Texas Folklore Society records, 1909-1970.

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Texas Folklore Society records, 1909-1970.

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Correspondence, financial records, minutes, publications, clippings, administrative materials, artifacts and a tape recording document the activities of the Texas Folklore Society.

16 ft., 9 in.

University of Texas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8035662

University of Texas Libraries

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Lomax, John A. (John Avery,), 1867-1948

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Collector and publisher of North American folk songs, born in Mississippi; settled near Meridian, Texas (1869); served University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. He published collections of folk songs (1910, 1927-1947) and a memoir (1947); and served as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. Married Bess Baumann Brown (1904), who died in 1931, and Ruby R. Terrill (1934). Fathered four children: Shirley Lomax Mansell Duggan; John...

Payne, Leonidas Warren, 1873-1945

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Texas Folklore Society

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The Texas Folklore Society was founded on December 29, 1909 in Dallas, by Leonidas Warren Payne and John Avery Lomax, with the purpose of preserving and presenting Texas folklore. The organization is now located at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. From the description of Texas Folklore Society records, 1909-1970. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70706014 ...