the National Folk Festival Association and related materials include correspondence between Botkin and Sarah Gertrude Knott. Through the NFFA, he organized and helped facilitate the Greater Washington Symposium on Applied Folklore, which took place on Oct. 23-24, 1971. This series also documents his involvement with organizations such as the American Folklore Society and the New York Folklore Society (NYFS). For the NYFS, Botkin co-authored with William G. Tyrrell a column called "Upstate, Downstate" in the New York Folklore Quarterly through the 1950s and 1960s.

47 boxes (19 linear ft.)

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975

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Benjamin A. Botkin was born in 1901 in Boston, Mass. He began Harvard at age 15, graduating magna cum laude at 19, and earned a MA in English literature from Columbia. He then taught english at the University of Oklahoma before studying with folklore scholar Louise Pound at the University of Nebraska where he received a Ph.D. in 1931. In 1937, Botkin accepted a position as the national folklore editor for the Federal Writers' Project. He also served as the co-founder and chairman of the WPA Join...