Alan Lomax Collection Span: 1930-1966 English collection 120 ft. The Alan Lomax Collection comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist Lomax (1915-2002) over a period of sixty years and joins the material Alan Lomax collected during the 1930s and early 1940s for the Library's Archive of American Folk Song. Included in the collection are sound recordings of traditional singers, instrumentalists, and storytellers made by Lomax during numerous field trips to the American South, the Caribbean, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and Italy; original video footage, shot in the South and Southwest, Washington, D.C., and New York City, that was used as the basis of Lomax's American Patchwork television series, as well as videotapes of all the programs in the series; 16mm footage of performances by Howling Wolf, Son House, and others during the Newport Folk Festival in 1966; videotape of folk dance performances; and work elements and originals of numerous films made by Lomax. Sound recordings (5,000 hours), motion pictures (400,000 feet), videotapes (2,450), books/journals (2,000), photographs, correspondence, field notes, research files, program scripts, indexes, and book and article manuscripts. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Lomax, Alan The Alan Lomax Collection comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of sixty years. Contact librarian at http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-folklife.html http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html Folk Music Dance Lomax, Alan Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb American Folklife Center, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/ IHAS 080813 loc.natlib.scdb.200033713