Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection
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topic: Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection 1935-1944
subject: Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection 1935-1944
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topic: Correspondence
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topic: Correspondence-General, 1936-44
subject: Correspondence-General, 1936-44
topic: Correspondence-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1941-43
subject: Correspondence-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1941-43
topic: Collecting and Recording Projects
subject: Collecting and Recording Projects
topic: Indexes-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1939-42
subject: Indexes-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1939-42
topic: "The Wreck of Old '97" Project, 1939
subject: "The Wreck of Old '97" Project, 1939
topic: WBIG Radio Programs, 1940
subject: WBIG Radio Programs, 1940
topic: "A Southern Songster" Project, 1940-44
subject: "A Southern Songster" Project, 1940-44
topic: Song Indexes and Transcriptions
subject: Song Indexes and Transcriptions
topic: Songs-Original Folders, Photocopies
subject: Songs-Original Folders, Photocopies
topic: Songs-Collections
subject: Songs-Collections
topic: Songs-Collections, Spiral Notebooks
subject: Songs-Collections, Spiral Notebooks
topic: Songs-Collections, Arthurdale Fiddle Tunes
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topic: Songs: A-B
subject: Songs: A-B
topic: Songs: C-D
subject: Songs: C-D
topic: Songs: E-F
subject: Songs: E-F
topic: Songs: G-H
subject: Songs: G-H
topic: Songs: I-J
subject: Songs: I-J
topic: Songs: K-L
subject: Songs: K-L
topic: Songs: M-N
subject: Songs: M-N
topic: Songs: O-P
subject: Songs: O-P
topic: Songs: Q-R
subject: Songs: Q-R
topic: Songs: S-T
subject: Songs: S-T
topic: Songs: U-Z
subject: Songs: U-Z
topic: Series II: Sound Recordings
subject: Series II: Sound Recordings
topic: Sound Discs
subject: Sound Discs
topic: Original Discs
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provides access to: Correspondence-General, 1936-44
provides access to: Correspondence-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1941-43
provides access to: Collecting and Recording Projects
provides access to: Indexes-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1939-42
provides access to: "The Wreck of Old '97" Project, 1939
provides access to: WBIG Radio Programs, 1940
provides access to: "A Southern Songster" Project, 1940-44
provides access to: Song Indexes and Transcriptions
provides access to: Songs-Original Folders, Photocopies
provides access to: Songs-Collections
provides access to: Songs-Collections, Spiral Notebooks
provides access to: Songs-Collections, Arthurdale Fiddle Tunes
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provides access to: Songs: A-B
provides access to: Songs: C-D
provides access to: Songs: E-F
provides access to: Songs: G-H
provides access to: Songs: I-J
provides access to: Songs: K-L
provides access to: Songs: M-N
provides access to: Songs: O-P
provides access to: Songs: Q-R
provides access to: Songs: S-T
provides access to: Songs: U-Z
provides access to: Series II: Sound Recordings
provides access to: Sound Discs
provides access to: Original Discs

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Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection
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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
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Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection 1935-1944
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identifier: AFC 1939/003
extent: ca. 1000 leaves (22 folders) in 2 boxes
extent: 21 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.
extent: 12 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.
language: eng
origination: Collins, Fletcher
has biographical history: Biographical History for: Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection 1935-1944
scopecontent: Scope and Content The manuscript materials in this collection reflect Collins's Anglo-American folk music collecting activities from 1935 to 1944. Collins undertook numerous projects, including a proposed song book titled A Southern Songster and a radio series on WBIG, Greensboro, N.C. Administrative papers and correspondence for these and other projects are included among the manuscript materials. The song and tune transcriptions reflect, for the most part, Collins's collecting in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia from 1935 to 1941. Many are the result of Collins's fieldwork, while others were mailed to him or transcribed from printed sources. Contextual information (performer, date, place) is provided for about two-thirds of the songs. Some of the disc recordings were transcribed and transcriptions are included among the manuscripts. Collins made twenty-one disc recordings of folk songs and ballads at Elon College in March 1939, under the auspices of the WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts. These field recordings (AFS 2235, AFS 3769-3788) are on aluminum-base lacquer discs. Field recordings were made in November and December 1941 on glass-base lacquer discs with a Library of Congress Presto recording machine in Brown Summit (AFS 6491), Burlington (AFS 6365-6366, perhaps 6494), Elon College (AFS 6492-6493), and Greensboro (AFS 6482-6486), North Carolina; and in Fancy Gap, Virginia (AFS 6487-6490). Two discs made by Fletcher Collins Jr. in Burlington, N.C., Dec. 8, 1941, were in response to Alan Lomax’s call for "man-on-the-street" reactions to the Pearl Harbor attacks the day prior. They are included in a separate American Folklife Center collection, AFC 1941/004 Man-on-the-Street Interviews Collection.
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ca. 1000 leaves (22 folders) in 2 boxes
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label: 21 sound discs : analog ; 12 in.
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Collins, Fletcher
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Biographical History for: Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection 1935-1944
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body: Biographical History Fletcher Collins Jr. was born on November 19, 1906, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale University (Ph.B. 1928, Ph.D. 1934) and was a professor of English at Elon College in North Carolina (1936-42). Collins founded the drama department at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, where he was professor emeritus (1946-77). He is the author of Alamance Play-Party Songs and Singing Games (1940, reprint 1973), Medieval Church Music-Dramas (1976), Troubadour and Trouvère Songs in Singable English (2 vols. 2000-2001), and numerous other books and articles. He died in 2005.
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Series I: Manuscripts
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Series II: Sound Recordings
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Collection Guide
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Correspondence
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Collecting and Recording Projects
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Song Indexes and Transcriptions
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Correspondence-General, 1936-44
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Correspondence-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1941-43
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Indexes-Library of Congress Recording Project, 1939-42
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"The Wreck of Old '97" Project, 1939
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WBIG Radio Programs, 1940
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"A Southern Songster" Project, 1940-44
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Songs-Original Folders, Photocopies
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Songs-Collections
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Songs-Collections, Spiral Notebooks
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Songs-Collections, Arthurdale Fiddle Tunes
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Songs: A-B
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Songs: C-D
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Songs: E-F
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Songs: G-H
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Songs: I-J
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Songs: K-L
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Songs: M-N
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Songs: O-P
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Songs: Q-R
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Songs: S-T
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Songs: U-Z
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Sound Discs
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Original Discs
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scopecontent: Twenty-one 12-inch aluminum based original analog discs (preservation tapes: LWO 4872, reels 142B, 245B-246).

Original Discs
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scopecontent: Twelve 12-inch glass based original analog discs (preservation tapes: LWO 4872, reels 413B-414A)