Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 070315 field work Coahoma County Mississippi 19411942 diaries field notes Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 1941 Loa hnne Storm at Tupelo by Tune J Johnson Text of Uncle Bud Duet of Houston Bacon Duet of Will Stark Duet of Ind Ceremony History of levee camps Oppenheiser Dr…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 JR Sheltonwhite 121 LeFloreold timer who can give info on hist of the county Hardware store on Delta Ave Charles Lawrance Snowden Circle Memphis Rev CC Willcutt Past 1st Bap Church Tarrant…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 10th St Po whores kingdom Aug 8 Clarksdale Words to r r songs Houston wouldnt sing in the t camp for fear someone wd hear him Uncle Bud 2 is a man…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 You can go in a rich mans front do you canât go in a po mans front do hell kill you hes a Yahoo Yahoo song Im a rowdy soul Whoa back…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Z Tell my wife when you go to hills Im here workin at the sorghum mill Z Last year was good crop year And everybody knowed it Paw didnt raise but a…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 for our sympathy with the peckerwood Houston himself is light brown with a reddish tint around the cheekbones He gives the an impression of spareness and lithe boniness with all his forty…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 He told us that he a man had started to write the story of his life but had never completed it He then confided hed invented a machine that generated 250 volts…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Aug 8 Arrived in Clarksdale from Dallas having finished the first volume of Richard Mahoney He seems very like me but so do all heroes of all books movies etc Some to…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 father He knows ballads once knew fiddle tunes Exc material on work relationships That evening tried to find a good church servicenothing going on worth recording Aug 10 Another morning of game…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Aug 9 Sunday 630 Clarkesdale honors the Negro Soldiers Courthouse square cool shady lawna crowd of 400 Negroes gather to send off 115 N selectees only a few whites far off on…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 We shouldnt be found weeping and wailing where they live now sing with the spirit We too are citizens let us all join in singing America Stack leading voice like brazen ass…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 in camps come from disrespect for citizenship Always a resort retains it during an engagement with others operates in teams of it Licensed as a citizen where you don civil he means…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 without God Bring God into this program Unless God get in charge of this country and this world theres going to be wife ag husband nation ag nation starvation pestilence earthquakes You…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 soldiers we gave a sendoff party tot he whites We legionaires realize the soc of the soldiers we wish them God speed no a The Pledge to the Flag America Transcribed and…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 The gov builds the levees we maintain them av 30 ft hi 300 to 500 ft wide Even before the Civil War Irish laborers came over and got jobs on the railroads…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 at 9 and 3 in the mor with their whiskey one famous contractor started as of j b the jigger part of the contract The Irish adepts at putting in barrels boxes…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 they lived in palisade or in log camps later on they got tents Irish period 60s 70s 80s early 90s By 1890 prac all with teams The wheel scraper came in about…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Friars Pt and Rosedale were just woodyards and trading pts Jackson has a farm out on the river in 1840 General Jackson gives an account of this Letter from H L P…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 When they first cleaned up this country they cleaned up the land in high spots as near the river as possible because thats the way they got supplies The levee system began…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Interview with T M Mathews 60 one armed papercarrier has a hot and stinking office overlooking Issaquena with new clothes and a hair trim he might be Prime Minister of Mississippi He…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Dr Watts in their education and they dont use them The last preacher we had used the organ even in revival it let it do all the words but their preacher have…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 they stopped singing them I still sing em I like em They dont even sing em here in the church no more than the quartit sings some and the preacher just once…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 pres John H Skippin 33 baritone 333 Quincey St Clarksdale Miss Manager of the Union Jubilee Qtette ap29 Booker T John lead1st tenor director ap34 Boz Sturdevant 2nd tenor J marshall ap32…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 41 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 42 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Silent Grave 10 cent sign admission 18 to 20 a performance Used to have these churches but has laid them aside because the words was too hard In Clarksdale The M S…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 43 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 44 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 New Stagolee Blues Joe Williams learned on a strawberry harvest Independence La a year ago Lea Learned part from a boy who said it was on a record S was a bad…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 45 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 46 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Tuesday 11 Spent the morning recording and documenting more game songs with the Coahoma Co High School Teachers In the afternoon I talked with Mr Offenheiser chief eng of the levee board…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 47 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 48 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 word they he would have whipped their head Aug 11 Gave a demonstration of the records a the Coahoma County High School Jones gave a fine talk In the afternoon went with…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 49 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 50 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 dirt road Before the house the rusty green cottonfield beyond the lighter green serpent of the levee winding away against a ragged dark fringe of cypress cottonwood The river black strong and…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 51 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 52 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 livin with me for seven months now Im gon live with her awhile now Ive changed Im gonna put take my wife children on the road to the promised land stories about…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 53 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 54 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Louis Nichols 54 120 West Blvd Leland Miss 1905 before the Memphis BLues Im Goin to Memphis 2 Stop by Jim Kernans Gonna drink my whiskey And speak my sober mind played…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 55 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 56 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 mandolin guitat violin learned guitar base himself plays with The Little Winn Orchestra that plays over WJPR in Greenville 530 Saturday Ev morn 830 Deep South Boys from Ala Texas Greenville Q…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 57 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 58 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 He doesnt pick the guitar he just chords guitar pickers Ed Johnson 218 N Hinds guitar pickers Emzy 110 OHay St FC Cooper 2nd house West 3rd St Leland Miss Catfish Willie…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 59 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 60 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 My lef eye jumpin An my right eye standin still Theys something goin on wrong And I don know what it is If I was a catfish Swimmin in the deep blue…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 61 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 62 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 My mama she told me and my daddy told me too Theys some of these women gonna be the death of you My mama she dead and my daddy give me away…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 63 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 64 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Robert Pratcher fiddler play anything he ever heard Equal to Grand Ole Opera From Chamber Store up 3 miles take left fork 12 mile noels rd to left 3 mi north take…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 65 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 66 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Aug 15 Sid Hemphill blind creative bubbling with energy 65 years old leader possessor of many instruments and many interests knows John Henry Boll Weevil Stagolee all the sq dance pieces He…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 67 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 The musicians played out in the yard under the trees seemed to be entirely motivated and dominated by Hemphill He represents the music of the old days fiddle tunes old blues the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 68 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Notes taken in Jacksons library The Primitive Hymns Spiritual Songs and Sacred Poems Regularly selected etc by Benjamin Lloyd minister of the gospel Stereotype Edition Published for the proprietors Opal Lloyd Terry…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 69 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 70 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Notes taken in Conver al The Christian Harmony Jeremiah ingales Exeter N H 1805 A base fiddle player who compiled this book for the dancing country Baptists used piles of folk tunes…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 71 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 72 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 The Church of God Tabernacle Jefferson St Nashville Aug 19 1942 9th Annual convention A big barnlike structure 100 ft long 75 ft wide wooden benches sawdust on the floor raised choir…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 73 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 74 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 SBs Harbor Bells GM Henderson Atlanta Ga Bells of Heaven The jubilee is mighty nigh something that you make or memorize it Use any kind of instrument Piano horn cornet tamborine no…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 75 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 76 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Has 15 white members W W Olds 1037 Jefferson ST Church of God Sanctified 322 N 8th St Minutes of the 35th Annual Assembly of the Church of God over which A…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 77 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 78 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 The Bishop of the Church of God whose tabernacle stands on Jefferson St is a so mounful walrusy yellow old man wears white shirt and low white collar black frock coat as…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 79 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 80 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 ghost in that church split over whether speaking in tongues ws meant a soul had been really baptized in Holiness Many splits since question of women preachers inheritance of church power According…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 81 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 82 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 What Wondrous Aug 20 1942 Primitive Baptist hymns sung from books with tunes as Amish by earnest Com bench country people near Smithville in brick bungalow of McDowells McDowell once prin of…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 83 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 voices blended like the shouts of war trumpets a little out of tune The melodies were somewhat similar in their slow and gloomy cast Yet their was joy and conviction in the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 84 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Alabama State Sacred Harp Singing Convention Room 16 615 Jefferson County Court House Birmingham Ala Aug 22 1942 The meeting scheduled for 930 doesnt begin until 950 The people 40 to 45…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 85 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 86 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Arrived in B Friday night at 9 checked the machine and spent the evening in a vain attempt to find rugs and drapes to make the courtroom the Convention was to meet…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 87 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 88 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 at tobacco stained teeth and cockeyed gave the number of the first song It was sung with incredible vigour A few remarks Then more song Each b Every three songs a leader…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 89 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 90 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 the audience 18 10 tenors the first Sat day Sunday about 20 on Sunday The altos across from there four or less on Sat 8 on Sunday The trebles to the right…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 91 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 92 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 93 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Im in the Well Set a chair in the ring Girl takes it Director stands behind her G Im in the well L How deep G 50 feet any If she wants…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 94 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 95 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Hop Brer Rabbit In the Pea Vine The whole crowd hops and pops their lips Here We Go Fogy Fogy March around until you get to the point you begin to put…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 96 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 97 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Satisfy Stealing outher A rug and one in the center chooses and swings the one he wants The one he chooses and swings then swings the next and on till they get…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 98 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Jump for Joy Ring play One in the center choosinges partners Look way over yonder Scores of partners see over To Be Show Tuppy Show Circle Standing still Circle partners stealing partners…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 99 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Jump for Joy Ring skipping from left to right One child in the center Sings calls the name of the the one he wants to come out of the ring It takes…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 100 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 vibrant and heartfelt noble conviction The faces of the plain people were G transported with the deep pleasure of the fuguing tunes Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 101 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Club Fist Take Em off Our Knock âem off Whatâs in the whole record this Scorningâ Game with diagram chairs M arrows Scorning game The girl scorns partners until one comes that…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 102 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 Ree White Dixie Carlton Hotel Dr Jackson Birmingham 21508 912 Highland St Mr Coney of the Pantage call him at the Strand Bernard Studios Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
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Image 103 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942 500 J M Mathews 235 Issaquena Mrs E M Davis Game Hillhouse Miss songs Little girl Ruby Harris Rt 1 Box 258 Lula Miss Dundee Miss on the G T Moorehead Plantation…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1941-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, 1941-1942
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
Created / Published
- 1941-1942
Headings
- - Fieldwork
- - field notes
- - diaries
- - United States
Genre
- field notes
- diaries
Notes
- - 1942-08-08 through 08-23; notes on Fisk interviews with Turner Junior Johnson, Houston Bacon, Will Starks, and Sid Hemphill; also notes on Offenheiser, Sacred Harp, games, Church of God, and others
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 07.03.15
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image