Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States

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FLORIDA

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY/WORLD MUSIC ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: 1974

ACCESS: write or call for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reel-to-reel and cassette playback equipment available in archive; copying facilities, reading rooms available in School of Music.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 400 tape recordings, 7 videotapes (Peruvian and Japanese music).

KEY COLLECTIONS: Dale Olsen Warao collection; Pitts Yanomamo collection; Butt-Colson Akawayo collection; Armellada Pemon collection; Coppens Yekuana collection; Dale Olsen Peru and Brazil collection; Borgatti Nigeria collection; Kebede Ethiopia collection; South American Indian; Peruvian mestizo; Japanese immigrants to South America; Nigeria and Ethiopia; Florida folk; Japanese; dubbings of salsa recordings.

PENSACOLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. HISTORICAL LIBRARY

ESTABLISHED: 1960

ACCESS: admission fee is charged. Call or write to discuss needs with staff. Sign in before working in archive.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading and research space, catalog cards, photocopying facilities, microfilm readers, microfiche reader, cassette playback equipment, vertical files, master index.

SERVICES: research assistance available; volunteers in library are given standard training on library and archival procedures, as well as conservation.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 broadsides, 8 Hollinger boxes of ephemera, 750-800 maps, 60 of hours unpublished tape recordings, 2 hours of published tape recordings, 1.5 ft. of ms. catalog cards, 85 Hollinger ms. boxes, 45,000 photo prints, 30,000 photo negatives (20,000 glass), 200 slides, 9 motion pictures, 2 videotapes, 50,000 artifacts, 2,000 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Pensacola, including black Pensacola music; Escambia County and northwest Florida materials.

PRINTED INFORMATION: brochure, including information on museum, available at no cost.

FLORIDA FOLKLIFE COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: 1976

TELEPHONE: (850) 487-2073

ACCESS: The Archives is open to researchers from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Saturday visitors must place requests by 3:00 p.m. Friday for records needing to be retrieved from the stacks. The Archives is closed Sundays, on state holidays, and on the Saturdays of Friday or Monday holidays. Researchers are encouraged to check with the Archives to verify operating hours prior to visiting.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 30 published 78rpm, 35 published 45rpm, and 60 published LP discs, 3,000 photo prints, 2,500 photo negatives, 14,000 slides, 40 motion pictures, 250 videotapes, 775 artifacts, 900 reference books and journals, 4,000 audio tapes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Thelma Boltin collection; Stetson Kennedy collection; WPA Federal Writers Project-Florida Folklore Collection; documentation of field projects undertaken by Florida Folklife Program staff since 1979, including materials on Florida Cracker, AfroAmerican, Cuban, Seminole, and Minorcan cultures; taped recordings of Florida Folk Festivals since 1954.

PRINTED INFORMATION: Florida Folklife Archive Users Guide, no cost.

GEORGIA

ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER

ESTABLISHED: 1926

ACCESS: no appointment necessary. Researchers fill out form when using archive.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: research room with standard reference sources, guide to ms. collection, card catalogs for book and visual arts collections, photocopier, microfiche and microfilm readers.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 1,000,000 photos; 19,000 vols.; maps, architectural drawings.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Civil War; decorative arts; museum featuring rotating collections.

PRINTED INFORMATION: Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Atlanta Historical Society available .

GEORGIA FOLKLORE COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: 1981

ACCESS: write or call staff.

SIZE AND FORMAT: numerous video and hundreds of hours of audio recordings of Georgia folk music; field and festival recordings.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: Rosenbaum, Art. Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1983. Numerous documentary recordings for Folkways, Global Village; video productions on UGA-TV. Titles are available upon request.

GEORGIA FOLKLORE ARCHIVES (ok)

ESTABLISHED: 1966

TELEPHONE: (404) 651-2904

ACCESS: not open to public; appointment may be arranged by telephone, if materials are accessible.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 2,500 tapes, 2,000 written field reports, numerous photos, slides, 2 videotapes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student folklore collections from Georgia and neighboring states.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Burrison, John. "The Golden Arm ": The Folktale and Its Literary Use by Mark Twain and Joel C. Harris, 1968.

Burrison, John. Storytellers: Folktales and Legends From the South, 1989.

FOXFIRE FUND ARCHIVE (no link on foxfire site)

ESTABLISHED: 1977

TELEPHONE: (404) 746-5318

ACCESS: write or call staff.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalogs, copying facilities, audio playback equipment (video playback equipment can be made available by prior arrangement), room to work.

SERVICES: staff is available to help researcher; archival training is offered.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes a limited number of maps, many tape recordings, ms. cards and sheets, many photo prints and negatives, extensive slide collection, videotapes, and a few artifacts; reference books and journals are also available.

KEY COLLECTIONS: rural Southern Appalachia.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Foxfire magazine and newsletter, back issues available; send for complete list to Foxfire, P.O. Box B, Rabun Gap, GA 30568.

PRINTED INFORMATION: brochure about foundation activities available.

HAWAII

AUDIO-RECORDING COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1889

ACCESS: open to the public Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: Public reference room serves as listening tapes, players provided. Copies of audio tapes can be ordered. Transcription have been created for some of the audio collections.

SERVICES: assistance from archivists.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 4,000 published 78rpm, 300 published 45rpm, and 100 published LP discs, 240 unpublished discs, 1,975 unpublished tape recordings, 50 un- published wire recordings, 500 unpublished cylinder recordings, 8 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 125 videotapes, and numerous photos, motion pictures, and artifacts in museum's ethnology collections.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Hawaiian chants: Roberts collection 1923-24; Kuluwaimaka collection 1933, 1936; and Mader collection 1930- 36. French Polynesian oral traditions: Emory collection 1930, 1934; Handy collection 1921-30; Aitken & Stokes collection 1922, 1924. Hawaiian oral history collection 1951-70. Micronesian oral traditions: Muranushi collection 1936. Hawaii, French Polynesia, Micronesia (Caroline Islands), and Outlier Polynesia oral traditions (chanting, storytelling, evolved music forms, oral histories).

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Voices of Old Hawai'i (2-record album with notes), 1981. Stillman, A. "The Hula Ku'i" (Master's thesis, University of Hawaii), 1982.

Tatar, E. "Nineteenth Century Hawaiian Chant," Pacific Anthropological Records, 33 (1982). Na Po'e Hula

Hawai 'i Kahiko (Hula People of Old Hawai'i) (16mm film), 1984.

Asia-Pacific Digital Library
Kapi'olani Community College
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, HI 96816
Phone: 808-734-9000
(Web site presents online exhibits)

THE ARCHIVES OF THE LYMAN MUSEUM

Lyman Museum & Mission House
276 Haili Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Phone: 808935-5021
library@lymanmuseum.org

By appointment only

IDAHO

IDAHO FOLKLIFE ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1983, now defunct; collections are housed in the Library and Archives.

TELEPHONE: (208) 334-3356

ACCESS: walk-in; go to the historical society library and ask for access.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: library has all necessary facilities.

SERVICES: librarian assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 tape recordings, 2,000 ms. cards, 15 linear ft. of ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Idaho folklore; Native Americans; mining and ranching; Mormon, Basque, and Finnish culture.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Lawless, Elaine. Guide to the Idaho Folklore Archive (Idaho Folklife Publications Number 1), 1983.

COLLEGE OF IDAHO FOLKLORE ARCHIVE (can't find)

ESTABLISHED: 1969

TELEPHONE: (208) 459-5669

ACCESS: write or call Prof. Louie W. Attebery, stating research goals.

SERVICES: Professor Attebery trains students to do routine archival work, however at present no student aid is available, making routine archival work difficult to accomplish.

SIZE AND FORMAT: student work, including tape recordings and papers.

KEY COLLECTIONS: emphasis on regions from which students come: eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, Idaho; some interesting ethniclinguistic collections (Basque, Finnish, Mexican - American).

ARCHIVE OF IDAHO FOLKLORE

TELEPHONE: (208) 885-7951
FAX: (208) 885-6817
E-MAIL: LIBRSPEC@idui1.csrv.uidaho.edu

SIZE AND FORMAT: archive consists of the ms. collection of American Folklore (English 104) class papers, 1963-72, and research papers and reports produced by students in a class in American folklore offered at the University of Idaho by William B. Hunter, Jan Harold Brunvand, and others. seven cubic feet of unpublished inventory in the repository. Card index to folkore themes.

ILLINOIS

PROJECT IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (cant find)

ESTABLISHED: 1873

TELEPHONE: (618) 453-5388

ACCESS: no public access. Letter of intent from researcher is requested, outlining research project. Museum staff must attend researcher at all times.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: mostly three-dimensional and two- dimensional art objects; usage limited to controlled areas within archive or museum registrar's office.

SERVICES: researcher will be accompanied by museum staff at all times.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 150 78rpm discs, 60 nonpublished tape recordings, 50 cylinder recordings, 250 photo prints, 75 photo negatives, 75 slides, 125 material items.

KEY COLLECTIONS: southern Illinois ethnic arts and crafts; McIntosh folk music tapes from southern Illinois; musical instruments; southern Illinois oral history and folklore projects.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: museum's annual report.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ARCHIVE OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

ESTABLISHED: 1971

TELEPHONE: (312) 333-9613

ACCESS: write, call, or inquire in person; archives available to any scholar.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: card catalog (cross referenced), copying facilities, reel-to-reel and cassette playback equipment.

SERVICES: graduate student available to give assistance.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 2,000 tape recordings.

KEY COLLECTIONS: primarily a "derivative" collection made up of tapes from other, larger collections; deposited copies of tapes made by university faculty and graduate students.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

INDIANA

INDIANA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC

ESTABLISHED: 1948

TELEPHONE: (812) 855-4679
FAX: (812) 855-6673
E-MAIL: RUSSELLM@IUBACS

ACCESS: visitors may listen to all tapes that have been copied. Copies of field collections may be duplicated in archive laboratory for a fee, if field collector has given consent, or if archive holds rights and criteria for scholarly use are met. Copies of all documentation can be provided at a small fee, enabling use of archive without coming to Bloomington. Public access is facilitated whenever possible.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room with tables, tape recorders with headphones, card catalog, published catalogs, and online library catalog (Information Online -- I.O.) available in listening library.

SERVICES: professional reference specialists available; graduate student assistantships; graduate students and foreign visitors receive appropriate archival training. Field recordings are cataloged on OCLC. All field recordings and recent commercial recordings are available on I.O., the IU library online system. I.O. is accessible via Internet (telnet IUIS.UCS.INDIANA.EDU) or dial-in-access to the Indiana University mainframe computer.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 30,000 78rpm, 3,000 45rpm, and 10,000 LP discs, 28,000 reel-to-reel and 6,000 cassette tape recordings, 120 wire and 7,000 cylinder record- ings, 10 motion pictures, 200 videotapes, 200 compact discs, 800 reference books and journals, and a large collection of non-Western musical instruments, housed in the William Hammond Mathers Museum on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, which are available for study.

KEY COLLECTIONS: large holdings in blues, jazz, music from tribal societies; Native American, African, and Latin American music; holdings largely developed from field recordings by anthropologists, folklorists, and linguists; emphasis is on United States, Latin America, and Africa.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVES (cant find this archive, only ATM)

ESTABLISHED: 1956

TELEPHONE: (812) 855-3652

ACCESS: call to determine open hours; visitors fill out consultation forms and are supplied with appropriate indexes from which to locate collections needed.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading tables, tape recorders, video equipment, slide viewers.

SERVICES: archival assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 10 maps, 200 slides, 150 reference books and journals, 260 Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses completed at university.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Michigan State University (early Richard M. Dorson) collection; legend files; proverb files; folk medicine collections; material culture file; extensive Indiana collec- tions; well-rounded sampling of ethnic folk groups within American culture.

KINSEY INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SEX, GENDER AND REPRODUCTION

ESTABLISHED: 1947

TELEPHONE: (812) 855-7686
FAX: (812) 855-8277
E-MAIL: BITNET harterm@iubacs

ACCESS: formal application must be made to head of Information Services. Access is restricted by law to qualified scholars with demonstrable research needs. User fees are assessed.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: library has reading room, library materials are cataloged, other materials less comprehensively cataloged.

SERVICES: library staff available to assist with library materials; no staff assistance with other materials.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100,000 pieces of ephemera, 100 unpublished tape recordings, 70,000 photo prints, 50,000 slides, 5,000 motion pictures, 200 videotapes, 66,000 books and journals, 25,000 works of art, 3,500 other objects.

KEY COLLECTIONS: world's largest collection of materials relating to human sexuality.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available to scholars and professionals at no charge.

Indiana Federal Writers' Project/Program Papers (special collection)

ESTABLISHED: 1967

TELEPHONE: (812) 237-3160

ACCESS: contact director.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities, video equipment.

SERVICES: occasional archival training, limited.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 pieces of ephemera, U.S. Geological Survey maps for Indiana, 32,000 ms. cards, 25 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 300 photo prints, 1 motion picture.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Indiana legends; Indiana beliefs; Indiana humor (jokes); Indiana place names.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: numerous publications by Ronald L. Baker.

KANSAS

CENTER FOR ETHNIC STUDIES

ESTABLISHED: ca. 1955, active collecting ceased in 1975

TELEPHONE: (913) 628-4096

ACCESS: write or call archivist.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, handwritten index accessible through archivist, copying facilities, access to audio equipment.

SERVICES: archival assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 162 unpublished tape recordings, 2 ft. of ms. cards, 2 ft. of ms. sheets, regular library complement of reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: ethnic groups that settled in Kansas: Germans from Russia, Czechs, Swedes; ms. files and recordings of beliefs, legends, poems, reminiscences, recipes, jumprope rhymes, jokes, etc.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Koch, William E., and S. J. Sackett. Kansas Folklore, 1961.

Koch, William E. Folklore from Kansas, 1980.

KANSAS HERITAGE PROJECT

ESTABLISHED: 1971; project ceased in 1977.

TELEPHONE: (913) 628-5901

ACCESS: call or write archivist/special collections librarian.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, handwritten index available through archivist/librarian, access to audio equipment.

SERVICES: archival assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 594 unpublished cassette tape recordings with unedited typed transcriptions (quality of interviews varies).

KEY COLLECTIONS: includes oral histories of family and personal experiences, including farming, teaching, war service, schools, the Depression, dust storms, etc. Subject list availabe upon request.

CENTER FOR ETHNIC STUDIES AT FORSYTH LIBRARY

TELEPHONE: (913) 628-5901

ACCESS: write or call archivist/special collections librarian.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, on-line catalog (in process), copying available, access to audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference service available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: published and unpublished record discs and cassette tape recordings of music, interviews, speeches; student essays on family history, traditions, recipes, etc; manuscript materials; books and journals; photographs (copies); video cassettes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: ethnic groups that settled in Kansas: Germans from Russia, Bukovina Germans, Czechs, and others.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Schmeller, Helmut J. The Germans From Russia: A Bibliography of Materials in the Ethnic Heritage Collection at Fort Hays State University. 1980.

KANSAS FOLKLIFE COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: 1982

TELEPHONE: (913) 296-2624
FAX: (913) 296-1005

ACCESS: in-person requests; some reference questions can be answered by mail.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, catalogs, files, copying and audio equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 400 tape recordings, 2,000 slides, 2,000 photo negatives, 16 linear ft. of ms. sheets, access to society's reference library.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Kansas Folklife Survey; William E. Koch Folklore and Folklife Collection, including Kansas tales, humor, proverbs, Western humor, Central Plains folksong texts, ghost tales, commercial folksong recordings; Kansas Folklife Festival documentation 1979 to present; emphasis on Kansas and on practicing traditional artists.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Koch, William E. Folklore from Kansas, 1980.

JOAN O'BRYANT COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: ca. 1970

TELEPHONE: (316) 262-2552

ACCESS: call or write for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalog, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 120 unpublished cassette tape recordings, 27,000 ms. cards, 6 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 1 videotape, 73 quilt blocks.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Joan O'Bryant Collection; focus on Kansas, especially eastern section, including folk music, anecdotes, sayings, legends, customs, and recipes.

PRINTED INFORMATION: catalog available at approximately 300 libraries with folklore collections, or can be ordered from director of Arts and Music Division, Wichita Public Library.

KENTUCKY

WEATHERFORD-HAMMOND MOUNTAIN COLLECTION AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1870

TELEPHONE: (606) 986-9341

ACCESS: walk in, complete registration form.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, card catalog, guides and inventories, copying facilities.

SIZE AND FORMAT: Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection consists of over 15,000 volumes; the Southern Appalachian Archives consists of over 900 linear ft. of archival and ms. material, including records, tapes, films, and photographs.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Weatherford-Hammond Mountain Collection; rare book collection; Southern Appalachian Archives; emphasis on southern Appalachia.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

FOLKLIFE ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1971

TELEPHONE: (502) 745-6434

ACCESS: contact in advance preferred; walk in, complete request form. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (With prior notification most materials can be used in the Kentucky Library Reading Room on Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, card catalog, files, audio equipment, copying facilities.

SERVICES: reference assistance available; training for student assistants.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes more than 2300 student collections, containing approximately 2470 reel-to-reel tapes, 3400 cassette tapes, and 344 video tapes. Folklife Archives measures approximately 175 linear feet.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Gordon Wilson collection; Thomason collection; Sarah Gertrude Knott collection; Montell Belief Collection; field research collection; emphasis on south-central Kentucky beliefs, folksongs, folk architecture, political folklore, foodways, and traditional arts and crafts.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: "An Archive of Kentucky Folklore," Kentucky Libraries (Winter 1982).

APPALACHIAN COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: 1977

TELEPHONE: (606) 257-8634
FAX: (606) 257-1563

ACCESS: walk-in, complete request form. For in-depth assistance, please write or call in advance.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, files, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment, guides, and inventories.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: more than 5,000 titles and over 1500 cubic feet of archival material. Also includes oral histories, photographs, video and audio tapes, LP recordings and broadsides.

KEY COLLECTIONS: John Jacob Niles collection; Appalachian region.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Guide to the John Jacob Niles Collection.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

JEAN THOMAS COLLECTION

ESTABLISHED: 1968

TELEPHONE: (502) 588-5659

ACCESS: write or call to identify research needs.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, audiovisual facilities.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 5 scrapbooks of clippings, a few 45rpm and LP discs, 900 photo negatives stored in university's Photographic Archives, six videotapes, four kinescopes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Kentucky music and musicians; Kentucky music imprints (especially Louisville); Isidore Philipp Collection; early American sheet music; Louisville Orchestra Commissioning Series.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Portnoy, Marshall A. "Jean Thomas' American Folk Song Festival: British Balladry in Eastern Kentucky," master's thesis, ca. 1978.

APPALACHIAN COLLECTION

TELEPHONE: (606) 783-2829
FAX: (606) 783-3788

ACCESS: walk in, request admittance, fill out forms.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: all regular library facilities, audio and video playback equipment, microfilm readers.

SERVICES: reference assistance provided; materials brought to researcher.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes a few maps and broadsides, approximately 200 LP recordings, audio tapes, manuscripts, numerous photographic materials. The reference department of the library is also available.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Jesse Stuart, James Still, and Roger Barbour collections; quilt patterns; regional and local history; old time fiddlers.

APPALACHIAN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

ESTABLISHED: 1973

TELEPHONE: (606) 368-2101 ext. 7001
FAX: (606) 368-2125

ACCESS: write or call for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: card catalog.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 1,000 tape recordings, 2,000 photo prints, and 2,000 photo negatives.

KEY COLLECTIONS: interviews about coal mining and the Great Depression.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Shackelford, Laurel and William Weinberg. Our Appalachia, 1977.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

LOUISIANA

CENTER FOR ACADIAN AND CREOLE FOLKLORE

ESTABLISHED: 1977

ACCESS: contact director, Special Collections.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment nearby.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 80 published recordings, 1000 tape recordings, 75 cylinder recordings, 100 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 100 photo prints, 40 videotapes, 50 artifacts.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Louisiana French traditional music, oral literature, oral history; photo documentation of traditional activities and celebrations.

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLUB COLLECTIONS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM

ESTABLISHED: 1978

TELEPHONE: (504) 568-6968

ACCESS: call or write curator of collection.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: facilities are available only with curator's assistance.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 3,000 78rpm, 200 45rpm, and 4,000 LP discs, 1,000 tape recordings and 20 cylinder recordings, 10,000 photo prints, 500 negatives, 200 slides, 100 motion pictures, 20 videotapes, 300 posters, 2,500 pieces of sheet music, files on 1,000 musicians, 500 reference books, and 100 journal titles.

PRINTED INFORMATION: The Second Line, quarterly publication of the New Orleans Jazz Club.

WILLIAM RANSOM HOGAN JAZZ ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: 1958

TELEPHONE: (504) 865-5688
FAX: (504) 865-6773

ACCESS: open to public, closed stacks.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: photoduplication, reading and listening rooms, card catalog and indexes.

SERVICES: archival assistance always available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approxminately 35,000 pieces of ephemera; 30,000 78rpm, 2,500 45rpm, and 6,000 33rpm LPs, 1,300 piano rolls, 150 phonocylinders, and 100 compact discs; 2,500 open reel and cassette tapes of music; 1,800 open reel and cassette tapes of oral history; 7,500 photo prints, 151 reels of film, and 100 video tapes; 41,000 printed and ms. music items; and 15,000 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Al Rose collection; John Robichaux collection; Roger Gulbrandsen collection; William Russell collection; Ralston Crawford collection; Souchon collection; Nick LaRocca collection; John W. "Knocky" Parker collection; Raymond Burke collection, Ray Bauduc collection; Louisiana and lower Mississippi Valley, Gulf South, Caribbean musical culture; Afro-American cultural history; comprehensive perspective on the fusion of ethnic musical traditions, especially African and European cross-fertilization; blues, gospel, urban-folk, and mainstream popular genres.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Catalog of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive. A Guide to the Collection of 78rpm Phonograph Recordings.

The Jazz Archivist, a bi-annual newsletter of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive

PRINTED INFORMATION: brochure on archive available at no cost.

MAINE

ACADIAN ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES ACADIENNES

TELEPHONE: (207) 834-7535

ESTABLISHED: 1991

ACCESS: walk-in; open to the public.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, files, catalogs, audio and visual equipment. Also, photocopying available in building, on-line public-access computer available, connected to mainframe services of University of Maine (Orono).

SERVICES: reference assistance and archivist available; intern and equipment loan programs.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 100 pieces of ephemera, 300 tape recordings, 5 linear ft. of mss., 20 rolls of microfilm, 200 photo prints, 20 video tapes, 630 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student research on folklore and oral history; Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey; Beatrice Craig working papers on regional demography and economy; local business records; song collections of A.J. Michaud and Denis Martin.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTION: "Bonjour des Archives," series in Saint John Valley Times.

PRINTED INFORMATION: Mission Statement available in French and English.

MAINE FOLKLIFE CENTER

ACCESS: walk in, complete request form and agreement restricting use of archival materials.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: central reading/listening room, audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 63 published 78rpm, 4 published 45rpm, and 260 published LP discs, 327 unpublished discs, 2,078 unpublished tape recordings, 4 published tape recordings, 12,000 ms. cards, 55,000 ms. pages, 6,100 photo prints, 9,100 photo negatives, 1,275 slides, 46 videotapes, 56 artifacts.

KEY COLLECTIONS: wide variety of materials pertaining to the regional folklife of Maine and Maritime Provinces; oral traditions; occupational culture, especially lumbering, lobstering, seafaring; Maine's ethnic and traditional music; songs and songmakers of Maine and Maritimes; labor history; vernacular architecture; Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians; women in Depression/World War II; traditional and ethnic arts.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Ives, Edward D., Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made The Songs, 1964 .

-----. Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer Poet of Prince Edward Island, 1971.

-----. Joe Scott: The Woodsman-Songmaker, 1978.

The Maine Folklife Index, compiled by C . Richard K . Lunt, 1981.

Northeast Folkore (monograph series, 29 vols.), 1961-1990.

PRINTED INFORMATION: Northeast Archives catalog, available for $12, other printed mateirals about Maine Folklife Center's video and audio tapes and publications, including volumes of Northeast Folklore, available at no cost.

NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM

TELEPHONE: (207) 469-0924
FAX: (207) 469-7875
EMAIL: oldfilm@acadia.net

ESTABLISHED: 1986

ACCESS: walk-in; open to the public.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: viewing facilities for video and film. Computer catalogs available.

SERVICES: Reference by Mail video loan service to members of Northeast Historic Film.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 4 million feet of 16mm film, 2,000+ videotapes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Amateur "our town" films, e.g., Cherryfield 1938. Independent documentaries, e.g. Our Lives in Our Hands; worklife documentation: woods work, ice harvesting, fisheries. Documentation of fairs and festivals (Maine Festival, 1977; Common Ground Fair, 1979).

PUBLICATIONS: Broadcast and cablecast projects: History Channel Woodsmen and Riverdrivers, and series including Signal to Noise and Driving Passions.

PRINTED INFORMATION: Moving Image Review, twice yearly newsletter; Collections Guide: Moving Image Collections of Northeast Historic Film.

SALT DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1973

ACCESS: open by appointment

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, photocopy machines, files, audio and visual equipment, photographic darkrooms, computer lab.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 1,800 hours of tape recorded interviews (majority with transcripts); 250,000 photographic negatives; 3,000 photographic prints; 1,200 books in working library; 3,000 items in research vertical files.

KEY COLLECTIONS: archives focused on documenting tradition and change in contemporary Maine, including fisheries, agriculture and ethnic groups.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Salt Magazine (41 issues published); The Salt Book, Salt Book Two.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available.

MARYLAND

MARYLAND FOLKLIFE ARCHIVES (not listed on folklife program web site??)

ESTABLISHED: 1976

TELEPHONE: (301) 685-6740

ACCESS: access limited, retrieval process difficult; contact state folklorist stating research need.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: state folklorist's office; video and tape playback equipment available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 5 boxes of ephemera, 30 LP discs, 500 unpublished tapes, 500 ms. cards, 6 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 100 photo prints, 200 photo negatives, 200 slides, 10 motion pictures, 6 videotapes, 25 artifacts, 400 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student and festival related fieldwork reports; sound recordings of traditional music; all Maryland materials, emphasis on northeast Maryland traditional music.

MARYLAND FOLKLORE ARCHIVES

TELEPHONE: (301) 405-3780

ACCESS: closed until 1994

SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1969

TELEPHONE: (203) 347-9411, ext. 2701

ACCESS: contact Prof. David P. McAllester; collections restricted, permission from depositors necessary in some cases.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room only.

SERVICES: reference assistance.

SIZE AND FORMAT: four file drawers and two boxes of ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Society for Ethnomusicology business only, papers of past presidents and other officers; a few taped interviews and tapes of scholarly meetings.

SALISBURY STATE UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1970

TELEPHONE: (410) 543-6371; or 543-6445 to leave a message.

ACCESS: write or call for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading table, copying facilities.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 100 photocopied pieces of ephemera, 100 tape recordings, 1,000 ms. cards, 12 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 150 photo prints, 150 slides.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Middle Atlantic region; watermen; student collectanea, 1970 to present, covering most genres