Manuscript collection of American folksong texts : including Adventure correspondence, North Carolina and California song texts, and several miscellaneous publications. 1922-1933.

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Manuscript collection of American folksong texts : including Adventure correspondence, North Carolina and California song texts, and several miscellaneous publications. 1922-1933.

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Collection spans the years 1922 to 1933; consists largely of Gordon's correspondence as editor of a column entitled "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine from 1923 to September 1927, during which time he responded to about 4,000 letters from readers of the column and received more than 10,000 folk-song texts from across the United States and Canada. Collection also includes correspondence of Robert Frothingham, the previous editor of "Old Songs"; several songsters, broadsides; recitations collected by Gordon; folk-song texts in manuscript, typescript, carbon copy or photostat sent to Gordon by other folklorists or informants; Gordon's field notebooks; business materials and newspaper clippings; manuscript and typescript song texts from Gordon's field work in California, Georgia and North Carolina.

16 reels ; 35 mm.

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