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Seeger Family Materials in the Archive of Folk Culture

Collections featuring Charles Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete and Toshi Seeger, and Ruth Crawford Seeger as collector, donor, interviewee, lecturer, or performer

Compiled by Todd Harvey
March 16, 2007

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Charles Seeger

Peggy Seeger

Mike Seeger

Pete and Toshi Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Charles Seeger

AFS 1616-1637: Alan Lomax 1938 Library of Congress Sessions Collection
Twenty-two 12-inch discs of songs performed by Barbara Bell, Ernest Bourne, W.C. Handy, Alan Lomax, Bess Brown Lomax, the Resettlement Administration Singers, the Rindlisbacher Lumberjack Group, Earl Robinson, Charles Seeger, the Skyline Farm Singers, and Blaine Stubblefield. Recorded primarily in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress, and in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by Alan Lomax, 1937-38.

AFS 1618 A&B1: "Careless Love" and AFS 1618 B2: "Cindy" sung by Edward T. Calhoun, Adrian Dornbush, Grete Franke, Richard Kenah, Bess Brown Lomax, Leverett S. Lyon, Martha Peacock, Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tannis Tugwell, Margaret Valiant, and John B. Vance. Recorded in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by Alan Lomax, November 31, 1937. (10 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 118A)

AFS 1778-1841: Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
Sixty-four 12-inch discs of ballads, instrumentals, songs, and stories performed by Bascom Lamar Lunsford of Leicester, North Carolina, 1935. Originally recorded at Columbia University, New York City, by William Cabell Greet and George W. Hibbitt. Duplication arranged by Charles Seeger, 1937. (10 hours; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 125B-130B)

AFS 2086-2089: Resettlement Administration Collection
Four 8-inch discs of instrumentals and songs sung by Rebecca and Penelope Tarwater. Recorded in Washington, D.C., by Charles Seeger for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration, 1936. (32 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 142A)

AFS 3155-3313: Sidney Robertson Cowell and Charles Seeger / Resettlement Administration and the 1937 National Folk Festival
One hundred fifty-nine 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs recorded in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin by Sidney Robertson Cowell, Charles Seeger, Margaret Valiant, and others for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration, 1936-37.

AFS 3304A: One disc side of three songs performed on harmonicas by Bernard Steffen and Charles Pollock from Kansas and Colorado. Recorded in Washington, D.C., by Charles Seeger, June 2, 1936. (5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 441B)

AFS 3304B: One disc side of three songs sung by Rebecca and Penelope Tarwater of Rockwood, Tennessee. Recorded in Washington, D.C., by Charles Seeger, June 2, 1936. (5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 441B)

AFS 3305-3307: Two discs of instrumental tunes recorded by Charles Seeger in Arthurdale, West Virginia, August 1936. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 217B)

AFS 3789-3795: Charles Seeger WPA South Carolina Recordings, 1939 Seven 12-inch discs of songs and spirituals, including several accompanied on banjo and bones. Recorded on Brevard Plantation, Adams Mill, near Columbia, South Carolina, by Charles Seeger, March 1939. (1 hour and 5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 247)

AFS 9916: Charles Seeger Peruvian Folk Music
One 16-inch disc of ten Peruvian folk songs by Moises Vivanco and the Yma Sumac Inca Trio. Recorded at an unknown location, October 14, 1949. Donated by Charles Seeger. (15 minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 280B)

AFS 14,607-14,616: Charles Seeger Commercial Recordings Collection
Ten 10-inch discs of folk music from various parts of Africa and Switzerland. Recorded in the 1930s and 1940s. Donated by Charles Seeger. (1 hour)

AFS 20,105-20,107: Archive of Folk Song Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium Collection
Three 10-inch tapes documenting papers and discussion on the past, present, and future of the Archive of Folk Song. Participants include Sterling Brown, Norm Cohen, Archie Green, Herbert Halpert, Wayland D. Hand, Joseph C. Hickerson, Alan Jabbour, Debora Kodish, Alan Lomax, Carol Nemeyer, James Porter, and Charles Seeger. Recorded at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1978.

AFS 20,106: One tape containing Charles Seeger lecturing on "The Impact of the Archive on America's Musical Life." (15 minutes; LWO 12526 reel 2)

AFC 1948/005; AFS 8018-8023: Charles Seeger Collection of Mexican Folksongs from a Pennsylvania Railroad Camp
Six 12-inch discs of sixteen songs sung by Mexican migrant workers from a Pennsylvania Railroad camp. Recorded by Charles Seeger in Cheverly, Maryland, September 16, 1944. (1 hour; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 521).

AFC 1948/006; AFS 8024-8026: Charles Seeger Collection of Festival Folklorico Universidad de Chile
Three 12-inch discs, duplicates of material recorded at the "Festival Folklorico," Universidad de Chile, 1948. Donated by Charles Seeger. (5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reel 521B)

AFC 1948/054; AFS 8937-8943: J.M. Coopersmith Collection of Dominican Republic Folk Music
Seven 16-inch discs of folk music recorded in the Dominican Republic by J.M. Coopersmith. Duplicated from recordings loaned by Charles Seeger, 1948. (3 hours and 30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 5111 reels 167B-169A)

AFC 1985/003: Charles Seeger / "Song and the Compositional Process" Collection Two 10-inch tapes of a lecture entitled "Song and the Compositional Process" given by Charles Seeger at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1978.

AFC 1988/008; AFS 26201-26212: Karen Cardullo Collection of Interviews Regarding Ruth Crawford Seeger
Twelve audiocassettes of interviews conducted with Elizabeth Cotten, Archie Green, Bess Lomax Hawes, Charles Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger about the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger, particularly her work with folk music. The Collection also includes recordings of Ruth Crawford Seeger duplicated for Cardullo by Mike Seeger, and readings from Ruth Crawford Seeger's diaries and letters, as well as one cassette (cassette 13) of Charles Seeger's 1978 Library of Congress Elson Lecture (see AFC 1988/008). Interviews relate to Cardullo's 1980 Master of Arts thesis, George Washington University, about Ruth Crawford Seeger. (RYA 8809-8819, RXA 7644)

AFC 2000/019: David Dunaway Collection of Interviews with Pete Seeger and Contemporaries
One hundred thirty-four tape recordings made by David Dunaway of important figures in American folk revival music, 1976-83, including Harold Leventhal, Malvina Reynolds, Charles Seeger, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and Pete Seeger, among others. Finding Aid available at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/DunawaySeeger.html.

AFC 2000/019: SR 103-114, 121: Thirteen tapes containing interviews with Charles Seeger, 1976-77. (15 hours)

Peggy Seeger

AFS 19,450-19,454: Berkeley Folk Festival, 1960
Five 7-inch tapes of workshops and performances recorded at the 1960 Berkeley (CA) Folk Festival. Participants include Slim Critchlow, Sam Hinton, Ewan MacColl, the New Lost City Ramblers, Sandy Paton, Malvina Reynolds, and Peggy Seeger. (10 hours; LWO 12960)

AFC 1975/001: John and Ginny Dildine Collection
One hundred fifty-two 5-inch, 7-inch, and 10-inch tapes of Washington, D.C., area folk music radio programs and events during the 1960s. Includes performances and interviews with the Bob Beers, Paul Clayton, Char Daniels, Carolyn Hester, the New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, Dave Sear, and Pete Seeger, among others. One tape includes Peggy Seeger performing at Washington University, St. Louis, December 12, 1961.

AFC 1996/031: Jim Lloyd / BBC "Folk on 2" Radio Broadcast Collection
Four audiocassettes of the British Broadcasting Company's radio program "Folk on 2," including a recording of the 25th anniversary program from 1995, which documents the English folk music scene of the early 1970s, an interview with Peggy Seeger from 1996, which covers the evolution of her career from the beginning of the folk music revival up to the early 1990s, and recordings and interviews from the 1996 Folk Alliance Conference in Washington D.C.

AFC 2000/019: SR 120: One tape containing an interview with Peggy Seeger, 1977. (1 hour and 30 minutes)

AFC 2001/029: "Living Lore: The Legacy of Benjamin A. Botkin" Symposium Collection
Ten audiocassettes and nine videocassettes documenting a symposium sponsored by the American Folklife Center and other divisions of the Library of Congress titled "Living Lore: The Legacy of Benjamin A. Botkin," November 15-16, 2001. Performers and speakers include Oscar Brand, Joseph C. Hickerson, Jerry Hirsch, Alan Jabbour, Julia Olin, Jerome Rosenthal, Henry Sapoznik, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, United House of Prayer Band, Stephen Wade, Roger Welsch, and Joe Wilson. One videocassette contains a performance by Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand, Peggy Seeger, and Mike Seeger in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, November 16, 2001. (1 hour)

Mike Seeger

AFS 13,681-13,702: Ralph Rinzler Duplication Project
Twenty-two 10-inch tapes of Cajun music from Louisiana, Scottish-Gaelic music from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and ballads from Newfoundland. Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, by Ralph Rinzler and Mike Seeger, 1964-66. (44 hours; LWO 5590)

AFS 13,718: Mike Seeger Recordings of Kate Sturgill, Scott Boatright, and Luther Bryant
One 10-inch tape of Kate Sturgill singing songs, recorded in Greenville, Tennessee, December 31, 1968; Scott Boatright performing songs and banjo tunes, recorded near Coeburn Virginia, January 2, 1969; and Luther Bryant performing songs and banjo tunes, recorded in Troutville, Virginia, January 5, 1969. (1 hour; LWO 5571)

AFS 18,089-18,090: National Public Radio Concert of Mother Maybelle Carter with Family and Friends
Two 10-inch tapes of country music performed by Maybelle Carter, Helen Carter Jones, and David Carter Jones accompanied by Mike Seeger and Ralph Rinzler. Recorded at the Smithsonian Institution's Baird Auditorium by National Public Radio's "Folk Festival USA" as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Women in Country Music," May 18, 1975. (2 hours; LWO 8906)

AFS 19,816-19,821: Richard Reuss Folksong Revival Project
Seven tapes of music of the folksong revival, recorded from commercial discs and at concerts by Richard Reuss. Performers include Ian Campbell, Guy Carawan, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Rising Sun Steel Band from Antigua.

AFS 19,820: One tape containing performances of "True and Trembling Brakeman," "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake," and "Orange Blossom Special" by the New Lost City Ramblers. Recorded at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 22, 1963. (10 minutes)

AFC 1963/001: University of Chicago Folk Festival
Nine 7-inch tapes from a University of Chicago Folk Festival. Performers include the Clarence Tom Ashley Group, Gary Davis, the New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Redpath, Edona Ritchie, Speckled Red, and the Staples family. One tape contains eight songs performed by the New Lost City Ramblers at the University of Chicago Folk Festival. (30 minutes)

AFC 1975/001: John and Ginny Dildine Collection
One hundred fifty-two 5-inch, 7-inch, and 10-inch tapes of Washington, D.C., area folk music radio programs and events during the 1960s. Includes performances and interviews with the Bob Beers, Paul Clayton, Char Daniels, Carolyn Hester, the New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, Dave Sear, and Pete Seeger, among others. Nine tapes contain concerts and radio programs featuring the New Lost City Ramblers, 1958-64. (4 hours and 30 minutes)

AFC 1977/015; AFS 18962: Mike Seeger Collections / Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, and Sam Bowles Recordings
One 5-inch tape of instrumentals, including two banjo duets by Don Reno and Earl Scruggs recorded in a contest at Rising Sun, Maryland, July 24, 1955, as well as nine steel guitar instrumentals by Sam Bowles, recorded at Centerville, Ohio, February-March 1971. (16 minutes; LWO 9415)

AFC 1982/004: Mike Seeger Collection, Part I
Twenty-eight 7-inch tapes from the Beanblossom, Indiana, Bluegrass Festival, as well as performances by Tommy Collins, Elizabeth Cotten, Cousin Emmy, Otis Pierce, Johnny Shines, and the Strange Creek Singers, 1970s.

AFC 1988/026: Mike Seeger Collection, 1988
Sixty-nine 7-inch tapes of performances by Elizabeth Cotten, Hilary Dickens, Woody Guthrie, the New Lost City Ramblers, Junie Scruggs, Pete Seeger, the Stoneman Family, J.C. Sutphin, and others. Nine tapes contain performances by the New Lost City Ramblers, New York University Law School, New York City, December 16, 1973. Four tapes contain performances by the New Lost City Ramblers, New York University, Loeb Student Center, New York City, March 12, 1977. Two tapes contain performances by the New Lost City Ramblers, New York University, Loeb Student Center, New York City, December 10, 1977. (7 hours)

AFC 1995/004: Mike Seeger Collection
Two hundred and seventy-five 10-inch tapes of bluegrass, country, and folk music. Performers include Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Don Reno, and Red Smiley, the Stanley Brothers, among others, as well as interviews with Tom Ashley, Sam and Kirk McGee, Ernest V. Stoneman, Gid Tanner, and Frank Walker. Recorded in many locations, primarily by Mike Seeger, 1953-67.

AFC 1995/006: Seattle Folklore Society Collection
Fifty-four 7-inch tapes from Seattle, Washington, Folklore Society concerts of performances by Elizabeth Cotten, Gary Davis, Jack Elliott, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Sam Hinton, Roscoe Holcomb, Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Bill Monroe, Mike Seeger, Doc Watson, Booker White, Big Joe Williams, and Robert Pete Williams, among others, 1965-73.

AFC 1996/013: Larry Appelbaum / "Remembering Ralph Rinzler" Collection
One 7-inch tape of recollections about Ralph Rinzler by his friends and colleagues, James Early, Richard Kurin, Jeffrey LaRiche, and Mike Seeger, broadcast on WPFW-FM (Washington, D.C.), July 17, 1994. (1 hour)

AFC 1996/047: WUNC / "'Tis Sweet to be Remembered" radio program
One audiocassette of "'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered," a radio program documenting the history of radio station WPAQ, Mount Airy, North Carolina, and the role it has played in furthering old-time, country, gospel, and bluegrass music. The program contains interviews with manager Paul Brown, Jack Burkette, Ralph Epperson, Mike Seeger, Robert Sykes, and Mac Wiseman, as well as musical excerpts by Jim Eanes, Benton Flippen, The Friendly Four, Esker Hutchins, Tommy Jarrell, Ray Myers, Arville Scott, and Mac Wiseman, ca.1990. (29 minutes)

AFC 1997/001: Beverly Underwood / Bill Vernon--Mike Seeger Interview Collection
One audiocassette of a radio program featuring Mike Seeger, part of a retrospective series about Folkways Records after the death of its founder, Moses Asch, broadcast over WVTF-FM, Roanoke, Virginia, September 9, 1987. (1 hour)

AFC 1999/001: Newport Folk Festival 1963 and 1966
Fifty-four audiocassettes documenting performances at the 1963 and 1966 Newport (RI) Folk Festivals. Major performers of the period are represented, including Joan Baez, Theo Bikel, Cape Breton Singers, Maybelle Carter, Paul Clayton, John Cohen, Judy Collins, Jimmy Driftwood, Bob Dylan, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Freedom Singers, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Hammond, Bess Hawes, Carolyn Hester, Sam Hinton, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Bernice Johnson (Reagon), Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Ali Akbar Khan, David McAllester, Ed McCurdy, Brownie McGhee, Bill Monroe, New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jean Redpath, Jean Ritchie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tony Saletan, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Bukka White, and many others. Two tapes contain Mike Seeger and Mother Maybelle Carter performing in an autoharp workshop, July 28, 1963. (30 minutes; RWD 8323 reels 7-8). One tape contains the New Lost City Ramblers performing, July 28, 1963. (10 minutes, RWD 8354 reel 19). Two tapes contain Mike Seeger performing "Johnny Gray" and "Darlin' Corey" as a solo and "Needlecase," "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," and "Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South" with John Cohen in the Old Banjo Styles workshop, July 27, 1963. (10 minutes; RWD 8359 reels 24-25). One tape contains Mike Seeger singing in the Ballad Topping workshop, July 22, 1966. (3 minutes; RWD 8683 reel 37)

AFC 2000/019:SR 117-119: Three tapes of interviews with Mike Seeger, 1977. (2 hours and 30 minutes)

AFC 2004/024: North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance Oral History Collection
New Lost City Ramblers interviewed by Scott Alarik, February 28, 2004; Nick Reynolds interviewed by Joe Hickerson, February 27, 2004; Joe Hickerson interviewed by Jennifer Cutting, February 27, 2004. One compact disc contains an interview with the New Lost City Ramblers conducted by Scott Alarik, February 28, 2004. (1 hour)

Pete and Toshi Seeger

AFS 3762-3768: Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger / Bog Trotters Recordings
Seven 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs recorded in Galax and Roanoke, Virginia, by Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger, January 1939. (1 hour and 5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 245)

AFS 4489: Pete Seeger and Square Dance Music
One 16-inch disc of square dance music performed by Pete Seeger and group, recorded at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ca.1941. (20 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 310B)

AFS 6100-6105: Two 10-inch and four 12-inch discs of songs sung by the Almanac Singers, Alan and John A. Lomax, and Earl Robinson. Recorded in New York City, January 1942.

AFS 6100B-6101B, 6103, 6105A: Four discs containing six songs performed by the Almanac Singers, which include Pete Seeger singing and playing banjo. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493)

AFS 14,172-14,175: Mr. and Mrs. Cal Herrmann / Folk Music Concerts Collection
Four 10-inch tapes of folk music concerts featuring Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, and Sonny Terry. Recorded in Circle Pines, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois, 1956 and 1957.

AFS 14,173-14,175: Three tapes containing performances by Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, and Sonny Terry, location and date unknown, as well as performances by Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, Circle Pines, Michigan, July 6, 1957. (3 hours; LWO 5846)

AFS 17,502: Pete Seeger Oberlin College Concert, 1955
One 10-inch tape of a concert performed by Pete Seeger, recorded at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, by Stephen Lee Taller and others, April 16, 1955. (2 hours; LWO 8394)

AFS 19,250-19,252: Norman Cazden / Catskill Folk Festival, 1977
Three 10-inch tapes recorded at the 1977 Catskill Folk Festival at Andes, New York, of songs, ballads, stories and instrumental music performed by Grant Rogers, Pete Seeger, Norman Studer, Sonya Malkine, and Joel Shimberg, among others.

AFS 19,250-19,251: Two tapes of Pete Seeger making a presentation and singing twelve songs. (1 hour; LWO 12001 reels 1-2)

AFS 19,381: Pete Seeger / M.T. Ferretta Songs
One audiocassette of M.T. Ferretta of Droche, British Columbia, Canada, singing his own compositions, "A Song for Grandmapa" and "Greenpeace." Donated by Pete Seeger, 1977. (10 minutes)

AFS 20,521-20,523: Norman Cazden / Catskill Folk Festival Collection, 1979
Three 10-inch tapes of children's songs and stories, Scottish songs and instrumental selections, gospel music, fiddle tunes, and square dance music and calls. Recorded at the Catskill Folk Festival, Andes, New York, August 11-12, 1979.

AFS 20,523: One tape of Pete Seeger singing ten songs. (1 hour; LWO 16815 reel 3)

AFS 22,492: Robert A. Black / Pete Seeger Disc Collection
One 10-inch disc of three songs related to farming sung by Pete Seeger. Recorded at Dynamic Recording Studio in New York City, 1940s. (5 minutes)

AFC 1939/002; AFS 4491I-4524; AFS 13,488-13,501: Alan Lomax CBS Radio Series Collection
Sixty-six 16-inch discs and associated manuscript materials relating to Alan Lomax's participation in the "CBS American School of the Air," which was broadcast from 1939 to 1941. Programs were aired weekly and were based on themes such as work songs, railroad songs, whaling ballads, game songs, and play-party songs. Among featured performers were The Bogtrotters, The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Aunt Molly Jackson, Huddie (Lead Belly) Leadbetter, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, and Joshua (Josh) White.

AFS 4516A: One disc containing "The Great Plains in Song" (Parts 1 and 2). 23rd in the "Wellsprings of Music" series. Hosted by Alan Lomax with performances by Burl Ives, Tony Kraber, and Pete Seeger. Recorded April 1, 1941. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 315B-316A)

AFS 4516B: One disc containing "Railroad Songs" (Parts 1 and 2). 25th in the "Wellsprings of Music" series. Hosted by Alan Lomax with performances by The Golden Gate Quartet, Burl Ives, Huddie Ledbetter, Pete Seeger, and Joshua White. Recorded April 15, 1941. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 316A)

AFS 4520A: One disc containing "The American Sailor" (Parts 1 and 2). 21st in the "Wellsprings of Music" series. Hosted by Alan Lomax with performances by The Four Clubmen, The Golden Gate Quartet, Burl Ives, Tony Kraber, and Pete Seeger. Recorded March 4, 1941. (30 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 316B)

AFC 1942/003; AFS 6397-6452; 6455-6463: "Dear Mr. President" Collection
Four 16-inch, Forty-eight 12-inch, and three 8-inch discs of recorded reactions to war-time conditions in the United States. Recorded by Robert E. Barton Allen, Harry Behn, Fletcher Collins, Duncan Emrich, John Henry Faulk, Helen Hartness Flanders, Charles Johnson, Lewis Jones, Marguerite Olney, Vance Randolph, William N. Robson, Robert Sonkin, and Charles Todd in various locations throughout the United States, January-February 1942. Recorded for the Office of Emergency Management, Radio Section program "Dear Mr. President." Collection may be found online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html.

AFS 6408A: One disc containing "Dear Mr. President" performed by Pete Seeger. Recorded New York City, by Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin. (5 minutes; tape copy on LWO 3493 reel 42B)

AFC 1943/006; AFS 6730-6733: Alan Lomax / Pete Bowers [Seeger] Square Dance Calls
Four 8-inch discs of square dance calls with banjo playing by Pete Bowers [Pete Seeger], recorded by Alan Lomax, August 5, 1943. (25 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 427A)

AFC 1953/004; AFS 10757-10762: Lomax / Pete and Toshi Seeger
Recordings Six 7-inch tapes of negro prison songs recorded in Texas prison farms in 1951 with the assistance of John Lomax, Jr., as well as Sioux songs recorded in Parmelee, South Dakota, 1951. (LWO 3550)

AFC 1986/029: Peter V. Kuykendall / Folk Video Dubs Collection
One videocassette of NBC and PBS broadcasts from the 1960s. Selections include performances by Pete Seeger (Rainbow Quest), The Stanley Brothers, Jimmie Rodgers, Uncle Dave Macon, and Mississippi John Hurt.

AFC 1988/008; AFS 26,201-26,212: Karen Cardullo Collection of Interviews Regarding Ruth Crawford Seeger
Twelve audiocassettes of interviews conducted with Elizabeth Cotten, Archie Green, Bess Lomax Hawes, Charles Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger about the life and work of Ruth Crawford Seeger, particularly her work with folk music. The Collection also includes recordings of Ruth Crawford Seeger duplicated for Cardullo by Mike Seeger, and readings from Ruth Crawford Seeger's diaries and letters, as well as one cassette (cassette 13) of Charles Seeger's 1978 Library of Congress Elson Lecture (see AFC 1988/008). Interviews relate to Cardullo's 1980 Master of Arts thesis, George Washington University, about Ruth Crawford Seeger. (RYA 8809-8819, RXA 7644)

AFC 1988/010; AFS 26,172-26,176: Pete Seeger / Sloop Singers Concerts, 1971
Five 7-inch tapes of Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers Concerts at the Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C., November 12-13, 1971.

AFC 1995/004:FT-3786: One tape of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie recorded in a New York City apartment.

AFC 1995/033: Stephen Lee Taller Collection of Ben Shahn Recordings
One 4-inch, four 5-inch, and two 7-inch tapes of sounds of New York City, recorded by Tony Schwartz. Included in the Collection are performances by Pete Seeger, Suzanna Shahn, John Jacob Niles, and others. One tape includes Pete Seeger performing "Who Killed Davey Moore?" by Bob Dylan, 1960s. (5 minutes)

AFC 1996/003: Anne Grimes / Ohio Folk Music Collection
One hundred three 7-inch tapes, twenty-two 5-inch tapes, two 4-inch tapes, and thirteen 3-inch tapes of instrumentals, interviews, songs, and stories, recorded primarily in Ohio by Anne Grimes, 1953-92. The Collection includes 185 articles, 83 other ephemeral publications, 955 pages of manuscripts, 102 photos, and 3 videocassettes. Included in the Collection are John M. Bodiker, Bob Gibson, 4-H Club founder Albert B. Graham, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, May Kennedy McCord, Branch Rickey, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, and Anne Grimes. One tape includes Pete Seeger performing "Hey Lolly, Lolly," referencing the Anne Grimes family, recorded in St. Louis, Missouri, at the National Folk Festival. (4 minutes)

AFC 1996/032: Pete Seeger 1972 Oberlin Commencement Collection
One audiocassette of part of Oberlin (OH) College's 1972 commencement ceremony featuring an address and performance given by Pete Seeger. (50 minutes)

AFC 1996/076: Bill Moyers' Journal Interview with Pete Seeger
One videotape of an interview of Pete Seeger by Bill Moyers on the Bill Moyers' Journal TV program, filmed in Beacon, New York, May 20, 1994. (1 hour)

AFC 1999/001: Newport Folk Festival 1963 and 1966
Fifty-four audiocassettes documenting performances at the 1963 and 1966 Newport (RI) Folk Festivals. Major performers of the period are represented, including Joan Baez, Theo Bikel, Cape Breton Singers, Maybelle Carter, Paul Clayton, John Cohen, Judy Collins, Jimmy Driftwood, Bob Dylan, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Freedom Singers, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Hammond, Bess Hawes, Carolyn Hester, Sam Hinton, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Bernice Johnson (Reagon), Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Ali Akbar Khan, David McAllester, Ed McCurdy, Brownie McGhee, Bill Monroe, New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jean Redpath, Jean Ritchie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tony Saletan, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Bukka White, and many others. One tape contains Pete Seeger performing at the workshop "Topical Songs and New Songwriters," July 28, 1963. (30 minutes; RWD 8317 reel 1). One tape contains Pete Seeger performing "Old Joe Clark," July 28, 1963. (3 minutes; RWD 8352 reel 17). Two tapes contain Pete Seeger performing, July 28, 1963. (15 minutes; RWD 8355 reels 20-21). Two tapes contain Pete Seeger performing in the Children's Concert, July 28, 1963. (15 minutes; RWD 8361 reels 26-27). Two tapes contain Pete Seeger performing "Guantanamera" and the "Seneca Canoe Song" at the Non-English Language Workshop, July 27, 1963. (6 minutes; RWD 8363 reels 28-29). One tape contains Pete Seeger, with Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul & Mary singing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "We Shall Overcome" at the evening concert, July 26, 1963. (10 minutes; RWD 8676 reel 30). Two tapes contain Pete Seeger performing at the evening concert, July 24, 1966. (10 minutes; RWD 8689 reels 43-44).

AFC 1999/010: Rik Palieri / Pete Seeger interview and Palieri CD
One audiocassette of an interview with Pete Seeger, Recorded by Rik Palieri, April 21, 1999. (1 hour)

AFC 2000/019:SR01-30, SR59, SR121: Thirty-two tapes of interviews with Pete Seeger, 1976-78, 1983. (39 hours)

AFC 2001/024: Joseph C. Hickerson / "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" NHK Video Documentary Collection
One videocassette of the documentary titled "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" featuring footage of Joseph C. Hickerson and Pete Seeger, produced by NHK of Japan, 2000.

AFC 2003/014: Alan Chartock Interview With Pete Seeger Collection
Two CDs containing an interview of Pete Seeger made by Alan Chartock for WAMC radio, 2003.

AFC 2003/027: Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection
Approximately 420 film and audio elements relating to Pete and Toshi Seeger's filmmaking in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, 1955-65.

AFC 2005/007: I. Sheldon Posen Interview with Pete Seeger Collection
One CD of an interview with Pete Seeger conducted by Canadian folklorist, I. Sheldon Posen, Beacon, New York, December 18, 1991.

AFC 2006/009: Pete and Toshi Seeger Interview
One DVD of an interview with Pete and Toshi Seeger conducted by Peggy Bulger and Todd Harvey regarding the Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection (AFC 2003/017), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 6, 2006. (2 hours)

Ruth Crawford Seeger

AFS 1618A & B1: "Careless Love" and AFS 1618 B2: "Cindy" sung by Edward T. Calhoun, Adrian Dornbush, Grete Franke, Richard Kenah, Bess Brown Lomax, Leverett S. Lyon, Martha Peacock, Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tannis Tugwell, Margaret Valiant, and John B. Vance. Recorded in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by Alan Lomax, November 31, 1937. (10 minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 118A)

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