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Richard Blaustein Papers

Collection

Identifier: AppMs-111

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

Cox-Painter-Adams Family Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-763

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in six series, as follows: Series 1, Correspondence, 1889-1988 and undated; Series 2, Family Business and Financial Records, 1867-1975 and undated; Series 3, Cox, et. al. Law Practice Records, 1893-1951 and undated; Series 4, Subject Files, 1896-2005 and undated; Series 5, Memorabilia and Scrapbooks, 1896-2004 and undated; and Series 6, Photographs, Postcards, and Photograph Albums, 1906-1970 and undated.

Dates: 1867 - 2005

Found in: Archives of Appalachia

Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS) Records

Collection

Identifier: AppMs-526

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-498

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-422

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

B. Carroll Reece Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-3

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 — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-578

Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series, as follows, Series 1 Subject Files, 1938-1965 and undated, and Series 2, Photographs, 1965 and undated.

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-676

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-697

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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Richard Blaustein Papers

Cox-Painter-Adams Family Papers

Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS) Records

James H. Quillen Papers

Joseph Sargent Hall Collection

B. Carroll Reece Papers

Rocky Mount Historical Association Collection

Benny and Eula Sims Collection

Stoneman Family Papers

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