This collection comprises seven series including: correspondence, publications, lectures/exhibits/conferences, photographs, pamphlets and publications, song texts, and song lists and indexes. These materials relate to Helen Hartness Flanders' work collecting and recording folk songs from around New England from 1930-1960. The majority of these songs have their roots in the traditional music of the British Isles. The collection compiles in-depth information about the music, but also includes correspondence with insight into Flanders' personal life and collecting process as well as materials focusing on the fields of folklore, anthropology and ethnomusicology.
