]> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af007001 The Sam Eskin Collection, 1939-1969 AFC 1999/004 Prepared by Sondra Smolek, Patricia K. Baughman, T. Chris Aplin, Judy Ng, and Mari Isaacs American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
August 2004 Guides to the Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture Encoded by Judy Ng, May 2007 Finding aid written in English 2008 JulyAppendix A updated Collection Summary AFC 1999/004 The Sam Eskin Collection, 1939-1969 1939-1969 Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
56.5 linear feet 16,568 items (15,795 manuscripts, 716 sound recordings, and 57 graphic materials) Eskin, Sam English This collection consists of materials gathered and arranged by Sam Eskin, an ethnomusicologist who recorded and transcribed folk music he encountered on his travels across the United States and abroad. From 1938 to 1952, the majority of Eskin's manuscripts and field recordings document his growing interest in the American folk music revival. From 1953 to 1969, the scope of his audio collection expands to include musical and cultural traditions from Latin America, the British Isles, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and East Asia. Scope and Content

While Sam Eskin's interests were broad in scope, his multi-format collection of manuscripts, published materials, sound recordings, and still images concentrates and builds upon his early interests in American folk music.

The collection centers around field recordings Eskin made in the United States from 1938 to 1966. Not only are these recordings the source material for a number of his original song notations and transcriptions, certain performers' names reappear in his correspondence, business records, notes, and photographs. Another topical connection between the manuscript and audio portions of the collection is bawdy humor. From the beginning, Eskin marked risque field recordings with a Greek delta symbol, and created a Humorous subdivision for his bawdy song transcriptions. He also maintained a healthy file of limericks that mirror the tone and intent of his "delta" recordings.

The manuscript portion of the Sam Eskin Collection contains original and printed material, broken into eight main categories: 1) administrative records related to the transfer and acquisition of the collection; 2) clippings/articles related to folk music; 3) Eskin's correspondence with other enthusiasts, performers, and scholars; 4) Eskin's notes and drafts for lectures, presentations, and radio interviews; 5) mailings and advertisements from societies and studios, including festival programs and newsletters; 6) ideas, notes, quotations, and song lists jotted or typed onto slips of paper; 7) a collection of bawdy limericks; and 8) a comprehensive collection of song notations and transcriptions. The last category includes the majority of the manuscript items. Many of these notations were taken directly from original disc and reel-to-reel field recordings and remain in subdivided categories organized by Eskin. It should also be noted that, while a handful of these manuscript items are related to traditional Mexican music, the majority of these manuscripts are directly related to folk music in the United States.

Prominent individuals Eskin corresponded with include: Jorge Luis Arriola, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Arthur Kyle Davis, E.L. Doctorow, J.D. Elder, Alta and Austin Fife, Jim Geary, Bess Lomax Hawes, Joseph Hickerson, Joe Helmer, George List, Seymour B. Liebman, Alan Lomax, Ben Gray Lumpkin, Dorothy Mehrton, Archie Leroy Musick, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber, and Margaret Valiant.

The audio portion of this collection consists of disc and reel-to-reel field recordings, duplicates, and commercial recordings. A complete list of commercial recordings transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress is available in the Folklife Reading Room. Even more than the manuscript series, these sound recordings reflect Eskin's diverse musical interests, his exploration into different genres, and his experimentation with field recording techniques. Although Eskin did not keep formal records of field recording sessions, information regarding songs, locations, and performers are noted on disc sleeves, reel-to-reel boxes, and select items located in the manuscript portion of the collection. While a few of the American performers in these recordings were prominent artists at the time, Eskin made a number of recordings with artists who did not achieve commercial recognition until much later in their careers. Some of Eskin's recordings are performed by unidentified artists.

Eskin's first field recordings were made on discs, which he used from 1940 to 1949. During this time, his many cross-country trips from New York to California were spent recording American folk music. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Eskin made audio copies of these field recordings on 16-inch preservation discs. Concerned over the viability of magnetic tape, he also made 16-inch discs of reel-to-reel field recordings made from the early 1950s, and transferred a small selection of commercial jazz and blues songs, commercial releases of international music, radio broadcasts, and miscellaneous recordings onto the 16-inch disc format. The 12-inch discs included in this collection appear to be given to Eskin by an unidentified collector.

Eskin switched to reel-to-reel tape in 1949. When it was clear that magnetic tape had become a recording standard, Eskin migrated his disc recordings onto tape, and began duplicating of his own tapes, other collectors' recordings, and commercial songs or albums. While he continued making field recordings in the United States, beginning in 1950 Eskin collected music during his more frequent travels abroad. His visits to Mexico, Israel, Spain, and the British Isles yielded a respectable cache of field recordings, which are supplemented by recordings he made in the Middle East, the Caribbean, and East Asia. Also included in AFC 1999/004 are two sets of commercial recordings containing songs performed by Eskin: Sam Eskin Songs and Ballads (four 10-inch discs, 2 sets) and Vistas of Israel (four 16-inch discs).

In 1952, Eskin duplicated thirty-one of his reel-to-reel tape field recordings for the Archive of Folk Song (AFS 10,501-10,506). Eskin also collaborated on a second duplication project to make copies of his earliest disc field recordings for the Archive of Folk Song in 1960 (AFS 11,712-11,719). Additional original recordings used in these duplication projects are included in this collection.

The graphic images in this collection consist of 55 black-and-white prints of various sizes, one color print, two negatives, and a handful of unused postcards depicting views of instruments and instumentalists. Two thirds of the photographic subjects have been identified as field recording performers.

The remaining subjects, while unidentified, are also assumed to be performers. The database created for this collection contains listings and locations for the graphic images and musical transcriptions and notations, as well as searchable title, performer, and descriptive fields pertaining to Eskin's instantaneous discs, reel-to-reel tapes, and original field recordings. This database is available in the Folklife Reading Room.

 Biographical History

Sam Eskin was a self-made man who tried his hand at a variety of professions and eventually found an outlet for his artistic expression in folk music. Born in Washington, D.C. on July 5, 1898, Eskin grew up in Baltimore but left home at a young age to explore the world. Consequently, his formal education ended with the eighth grade. Over the course of the next twenty-five years, Eskin's experiences as a taxi driver, clerk, magazine reporter, logger, merchant seaman, cattle hand, cannery worker, and traveling United Parcel Service (UPS) consultant exposed him to a wide variety of songs, including work songs, sea shanties, and American versions of traditional ballads. In 1938, he began seriously collecting and performing folk music. With the job security and benefits accrued after a fifteen-year stint with UPS, by 1945, Eskin was free to pursue his interests in the collection and performance of folk music.

During the period between 1938 and 1945, Eskin gathered material with a growing awareness of folksong scholarship, reading widely on the subject to familiarize himself with the significance of folksongs as cultural and social documentation, and as an aesthetic means of expression for the people who sang them. As a self-taught folklorist, Eskin's primary interests were the collection, preservation, and evaluation of American folksongs, indigenous music, dance music, primitive drumming, oral storytelling, and oral histories. Eskin's papers and correspondence document an awareness of folk music's connection with folklore and musicology, which is reflected in the sound recordings he collected in the field.

Eskin's interest in recording folk music came at a period of technological transition, and his early and successful investments in UPS stock provided him with the financial freedom to experiment with newly emerging recording formats. Eskin embraced new technologies and upgraded his disc and reel-to-reel tape recorders, amplifiers, and speakers on a regular basis. At his permanent home in Woodstock, New York, he was infamous for showing new friends and visitors the eight foot long wooden optimal base speaker he had built. The evolution of sound recording techniques in America from the 1930s to the 1960s is reflected in Eskin's own moves from acetate discs to wire recordings to reel-to-reel magnetic tape.

From 1945 to 1953, Eskin embarked on several cross-country trips through the United States and Mexico, traveling from state to state in a silver trailer from which he made field recordings, notations, and transcriptions. By the mid 1950s, Eskin began a series of trips abroad, visiting Jamaica, Cuba, England, Scotland, Spain, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, and Thailand, while often recording and collecting samples of the local music and lore he encountered. With his casual demeanor and energetic passion for music, Eskin easily made new acquaintances and maintained correspondence with a number of musicians he met in his travels.

Eskin also shared his thoughts on folk music through correspondence and visits with other folklorists in the field, including renowned collectors and performers Pete Seeger and Sydney Robertson Cowell. Professionally, Eskin lectured at various universities, workshops, and folk festivals, and released two commercial albums, Sea Shanties and Loggers Songs , and the four-disc set Sam Eskin Songs and Ballads . From 1948 to 1972, working with fellow enthusiasts and music producers Emory Cook and Moses Asch, Eskin also contributed original source material, co-produced, or performed on 19 albums released under the Cook Laboratories/Folkways Records label.

Bibliography: Greer, Chia. Remembering Sam Eskin. Home Page. 13 December 2001 http://www.casa-chia.org/Sam/eskin00.html .

Subject terms African Americans--Music Ballads, English--United States Bawdy songs--United States Calypso (Music)--Jamaica Children's songs--United States Cowboys--United States--Songs and music Eskin, Sam--Ethnomusicological collections Flamenco music--Spain Folk festivals--United States Folk music--Israel Folk music--Jamaica Folk music--Mexico Folk music--United States Folk songers--United States Folk songs, English--United States Jews--Israel--Music Limericks--United States Loggers--United States--Songs and music Love songs--United States Miners--United States--Songs and music Sea songs--United States Spirituals (Songs)--United States Wedding music--Israel Work songs--United States Administrative Information Access

Listening and viewing access is unrestricted. Listening copies of the recordings are available at the American Folklife Center's Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress. Restrictions may apply concerning the use, duplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Folklife Reading Room for specific information regarding this collection. See http://www.loc.gov/folklife/recordering.html for information about ordering audio reproductions, or http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/pds/photo.html for information about ordering photographic reproductions.

Acquisition

In 1970, Sam Eskin donated all of the field and commercial recordings he made between 1940 and 1969 to the folklore department of the Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP) in Cooperstown, New York. Upon the collector's death in 1974, all personal manuscripts related to the collection of folk music were presented to CGP by his sons. The collection remained there until the discontinuation of the CPG folklore department in 1979. For the next twenty years, the Sam Eskin Collection resided at the New York State Historical Association's (NYSHA) archives until 1999. The materials were transferred to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1999.

Graduate students Simon Bronner and Lee Livney were the first to process this collection at Cooperstown Graduate Program. Bronner organized and created a track list and outlined a processing procedure for all of Eskin's reel-to-reel tapes, while Livney arranged and cataloged manuscripts in the collection. When the collection was transferred to the New York State Historical Association, it underwent another partial re-organization. Once at the American Folklife Center, Nora Yeh supervised the final processing of the Sam Eskin Collection. In the summer of 2000, Sondra Smolek reorganized, rehoused, and created the database for the manuscript portion of the collection. Patricia Baughman processed the documentation on the reel-to-reel tape collection in the fall of 2000. In the summer of 2001, T. Chris Aplin reviewed the sound recordings, completed documentation on the reel collection, and processed the acetate disk collection. In the fall of 2001, Judy Ng rehoused the sound recordings, updated the collection's finding aid, and updated the collection database.

 Preferred Citation

The Sam Eskin Collection, 1939-1969 (AFC 1999/004), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

 Related Materials

Sam Eskin personally duplicated select original field recordings from his collection for the Library of Congress in 1952 and 1960. The first duplication project was accessioned by the Archive of Folk Culture in June 1952 (AFS 10,501-10,506 or LWO 1923), and consists of 6 10-inch preservation reel-to-reel tape recordings from 31 of Eskin's reel-to-reel tapes. The second duplication project was accessioned by the Archive of Folk Culture in June 1960 (AFS 11,712-11,719 or LWO 2995), and consists of 8 10-inch preservation reel-to-reel tape recordings from 142 of Eskin's acetate discs.

Since some of the original tapes and almost all of the original discs used for both duplication projects can be found in the Sam Eskin Collection (AFC 1999/004), cross-references to both sets of duplicated recordings and all information pertaining to original recordings have been incorporated into the collection database (See zip disk in Folder 1, Box 1).

In addition to the materials in this collection, the Library holds eight commercial recordings with ties to Eskin appearing as a performer, contributor, or producer. Refer to the Library of Congress' Online Public Access Catalog ( http://catalog.loc.gov ) for further information on the following recordings: Sea Chanties And Loggers Songs ; American Storytellers ; Marimba Band, Otherwise Known As To Hell With High Fidelity ; Blues And A Guitar ; Caribeana, Hidden Music From The Caribbean Collected From The Shores and Islands ; Harry K. McClintock, "Haywire Mac" ; Songs Of All Times ; and Tiroro, A Real Glossary Of Rhythms .

Some materials related to recordings Eskin made for the Folkways Record label, including clippings, correspondence, record covers, notes, and magazine articles, are held at the Ralph Rinzler Archives at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

 Collection Concordance by Format Quantity Physical Extent Location Item Numbers Manuscript Materials (Box 1-32) 393 folders AFC Folder 1-393 Sound Recordings 2 6 1/2-inch discs M/B/RS SR008; SR034 41 8-inch discs M/B/RS SR001-SR007; SR009-SR033; SR035-SR043 110 10-inch discs M/B/RS SR044-SR153 25 12-inch discs M/B/RS SR154-SR178 102 16-inch discs M/B/RS SR179-SR280 1 2 3/4-inch reel-to-reel tape M/B/RS SR666 3 3-inch reel-to-reel tapes M/B/RS SR367; SR374; SR490 1 4 1/4-inch reel-to-reel tapes M/B/RS SR412 117 5-inch reel-to-reel tapes M/B/RS SR342; SR346; SR348; SR354; SR365; SR371; SR375-376; SR378; SR383; SR386; SR400-403; SR405-411; SR413-421; SR433-SR435; SR442; SR448; SR458; SR464; SR479; SR485-489; SR491-494; SR510-519; SR532; SR541-543; SR548; SR551; SR554-556; SR560; SR565-570; SR581; SR586; SR590; SR602; SR611-612; SR614-631; SR638-639; SR643; SR661; SR667-669; SR684; SR687-691; SR695; SR698-699; SR711; SR715-716 8 5 3/4-inch reel-to-reel tapes M/B/RS SR379; SR480; SR559; SR585; SR589; SR696; SR703-704 306 7-inch reel-to-reel tapes M/B/RS SR281-341; SR343-SR345; SR347; SR349-353; SR355-364; SR366; SR369-370; SR372-373; SR377; SR380-382; SR384-385; SR387-399; SR404; SR422-432; SR436-441; SR443-447; SR449-457; SR459-463; SR465-478; SR481-484; SR495-509; SR520-531; SR533-540; SR544-547; SR549-550; SR552-553; SR557-558; SR561-564; SR571-580; SR582-584; SR587-588; SR591-601; SR603-610; SR613; SR632-637; SR640-642; SR644-660; SR662-665; SR670-683; SR685-686; SR692-694; SR697; SR700-702; SR705-710; SR712-714 Graphic Images (Box 22, Folder 394-398) 47 black and white photographic prints AFC P01-P07; P09-P44 1 color photographic print AFC P08 2 negatives AFC P17-n; P18-n 7 postcards AFC E01-E08 Electronic Media 1 zip disk (collection database) AFC Box 1, Folder 1
Container List 1-32Series I: Manuscripts

Includes collection guide, correspondence, publications, song transcriptions and notations, notes, and ephemera.

 Administrative 11 Collection Guide; additional concordances listing: 1) disc and reel-to-reel recordings in the collection and 2) a complete listing of commercial recordings transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) at the Library of Congress

12 Administrative Information for Sam Eskin Collection, 1939-1969

Correspondence 13 Correspondence (1 of 7) A-C

Correspondence with: Sally Adams; Dwight Akers; Charles B. Barker; Yvonne Belmont (Gregory); Julie Bidou; Homer Brown; Terrence Burrow; Ken Carter; Norman Cohen; Al Cox; and Marian Curtis

 14 Correspondence (2 of 7) D-H

Correspondence with: R. Davidson, Arthur Drayton; Jacob Elder; Frank Fletcher; Folkworld Inc. (Beth Bryant); Laurie Forti; Livingston Gearhart; Clifford Gessler; Sylvia Woodall Gibson; Edmund Gilligan; Arthur [Harp]; Mrs. James H. Haight; Frances Hannett; Bess Lomax Hawes; Joseph Hickerson; and Frank Hoffman

 15 Correspondence (3 of 7) I-L

Correspondence with: Indiana University (George List); Instituto Indigenista Nacional (Jorge Luis Arriola); Norma Keleti; Mr. D. Joshlin; Edgar C. Leaycraft; George Lennon; Liberty Mutual; Seymour B. Liebman; Alan Lomax; and Ben Gray Lumpkin

 16 Correspondence (4 of 7) M-R

Correspondence with: Mrs. Guy Manley; Mrs. John T. Manning; [?] Manning; Archie Musick; New American Library (E.L. Doctorow); Tom Paxton; Joe Nicholas; Royal McBee Corp.; Clem Richardson; Nathan Resnick; Mrs. Peter R. [Paris]; Joseph Opperman; Dan O'Meara; Raymond Olitt; William Oliver

 17 Correspondence (5 of 7) S-Z

Correspondence with: Salisbury State College (Grace S. Chaires); Pete Seeger; C.A. Southwick Jr.; O. Strong; Lannis Sutton; [Mrs. I. Taylor]; Tiger Thompson; Arnold Tubman; United States National Student Association; Virginia Folklore Society (Arthur Kyle Davis Jr.); [A. Weaver]; WHAT-FM (Richard Harvey); Helen Wolfert; and Parker Woods

 18 Correspondence (6 of 7): Sender Signed Only First Name

Correspondence with: Barry; Bob; Carmelia; Des; Edith; Joe; Margaret; Paul; Ruth; Sara; and [Stan]

 19 Correspondence (7 of 7): Unsigned/Illegible Signature

Six letters with illegible signatures

 210 Business Contracts/Receipts

1) Release forms signed by the following performers (additional information written on the back of some slips): Luvicie Beasley; Ruth Ellen Becker; Mrs. F.A. Cogswell; Dorothy Cravath; Jaime de Angulo; Myrtle G. Street Downing; Lloyd Fowler; Francis Frost; Emma Gibson; Sara Hinton; Willie [Holt]; Mary Ellen Miller; Moon Mulligan; Vernon Nash; Desmond S. Powell; Isabel Seabrook; Kathleen Anna Seabrook; Lannis Sutton; Mrs. Peggie Tharp; and Fred A. Uncklus 2) Royalty receipts for the album Songs and Ballads by Sam Eskin

211 Organizations (1 of 3): Canadian Folk Music Society

Three form letters, dated 1963 and 1964

 212 Organizations (2 of 3): International Folk Music Council

Three form letters, dated 1957, 1962, and 1963; two conference programs; member rules; and one newsletter dated 1963

 213 Organizations (3 of 3): Ulster County Folklore Society

Correspondence that discusses Eskin's role in the formation of the society

 Publications 214 Newsletters

Contains the following: New York Folk Guitar Club (n. 5/6, 6 pp.; n.11, 6 pp.); The Folknik (v.7.1, 5 pp.; v.7.2, 2 pp.; v.7.5, 4 pp.); John Edwards Memorial Foundation (v.1.1, 12 pp.; pamphlet, 1 p.); North East Folklore Society (form letter); Old Town School of Folk Music (n.4, 2 pp.); and Philadelphia Folk Song Society (March 1964, 1 p.)

215 Festivals (1 of 3) A-M

Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song Folk Festivals in the United States and Canada (1963-1964, 4 pp.; 1973, 40 pp.); Breton Folklore Festival program (1962, 4 pp.); 6th Annual Berkeley Folk Music Festival (1963; staff card); Cornell Folk Festival program (1962, 2 pp.); English Folk Music Festival program (1959, 12 pp.); Florida Folk Festival program (1963, 3 pp.; 1964, 13 pp.); Georgia Festival of Music Registration flyer (1966, 2 pp.); England Haslemere Festival program (1967, 12 sides); Hootenanny: A Folk Song Festival program (1962, 4 sides); Indian Neck Folk Music Festival (invitation, 3 pp.; directions, 1 p.; program, 1 p.); Long Beach Institute of Folklore and Mythology program (no year, 1 p.); and 11th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival (form letter, 1 p.)

216 Festivals (2 of 3) N

Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: National Folk Festival Inc. (form letters, information, lectures/essays, updates, 22 pp.; 30th Annual Folk Festival program, 7 pp.; 33rd Annual Folk Festival flyer, pp.); New England Folklore Weekend flyer (1962, 1 p.); and Newport Folk Festival corporate structure, organizational outline (1963, 5 pp.)

217 Festivals (3 of 3) O-Z

Listings, programs, flyers, and invitations from: 15th Annual Ozark Folk Festival program (three copies, 8 pp.); Philadelphia Folk Festival (1962; flyer 1 p., program 8 pp.); and Western Folklore Conference program (1 p.)

218 Staging/Voice Exercises

Eskin's performing requirements (typed form letter, 1 p.) and pre-performance voice exercises (handwritten notations, 4 pp.)

 Song Lists 219 Song Lists in Alphabetical Order

Five lists of American folksongs: List 1 (typed; indicates major and minor keys, 3 pp.); List 2 (typed, 1 p.); List 3 (typed, 2 pp.); List 4 (typed, 4 pp.); and List 5 (handwritten, 1 p.)

 220 Song Lists by Genre

Six lists of American folksongs: List 1 (handwritten, 1 p.); List 2 (typed, 2 pp.); List 3 (typed, 2 pp.); List 4 (typed, indicates major and minor keys, 2 pp.); List 5 (typed, 1 p.); List 6 (typed, 1 p.). Genres include: American; ballad; British ballads (tragic; other); British songs (humor; other); carousing; children; history; holler; humorous; Irish; lawbreakers; lively; loggers; love; miners; moral; Negro secular work songs; non-folk; nostalgia; outlaws; pioneer/cowboy; shanty; short sentimental; spiritual; trouble; White spirituals; and work songs

 221 Song Lists in Numerical Order

Eleven lists of American folksongs: List 1 (typed, 2 cards); List 2 (typed, 6 cards); List 3 (typed; 4 cards); List 4 (typed; 1 card); List 5 (typed; 10 cards); List 6 (typed; 2 cards); List 7 (handwritten; 20 cards); List 8 (2 cards); List 9 (typed; 1 card); List 10 (handwritten; 12 leaves); and List 11 (handwritten; 5 pp.)

 222 Song Lists

Eight lists of American folksongs: List 1 (3 copies, typed, indicates major and minor keys, 1 p.); List 2 (typed, indicates major and minor keys, 1 leaf); List 3 (handwritten, 1 card); List 4 (typed, 1 leaf); List 5 (typed, 1 leaf); List 6 (typed, indicates full running times, 1 leaf); List 7 (typed, 1 leaf); and List 8 (typed, 1 leaf)

 Folksong Alive 223 Information for Folksong Alive (manuscript for publication, unfinished) (1 of 2)

Includes correspondence with: Cy Grant; E.L. Doctorow; Nathan Resnick, and Irwin Silber. Also includes: header notes and background information on fourteen songs (typed, 14 pp.); notes on folk music taken from other published sources (typed, 16 pp.); quotations and notes defining folk music (typed and handwritten, 35 leaves)

 224 Information for Folksong Alive (manuscript for publication, unfinished) (2 of 2)

Includes quotations and notes on the following folk music topics: evolution (typed and handwritten, 14 leaves); interpretation (typed and handwritten, 3 leaves); miscellaneous (typed and handwritten, 21 leaves); and vocabulary (typed and handwritten, 10 leaves). Also includes a list of bibliographic resources (typed, 2 pp.)

 325 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive --untitled

Includes a title index of American folksongs, 87 songs. Also includes song notations and transcriptions from field interviews and recordings (typed and handwritten, 34 songs)

 326 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (1 of 5) A-B

14 songs; includes a title index of American folksongs (1 draft and 2 final copies, typed, 94 songs), and a genre index to American folksongs

 327 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (2 of 5) C-G

21 songs

 328 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (3 of 5) H-L

22 songs

 329 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (4 of 5) M-R

15 songs

 330 Songs Grouped by Eskin: Folksong Alive (5 of 5) S-Z

19 songs

 Songs by Genre 331 Song Genre: Children's Songs

Notations and/or transcriptions of songs; also includes notes on individual songs and/or performers (typed and handwritten, 11 songs)

 332 Song Genre: Cowboy Songs (1 of 2) A-L

"As I Walked..." to "Little Old..."; lyrics to cowboy songs (typed, 15 songs)

 333 Song Genre: Cowboy Songs (2 of 2) M-Z

"My Love..." to "Zebra..."; lyrics to cowboy songs (typed, 13 songs)

 334 Song Genre: Flamenco

Notations of songs in the following Flamenco styles: Bulerias, Farruca, Granadinas, Sevillanos, Soleares, and Zambra (handwritten, 22 songs)

 335 Essays and Notes: Flamenco

"Andalusian Music" (essay, typed, 3 pp.); "Randolph Victor" (essay, typed, 10 pp.); "Cante Flamenco" (essay, typed, 23 pp.); notes on Andalusian music (handwritten, 2 leaves); "Ramon Montoya" (essay, typed, 3 pp.); and "The Rasgueado" (essay, typed, 3 pp.)

 436 Song Genre: Humor (1 of 8) A-B

"A soldier..." to "Bully-O-Rio" (16 songs)

 437 Song Genre: Humor (2 of 8) C-D

"Canadian..." to "Down in the..." (15 songs)

 438 Song Genre: Humor (3 of 8) E-H

"Engineer's..." to "Humoresque" (14 songs)

 439 Song Genre: Humor (4 of 8) I-L

"I Don't..." to "Lydia..." (15 songs)

 440 Song Genre: Humor (5 of 8) M-N

"Mademoiselle..." to "Now My..." (14 songs)

 441 Song Genre: Humor (6 of 8) O-P

"Of all the..." to "Prettiest..." (15 songs)

 442 Song Genre: Humor (7 of 8) Q-S

Song Genre: Humor (7 of 8) Q-S (20 songs)

 443 Song Genre: Humor (8 of 8) T-Z

"Tailor's..." to "Winnipeg..." (19 songs)

 444 Song Genre: Loggers' Songs (1 of 2) C-J

"Canada I.O." to "Jimmy Whalen"; includes Eskin's title index to loggers' songs. Also includes notations and/or transcriptions to loggers' songs (typed and handwritten, 8 songs)

 445 Song Genre: Loggers' Songs (2 of 2) L-S

"Lass of…" to "Shanty-man's Life"; includes notations and/or transcriptions of loggers' songs (typed and handwritten, 13 songs)

 546 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (1 of 6) A-B

"Alabama" to "Boston Come…"; also includes Eskin's title index to shanty songs (10 songs;)

 547 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (2 of 6) C-D

"Calton Weaver" to "Dreadnought" (9 songs)

 548 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (3 of 6) F-J

"Firedown Below" to "Joshua…" (11 songs)

 549 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (4 of 6) L-R

"Leave Her…" to "Roving" (8 songs)

 550 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (5 of 6) S

"Sailor Loves" to "Sur la route…" (10 songs)

 551 Song Genre: Sea Shanties (6 of 6) T-W

"There's a fire…" to "Whiskey…" (6 songs)

 552 Song Genre: Sea-Island Songs

Transcribed sea songs from Lydia Parrish's Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (handwritten, 5 songs)

Songs by Personal Name 553 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Christman, Henry

16 anti-rent songs

 554 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (1 of 4) A-E

3 lists, 7 American folksongs

 555 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (2 of 4) F-I

7 American folksongs

 556 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (3 of 4) J-P

9 American folksongs

 557 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Downing, Myrtle (4 of 4) Q-Z

7 American folksongs

 558 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Miller, Mickey

1 list, 12 American folksongs

 559 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Nevins, Ann (1 of 2) A-F

4 American folksongs

 560 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Nevins, Ann (2 of 2) G-Z

8 American folksongs

 561 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Nunan, Peadar and May

10 songs

 662 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: O'Brien, Sean

7 songs

 663 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Oliver, Bill

8 songs

 664 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Opperman, Joseph

letter of correspondence; 3 songs

 665 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: [Cowell], Sydney Robertson (1 of 2) A-K

10 American folksongs

 666 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: [Cowell], Sydney Robertson (2 of 2) L-Z

12 American folksongs

 667 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Striebel, Fritzi

9 American folksongs

 668 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis (1 of 4) A-E

3 letters of correspondence; 8 American folksongs

 669 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis (2 of 4) F-I

7 American folksongs

 670 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis (3 of 4) J-S

8 American folksongs

 671 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis (4 of 4) T-Z

8 American folksongs

 672 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis

17 American folksongs in numerical order

 673 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis

Notebook: Old Songs (1 of 2) (Archival 1-11 of 28); 9 American folksongs

674 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Sutton, Lannis

Notebook: Old Songs (2 of 2) (Archival 12-28 of 28); 8 American folksongs

675 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Unckless, Fred

12 American folksongs

 676 Songs Grouped by Personal Names: Wolfert, Helen

Letter of correspondence; 3 songs

 Songs by Title 677 Songs by Title: A (1 of 3)

"Abdul..." to "All..." (12 songs)

 678 Songs by Title: A (2 of 3)

"Amsterdam" to "As I Walked Out..." (13 songs)

 779 Songs by Title: A (3 of 3)

"As I Walked Over..." to "Away..." (7 songs)

 780 Songs by Title: B (1 of 7)

"Bad..." to "Barbara..." (18 songs)

 781 Songs by Title: B (2 of 7)

"Barley..." to "Better..." (12 songs)

 782 Songs by Title: B (3 of 7)

"Biddy..." to "Bless..." (15 songs)

 783 Songs by Title: B (4 of 7)

"Blind..." to "Boloed" (16 songs)

 784 Songs by Title: B (5 of 7)

"Boney" to "Bowling..." (11 songs)

 785 Songs by Title: B (6 of 7)

"Boys..." to "Brose..." (10 songs)

 786 Songs by Title: B (7 of 7)

"Brown..." to "Buttermilk..." (10 songs)

 787 Songs by Title: C (1 of 5)

"C.C. ..." to "Charly..." (14 songs)

 788 Songs by Title: C (2 of 5)

"Charming..." to "Climbing..." (14 songs)

 889 Songs by Title: C (3 of 5)

"Coal..." to "Come..." (15 songs)

 890 Songs by Title: C (4 of 5)

"Commanche" to "Crazy..." (14 songs)

 891 Songs by Title: C (5 of 5)

"Croodin'..." to "Cutty..." (10 songs)

 892 Songs by Title: D (1 of 4)

"Dabbling..." to "Dearest..." (10 songs)

 893 Songs by Title: D (2 of 4)

"Death..." to "Die..." (13 songs)

 894 Songs by Title: D (3 of 4)

"Diggers..." to "Don't..." (12 songs)

 895 Songs by Title: D (4 of 4)

"Down..." to "Dying..." (14 songs)

 896 Songs by Title: E

"Earl..." to "Evolution" (15 songs)

 897 Songs by Title: F (1 of 3)

"Fair..." to "Farmer's..." (11 songs)

 898 Songs by Title: F (2 of 3)

"Farther..." to "Footsteps" (12 songs)

 899 Songs by Title: F (3 of 3)

"Fortune..." to "Fuller..." (11 songs)

 9100 Songs by Title: G (1 of 4)

"Gae..." to "Get..." (11 songs)

 9101 Songs by Title: G (2 of 4)

"Gipsy..." to "God..." (13 songs)

 9102 Songs by Title: G (3 of 4)

"Goin..." to "Grasshopper" (11 songs)

 9103 Songs by Title: G (4 of 4)

"Great..." to "Gypsy..." (13 songs)

 9104 Songs by Title: H (1 of 4)

"Had..." to "Hearts..." (11 songs)

 9105 Songs by Title: H (2 of 4)

"Heave..." to "Henry..." (5 songs)

 9106 Songs by Title: H (3 of 4)

"Here..." to "Holy..." (9 songs)

 9107 Songs by Title: H (4 of 4)

"Home..." to "Hush..." (15 songs)

 9108 Songs by Title: I (1 of 5)

"I Am..." to "I Know..." (10 songs)

 9109 Songs by Title: I (2 of 5)

"I Loathe..." to "I Was..." (12 songs)

 9110 Songs by Title: I (3 of 5)

"I Wish..." to "In Good..." (14 songs)

 10111 Songs by Title: I (4 of 5)

"In My..." to "In The..." (9 songs)

 10112 Songs by Title: I (5 of 5)

"Indian's..." to "I've..." (9 songs)

 10113 Songs by Title: J (1 of 5)

"Jack..." to "Janet..." (7 songs)

 10114 Songs by Title: J (2 of 5)

"Jaybird..." to "Jody" (11 songs)

 10115 Songs by Title: J (3 of 5)

"Joe..." to "John Heilaman" (8 songs)

 10116 Songs by Title: J (4 of 5)

"John Henry" to "Johnny..." (6 songs)

 10117 Songs by Title: J (5 of 5)

"John's..." to "Jumbo" (5 songs)

 10118 Songs by Title: K (1 of 3)

"Kansas..." to "Kenny..." (12 songs)

 10119 Songs by Title: K (2 of 3)

"Kentucky..." to "Kirtle..." (10 songs)

 10120 Songs by Title: K (3 of 3)

"Kisses..." to "Koska..." (5 songs)

 10121 Songs by Title: L (1 of 5)

"Ladies..." to "Lavender's..." (12 songs)

 10122 Songs by Title: L (2 of 5)

"Learn..." to "Li'l..." (12 songs)

 11123 Songs by Title: L (3 of 5)

"Lincolnshire" to "Little Ooma" (14 songs)

 11124 Songs by Title: L (4 of 5)

"Little Rosewood..." to "Lord..." (12 songs)

 11125 Songs by Title: L (5 of 5)

"Lorinia" to "Lyndon's..." (9 songs)

 11126 Songs by Title: M (1 of 6)

"Mai..." to "Mary..." (12 songs)

 11127 Songs by Title: M (2 of 6)

"Mattie..." to "Meidel..." (8 songs)

 11128 Songs by Title: M (3 of 6)

"Mermaid..." to "Money..." (14 songs)

 11129 Songs by Title: M (4 of 6)

"Moonlight" to "Mr." (9 songs)

 11130 Songs by Title: M (5 of 6)

"Mudderless..." to "My Lodging" (7 songs)

 11131 Songs by Title: M (6 of 6)

"My Love..." to "My Sweetheart's..." (9 songs)

 11132 Songs by Title: N (1 of 2)

"Naomi..." to "Night..." (6 songs)

 11133 Songs by Title: N (2 of 2)

"Nine..." to "Now..." (12 songs)

 11134 Songs by Title: O (1 of 4)

"O Bury Me..." to "Oh Fathers..." (13 songs)

 12135 Songs by Title: O (2 of 4)

"Oh Mary..." to "Old Ewe..." (13 songs)

 12136 Songs by Title: O (3 of 4)

"Old Grey..." to "Old Stormy..." (10 songs)

 12137 Songs by Title: O (4 of 4)

"Ole Shady" to "Ox-Driving..." (11 songs)

 12138 Songs by Title: P (1 of 3)

"Paddy..." to "Peter Gray" (10 songs)

 12139 Songs by Title: P (2 of 3)

"Picnic..." to "Poor Old Man" (10 songs)

 12140 Songs by Title: P (3 of 3)

"Poor Paddy..." to "Pudding" (10 songs)

 12141 Songs by Title: Q

"Quart Bottle" (1 song)

 12142 Songs by Title: R (1 of 3)

"Raggle..." to "Renfro..." (13 songs)

 12143 Songs by Title: R (2 of 3)

"Ridge..." to "Rosie..." (13 songs)

 12144 Songs by Title: R (3 of 3)

"Rosy McGee" to "Rye Whisky" (9 songs)

 12145 Songs by Title: S (1 of 8)

"Safe..." to "Seeds..." (11 songs)

 12146 Songs by Title: S (2 of 8)

"September Song" to "Shoot..." (15 songs)

 13147 Songs by Title: S (3 of 8)

"Shortenin..." to "Sir Robert..." (11 songs)

 13148 Songs by Title: S (4 of 8)

"Sir Simon..." to "Somebody" (15 songs)

 13149 Songs by Title: S (5 of 8)

"Son..." to "Spanish..." (10 songs)

 13150 Songs by Title: S (6 of 8)

"Spotted..." to "Squire..." (4 songs)

 13151 Songs by Title: S (7 of 8)

"St. James..." to "Storms..." (12 songs)

 13152 Songs by Title: S (8 of 8)

"Strawberry..." to "Swonanoa..." (11 songs)

 13153 Songs by Title: T (1 of 4)

"Tall..." to "This Old..." (13 songs)

 13154 Songs by Title: T (2 of 4)

"This Train" to "Titanic" (10 songs)

 13155 Songs by Title: T (3 of 4)

"To Work..." to "Tune..." (14 songs)

 13156 Songs by Title: T (4 of 4)

"Turkish..." to "Two..." (14 songs)

 14157 Songs by Title: U

"Uncle..." to "Utah..." (5 songs)

 14158 Songs by Title: V

"Venezuela" to "Voyageur's..." (6 songs)

 14159 Songs by Title: W (1 of 5)

"Wabash..." to "We..." (14 songs)

 14160 Songs by Title: W (2 of 5)

"Weaver..." to "Whaler's..." (10 songs)

 14161 Songs by Title: W (3 of 5)

"What's..." to "When..." (11 songs)

 14162 Songs by Title: W (4 of 5)

"Where..." to "Who..." (12 songs)

 14163 Songs by Title: W (5 of 5)

"Whoopee..." to "Wreck..." (15 songs)

 14164 Songs by Title: Y (1 of 2)

"Yankee..." to "You..." (9 songs)

 14165 Songs by Title: Y (2 of 2)

"Young Albun" to "Young Man..." (7 songs)

 14166 Songs by Title: Z

"Zeb..." to "Zek'l..." (2 songs)

 Songs by First Line 14167 Songs by First Line (1 of 3)

"A small..." to "My mammy tol' me..." (17 songs)

 14168 Songs by First Line (2 of 3)

"No mo' moanin'..." to "Two things I" (16 songs)

 15169 Songs by First Line (3 of 3)

"Up rode the..." to "You've got to..." (15 songs)

 Notebooks 15170 Fresno Ballet Book : Original Index

Index to American folksongs (not complete, master photocopy, handwritten, 3 pp.)

 15171 Fresno Ballet Book : Archival Index

Title index to songs created by the American Folklife Center; lists song titles and their corresponding folder and original sheet number

 15172 Fresno Ballet Book : A

5 songs

 15173 Fresno Ballet Book : B

10 songs

 15174 Fresno Ballet Book : C

6 songs

 15175 Fresno Ballet Book : D

8 songs

 15176 Fresno Ballet Book : E

1 song

 15177 Fresno Ballet Book : F

2 songs

 15178 Fresno Ballet Book : G

7 songs

 15179 Fresno Ballet Book : H

7 songs

 15180 Fresno Ballet Book : I

6 songs

 15181 Fresno Ballet Book : J

2 songs

 15182 Fresno Ballet Book : K

2 songs

 15183 Fresno Ballet Book : L

9 songs

 15184 Fresno Ballet Book : M

8 songs

 15185 Fresno Ballet Book : N

2 songs

 15186 Fresno Ballet Book : O

6 songs

 15187 Fresno Ballet Book : P-Q

4 songs

 15188 Fresno Ballet Book : R

6 songs

 15189 Fresno Ballet Book : S

10 songs

 15190 Fresno Ballet Book : T-U

5 songs

 15191 Fresno Ballet Book : V

1 song

 16192 Fresno Ballet Book : W-X

11 songs

 16193 Fresno Ballet Book : Y-Z

2 songs

 16194 Fresno Ballet Book : Illegible Titles

Includes master photocopy transcriptions of American folksongs from the Fresno Ballet Book whose songs titles are illegible (handwritten, 5 songs)

16195 Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 1 of 5)

Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (7 ¾" by 6 ¾", Sit Lux Music Book No. 1815, handwritten, 41 songs)

 16196 Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 2 of 5)

Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs and Jewish songs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (7 ¼" by 4 ¾", Schirmer's Manuscript Music Book No. 1, handwritten, 19 songs; pages 5-10 have been cut out)

 16197 Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 3 of 5)

Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9" by 7 ¾", Presser's Music Writing Books, handwritten, 23 songs; many of the songs have been crossed out)

 16198 Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 4 of 5)

Notations and transcriptions of American and Spanish (Flamenco) folksongs recorded in a spiral bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9 ¼" by 11 ¾", Coles' Wire Bound Music Blank Book, handwritten, 24 songs)

 16199 Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 5 of 5)

Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9 ½" by 8", Warner's Harmony Student's Blank Music Book, handwritten, 35 songs)

 16200 Songs: Notebook (1 of 3)

"A Wonderful Dream" written by Doctor Watts (4" by 6 ¼", handwritten, 12 pp.; binding and cover are gone)

 16201 Songs: Notebook (2 of 3) Unknown Author

A poem or song written by anonymous author (8" by 6 ½", handwritten, 52 pp.; cover is gone, binding is loose, adhesive tape on the front page)

 16202 Songs: Notebook (3 of 3)

A poem or song titled "Wishing You A Very Good 1941" written by [Martha from Connie] (7" by 10", typed, 6 pp.; stapled binding)

 16203 Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (1 of 3)

Notations and transcriptions of Flamenco songs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 8", handwritten, 35 songs; hardback, tan canvas cover). Song genres include: Bulerias (4 variations); Farruca (3 variations); Granadinas (6 variations); Sevillanas (12 variations); Soleares (15 variations); Zambra (1 variation)

 16204 Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (2 of 3)

Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5 ¼" by 6 ½", handwritten, 23 songs; hardback, brown canvas cover, water damage from top to bottom of 1/3 of the book)

 23205 Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (3 of 3)

24206 Songs: Transcriptions in Binder-style Notebook

Index

 25207 Songs: Transcriptions in Accordion-style Folder

Index

 Limricks and Quotations 25208 Limericks (1 of 3)

"A base drummer..." to "But the Bishop was..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (60 limericks)

 25209 Limericks (2 of 3)

"From Brooklyn..." to "There was a young maid..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (40 limericks)

 25210 Limericks (3 of 3)

"There was a young maiden..." to "With..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (76 limericks)

 25211 Bound Notebook: "Stories, Etc."

Quotations recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 7", handwritten, 25 pp. filled; hardback, red cover)

 Notes and Lectures 25212 Notes: Names of Performers, Informants

Names of 30 performers and informants gathered by Eskin; additional information can be found on the back of some slips (handwritten, 30 leaves)

 17213 Notes: Addresses and Phone Numbers

Contact information for performers and informants gathered by Eskin; (handwritten, 19 leaves)

 17214 Notes: Song Fragments

Song fragments, poems, and quotations gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 26 leaves)

 17215 Notes: Limerick/Rhyme Fragments

Limerick and rhyming fragments gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 5 leaves)

 17216 Notes: Information about Folksong Recordings

Includes oeuvre of folklorist Alberto Hemsi (typed, 1 p.) and notes (handwritten, 2 leaves)

 17217 Notes: Vocabulary Terms and Definitions

Includes correspondence defining "Creole" (typed, 2 pp.) and Andalusian music (typed, 2 pp.). Also includes definitions for the following terms: shanties, Calypso, Calypso instruments, Chinese instruments, and ethnomusicology (handwritten, 5 leaves)

 17218 Notes: Folksong

Includes notes on folksong and folk music (handwritten, 4 leaves)

 17219 Notes: Folksong Publications

Includes a bibliography of folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 1 p.); also includes published clippings and personal references to folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 20 leaves)

 17220 Notes: Information for a Folksong Radio Program

Eskin's notes for a radio program interview, "F.S.L." (handwritten, 8 pp.); also includes related notes (handwritten, 3 leaves), and a transcript of a program interview given for KYIM (typed, 1 p., [December 1948 February 1949, Yuma, AZ])

 17221 Notes: Chords and Hand Positions

Includes a drawing of a cotton picker's hand position (hand drawn, 1 p.); fingerings and guitar hand positions (handwritten, 4 pp.); diagram depicting how to make a wooden whistle from a twig (master photocopy, 1 p.); guitar fret diagrams (handwritten, 3 pp.); and a clipping of an English concertina keyboard (published, 1 p.)

 17222 Notes: History of Various Places

Includes the following articles: "Australia" (published, 2 pp.); "Revolutionary Movements in Canada" (typed, 2 pp.); and "A Short History of New York State" (typed, 1 p.)

 17223 Notes: Easter Traditions

Includes the following: a photograph clipping of an Easter egg cracking tradition; notes on Easter tradition (typed, 1 leaf); notes and questions concerning the tradition (handwritten, 2 leaves); and excerpts from The Easter Book by Francis Weiser (handwritten, 2 pp.)

 17224 Music, Discussion of

Excerpts from The Literature of Folkmusic ; includes an introductory essay (typed, 2 pp.), bibliography and further resources (typed, 6 pp.), and an essay titled, "Sound, Scales, and Modes" (typed, 10 pp.)

17225 Publicity Data for Sam Eskin

Drafted by Eskin and intended to be used as a publicity release; provides background history, experiences, philosophy, and growing involvement with folk music (handwritten, 3 pp.)

 17226 Lectures: "Shifting Definitions of Folksong or What is a Folksong?" (1962)

Includes the following: 2nd Annual University of Chicago Folk Festival program; a draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Shifting Definitions of Folksong, or What is Folksong?" (typed, 6 pp.); and a final draft of "Shifting Definitions of Folksong" (typed, 13 pp.)

17227 Lectures: "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" (1962)

Draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" written for the Ulster County Folklore Society (1 original copy, 3 onion skin copies, typed, 2 pp.)

 17228 Lectures, Untitled (1 of 2)

Includes the following: introduction notes for a lecture (typed, 1 leaf); lecture "#1," which introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 9 pp.); lyrics to "Salt Horse" (typed, 1 leaf); and an untitled lecture that follows the same format as "#1," using different material (typed, 6 pp.)

 17229 Lectures, Untitled (2 of 2)

Includes the following: an untitled lecture that introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 5 pp.); an untitled lecture that follows the same format using reel-to-reel tapes (typed, 8 pp.); an untitled radio show talk with a play list of American folksongs (typed, 4 pp.); draft of an untitled lecture on American folksongs (handwritten, 3 pp.); another draft of an untitled lecture with notes on potential folksongs (handwritten, 4 pp.); and a draft written for a talk given on the KFDM radio station [Beaumont, TX] (typed, 3 pp.)

 17230 Assignments

Includes: a syllabus for an English Literature class, Folksongs and Narrative Poems (typed, 2 pp.); song lists marked UCLA (handwritten, 2 cards, November 3, 1948); and a song list for a memorial program (handwritten, 1 leaf, Woodstock, N.Y. May 28, 1949)

 Articles 17231 Articles/Clippings: Animals

Clippings on: hoop-snakes (1 p.); and animal kingdom (1 p.)

 17232 Articles/Clippings: Ceilidh/Hootenanny

Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.)

 17233 Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.)

"Games Little People Play" (2 pp.)

 17234 Articles/Clippings: Dulcimer

Clippings on: constructing a dulcimer (3 pp.)

 17235 Articles/Clippings: Folk Festivals

Includes the following articles: "Sun Valley Ketchum Folk Festival" (1 p.); "Festival of Music" (International Folkmusic Council, 2 pp.); "1st Annual Newport Folk Festival" (1 p.); and "5th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival" (3 pp.)

 17236 Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Performers

Articles and clippings on the following performers: Joan Baez, Napoleon Coste, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Woody Guthrie, Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, John Jacob Niles, Harry Partch, Jeannie Robertson, and Jean Thomas

 17237 Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Popularity

Includes the following articles: "Songs for Our Time" (20 pp.); "Listen to the Folksingers" (February 1963, 6 pp.); and "Folk Frenzy" (July 1960, 1

 17238 Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Recordings

Clippings on: the album Bolters Bushrangers and Duffers (1 p.); the Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress (1 p.); and the recording studio Folkways Recordings (1 p.)

17239 Articles/Clippings: Folk Music in Various Locations

Clippings on: Bahamas, Colonial Williamsburg, (French) Canada, Israel, Mallorca, New Orleans, Rome, South Africa, and Trinidad

 17240 Articles/Clippings: Folklife

Includes the following article: "I Drove Mules on the C. and O. Canal" (1 p.); and an untitled essay published in Times Farm (2 pp.)

17241 Articles/Clippings: Folklore and Stories

Includes the following articles: "Problems of Collecting Oral Literature" (6 pp.); "Comeback of Goldilocks et al." (4 pp.); and "Ghost on the High Tor" (1 pp.)

 17242 Articles/Clippings: Folksong Collectors

Clippings on the following collectors: Richard Dorson, Alan Dundes, Sam Eskin, Douglas Kennedy, and Alan Lomax

 17243 Articles/Clippings: Houston Folklore Group

Clippings on the Houston Folklore Group and Houston folk musicians: "Down Beat" (1 p.); and "Sound of Houston" (2 pp.)

 17244 Articles/Clippings: Musical Genres

Clippings on: bagpipes (highland), bluegrass, blues, carols, convivial songs, Creole slave songs, freedom songs, Indian (India) traditional songs, Israeli traditional folk music, Jewish music, and rock and roll

 17245 Articles/Clippings: Ships

Includes the following articles: "The She in Ships" (1 p.); and "Life on the Alabama " (34 pp.)

18246 Articles/Clippings: Songs

Clippings on American folksongs including song lyrics and/or scores (13 songs)

 18247 Articles/Clippings: Spanish Articles

Includes the following articles: "Nuestra Musica" (written in Spanish, five-day article series, 5 pp.); and "Margen" (3 pp.)

 18248 Articles/Clippings: Terms and Definitions

Includes the following articles: "A Glossary of Fight Terms for TV Fans" (1 p.); "Gullah Dialect and Humanities" (1 p.); and a clipping on corrido narration (2 pp.)

 18249 Articles/Clippings: Ulster County Folklore Society

Includes articles with references to the following: Sam Eskin, performers (Nigerian Trinidad Artists and Pete Seeger), organization of the Society, organizing a hootenanny festival, and individuals belonging to the Woodstock folk music coterie

 18250 Articles/Clippings: Miscellaneous

Includes the following articles: "Graffiti" (1 p.); "60 Ft. Serpent, Sighted Off Nantucket, Is Cross-eyed" (1 p.); and "Red Net Grows, Rightists Hear" (1 p.)

 18251 Articles/Clippings: Posthumous

Includes the following articles: "Marcus Daly Enters Heaven" (6 pp.); and "Leadbelly in New York" (master photocopy, 4 pp.)

 Ephemera 18252 Report: The Ethnic Culture Survey Report

The Ethnic Culture Survey Report of the Middle States' Conference on Folk Culture provides an overview of the conference, abstracts discussion by morning session presenters, and summarizes other events in the conference (typed, 11 pp.)

 18253 Press Releases/Business Cards

Includes releases and cards for the following individuals: H. Crab and Son, Daniel and the Deacon [Gerald E. Parsons, Jr.], Bill Hoffman, Paul C. Johnson, and Art Sutton

 18254 Advertisements: Books

For books related to folk music, history, and music instruments (5 ads)

 18255 Advertisements: Camps/Study Tours

For travel related to world touring and folk music (4 ads)

 18256 Advertisements: Concerts/Festivals

Includes the following: Artists Equity Association press release (1 p.); Edinburgh University Society Folk Song Concert flyer (January 1964, 2 pp.); and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission press release (typed, 7 pp.)

18257 Advertisements: Instruments and Toys

Includes advertisements for the following: Mari guitar strings, Limberjack (folk toy), the Autoharp, La Casa de Las Guitarras (written in Spanish), and nylon strings for guitar

 18258 Advertisements: Recordings

Includes the following album advertisements: Heather and Glen and Texas Barrelhouse Piano . Also includes catalogs and miscellaneous advertising mailers for Folkways Recordings, Shenandoah Sales, Folk-Legacy Records, Inc., Colorado Folksong, Traditional Stringed Instruments, and World Tapes for Education

18259 Recording Notes

Includes the following: 1) Recording notes for the Old Harp Singers; includes notes on Jim Trentham, Dewey Cook, and Edna Cook (8" by 10", Knoxville Writing Tablet, handwritten, 20 pp. 2) Recording notes for Ayala Kaufman and George Woddail (5 leaves); typed lyrics from songs sung by Pete Seeger (2 songs), Robin Roberts (3 songs), Ruth Welcome (3 songs), and Lori Campbell (2 songs) 3) Eskin's notes on the UNESCO World Collection of Recorded Folk Music and Collection Universelle (7 pp.) 4) Evening set lists and notes on songs performed at the 5th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival (typed, 10 pp.) 5) Notes on sound recordings made in Malaga (handwritten, 3 pp., March 14th, 1960) 6) Track list for two recorded tapes of Spanish and Cuban music recorded by Eskin (typed, 3 pp.) 7) Notes on recordings made in Mexico (handwritten, 6 pp., January 1957) 8) Transcribed song lyrics (3 songs) 9) Track list of songs recorded (typed, 1 p., February 7, 1957) 10) Notes (3 songs) and track lists (5 tapes) for Spanish songs (master photocopy, 7 pp.)

18260 Songs, Published

Includes the following material: Folk-lore Musical Mallorquin v.II , a music book of songs and notations (in Spanish, 15 pp.); Popular Songs of the Ranch and Range (master photocopy of folksong lyrics, 54 songs); Song Sheet of the Arden Town Fair lyrics (11 songs); Festival Songs lyrics (14 songs); The Inniskilling Dragoon lyrics (3 songs); A Sampler of Japanese Songs pamphlet (32 pp.); The Old Settler placemat from the Acres of Clams Restaurant (1 p.); and photo copystand copies (3" by 4", 31 images)

18261 The Gospel According to St. John: A Book for Your Daily Need

Booklet: Bible chapter (3" by 4 ½", 79 pp.)

 Indexes 18262 Tape-by-Tape Song List

18263 Additional Tape Lists (NYSHA)

Sound Recording Documentation

Photocopies of disc labels and the spines and back covers of reel-to-reel tape boxes

 18264 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR001-SR043

6 1/2-inch and 8-inch discs

 19265 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR044-SR066

10-inch discs (1 of 3)

 19266 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR067-SR102

10-inch discs (2 of 3)

 19267 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR103-SR153

10-inch discs (3 of 3)

 19268 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR154-SR178

12-inch discs

 19269 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR179-SR228

16-inch discs (1 of 2)

 19270 Disc Label/Sleeve Photocopies, SR229-SR280

16-inch discs (2 of 2)

 20271 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, Box Spines, SR281-SR716

20272 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR281-SR324

American Folkmusic, original Eskin numbers 1-68

 20273 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR325-SR375

American Folkmusic, original Eskin numbers 69-136

 20274 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR376-SR419

Mexico, original Eskin numbers 2-48

 20275 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR420-SR458

Recordings Abroad (folder 1 of 3)

 20276 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR459-SR503

Recordings Abroad (folder 2 of 3)

 20277 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR504-SR545

Recordings Abroad (folder 3 of 3)

 20278 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR546-SR559

Individuals

 20279 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR560-SR593

Duplicates--commercial and Eskin field recordings

 20280 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR594-SR613

Duplicates--Eskin field recordings

 20281 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR614-SR617

Migrant Camp

 20282 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR618-SR647

Duplications, Commercial (folder 1 of 3)

 20283 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR648-SR683

Duplications, Commercial (folder 2 of 3)

 20284 Reel-to-reel Photocopies, SR684-SR716

Duplications, Commercial (folder 3 of 3)

 20285 10" Disc Sleeve (with lyrics)

Contains a 10-inch disc sleeve with handwritten lyrics to the song "Pretty Mohee" and "Many Years Ago"

 20286 Disc Album Photocopies

Photocopies of Sam Eskin Songs and Ballads and Migrant Camp

20287 Items from 16-inch discs

Contains the following items: 3 typed/handwritten track listings that had fallen from the original 16-inch disc sleeve; 1 disc label; and 3 canvas index tabs that had fallen from the original disc sleeve

 20288-392

Contains items removed from the following reel-to-reel boxes: (SR # ) 160, 176, 282, 287, 288, 293, 297, 299, 302, 304, 307, 310, 313, 321, 322, 323, 324, 331, 350, 359, 360, 361, 368, 369, 370, 376, 377, 380, 384, 386, 392, 399, 408, 409, 416, 417, 418, 419, 421, 422, 451, 466, 473, 497, 506, 513, 519, 520, 521, 524, 525, 526, 533, 554, 559, 560, 563, 570, 571, 581, 584, 585, 588, 592, 594, 598, 601, 607, 608, 609, 612, 614, 632, 638, 640, 643, 645, 647, 648, 649, 661, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 679, 684, 687, 691, 693, 696, 697, 705, 713, 714, and 716. Items removed include: typed/handwritten track listings, notes, business cards, transcriptions, and correspondence. Note: the majority of these items are typed/handwritten track listings for individual boxes; concordances between AFC SR and NYSHA #s in Folder 277.

20393 Reel-to-reel Box (back cover)

Contains the back cover of a reel-to-reel box, which is not part of any other box in the current collection. Handwriting on the box indicates this box may have once housed "BOUN Tape #2", recorded on Oct. 22, 1957

 Oversized Materials263-260Oversized materials from Manuscripts seriesSound Recording Containers27Two phonograph albums (empty) with "Sam Eskin: Songs and Ballads" on front cover.28One phonograph album (empty) and one original sleeve for SR172.29Original sleeves for SR001 to SR042 (no original sleeve for SR043).30