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PENNSYLVANIA FIELD RECORDINGS IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE
Compiled by: Linda P. Gross Series Editor: Joseph C.
Hickerson
Publication Date: August 1981
For additional information about Archive
of Folk Culture collections, contact the Folklife
Reading Room. To request copies, see our webpages regarding audio
materials and photographic materials.
Please refer to the AFC and/or AFS numbers when requesting information.
All indications of time duration listed in this finding aid are estimates.
AFS 1771: One disc containing two labor songs recorded in Bryn
Mawr, PA, in 1938 by Alan Lomax.
AFS 3155A; 3156-3157: Three discs containing eleven tunes played
by Tink Queer and group, recorded in Ligonier, PA, in 1936 by Sidney
Robertson for the Resettlement Administration.
AFS 3247: One disc which includes a song and two fiddle tunes
with dancing by an anthracite miner from PA, recorded at the National
Folk Festival in Chicago in 1937 by Sidney Robertson for the Resettlement
Administration.
AFS 3670A: One disc containing ten spoken pieces by a group
of school girls recorded at Camp Winona in Lake Como, PA, in 1937 by
Herbert Halpert.
AFS 6077-6088: Twelve discs containing twenty-four songs sung
by Mrs. Mariana Schaupp of Nebraska, then living in Kutztown, PA, recorded
at the Library of Congress in 1941 by Alan Lomax.
AFS 6178: One discs containing four songs by children of Madison
School, Philadelphia, recorded in Philadelphia, PA, in 1945 by Laura
E. Ross.
AFS 7978-8017: Forty discs containing over fifty ballads and
songs sung by various coal miners of the anthracite region of PA, recorded
in 1946 by George Korson. Portions of this collection have been published
by the Library of Congress on LP no. L16, Songs and Ballads of the
Anthracite Miners.
AFS 8027-8032: Six discs containing nine songs sung by Crescent
School students, recorded in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1944 by Jacob Evanson.
AFS 9143-9145: Three discs containing twenty-nine songs sung
with guitar by Howard S. (Steve) Lee, of Philadelphia, PA, and Staunton,
VA, recorded at the Library of Congress in 1948 by Duncan Emrich.
AFS 9841B; 9842B; 9843; 9852; 9853B; 9856B; 9862B; 9863B; 9866B: Nine
discs which include sixteen tunes and songs performed by anthracite
miners of PA, four Bach Chorales and Four German folksongs sung by
the Pennsylvania Junior Chorus of Bethlehem, PA, and three Slavonic
instrumentals played by the Slavonic Tamburitza Orchestra of Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, PA. Recorded at the National Folk Festival,
Washington, DC, in 1938 by the U.S. Recording Co.
AFS 10,002: One spool of wire containing a ballad, recorded
in Somerset County, PA. Accessioned in 1951.
AFS 10,389-10,391: Three discs containing three songs and one
poem performed by Earl O. Schlegal and group, of Pennsburg, PA, recorded
ca. 1949 by himself.
AFS 10,873-10,874: Two tapes containing Lithuanian folksongs
recorded in the United States, including six from Pittsburgh, Scranton,
Shenendoah, and Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 1949-1950 by Jonas P. Balys.
AFS 11,306: One tape containing thirteen songs sung by various
artists at a migrant worker camp in Port Treverton, PA, and five songs
sung by Blanche W. Keysner, recorded in Harrisburg, PA, in 1956 by
Frank Hoffmann.
AFS 11,345: One tape containing thirty-eight miner's songs
and children's game songs of the Pennsylvania Germans recorded in and
around Pottsville, PA, by George Korson. Accessioned 1958.
AFS 11,688-11,690: Three tapes containing one hundred sixty
songs sung by Albert Vergason and Sharon Vergason of Sweden Valley,
PA, Ezra Barhight originally from Northeastern PA, and Hiram M. Cranmer
of Hammersley Fork, PA, recorded in 1959 by Frank Hoffmann.
AFS 11,865: One tape containing over seventy songs, tunes,
recitations and remarks by Hiram M. Cranmer, and four songs performed
by Ame Walters, recorded in Hammersley Fork, PA 1956-1958 by Frank
Hoffmann.
AFS 12,010-12,012: Three tapes of songs and ballads of bituminous
coal miners including recordings of various artists from several areas
of PA, recorded in 1940, by George Korson. Portions of the collection
have been published by the Library of Congress on LP no. AFS L60, Songs
and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners.
AFS 12,063: One tape entitled "The Folk-Lore in Sound
of Central Pa.," narrated by Kay Oiler, written and accompanied
by Melvin Curley. Gift of the Pennsylvania Folk Music Association.
Accessioned in 1964.
AFS 14,026A: One tape which includes nine songs performed by
Myra Elmers of Pittsburgh, PA, formerly of South Carolina, recorded
at Penn State University, State College, PA, by Hilda A. Kring. Accessioned
in 1969.
AFS 14,027: One tape containing a song performed by Morrison
Baker, formerly of New Brighton, PA, recorded in 1967 by Charles C.
Baker.
AFS 14,104-14,105: Two tapes containing forty-five songs and
tunes performed by the North Carolina Ridge Runners of northeastern
Maryland and Southeastern Pennsylvania, recorded ca. late 1940's, possibly
at WDEL, Wilmington, Delaware; also Ola Belle Reed, Alex Cambell and
the New River Boys of the Same region, recorded in 1968.
AFS 14223-14231: Nine tapes containing twenty-two tunes played
by John Vesey, originally of Sligo County, Ireland, and group in Glenolden,
PA; over fifty tunes played by Jehile Kirkuff and group, near Rush,
Susquehanna County, PA, recorded in 1970 by Alan Jabbour.
AFS 14,266-14,267: Two tapes containing twenty-nine tunes played
on fiddle by Earl Hafler and son Earl on guitar, recorded in Quakertown,
PA, in 1970 by Alan Jabbour.
AFS 14,273-14,279: Seven tapes containing one hundred eighteen
tunes played on fiddle by Jehile Kirkhuff of Susquehanna County, PA,
and about forty tunes played on fiddle by Harvey Thompson of York County,
PA recorded in 1970 by Robert P. Christeson.
AFS 14,419: One tape which includes three fiddle tunes played
by Jehile Kirkhuff of Susquehanna County, PA, and group, recorded at
the Old fiddler's picnic in Lenape, PA, in 1968 by Robert P. Christeson.
AFS 14,604: One tape containing two songs sung by Alex Campbell,
Ola Belle Reed and the New River Boys of Rising Sun, Maryland and Oxford,
Pennsylvania, recorded possibly in Memphis, Tennessee, ca. 1950, on
the Chesapeake label. Girt of Jason David Pate.
AFS 15,821-15,852: Thirty-two discs which include over one
hundred songs, ballads, tunes, dances and spoken performances, including
material of the Pennsylvania Germans, American Indians, anthracite
coal miners and river raftsmen. Recorded at the First Annual Pennsylvania
Folk Festival directed by George Korson in Allentown, PA, in 1935 by
George Hibbit and Walter Garwick for the Columbia University Library.
Part of the Laura Boulton Collection.
AFS 17,472: One tape containing a song from an Old Order Amish
worship service, recorded in Lancaster County, PA, in 1972 by Martin
C. Ressler.
AFS 17,503-17,506: Four tapes containing a radio interview
with Samuel P. Bayard, including a discussion of Pennsylvania's folksong
tradition and the fife as a folk instrument in Pennsylvania, and outtakes
of that program, recorded at Penn State University radio station WDFM,
in 1974 by Jim Walker; also a program for TV broadcast of Pennsylvania
German folksongs with discussion by Albert F. Buffington, Walter E.
Boyer and Samuel P. Bayard, recorded for WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, PA,
ca.1956 by Harold Nelson.
AFS 18,053-18,058: Six tapes which include eighteen songs,
mostly in Yiddish, sung by Mrs. Ginsburg, recorded in Pittsburgh, PA,
ca. 1959 by Jack Manischewitz.
AFS 18,059-18,073: Fifteen tapes containing interviews and
music from fiddlers recorded in Central Pennsylvania in 1973-1974 by
Robert C. Doyle.
AFS 18,080-18,086: Seven tapes containing interviews and music
from fiddlers recorded in Buffalo Valley, PA, in 1975-1976 by Robert
C. Doyle.
AFS 18,732: One tape containing Pennsylvania German songs and
family lore performed by L. Harold Caldwell, of Wichita, Kansas, recorded
at the Library of Congress in 1976 by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr.
AFS 18,849-18,871: Twenty-three tapes containing recordings
of fiddlers living in the Buffalo valley, Union and Snyder Counties,
PA, as well as square dance calling and bagpipe music recorded in 1973-1976
by Matthew G. Guntharp and Robert C. Doyle; two auctioneers at work
recorded in 1974 by Deborah Erdle; Elmer Shaffer, fiddler from Millheim,
PA, recorded in 1975 by Margaret Yocom.
AFS 18,883-18,890: Eight tapes containing country music played
on fiddle, banjo, guitar and dobro by Ola Belle Reed and family of
MD, NC, and PA, recorded in 1966 and 1977 by Henry Glassie.
AFS 18,971-18,976: Six tapes which include an interview with
a Mennonite farmer of Lancaster County, PA, recorded by Diana Cohen
and the students of the Trailside Country School, in connection with
a Bicentennial publication of the Reading is Fundamental Program entitled, I
Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Racoon. Accessioned in 1977.
AFS 18,988-18,992: Five tapes containing twelve Pennsylvania
fiddle players, bluegrass bands, old time string bands and ballad singers
from Adams, Centre, Clarion, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Warren Counties,
and Philadelphia, PA, recorded in 1976 by Mathew G. Guntharp and Robert
C. Doyle.
AFS 19,161-19,178: Eighteen tapes containing songs of Lithuanian
immigrants in the United States, which include over two hundred examples
recorded in Croyden, Mahony City, Media, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Scranton, Shenendoah, Wilkes-Barre, and, PA, in 1949-1950 by Jonas
Balys.
AFS 19,233: One tape containing two Jewish Folksongs and one
original song in Yiddish, sung by Julian Grossman recorded in Norristown,
PA, in 1975 by himself.
AFS 19,455-19,458: Four tapes containing the 1976 and 1977
Penn State Fiddlers' Competition recorded in State College, PA, by
Timothy O'Briscoe and Hugh Johnson.
AFS 19,713-19,726: Fourteen tapes which include material of
the Girvins Family recorded in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1965;
material from Ola Belle Reed of Rising Sun, Maryland, North Carolina,
and Oxford, Pennsylvania, recorded in 1967 by Henry Glassie.
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