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Audio Recording Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935 (part 8 of 8)

Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935 (part 8 of 8)

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Title

  • Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935 (part 8 of 8)

Names

  • Hill, Archibald A., 1902-1992
  • Lowman, Guy Sumner, 1909-1941
  • Ware, John F., Mrs.
  • Boyd, Phoebe

Created / Published

  • Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935

Headings

  • -  Slave narratives--Virginia
  • -  Freedmen--Virginia
  • -  Tobacco workers--Virginia
  • -  Women slaves--Virginia--Social life and customs
  • -  Cotton picking--Virginia--Anecdotes
  • -  Cotton spinning--Virginia--Anecdotes
  • -  African American women--Virginia--Interviews
  • -  Quilts--Virginia
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Essex County -- Dunnsville

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Field recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded by Archibald A. Hill, Mrs. John Faulconer Ware, and Guy S. Lowman, Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935.
  • -  On jacket and incised on disc: "negress" "Original - 1935"; "near 139, 140" (Community no.), and name, community, and age of informant. On jacket: "Hill & Lowman Original 1935" "Master Copy" "good". This informant shifts between reminiscences and religious chanting, punctuated by laughter. A woman asks some questions as well as GL and AH; based on comments on ADS 1389, this woman seems to be related to the informant's former employer. Based on comments about "Aunt Phoebe" on beginning of ADS 1396, Side B, and on similarity of voice, it seems that Mrs. John Faulconer Ware (ADS 1394-1397) is the woman whose voice is heard in the background of ADS 1387-1390.

Medium

  • 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1984/011: AFS 25752B

Source Collection

  • American Dialect Society collection, 1931-1937 (AFC 1984/011)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Online Format

  • audio
  • online text
  • pdf

Rights & Access

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Credit line

Please cite the source collection title, collection number, and repository, for example:

  • Alan Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Expedition Collection (AFC 1935/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • John and Ruby Lomax 1940 Southern States Recordings Collection (AFC 1940/003), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection, 1941-1943 (AFC 1941/002), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • John Henry Faulk Recordings of Negro Religious Services. Part 3 (AFC 1941/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection (AFC 1941/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Hampton Institute Duplication Project (AFC 1948/015), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Cyrus B. Koonce Collection (AFC 1950/037), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Elmer E. Sparks interview with Celia Black (AFC 1975/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • Elmer E. Sparks interview with Charlie Smith (AFC 1975/023), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  • American Dialect Society Collection (AFC 1984/011), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hill, Archibald A, Guy Sumner Lowman, John F Ware, and Phoebe Boyd. Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia,part 8 of 8. Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1984011_afs25752b/.

APA citation style:

Hill, A. A., Lowman, G. S., Ware, J. F. & Boyd, P. (1935) Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia,part 8 of 8. Dunnsville, Virginia. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1984011_afs25752b/.

MLA citation style:

Hill, Archibald A, et al. Interview with Aunt Phoebe Boyd, Dunnsville, Virginia,part 8 of 8. Dunnsville, Virginia, 1935. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1984011_afs25752b/>.