Collection Items
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE FORM A NEW YORK Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAYE OF WORKER Herman Partnaw ADDRESS 557 West 144th Street DATE July 6...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes STATE New York FORM C TEXT OF INTERVIEW UNEDITED NAME OF WORKER Herman Partnow ADDRESS DATE SUBJECT FOLKLORE NEW YORK 557 West 114th Street July 6 1939 Maritime Folklore THEY FLY BLCKNARD...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes wood Take a chance he says it might be a short cut through the Congo save a days run But this river was no river it was just a flood in the...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes back Theres a rule of the road the maritime code to stop a sip and dump the body at twelve oclock midnight but whats a sailor A few extra chains to weigh...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes its the paint off the sides of the ship Well we galloped through the Red Sea and wait we picked up a French actress she was going to walk nude through to...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes them and a little bundle of curry and rice Those fellers why they always pick out the feller with most syphilitis pimples cant even work on deck and they make him cook...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes there was one Ford left in town and he had it Tilat Ford was the first airoplane made out of a car and when you raced out in that car people just...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes Well in that hospital I was tellin ya it was the darkest and romantic lookin place in the world I was in lounge I said to a man there What you doin...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes Arabian women were I wanted to get in and see this hahreem So we got liquored up and my buddy Shorty his name was climbs up to the window ledge he shinnies...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes One time I was in Rome when Mussolini marched on the town I was just out of jail in some town I forget and they wanted to get me out so they...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes 10 cant get into the museum he was sayin I come three thousand miles and they wont let me in So the consul says But sir its four oclock and in Italy...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes 11 a sailor ya know but one day he says to me I think were on our way in boy I was dumpin ashes then and this radio man says Were in...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes 12 was nothin but oil over the whole ocean It was the Arethusa you can check up if you want to Twenty one ships went down that night There was the moon...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes 13 only thing there was Australian rabbit in a can and some flour that was wet We went and shovelled that flour up and got a pile of news papers and made...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of [Fly Backwards]
They Fly Backwards to Keep Dirt Out of Their Eyes 14 Then out of the blue sky along come a ship and threw us a cable overboard but we threw it right back and then we got to the Azores I had...- Contributor: Levitt, Saul See Also Container A723, Partnow, Herman - Beach, John
- Date: 1939-06-29