Collection Items

  • Audio Recording
    Calling Trains sound recording | 1 sound recording | First pubished on Library of Congress LP AFS L61 "Railroad Songs and Ballads," edited by Archie Green. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in 1936. (Date). Recorded at State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi. (Venue). This railroad call is performed by an unidentified former railroad train caller. (Content). John A. Lomax Southern States Collection, 1933-1937 (Source). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
    • Date: 1968
  • Audio Recording
    Boogie-Woogie medley Performed by Albert Ammons. Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1938. sound recording | 1 disc. | 1938. (Date). John Hammond and Alan Lomax Recordings of Blues and Jazz Musicians. (Source). Recorded in New York by Alan Lomax. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Ammons, Albert
  • Audio Recording
    Whistling Blues Performed by Meade Lux Louis. Recorded by Alan Lomax, 1938. sound recording | 1 disc. | John Hammond and Alan Lomax Recordings of Blues and Jazz Musicians. (Source). 1938. (Date). Recorded in New York by Alan Lomax. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Lewis, Meade - Lomax, Alan
  • Audio Recording
    The sinking of the Titanic sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Resettlement Administration Recordings Collection. (Source). Recorded in Crandell, Wisconsin. (Venue). Recorded in July 1937. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Spencer, Clyde - Fannin, Harry
  • Audio Recording
    Starving to Death on a Government Claim sound recording | 1 sound recording | First published in Library of Congress LP AFS L30 "Songs of the Mormons and Songs of the West," edited by Duncan Emrich. (Bibliographic History). Vance Randolph was a folklorist famous for his documentation of Ozark folklife. He was born in Pittsburg, Kansas. (Biographical). Recorded in 1941. (Date). The Lane County referred to in the song is in...
    • Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Library of Congress
    • Date: 1952
  • Audio Recording
    Young Johnny
    Springfield Mountain
    sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman Thomas collection of Wisconsin recordings. (Source). Recorded in April 1941. (Date). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L55 "Folk Music from Wisconsin," edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Reorded in Madison, Wisconsin. (Venue). A ballad about the death of Thomas Mirrick of snakebite in...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Stratman-Thomas, Helene - Draves, Robert F. - Bundy, Winifred
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    Shantyman's life
    The Shanty Boys and the Pine
    sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman Thomas collection of Wisconsin recordings. (Source). Recorded in July 1941. (Date). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L55 "Folk Music from Wisconsin," edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Rhinlander, Wisconsin. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Denoyer, Emery - Draves, Robert F.
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    The Milwaukee Fire sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman Thomas collection of Wisconsin recordings. (Source). Recorded in August 1941. (Date). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L55 "Folk Music from Wisconsin," edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Crandon, Wisconsin. (Venue). The ballad concerns a fire at the Newhall House hotel in...
    • Contributor: Walker, Robert - Library of Congress - Draves, Robert F.
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    Cranberry Song sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman Thomas collection of Wisconsin recordings. (Source). Recorded in August 1946. (Date). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L55 "Folk Music from Wisconsin," edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Perry, Frances - Stratman-Thomas, Helene
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    The Lakes of Ponchartrain sound recording | 1 sound recording | Forms part of the Robert F. Draves and Helene Stratman Thomas collection of Wisconsin recordings. (Source). Recorded in August 1946. (Date). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L55 "Folk Music from Wisconsin," edited by Helene Stratman-Thomas, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Perry, Frances - Stratman-Thomas, Helene
  • Audio Recording
    The dreary Black Hills sound recording | 1 sound recording | Recorded in Dallas, Texas. (Venue). Recorded in 1942. (Date). Forms part of the John A. Lomax Texas Recordings, 1942 collection. (Source). Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L28 "Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls from Texas," edited by Duncan Emrich, 1952. (Bibliographic History). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Stephens, Harry
    • Date: 1952
  • Audio Recording
    Colley's Run-I-O sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L28 "Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls from Texas," edited by Duncan Emrich, 1952. (Bibliographic History). Versions of this woodsman's song are known in Maine, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. (General). Forms part of the L. Parker Temple Recordings collection. (Source). Recorded at the Library of Congress. (Venue). Recorded in 1946....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Korson, Rae - Temple, L. Parker
    • Date: 1952
  • Audio Recording
    Manabus Tells the Ducks to Shut Their Eyes sound recording | 1 cylinder recording. | Recorded by Frances Densmore in Keshena, Wisconsin (Venue). Frances Densmore Menominee Cylinder Collection. (Source Note). Recorded July-August, 1925. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Pigeon, Louis - Densmore, Frances
  • Audio Recording
    I'm Sad and I'm Lonely sound recording | 1 reel. | Recorded by Ann Grimes, Ohio. (Venue). Ann Grimes's Ohio Collection, American Folklife Center. (Source Note). Recorded in 1953. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Sandburg, Carl - Grimes, Anne
    • Date: 1953
  • Audio Recording
    Catfish Blues
    Rollin' Stone
    Played and sung by Honeyboy Edwards at the 50th Anniversary Concert for the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1978. sound recording | 1 reel. | Recorded at the Archive of Folk Song 50th Anniversary Concert, Library of Congress. (Venue). At the beginning of this recording, Edwards acknowledges Alan Lomax, who is sitting in the audience. Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Edwards, Honeyboy - Library of Congress - Petway, Robert
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Sweet Home Chicago Played and sung by Honeyboy Edwards at the 50th Anniversary of the Archive of Culture at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1978. This song is believed to have been composed by Robert Johnson. sound recording | 1 reel. | Recorded at the Archive of Folk Song 50th Anniversary Concert, Library of Congress. (Venue). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Edwards, Honeyboy - Library of Congress - Johnson, Robert
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Flower blooming in the wildwood sound recording | 1 sound recording | This was recorded in Columbus, North Dakota. (Venue). This forms part of the Bjorngjeld Family Collection. (Source). Recorded between 1956 and 1960. (Date). According to Arthur Bjorngjeld, in a letter to the Library of Congress that accompanied this collection, the family is Norwegian and originally homesteaded in Columbus, North Dakota. He said that these recordings were made...
    • Contributor: Bjorngjeld Family (Musical Group) - Hanson, Olga - Bjorngjeld, Ervin - Borghild, Person - Bjorngjeld, Alfred - Bjorngjeld, Clarence
  • Audio Recording
    There's a long, long trail a-winding sound recording | 1 sound recording | This song, first published in 1914, became popular during World War I and was later incorporated into the U. S. Army Song Book for World War II. (Bibliographic History). This was recorded in Columbus, North Dakota. (Venue). This forms part of the Bjorngjeld Family Collection. (Source). Recorded between 1956 and 1960. (Date). According to Arthur Bjorngjeld, in...
    • Contributor: Bjorngjeld Family (Musical Group) - King, Stoddard - Hanson, Olga - Bjorngjeld, Ervin - Borghild, Person - Bjorngjeld, Alfred - Bjorngjeld, Clarence - Elliott, Zo
  • Audio Recording
    Scotch Mary A traditional Irish tune performed on ullieann pipes by Patrick James Touhey. Recorded by Francis O'Neill, Chicago, Illinois, 1904. Dunn Family Collection. sound recording | 1 cylinder. | Dunn Family Collection. (Source). c. 1904 (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: O'Neill, Francis - Touhey, Patrick J.
  • Audio Recording
    Maid on the Green A traditional Irish tune performed on ullieann pipes by Patrick James Touhey. Recorded by Francis O'Neill, Chicago, Illinois, 1904. Dunn Family Collection. sound recording | 1 cylinder. | Dunn Family Collection. (Source). c. 1904. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: O'Neill, Francis - Touhey, Patrick J.
  • Audio Recording
    Pretty Polly sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L1 "Anglo-American Ballads" (volume one), 1942. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Hamilton, Ohio. (Venue). Recorded in 1938. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, Alan - Steele, Pete
    • Date: 1942
  • Audio Recording
    Indiana sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., 1917. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: female voices with orchestra. Coupling date: 5/11/1917. (Venue). With (reverse side): Can't yo' heah me callin', Caroline? / Vernon Dalhart. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Edison - Hanley, James F. (James Frederick) - Homestead Trio - Macdonald, Ballard
    • Date: 1917
  • Audio Recording
    Beautiful Ohio sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., 1918. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: mixed voices with orchestra. Robert A. King wrote the music under the pseudonym of "Mary Earl" because of a "for hire" contract he had with his publisher. Coupling date: 4/3/1919. (Venue). With (reverse side): Alabama lullaby / Gladys...
    • Contributor: King, Robert A. - Edison - Metropolitan Quartet - King, Robert - Macdonald, Ballard
    • Date: 1919
  • Notated Music
    Louisville march and quick step sheet music | 4 p., 13 x 8 in. | 2 blank pages Publisher's address: 1 Franklin Square. Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: P[Eters], W[Illiam]. C[Ummings] - Firth & Hall
    • Date: 1832

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  • Notated Music
    American Indian melodies
    The old man's love song | Song of the deathless voice | Ichibuzzhi | The mother's vow | Inketunga's thunder song | Song of the ghost dance | Song to the spirit | Song to the leader | Choral | Approach of the Thunder God
    Sheet music | 29 p. of music ; 29 cm. | Songs of the Omaha Indians. (General). For piano. (General). Collected by Alice Fletcher. (General). Harmonized by Arthur Farwell. (Statement Of Responsibility). Historical and performance notes by A. Farwell in Introduction (8 p.). (General). Contents: Introduction -- I. Approach of the Thunder God -- II. The old man's love song -- III. Song of...
    • Contributor: Farwell, Arthur - Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) - Wa-Wan Press
    • Date: 1901

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