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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
J. E. Brooks Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0399
Scope and Contents
The J. E. Brooks Collection consists of commercial recordings (some original but primarily audiocassette copies) of music by the original Carter Family, A. P. Carter and family, Maybelle Carter and family and printed matter (primarily photocopies of books, periodicals, and published articles) about the Carters. Also included is one cassette recording of the Virginia Boys (Doc Addington and Carl McConnell, respectively brother and cousin of Maybelle Carter) and one cassette recording of Peter...
Dates:
1927-1992
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Cox, Painter, and Adams Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0763
Scope and Contents
The Cox-Painter-Adams Family Papers consist of the surviving personal, business, and family papers of Thad A. Cox, his wife, Pearle Painter Cox, and their descendants, the Elizabeth “Betty” and Griffin Adams, Sr., family. The papers cover a variety of formats and subject matter. The collection includes personal and business correspondence, legal records including wills and estate executions, personal business and law firm financial ledgers and documents, publications, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1867 - 2005
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS) Records
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0526
Scope and Contents
The Federation of Communities in Service Records consist of bylaws, minutes, financial statements, various correspondence, news clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, research files, grant materials, recordings, and miscellaneous printed matter and ephemera documenting the development and history of FOCIS. Early Glenmary documents contain information on the work of the order, while other paper materials express why many of the sisters left the order, evident in newspaper clippings and articles....
Dates:
1944-2006
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
James H. Quillen Papers
Collection — other: Roll 1
Identifier: AppMs-0498
Arrangement
The papers are arranged into ten series as follows: Series 1, General Office Records, 1945-1997 and undated; Series 2, Legislative Files, 1957-1996 and undated; Series 3, Project Files, 1958-1996 and undated; Series 4, Public Relations Files, 1956-1997 and undated; Series 5, Government Departments and Agencies Files, 1963-1996 and undated; Series 6, Miscellaneous Records, 1928-1996 and undated; Series 7, Memorabilia, 1964-1999 and undated; Series 8, Scrapbooks, c. 1945-1997; Series 9,...
Dates:
1918 - 1999
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
Margaret Hyder DeVault Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0365
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1793-1996 and undated, and Series 2, Audio-Visual Materials, 1920-1961 and undated.
Dates:
1793-1996
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
B. Carroll Reece Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0003
Arrangement
The collection is divided into eight series as follows: Series 1, Personal Papers, 1908-1955; Series 2, Republican National Convention, 1946-1952; Series 3, The Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, 1953-1960; Series 4, Speeches of B. Carroll Reece, 1920-60; Series 5, Scrapbooks, 1913-1960; Series 6, Photographs and Drawings, 1919-61; Series 7, Commendations and Certificates, 1865-1965; and Series 8, Addendum.
Dates:
1865-1971
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Rocky Mount Historical Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0578
Scope and Contents
The Rocky Mount Historical Association Collection contains newspaper clippings, cartoons, publications, magazines, correspondence, and documents that pertain to World War II. The collection also includes photographs and documents of the Jack Snider Country Store exhibit at Rocky Mount.
The collection spans from 1938 to 1965 but predominantly from 1944 to 1945.
Dates:
1938-1965 and undated; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Benny and Eula Sims Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0676
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Benny and Eula's collection of 91 bluegrass and country music sound recordings (unprocessed), songbooks, photographs, awards, sheet music, and handwritten and typed lyrics.
This collection reflects Benny Sims' interest in bluegrass and country music memorabilia during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Dates:
1936-1991
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Stoneman Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0697
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the business and personal records of Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman; his wife, Hattie Frost Stoneman; and children, Eddie, Grace, John, Patsy, Billy, Jack, Gene, Dean, Scotty, Donna, Jimmy, Roni, and Van, whose music careers spanned eight decades. The collection includes audiocassettes, autobiographical sketches, awards, business records, CDs and DVDs, contracts, correspondence, discographies, documentary material for and final draft of "The Stonemans: An Appalachian...
Dates:
1924-2008
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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