Correspondence
Correspondence in this collection comprises the personal and
administrative letters and communications of Sidney Robertson relating to the California Folk Music Project. It includes correspondence
pertinent to the project written before it opened in November 1938, during the
project, and following the project. The correspondence documents the process
by which Sidney Robertson sought funding and support for the project, the
administrative details of managing the project, and valuable ethnographic field data about
the performers and the music they recorded for the project.
Pre-project correspondence, 21 September 1937 - 31 March 1938
Project correspondence, 5 April 1938 - 20 October 1938 and 8 November 1938 - 2 February 1940
Post-project correspondence, 10 April 1940 - 14 April 1955
California Folk Music
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