Scale 1:6,600. Cadastral map. LC copy designed to show by color land grant and claims. LC copy not colored. Vault AACR2
Manuscript; pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil corrections. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Cadastral map. "Presented to the Senators and Representatives from California by Wm. M. Eddy, city surveyor, More
Shows landownership. LC Land ownership maps, 386 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Field notes on loose paper and in notebooks from Cajun filming
Sicily, July Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript correspondence, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Italy Field Notebook--Campagnia Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
July 1952; Valencia; Folk Festival, Palma, Mallorca ; Formentera, Ibiza; T553-T612; List of Recordings Book 1; various other recordings
Collected materials from Cajun filming; notebook of field notes
Box contains Lomax's field notes from his trips starting in the late 1930s into the 1950s; Field notebook (Dec. 29, 1936; Jan. 6, 1937). Descriptions of informants, ceremonial dances, stories, songs; sketch of More
4/9; Correspondence from AFC to AL 1994; AL to Charles Seeger 1936-01-16; Melville Herskovits to AL 1937-01-21. Article drafts with carbons; index of sound recordings; loose field notes Jan. 1936 and Dec. 193?; More
Field notebook (Jan. 14 - Feb. 5, 1937). Tucked in cover: references on index cards; draft of article titled, "Haitian Folk-lore," lamenting the cheapness of human life. Preservation needed.
July-August 1938: Detroit (1938-07-29), Mt. Pleasant, St. Louis, MI (1938-08-22)
Background information on five Portuguese folk dances by WPA staff member, Alice Lemos Avila.
Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
August-Sept. 1938: Beaver Island (c.1938-08-24) to St. Ignace (c.1938-09-11)
Fieldnotes written by Sidney Robertson Cowell and submitted to the Northern California WPA Office in San Francisco during the course of the California Folk Music Project.
Sept.-Oct. 1938: St. Ignace (c. 1938-09-11) to Sept. 28 (Calumet?)
1940; Bog Trotters; see also AFC 1939/002; see also American School of the Air scripts in AFC 2004/004
Texas Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
1942-07-11 through 07-22; notes on Indiana Folklore conference; notes on Fisk trip/interviews with Willie Brown, Robert Johnson's mother, Son House, Turner Junior Johnson, Joe Williamson, and others
Radio Research Project, 1941; Galax index; source for AFC 1941/011 typed index
Pages from a field notebook, September 7, 1941, Rugby, Virginia, Walter Henderson's house; documentation for AFS 4782-4783, part of Coahoma trip?
Radio Research Project, 1941 Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
1942-06-22 through 07-30 "composition book";
Contents removed to 07.03.10 and 07.03.18
1941 Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
field notebook, 1942, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky
From work in military (reads, "please return to Pvt. Alan Lomax"
Release form for Patrick Franko; Field notebook from Arizona filming; three books on Native American culture
Padstow, Cornwall, England Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Interview transcripts: "Skye" AL with Allan MacDonald and Calum MacLean; AL with Calum Johnston and Pipe Major; AL with Jimmy MacBeth; AL with Donald MacPhee, Mrs. Nicholson, John McLeod, John McInnes, Mrs. McC More
1951, diary from British Isles; England, Ireland, Scotland; "Stone of Tory"; Robin Roberts; Ewan MacColl; Hamish Henderson;
Ireland--1951--Field Notes Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
December 1952; La Mancha (Lagartera) Dec. 25; Aragon (Yebra de Basa) Dec. 27; Basque Country (San Sebastian, Tolosa) through Dec. 31
June-July 1952; Valencia; Catalonia; arrival in Spain; Mallorca; Ibiza; Aragon; Balearic Islands
November 1952; Galicia; multiple copies of the same documents, some are very faded
December 1952; Murcia; also includes printed song texts
December 1952, Aragon (Yebra de Basa and Jaca, Huesca, Aragon)
1952, Jan.-June; diary from Paris and Spain; also notes in diary about ideas for Columbia World Library albums; personal journal
October 1952; Extremadura Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
December 1952, Navarre (Lesaca, etc.) Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
June 1952; Barcelona; Valencia; originally included notes about recordings; notation of Sardana dance from program, 1952-06-21 and Jeanette "Pip" Bell notes, moved to 03.02.13
1960s Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Hand-written notes reflecting quotes heard on the street the day Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) passed away; Short-hand transcriptions of recorded interview (199B, 198, etc.), possibly from Jelly Roll Morton interview
field notes and work notes Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Photographs of the South Georgia Folklife Project documenting the traditi More