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Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture
NEW JERSEY COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE
Acquired through
1997
Compiled by: Jennifer Rita Collins Joyce Series Editor:
Ann Hoog
Publication Date: July 2002
Series Number: LCFAFA No. 29
ISSN 0736-4903
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.
The compiler wishes to thank Daria Mamaluk for her compilation of the
previous New Jersey finding aid in 1982.
Sounds Recordings and Multiformat Collections
AFS 1772-1777; 1842-1845: Ten 12-inch discs of three poems and
thirty-five songs, with conversations, sung and spoken by Jennie Devlin.
Recorded in Gloucester, New Jersey, by Alan Lomax and Kay (Katharine) Dealey
(Newman), June 20, 1938. The collection includes eight pages of content
lists. (One hour and thirty minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reels 123, 130B-131A)
[See also: Newman, Katharine D. Never Without a Song: The Years and Songs
of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952. University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago,
1995.]
AFS 4690-4698: Nine 12-inch discs of thirty-five songs and fiddle
tunes performed by Mrs. Carrie Grover of Gorham, Maine. Recorded in Teaneck,
New Jersey, by Sidney Robertson (Cowell), April 1941. The collection includes
six pages of content lists. (One hour and thirty-five minutes; tape copy
on LWO 4872 reels 323-324A)
AFS 5028-5034: Seven 12-inch discs of thirty-eight fiddle tunes
and songs recorded at various locations in New York and in Shiloh, New
Jersey, by Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd, June 13-26, 1941. The collection
includes eight pages of content lists and fieldnotes.
AFS 5034B1-3: One disc containing two songs sung by Mrs. D.J.
Lewis and one song sung by Mr. and Mrs. R.I. Lewis. Recorded in Shiloh,
New Jersey, June 26, 1941. (Five minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel
359A)
AFS 5035-5098: Sixty-four 12-inch discs of conversations, interviews,
prayer meetings, rhymes, and songs. Recorded at various locations in Alabama
and New Jersey, by Robert Sonkin, June 25-July 25, 1941. The collection
includes one inch of content lists and textual transcriptions.
AFS 5040-5041: Two discs containing seven songs sung by the
William Milbourne Family Quartet, Earl Richardson, and Earl Richardson's
Quartet. Recorded in Port Norris, New Jersey, June 25, 1941. (Twenty
minutes; tape copy on LWO 4872 reel 359A)
AFS 10,085: One 10-inch tape of Hebrew chants and prayers performed
by Cantor Aaron M. Greenberg of Jersey City, New Jersey. Recorded at the
Library of Congress by Hermond Norwood, December 28, 1950. The collection
includes two pages of content lists. (One hour and four minutes; LWO 1748)
AFS 14,270-14,271: Two 7-inch tapes of an interview and twenty
Irish fiddle tunes spoken and performed by Edmund McDermott of Keyport,
New Jersey. Recorded in Washington, D.C., by Alan Jabbour, October 4, 1970.
The collection includes a one-page content list. (One hour; LWO 6125)
AFS 14,272: One 10-inch tape of an interview and twenty-three
Irish fiddle tunes performed by Edmund McDermott of Keyport, New Jersey.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress by Gary A. Henderson,
John E. Howell, and Alan Jabbour, October 5, 1970. The collection includes
a one-page content list. (Two hours; LWO 6126)
AFS 14,479-14,480: Two 7-inch tapes of conversation and one hundred
and fifty-three Irish fiddle tunes performed by Edmund McDermott of Keyport,
New Jersey. Recorded in Middletown, New Jersey, March 23, 1968-August 20,
1970, by Lani Herrmann. The collection includes seven pages of content
lists. (Five hours; LWO 6470)
AFS 14,631-14,635: Five 10-inch tapes of games, poems, rhymes,
songs, and stories recorded primarily in Vermont by Margaret MacArthur,
1961-68. The collection includes one-half linear inch of content lists
and nine pages of textual transcriptions.
AFS 14,633A11-23: One tape containing one song sung by Olive
Derry of Wayne, New Jersey; ten songs and one story sung and spoken by
Barbara Linden of Paramus, New Jersey; and one song sung by Jane Reed
of Paramus, New Jersey. Recorded in Paramus, New Jersey, February 2,
1964. (Twenty minutes; LWO 6595 reel 3A)
AFS 17,969: One 10-inch tape of "Sabbath Music of the Home
and Synagogue" narrated and sung by Rabbi Judah Washer and Cantor
David Osen. Recorded at the Jewish Community Center, Teaneck, New Jersey.
Accessioned August 1975. (One hour; LWO 8529)
AFS 18,053-18,058: Six 10-inch tapes of Jewish and other songs
recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cincinnati, Ohio; Denver, Colorado;
New York, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and West Orange, New Jersey,
by Jack Manischewitz, 1957-61. The collection includes thirty-two pages
of content lists and notes.
AFS 18,056-18,058: Three tapes containing Jewish and other songs
performed by various artists. Recorded in West Orange, New Jersey, 1960-61.
(Six hours; LWO 8692 reels 4-6)
AFS 19,161-19,178: Eighteen 10-inch tapes of Lithuanian folk songs
recorded in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C.,
and Wisconsin by Jonas Balys, 1949-50. (Portions of this collection are
also contained on AFS 10,751, 10, 805, and 10,873-10,874). The collection
includes five linear inches of manuscripts containing an alphabetic index
of songs, copies of six diaries of field expeditions, and photocopies of
original tape boxes having supplementary information.
AFS 19,173-19,174: Two tapes containing twenty-six ballads,
father's songs, rye-harvest songs, wedding songs, and other folksongs
sung by Marcel Mackevi ien and Izabel Lukien . Recorded in Elizabeth,
New Jersey, July 2, 1950. (One hour)
AFS 23,019-23,155: Eighteen 7-inch tapes, two 5-inch tapes, and
one hundred seventeen cassettes of ethnic radio broadcasts recorded for
the Ethnic Broadcasting in America Project of the American Folklife Center.
Recorded mostly off the air by Elena Bradunas, Theodore Grame, Alan Jabbour,
and others at various locations in the United States, 1977-78. Documentation
includes Theodore Grame's Ethnic Broadcasting in the United States (Washington,
D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1980), three-fourths linear inch of correspondence,
five and one-fourth linear inches of manuscript materials, and three and
one-half linear inches of tape logs.
AFS 23,054: One cassette containing the program "Music
with an Accent: Music from the Magic of Greece" on WCAM, Camden,
New Jersey, March 5, 1978. (One hour; RYA 2919)
AFC 1990/012: Sixteen 10-inch, three 7-inch tapes, three linear
inches of print materials, seventeen black-and-white contact sheets, thirty
black-and-white photographs, and two 1/2-inch VHS color videocassettes
documenting dance, instrumental, and songs performed as part of the 1990
Neptune Plaza Concert Series, sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
Recorded at the Library of Congress, April-September 1990. The following
lists materials from the June 21, 1990, concert by Életfa, a Hungarian-American
group of dancers, musicians, and singers based in Teaneck, New Jersey:
SR10-11: Two 10-inch tapes containing traditional music from
the concert. (One hour)
V2: One 1/2-inch VHS color videocassette of excerpts of the
concert filmed by Terrence Lisbeth (One hour)
Folder 10: One folder containing a concert flier autographed
by the performers, unsigned fliers, concert log, press releases, news
clippings, and promotional materials.
Folders 11-14: Four folders containing four black-and-white
35 mm contact sheets (one hundred eight images) and seven 8 x10 black
and white photoprints. Photographer unknown.
AFC 1991/023: Two hundred forty-one 7-inch tapes, six 5-inch tapes,
one hundred nineteen cassettes, twelve linear feet of ephemera, field notes,
photograph contact sheets, and photograph and sound recording documentation
from the Pinelands Folklife Project, a field project documenting traditional
culture within and around the Pinelands Folklife Reserve, to facilitate
land-use planning in the Pinelands and along the coast, and to develop
products to assist in public education about the relationship between the
region and its cultural resources. Documented at various locations in New
Jersey by Bonnie Blair, Tom Carroll, Christine Cartwright, Carl Fleischhauer,
Mary Hufford, Eugene Hunn, Jens Lund, Rita Moonsammy, Malachi O'Connor,
Gerald E. Parsons, Nora Rubenstein, Sue Samuelson, and Elaine Thatcher,
August 15, 1983-March 31, 1984. Cosponsored by the American Folklife Center,
National Park Service, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
New Jersey Department of Human Resources, New Jersey Historical Commission,
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Pinelands Commission. The project's
findings are published in Mary Huffords's one hundred forty-four-page report,
One Space, Many Places: Folklife and Land Use in New Jersey's Pinelands
National Reserve (Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1986). (Includes:
AFS 23,725-24,090. Two hundred forty-one hours; RXA 5861-6107, RYA 4801-4919)
AFC 1993/001: Twenty-four 5-inch tapes, sixty 7-inch tapes, and
two hundred eighty-eight cassettes, and fourteen and two-thirds linear
feet of correspondence, fieldnotes, final reports, key contributor forms,
news clippings, publications, references to curriculum materials, references
to donated photographs, photo and slide logs, sound recording logs, and
transcripts of audio recordings from the Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools
in America Project, a survey of twenty-three ethnic schools from twenty-two
ethnic groups. Recorded at various locations throughout the United States
by Elena Bradunas and twenty-three fieldworkers, April-July 1982, sponsored
by the American Folklife Center. The New Jersey portion of this collection
was compiled and recorded by Susan Nagy with key contributors Peter Basa,
Susan Csergó, Frank Deák, Jr., Magdolna Eszlári, Stephen
Jurcsek, Attila András Kocsis, Bernadette Muszka, Mariana Muszka,
Károly Nagy, Deneice M. Oroszváry, and Marie G. Tamás.
The following includes documentation from the Hungarian Alumni Association's
Saturday classes and kindergarten, recorded in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
April 24-June 8, 1982:
AFS 23,494-23,508: Fifteen cassettes containing recordings of
the classes. (Fifteen hours; RYA 4499-4513)
Boxes 8-9: Two boxes containing seventeen pages of correspondence,
one hundred ninety-seven pages of curriculum reading materials and a
box of alphabet cards, three hundred forty-five pages of educational
curriculum kits, thirty-four pages of fieldnotes, seventy-eight pages
of final reports, fifteen pages of graduation program pamphlets, sixty-two
pages of handouts, fifty-five pages of Hungarian schools/network materials,
twelve pages of supplementary materials, ten textbooks, and eleven yearbooks.
Box 26: One box containing five envelopes (sixty-one images)
of color slides photographed by Peter Basa and Frank Deák, Jr.
Box 30: One hundred eight pages of published materials (newspaper
clippings, pamphlets, etc.
Box 33: One box containing a 3-ring notebook of twenty-five
black-and-white and seventy-one color photographs from the 1970s.
AFC 1995/028: Eighty-seven cassette and digital audio tapes, six
thousand one hundred ninety-two still photographs (color and black-and-white),
six hundred ninety audiotape and photograph catalogs, and three hundred
fourteen pages of fieldnotes, in addition to administrative correspondence,
maps, publications, and ephemera from the Working in Paterson Folklife
Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The
four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted
in 1994. Paterson became the largest silk manufacturing center in the United
States as well as a manufacturer of many other products, from railroad
locomotives to firearms. This collection also includes materials about
the African American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas
Wiener), the ethnography of Watson Machine International, business life
along 21st Avenue in Paterson, and narratives told by retired workers.
Collected by Tom Carroll, Martha Cooper, Susan Levitas, Timothy Lloyd,
Robert McCarl, and David Taylor. This collection is part of the Library
of Congress's American Memory online presentations of the National Digital
Library Program. Entitled Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage
in an Urban Setting, it is available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/pthome.html .
AFC 1996/059: One cassette of autoharp and hammered dulcimer music
performed by Lucille Reilly of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, with piano accompaniment
by Roberta Bedor. Recorded at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New
Jersey, July 28, 1993. The collection includes one page of correspondence,
three fliers, and one black-and-white promotional photograph. (Ten minutes)
Manuscript Collections
Dorothea Dix Lawrence Papers: One file folder containing two linear
inches of ephemera, including photocopies of articles on Lawrence's concert
career, her creation of a Folklore Music Map of the United States, and
her recognition and encouragement of traditional singers from New Jersey.
Also included are a seven-page biography; copies of concert programs; copies
of promotional material for the Folklore Music Map; and a partial listing
of the holdings of the "reel library" of the Dorothea Dix Lawrence
Folklore Society of the United States, Plainfield, New Jersey. Gift of
Morgan Lawrence, March 1983.
Scrapbook on a Hungarian Immigrant Musical Family: The Jánossy's:
Two linear inches of articles, biographies, photographs, and other ephemera
of the family of Stephen and Helen Jánossy, Hungarian immigrants
who settled in New Jersey. Gift of Guszti Jánossy, April 10, 1984.
New Jersey Folk Festival Collection: Eight brochures, one bumper
sticker, one calendar, two postcards, five posters, ten programs, and seven
T-shirts from the annual New Jersey Folk Festival, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
1975-88. Gift of Angus K. Gillespie, Douglass College, Rutgers The State
University.
Microfilm Collections
Folk Jingles of American Children Today: Dorothy Mills Howard's 1938 dissertation
in Education for New York University. Two hundred forty-six pages of analysis,
musical transcriptions, rhymes, and song texts primarily from New Jersey
and New York. (Located in Music Division: microfilm #1969)
Folktales and Legends from the New Jersey Pines: A Collection and a Study:
Herbert Norman Halpert's 1947 Ph.D. dissertation for the English Dept.
for Indiana University. Seven hundred seventy-three pages on one microfilm
reel.
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