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Richard Blaustein Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0111
Scope and Contents
The Richard Blaustein Collection contains photographs, tapes, newsclippings, a scrapbook, correspondence, and publications which relate to the study and teaching of the history of country music, performances of the Dixie Dewdrops, the Old Time Country Radio Reunion, the Homefolks Festival and the Folk Artists-in-the-Schools program.In 2000, an addition to the collection was processed. Included in the addition to the Richard Blaustein Collection are open reel audiotapes of...
Dates:
1945-1981
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0025
Scope and Contents
The collection resulted from Dr. Burton’s and Mr. Manning’s interests in Appalachian folklore and related teaching, research, and service activities. A central component of the collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings, dub sheets, transcripts, and indices created as part of the professors' efforts to gather ballads, instrumental music, stories, superstitions and beliefs, folk remedies, and accounts of everyday life from individuals in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1971
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Joseph Sargent Hall Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0422
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Hall Collection focuses primarily on Hall’s research of language and folklore of the people living in the Great Smoky Mountains. The bulk of the papers result from Hall’s fieldwork dating from 1937-1941 and include notebooks; notes on index cards; reel-to-reel tape recorded interviews; transcripts; typed manuscripts derived from the interviews; photographs; and slides. The field recordings and related materials document the Appalachian dialect, including word meaning and usage...
Dates:
1915 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1977
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0179
Scope and Contents
Included in this series are the following: correspondence, deeds, land grants, court records, diaries, broadsides, foreign currency, bills of sale for slaves, land survey maps, hymn book, newspapers, newsclippings, tax notices, and a history of the Carter County Court House. The dates span from 1770 to 1980. Some of the early historical documents are copies. A number of the documents relate to the early history of East Tennessee. Court records in the series focus on land disputes. The...
Dates:
1770-1980
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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- Ashley, Thomas Clarence, b. 1895 1
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- Baird, Bertha 1
- Barker, Horton, b. 1889 1
- Blaustein, Richard 1
- Blount, William, 1749-1800 1
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- Carter County Courthouse (Elizabethton, Tenn.) 1
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