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

Archives: Massachusetts through New York

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MASSACHUSETTS

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOLKLORE ARCHIVE ~

ESTABLISHED: 1972

TELEPHONE: (413) 545-6568

ACCESS: write or call for permission to use archive.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: collections used solely by students at the university.

KEY COLLECTIONS: materials on Massachusetts.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

LOEB MUSIC LIBRARY ARCHIVE OF WORLD MUSIC

TELEPHONE: (617) 495-2794

ACCESS: to those with access to the Loeb Music Library, where copies of the collection are on deposit.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: Music library reference collection and audio-visual playback facilities.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: total including 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch discs and LPs, shellac records, tape reels, cassettes and CDs numbers approximately 9,000, plus a large collection of South Indian classical music not yet cataloged.

KEY COLLECTIONS: folk and fine art music of China, Japan, India, Indonesia; traditional music of Europe, the Americas, Africa, the British Isles, Native American and Australian Aboriginal music.

MILMAN PARRY COLLECTION OF ORAL LITERATURE

ESTABLISHED: ca. 1935

TELEPHONE: (617) 495-1550

ACCESS: write or call curator; no restrictions apply, but user should have knowledge of SerboCroatian.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 3,500 aluminum discs recorded 1934-35, wire recordings made 1950-51, and tape recordings made between 1962-67, some cylinder recordings, ms. cards.

KEY COLLECTIONS: modern Greek (Macedonian) epic poetry collected by Milman Parry, James A. Notopoulos, and David Bynum; Bulgarian and Albanian epic poetry collected by Albert Lord.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Lord, Albert Bates. The Singer of Tales, 1960.

Lord, Albert Bates, and Milman Parry. Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, 1954- (14 volumes).

PEABODY MUSEUM ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: late l9th century

TELEPHONE: (617) 495-2248

ACCESS: call or write museum collections manager for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: some copying facilities .

KEY COLLECTIONS: fieldnotes, correspondence, and ms. material relating to work of the Peabody Museum; emphasis on North American archeology and ethnology and Central American architecture; Native American ethnology, especially late l9th and early 20th centuries .

TUFTS UNIVERSITY COLLECTION OF ORAL LITERATURE

ESTABLISHED: 1972

TELEPHONE: (617) 381-3737

ACCESS: ask at circulation desk to see collection, housed in Special Collections room.

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

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 50 tape recordings, 200 photo prints, 100 slides.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Massachusetts traditions; student collectanea from 1972 on; mostly folk literature, some customs and rituals, some material culture.

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1935

TELEPHONE: (313) 764-3482
FAX: (313) 936-1334
E-MAIL: usergddz@umichum.bitnet

ACCESS: open to all researchers; noncirculating, closed-stack collection.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, catalogs, unpublished inventories and indexes, files, copying facilities, audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: archival assistance available; archival training available through School of Information and Library Studies and Department of History.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes extensive map collection, some records, significant reel and cassette tapes (mostly spoken), approximately 30,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, approximately 500,000 photographic items, films and videotapes.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Ivan Henry Walton Papers; Suomi (Finnish) collection; social and political history of post-Civil War Michigan; Finnish and other immigrants; American occupation of Philippine Islands; national temperance and prohibition movements; archives of the University of Michigan; railroad photographs.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Powers and McNutt. Guide to Manuscripts in the Bentley Historicel Library. On-Line access to information about holdings located on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN).

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

COMPUTERIZED FOLKLORE ARCHIVE

English Department
Briggs Building
University of Detroit Mercy
4001 West McNichols Road
Detroit, MI 48221

ESTABLISHED: 1964, computerized 1972

TELEPHONE: (313) 927-1105

ACCESS: contact director by mail or telephone; request computer search.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: no facilities for in-person visits, although these facilities are planned.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 20,000 entries on 40 megabytes of disk, 52,000 5-by-8-inch ms. cards.

KEY COLLECTIONS: oral and customary folklore collected by students at University of Detroit and Peabody College (Nashville); Detroit archive strong in folklore from Great Lakes states, especially Michigan, Ohio, and New York; Peabody archive strong in folklore from Tennessee and the South; concentration in both archives on superstitions, also tales, legends, jokes, poems, games, customs, foodways; Polish-, Irish-, German-, and Afro-American are well represented.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Callow, James T. "The Computerized Folklore Archive in Its Third Decade of Experimentation." Paper delivered at Library of Congress' Washington Conference of Folklife and Automated Archives, April 27, 1984.

WALTER P. REUTHER LIBRARY

5401 Cass Ave
Detroit MI 48202
313-577-4024

ACCESS: mail, telephone, and in-person inquiries.

Collections of interest to folklorists include various labor union papers and oral history of labor unions, as well as the former Wayne State University Folklore Archives.

[Following is a description of the former Wane State University Folklore Archives, now a collection in the Walter P. Ruther Library: SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 500 pieces of ephemera, 25 maps, 175 LP recordings, 75 discs, 1,200 tape recordings, 12,500 ms. cards, 30,000 ms. sheets, 560 photo prints, 300 slides, 3 videotapes, 100 reference books and journals, reference collection, pamphlet, and newsletter files.

KEY COLLECTIONS: field research collections done by undergraduate and graduate students; special collections made by professional folklorists and other ethnographers; urban, ethnic, occupational folklore; urban legend file; strong in Afro-American, Italian, Polish, Greek, Irish, Jewish, and Arab materials; labor, auto industry, police, restaurant workers; regional emphasis on Detroit and southeast Michigan.]

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Italian Folktales in America, WSU Folklore Archive Study Series, Volume 1, 1985.

Six annotated lists of holdings arranged by ethnic groups. Pamphlet series on holidays.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MICHIGAN FOLK ARTS ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1975

TELEPHONE: (517) 355-2370 or (517) 355-3304
FAX: (517) 336-2846

ACCESS: written request.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying machine, audio and visual equipment.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 44 33 1/3rpm and 3 45rpm discs, 1500 tape recordings, 2000 ms. cards, 45 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 9000 sheets of photo negatives, 20,000 slides, 61 videotapes, 652 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: photos, fieldnotes, and correspondence relating to a series of statewide and regional surveys of folk arts and folklife; Michigan Quilt Project catalog; clipping files; emphasis on Michigan and on U.S. folk arts.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: exhibition catalogs based on research relating to holdings.

CLARKE HISTORICAL LIBRARY

ESTABLISHED: 1955

TELEPHONE: (517) 774-3352
FAX: (517) 774-4499

ACCESS: inquiries via mail, telephone, or in-person visit.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, files, copying facilities.

SERVICES: reference assistance.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 1,400 broadsides, 25,000 pieces of ephemera, 2,700 maps, 250,000 ms. items, 30,000 photo prints, 60,000 reference books and journals .

KEY COLLECTIONS: E. C. Beck collection of shanty-boy songs; Michigan and the old Northwest Territory; children's literature; Africana and Afro-Americana; George Armstrong Custer; Mark Twain; American presidential campaign biographies and campaign newspapers; focus on Michigan and Great Lakes area.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Annual Report. "Manuscripts on Microfilm." "Women's History."

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MINNESOTA

SOUTHWEST ARCHIVES OF FOLKLORE AND ORAL HISTORY ~

ESTABLISHED: 1980

TELEPHONE: (507) 537-7279

ACCESS: write or call for appointment.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes unpublished tape recordings, ms. cards, slides, reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student collections assembled in folklore classes at university; narratives of traditions, beliefs, customs; Upper Plains region, especially southwest Minnesota, Norwegian-, German-, and Belgian-American materials.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: "Folk Biography in Dakota Territory," Journal of the Folklore Institute 17 (1980).

COLLECTION OF MINNESOTA ETHNIC MUSIC

ESTABLISHED: 1974

TELEPHONE: (612) 624-2393
FAX: (612) 626-2200

ACCESS: send letter of intent regarding use of materials.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: ethnomusicology lab with desk, catalog, audio and video equipment.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 250 tape recordings, 500 ms. cards, 150 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 50 photo prints, 100 videotapes .

KEY COLLECTIONS: Aakus, Larson, and Kagan collections; Scandinavian music in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa; fiddle contests; music of Michoacan, Mexico; music and dance of India; Chinese opera.

IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER

ESTABLISHED: 1965

TELEPHONE: (612) 627-4208

ACCESS: walk-in; need ID; a letter or phone call in advance is encouraged.

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

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 430 music sheets, 65 maps, 80 published 78rpm and 15 published LP discs, 4,500 ft. of ms. sheets, 1,000 photo prints, 400 photo negatives, 6 motion pictures, relevant reference journals for each of the collection's 24 ethnic groups.

KEY COLLECTIONS: American Council for Nationalities Service; International Institute of Minnesota and St. Louis; Tyomies Society; Nada Dramatic Society; Latvian Chorus Shield of Songs; Finnish Workers Federation; Minnesota Finnish-American family history; personal papers of E. Migliacco, Karol Jaskulski, and Zlatko Kehrin; materials on immigration to the United States and Canada of 24 ethnic groups originating in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe and the Near East.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Spectrum (serial publication). Ethnic collection series. Bibliography series. Conference proceedings.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MlSSISSIPPI

MISSISSIPPI FOLKLORE SOCIETY ARCHIVES COMMITTEE

ESTABLISHED: 1902

TELEPHONE: (601) 359-6876

ACCESS: present identification, register, and acknowledge rules for researcher.

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

SERVICES: library and archival assistance available; no regular archival training, but internships for college credit are available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes small collection of 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP discs, in addition to ms. collection, photo prints and negatives, videotapes, motion pictures, reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: WPA county histories, slave narratives; newspapers (ms.) from 1803 to present.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: annual reports of department.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available.

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1976

TELEPHONE: (601) 232-7408
FAX: (601) 232-5453

ACCESS: write or call for reference interview with archivist; sign researcher registration form.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: research area, card catalog, finding aids and inventories, photocopying, photography service, audio equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance required.

KEY COLLECTIONS: W. R. Ferris collection of film, photography, and recordings of Mississippi folklore and blues; Victor Howard Collection of photographs from 1950s and 1960s.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS

ESTABLISHED: 1977

TELEPHONE: (601) 232-7073

ACCESS: write or call for appointment; fill out collections- access request.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: copying facilities, files, audio equipment.

SERVICES: staff assistance in locating materials; staff must move or supervise moving of all materials.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes tapes, photographs, and films, in addition to a large collection of artifacts.

KEY COLLECTIONS: paintings and interviews of Theora Hamblett; Walter Lewisohn, Southern folk art including quilts, sculpture, carvings, etc.; Carribean folk art.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Dreams and Visions, a catalog of Theora Hamblett's dream and vision paintings.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI BLUES ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: 1984

ACCESS: write or call for reference interview with archivist; sign researcher registration form.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: research area, card catalog, finding aids and inventories, photocopying, photography service, audio equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance required; library science program being discontinued.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 20 linear ft. of ephemera, 500 posters, 9,500 published 78rpm, 11,000 published 45rpm, and 11,000 published LP discs, 50 unpublished discs, 90 unpublished tapes, 5 ft. of ms. sheets, 2,000 photo prints, 20 photo negatives, 180 videotapes, 20 artifacts, 12,300 reference works.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Kenneth S. Goldstein Folklore Collection; Living Blues archival collection; Malaco Record Company archival collection; B. B. King record collection; oral history collection on audio tape and promotional materials.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Living Blues magazine (published regularly by the Center for Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi).

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MISSOURI

WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION:
A JOINT COLLECTION OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

ESTABLISHED: 1889 (State Historical Society), 1943 (Western Historical Manuscript Collection).

TELEPHONE: (314) 882-6028

ACCESS: make inquiry prior to arrival, some materials stored off site; microfilm available on interlibrary loan.

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

SERVICES: reading room staff available to assist researchers.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 30 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 92 videotapes, 587 audio tapes, 220 cassette tapes, 11 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Missouri Folklore Society records; Missouri Origins Project; Missouri Place Names Collection; Ramsay Place Names File; Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association Collection.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MAX HUNTER COLLECTION OF OZARK FOLKSONG

ESTABLISHED: 1906

TELEPHONE: (417) 869-4621
FAX: (417) 869-0320

ACCESS: walk-in.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: all necessary facilities.

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 70 tape recordings, 2 linear ft. of ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: "Ozarkiana" material, emphasis on Greene and surrounding counties; Max Hunter folksong collection.

MONTANA

MONTANA FOLKLIFE PROJECT ARCHIVES (name change? location?)

ESTABLISHED: 1979

TELEPHONE: (406) 444-6430

ACCESS: write or call for appointment, walk-in during business hours.

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

SERVICES: some reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 200 broadsides, 500 pieces of ephemera, 50 maps, 50 published 78rpm, 50 published 45rpm, and 20 published LP discs, 500 tape recordings, 5,000 ms. sheets, 700 photo prints, 2,000 photo negatives, 800 slides, 6 motion pictures, 40 videotapes, 10 saddles, 250 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: American Folklife Center Montana project files; smokejumpers oral history and folklife project files; WPA Montana butte mining songs; Montana old-time fiddling; mountain life and work project; commercial Western music; Native American culture; cowboys and ranch life; cowboy poetry; occupational and regional folk technology: log structures; instrument making; mining lore; horse and mule packing lore; foodways; ethnic celebrations.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Annotated Bibliography on Cowboy Poetry from Montana. Bibliography on Cowboys and Ranch Life. Bibliography on Horse and Mule Packing. Oral History Fieldwork Guide. Native Arts in Montana. A Report to the Montana Arts Council.

NEBRASKA

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1967

TELEPHONE: (402) 472-2531
E-MAIL: mducey2@unl.edu

ACCESS: walk-in; respond to mail requests.

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

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 165,000 pieces of ephemera, 243 LP discs, 321 tape recordings, 61 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 12,400 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Benjamin A. Botkin collection; Harold W. Felton collection; Czech heritage collection; Czech oral history tapes; Sally Garoutte Quilt Collection; American Quilt Study Group Collection.

LIBRARY/ARCHIVES DIVISION/NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ESTABLISHED: 1878

TELEPHONE: (402) 471-4771 or 4772
FAX: (402) 471-3100

ACCESS: walk-in; registration is required, appointments are desirable.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, copying facilities, microfilm readers and reader-printers, audio and video playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance available; archival training for staff only.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 2500 ms. collections; public records, library; 2500 audio recordings (including oral histories); 500,000 linear feet of motion picture film and video; 250,000 still photographs.

KEY COLLECTIONS: ms. materials and public records relating to Nebraska and Great Plains; Nebraska newspapers 1854 to present; l9th- and early 20th-century materials from central Nebraska on Indians, agriculture, railroads, settlement of Great Plains; some Czech, German, and Scandinavian materials.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Guide to Manuscripts, 1974,1983.

Guide to Newspaper Collection, 1977. (currently being updated)

PRINTED INFORMATION: available.

NEVADA

NEVADA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FOLKLIFE ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1985

TELEPHONE: (702) 688-1225
FAX: (702) 688-1110

ACCESS: open to the public; please make appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: Photocopy machines, files, audio visual equipment available.

SERVICES: Reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 7,000 slides, 5,000 black and white negatives, 200 cassette and reel-to-reel tapes; field notes and ephemera; 100 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Lincoln County and Lander County folk arts surveys; ranching skills and crafts; Folk Arts Apprenticeships; Las Vegas folk arts.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: In a High and Glorious Place: Lincoln County Folklife; Nevada Folklife

PRINTED INFORMATION: Nevada Folklife: A Guide

NEW HAMPSHIRE

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ARCHIVES

TELEPHONE: (603) 646-2037
FAX: (603) 646-3702

KEY COLLECTIONS: Gordon Day Abenaki North American Indian folklore, music and song; Charles Wellington Furlong Fuegian (South American Indian) folklore, music and song; Alaskan Eskimo folklore, music and song; Shaker hymns.

NEW JERSEY

NEW JERSEY FOLKLORE ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: 1975

TELEPHONE: (908) 932-7006

ACCESS: walk-in, sign in.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, card catalog.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 10 broadsides, 10 pieces of ephemera, 10 maps, 40 tape recordings.

KEY COLLECTIONS: approximately 400 student papers on folklore topics, indexed by genre, nationality, religion, and New Jersey county.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Cohen, David. Folklife of New Jersey, based in part on archival materials.

PRINTED INFORMATION: not yet available.

INSTITUTE OF JAZZ STUDIES

ESTABLISHED: 1952

TELEPHONE: (201) 648-5595

ACCESS: appointment must be scheduled.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: IJS Jazz Register and Indexes, collection of discographies, photocopying, clipping files, photo files, listening facilities, recording studio.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes broadsides, ephemera, a few maps, 40,000 78rpm, 1,500 45rpm, and 45,000 LP discs, 6,000 CDs, 800 rare discs, 850 tape recordings, 200 cylinder recordings, 200 piano rolls, 5,000 photo prints, 100 photo negatives, 150 slides, 15 motion pictures, 150 videotapes, 60 artifacts, 4,000 reference books, 200 journals, 25 drawers of clippings, approximately 3,000 jazz orchestrations.

KEY COLLECTIONS: jazz and jazz-related materials, including blues, ragtime, swing, bebop, third stream, cool, jazz fusion, jazz-rock; antique phonographs, art works, instruments; The Jazz Oral History Project.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

IJS Jazz Register and Indexes.

*Annual Review of Jazz Studies.

*Studies in Jazz (monographic series).

*Available from Scarecrow Press.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

NEW MEXICO

E. W. BAUGHMAN FOLKLORE COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1982

TELEPHONE: (505) 277-6451
FAX: (505) 277-6019

ACCESS: walk-in.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading rooms, copying facilities, files.

SERVICES: library assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes several unpublished tape recordings, 20,000 ms. cards, 3,000 ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student collections from 30 years of folklore classes; emphasis on New Mexico Spanish; Southwest tall tales and treasure stories, rhymes, riddles, sayings, jokes.

JOHN DONALD ROBB ARCHIVE OF SOUTHWESTERN MUSIC

ESTABLISHED: 1964

TELEPHONE: (505) 277-2357
FAX: (505) 277-6019
E-MAIL: BITNET JWRIGHT@UNMB

ACCESS: appointment preferred, but not necessary.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: listening and taping facilities, copying machines, reading area, printed catalog, computer index in process.

SERVICES: reference assistance; archival training provided.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 399 broadsides, 100 commercial 78rpm, 50 commercial 45rpm, and 250 commercial LP discs, 314 unpublished discs, 1,095 hours tape recordings, 24 wire recordings, 126 photo prints, 150 slides, 8 motion pictures, 2 videotapes, ms. collection of 123 zarzuelas, 150 reference books and journals, 35 indexes, notebooks.

KEY COLLECTIONS: John Donald Robb collection; Jack Loeffler collection; Charlotte Johnson-Frisbie collection; Ruben Cobos collection; Southwestern U.S. (New Mexico) Hispanic, Native American, Anglo; corridos, alabados.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Roberts, Don L. "The Archive of Southwestern Music." The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist, 9:2 (Winter 1966-67).

Wright, James B. "The Archive of Southwestern Music: Source Materials for the Teacher," New Mexico Musician, 28:1 (Fall 1980).

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

LLOYD SHAW DANCE ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1977

TELEPHONE: (505) 247-3921
E-MAIL: litchman@xenon.unm.edu

ACCESS: write or call director.

SERVICES: archival training provided for archive volunteers.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1970

TELEPHONE: (505) 562-2624

ACCESS: write or call in advance; staff may supply information by phone or letter in lieu of visit.

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

SERVICES: reference assistance provided.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes broadsides, 30 maps, 20 18rpm discs, 618 tape recordings, 640.5 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 5,565 processed photo prints, 4,500 photo negatives, 3,000 slides, 2 motion pictures, 5 videotapes, 23,833 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Runnels collection; Lyric Theatre and Dance Collection; Jack Williamson Science Fiction Archives; Father Stanley Crocchiola New Mexico history ms. materials; oral histories of early settlers (some Spanish language).

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: list of publications available from archive.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART LIBRARY

ESTABLISHED: 1953

TELEPHONE: (505) 827-6350
FAX: (505) 827-6349

ACCESS: write for appointment. Library open to public, but library staff appreciates opportunity to arrange for user visit in advance.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: small library, reading table, tape and record playback equipment, slide table, photocopying machine.

SERVICES: library assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 200 maps, 30 published 78rpm, 20 published 45rpm, 100 published and 5 unpublished LP discs, 155 unpublished discs, 250 unpublished tapes, 6 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 200 photo prints, 1,000 photo negatives, 23,000 slides, 3 videotapes, 15,000 reference books and journals, 16 drawers of vertical file material.

KEY COLLECTIONS: folk literature and music of Spanish colonists in New Mexico; arts and crafts of northern New Mexico (slide survey, 1964); folk art and folklife of New Mexico (1983-84); emphasis on material culture worldwide.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Stark, R.B. Music of the "Bailes" in New Mexico, 1978.

Music of the Spanish Folk Plays in New Mexico, 1969.

NEW YORK

ALAN LOMAX ARCHIVE

The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress acquired the Alan Lomax Collection in 2004. The Alan Lomax Collection joins the material Alan Lomax collected during the 1930s and early 1940s for the Library’s Archive of American Folk Song, and its acquisition brings the entire seventy years of Alan Lomax’s work together under one roof at the Library of Congress, where it has found a permanent home.

ERPF CATSKILL CULTURAL INTSTITUTE

ESTABLISHED: 1974

TELEPHONE: (914) 586-3326

ACCESS: call to make an appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, card file.

SERVICES: limited assistance.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 5 broadsides, 200 unpublished tape recordings, 150 photo prints, 750 negatives, 2,000 slides, 1 motion picture, 1 videotape, 100 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Catskill region; ethnic residents of region: Scottish, Dutch, Jewish, Ukrainian, etc.; rural life: beekeeping, farming, trapping, hunting and fishing, quilting, ginseng.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available at no cost.

SUNY-BINGHAMTON FOLKLORE ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: ca. 1977

TELEPHONE: (607) 777-2826

ACCESS: contact archive supervisor.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes several hundred linear ft. of ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: student collections, mostly from New York State.

S.U.C.B. FOLKLORE ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: 1967

TELEPHONE: (716) 878-6110
FAX: (716) 878-4009
E-MAIL: FISHLM@SNYBUFVA.BITNET

ACCESS: contact director by letter or phone.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: computerized catalog, cross referenced.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 200 audio tapes, 25 videotapes, 8 file drawers of ms. cards, 32 file drawers of ms. sheets, 1,000 slides.

KEY COLLECTIONS: western New York folklore, especially Buffalo; Vietnam veterans oral history and folklore.

PRINTED INFORMATION: no printed guide available; write for specific information.

ARCHIVE OF FOLKLORE, TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND ORAL HISTORY

ESTABLISHED: 1970

TELEPHONE: (716) 635-2560

ACCESS: call or write director.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, catalogs, word processor, audio and video

SERVICES: reference assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 1,500 tape recordings, 15 linear ft. of ms. sheets.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Newport Folk Festivals; political material from 1960s and early 1970s; blues; oral narratives and general folklore, especially from Niagara Frontier area.

PRINTED INFORMATION: list of holdings presently being put on floppy disks, which will be available late 1985: disk at $10, printout at $5.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

ESTABLISHED: 1899

TELEPHONE: (607) 547-2509

ACCESS: walk-in.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: use of material restricted to reading room, subject catalog to ms. and oral history collections, xerographic copies may be made with librarian's permission; audio equipment available. Oral history materials may not be copied.

SERVICES: researchers must be assisted by special collections librarian.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 750 broadsides, 4 linear ft. of ephemera, 200 maps, 1,800 tape recordings, 1,000 linear ft. of ms. sheets, 20,000 photo prints, 16,000 slides, 70,000 reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Louis C. Jones Archives; Harold Thompson Archives; Cooperstown Graduate Programs Collection; New York State Historical Association ms. collections; Smith Telfer photograph collection; New York State rural life and culture.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Guide to Historical Resources in Otsego County New York Repositories.

CARL CARMER CENTER FOR CATSKILL MOUNTAIN AND HUDSON RIVER STUDIES

ESTABLISHED: 1978

TELEPHONE: (914) 257-2720

ACCESS: write or call the director.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, copying facilities, files.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes ephemera, maps, ms. sheets, photo negatives, slides, reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Norman Studer and Camp Woodland Papers (ms. sheets, notes, and miscellanea on folklore, folksong and folklife); Photographic Archive of Hudson Valley Region; emphasis on Hudson Valley and Catskills .

ARCHIVES, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

ESTABLISHED: 1980

TELEPHONE: (212) 769-5375
FAX: (212) 769-5334

ACCESS: request appointment by letter at least one week in advance.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: 1 work table, photocopying facilities (fee per copy).

SERVICES: reference assistance at all times.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 1,250 linear ft. of ms. sheets; American Museum of Natural History collection of cylinder recordings on deposit at Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington.

KEY COLLECTIONS: departmental correspondence from 1894 to present; accession documentation for artifact collection; fieldnotes; published and unpublished ms. materials; ethnology and archeology worldwide, emphasis on North and South America.

CENTER FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

ESTABLISHED: 1965

TELEPHONE: (212) 854-1247
FAX: (212) 749-0397

ACCESS: apply for access in person or in writing.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalogs, files of documentation, use of playback equipment.

SERVICES: reference assistance provided; archival training available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 4,200 tape recordings, 1,500 slides.

KEY COLLECTIONS: The Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional and Liturgical Music; West Asia; Oceania; West Africa; North American Indian.

CITY LORE: THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR URBAN FOLK CULTURE

ESTABLISHED: 1986

TELEPHONE: (212) 529-1955
FAX: (212) 529-5062

ACCESS: open by appointment

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room; photocopy machines, files, catalogs, audio and visual equipment.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 20,000 photographs of New York City's folk and ethnic cultures. Majority of photographs are color slides plus some black-and-white prints. Two scripted slide presentations: "Urban Traditions" and "Making Brooklyn Home." Audio tape collection of City Lore's festival presentations as well as oral histories of New York City transit workers; 35 videotapes, 150 journals and reference books.

KEY COLLECTIONS: documentation of New York City's folk and ethnic cultures; photo slide collection of photographer Martha Cooper

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: "Making Brooklyn Home: Tradition and Community in the Urban Neighborhood"; "I've Been Working on the Subway: The Folklore and Oral History of Transit"; "Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year"; "City Play".

PRINTED INFORMATION: available

ETHNIC FOLK ARTS CENTER

ESTABLISHED: 1966

TELEPHONE: (212) 691-9510

ACCESS: not open to the public; until funding is secured for archival development, substantial collections are not accessible.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes 78rpm and LP discs (American and European, contemporary and historic), photo prints, negatives and slides, videotapes and motion pictures, postcards, sheet music, costumes and other textiles, masks and musical instruments, reference books, periodicals, and ephemera.

KEY COLLECTIONS: traditional music and dance; rural and urban folklife in the Balkan countries and in ethnic communities in the United States.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS: Traditions magazine.

PRINTED INFORMATION: available.

MARTIN STEINBERG CENTER FOR JEWISH ARTISTS

ESTABLISHED: 1976

TELEPHONE: (212) 879-4500

ACCESS: call for appointment.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: catalog and audio equipment .

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes approximately 500 LP discs, many cassette and reel-to-reel tape recordings, several reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: archive of klezmer music; archive of ladino music; Jewish culture.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

News of the YIVO, quarterly newsletter.

Weinreich, Beatrice S., editor, Yiddish Folktales.

PRINTED INFORMATION: general information about the YIVO Institute is available. A guide to the YIVO archives and a user's guide for the commercial 78 rpms and Yiddish radio program collections are currently in preparation.

TRADITIONAL CRAFT ARCHIVE

ESTABLISHED: ca. 1964

TELEPHONE: (315) 363-4136

ACCESS: walk-in during library hours.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: card catalog, guide to holdings .

SERVICES: assistance available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes unpublished tape recordings, 10,000 ms. cards, 10,000 slides, 39 motion pictures.

KEY COLLECTIONS: emphasis on Native American crafts, especially weaving, games, toys, gathering, pottery; some materials on toolmaking, food preparation, woodworking, drawing, animal processing, smithing, divining, engraving, textiles, masonry.

PUBLICATIONS BASED ON COLLECTIONS:

Howard, Mark H. Guide to Holdings of the Traditional Craft Archive, 1979. Revised by Russell G. Hubbard.

Studies in Traditional American Crafts (issues Number 3-5 still available).

CHARLES T. WEAVER MUSEUM, ARCHIVE AND RESOURCE CENTER

TELEPHONE: (315) 267-2053

ACCESS: appointments can be made. Copying and publication by permission on Oral History materials only. Folklore materials are unreleased, but may be consulted by qualified scholars.

SERVICES: copying, cost must be met by applicants.

SIZE AND FORMAT: 1,500 collections and studies (text, tape and artifacts) from undergraduate research projects; 100 oral history interviews from St. Lawrence County, NY.

KEY COLLECTIONS: Weaver collection of Zaireian (Otetele) material culture and art; Potsdam local history, river logging, Franco-American culture in Northern New York State.

WOODY GUTHRIE ARCHIVES

250 West 57th Street, Suite 1218
New York, NY 10107-1218

TELEPHONE: 212-541-6230

Established in 1972, the Woody Guthrie Foundation is a non-profit organization that serves as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives. Dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of information about Woody Guthrie's vast cultural legacy, the Woody Guthrie Archives houses the largest collection of Woody Guthrie material in the world. Since it's opening in 1996, the Woody Guthrie Archives has been a major success becoming an important resource for the general public, musicians, singers, songwriters, scholars, and public and private cultural institutions wishing to access the research collection.

YIVO ARCHIVES

ESTABLISHED: 1925

TELEPHONE: (212) 246-6080

ACCESS: open to the public; consultation with staff necessary.

RESEARCH FACILITIES: reading room, finding aids to some collections, microfilm reader, copying facilities.

SERVICES: reference staff available.

SIZE AND FORMAT: includes broadsides, ephemera, maps, posters, 8,000 78rpms, LPs, EPs, and 45 rpms; 150 10-inch safety reel transfers of Yiddish radio acetates, circa 1935-55; 200 cassette transfers of archival holdings available for public use, manuscripts, letters, films, slides, motion pictures, videotapes, photo prints and negatives, reference books and journals.

KEY COLLECTIONS: folklore collections: A. Litwin Papers, Y. L. Cahan Papers, YIVO Ethnographic Committee Records, A. M. Bern- stein Papers, S. Perlmutter collection, YIVO Vilna Music Collection, Ruth Rubin Papers; Yiddish folklore and culture with emphasis on Eastern European Jewry; records of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, St. Petersburg.