Josiah Combs Collection 1910-1960.

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Josiah Combs Collection 1910-1960.

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These are correspondence, manuscripts, ballads, tune transcriptions, and folklore narratives collected by Knott County, Kentucky, native and noted folklore scholar, Josiah Combs. This material reflects both Combs' strong interest in folk songs early in his career and his later focus (after 1925) on American language studies.

1.2 Linear feet (3 mss boxes)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Combs, Josiah Henry, 1886-1960

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Josiah H. Combs (1886-1960) was born in Hazard (Perry County) Kentucky. He grew up in Knott County and attended Hindman Settlement School. The songs he had learned at home came to the attention of Hindman director Katherine Pettit, who, with folk music scholar George Lyman Kittredge, arranged for their publication in the Journal of American Folklore. Combs went to college at Transylvania University (Ky.) in 1905. In 1911, with Dr. Hubert G. Shearin, Combs published A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk So...