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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. (William Elliott)","Bibb, Rosa Lewis, 1906-1992","Hall, George Basil, 1863-1943","Gardner, Lena JoEllen, 1912-2004","Adams, Henry Ward, 1861-1944","Kinnier, Leta Adams, 1912-1963","French, Daisy Mae, 1904-1986","Wilson, Harry M. (Harry Minor), 1893-1981","Davis, Russell, 1904-1944","Ogg, Florence Belle, 1879-1954","Booker, Betty Burwell, 1875-1967","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 9936","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/779"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Virginia Folklore Society records"],"collection_title_tesim":["Virginia Folklore Society records"],"collection_ssim":["Virginia Folklore Society records"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Archival transfer from MSS 9829, the papers of Arthur Kyle Davis, 19 February 1974 comprise series one and two.  Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. 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It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. 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It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdministrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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This accession has been minimally  processed.","The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. ","Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.","This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.","Virginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. Davis, vocals.","This box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.","This box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. Davis Duplication Project, documents related to Virginia Folklore Society membership, documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program, photographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, and materials related to Folklore and Folklife in Virginia.","Virginia Folklore Society Membership records and a number of administrative and public-facing documents related to the Society, and an assortment of other Society-related documents.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, correspondence between Charles and Nancy Perdue and others, and other assorted Society papers.","Administrative and public-facing documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society, related to membership, correspondence, banking, the archive, the website, and the Society's presence in the UVA archive. Periodicals related to folklore and folklife in Virginia, including the Virginia Folklore Society newsletters.","Audio cassette tapes have been removed to a separate storage location.  Copies of membership checks have been deaccessioned when noted.  Some periodicals and printed material from box 8 have been separated for review.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Keesee, Abner, 1875-1956","Gladden, Texas, 1895-1966","Barker, Horton, 1889-1973","Morris, Victoria Shifflett","Peel, Alfreda Marion","MacAlexander, Eunice Yeatts, 1909-1990","Sears, Sis, 1888-1960","Hunt, John M., (Singer)","Lee, Charles Irving, 1874-1946","Barnard, Allie Wallace, 1909-2001","Palmer, George William, 1869-1936","Staples, Eleanor Louise, 1922-2012","Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944","Eager, George Boardman, 1847-1929","Davis, Lambert, 1905-1993","Wicks, Carter, 1879-1950","Dold, W. E. 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Series three, accession number Accession 2019-0235, donated by Marc Charles Perdue and Martin Clay Perdue."],"access_subjects_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"access_subjects_ssm":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"has_online_content_ssim":["true"],"extent_ssm":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"extent_tesim":["22.7 Cubic Feet 26 document boxes, 10 cubic foot boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["clippings (information artifacts)","Black-and-white photographs","Notebooks"],"date_range_isim":[1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access","Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 27 and 28 do not circulate.","Boxes 27 and 28 in this series DO NOT circulate."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged into three series: Series 1: Folk Songs; Series 2: Folk Song recordings; Series 3: Accession 2019-0235","Materials within the boxes have been maintained in their orginal order.  This accession has been minimally  processed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFolklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026amp; Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConsistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExcerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The broad outlines of change and growth in the study of folklore/folklife, however, is reflected on a small scale in the history of the Virginia Folklore Society and its three successive, but overlapping periods of development and achievement. These can be defined as: \"The Quest for the Ballad,\" \"The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years,\" and \"Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline.\" ","The Quest for the Ballad: This era began with the founding of the Society by C. Alphonso Smith and is identified with his efforts and those of notable collectors, such as John Stone, Alfreda Peel, Martha Davis and Juliet Fauntleroy, as well as other teachers and members of the Virginia State Educational Association. In the first Bulletin of the Society in 1913, Smith made the pursuit of the ballad explicit and primary. Although he expressed interest in other types of folklore and acknowledged that \"[t]he ballad is not the whole of folklore,\" still this and all subsequent volumes of the Bulletin were devoted almost entirely to considerations of the ballad and its collection in Virginia (pp. 1-5). ","Under C. Alphonso Smith's guidance as its first President and later as Vice-President and Archivist, early members of the Society concentrated on collecting oral versions of the classic English and Scottish ballads as defined by Francis James Child in his five volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published between 1882 and 1898. In the Bulletin for the third annual meeting held November 26, 1915, Smith reported on progress toward the Society's goal of obtaining at least 50 Child ballads in the State and he thanked \"all those who have co-operated with us in the effort made to restore our lyric past, and to make it a part of our lyric present.\" ","By 1920, Stone's expansive program had suffered from membership and revenue loss in the wake of World War I. In the Secretary-Treasurer's report for the \"Year Ending November 25, 1920,\" J. B. Ferneyhough noted that after paying $16.80 for paper and printing of the Bulletin, $.65 on envelopes for same, and $1.13 on postage to send them, the Society's balance in the Treasury was $.52. (Report for 1920, Bulletin, No. 8, p. 10). However, the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia took an interest in the Society the following year and supported John Stone's \"ballad tours\" by donating $500 \"for the recapture of these priceless relics of colonial literature scattered through the State.\" The typescript of instructions written by C. Alphonso Smith to John Stone regarding the field work to be carried out with that support, as well as excerpts from Stone's meticulous accounts of expenditures including his final $.25 charge for shoe polish are of some historic interest in the annals of supported folklore research. Needless to say, the Society's Bulletin for 1921 was gratefully dedicated to the Colonial Dames of America. ","Two figures, who were important in the later periods of the Society's history, appeared on the scene for the first time at the 10th annual meeting on November 30, 1923, again held at the John Marshall High School in Richmond. One of these persons was Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. of Barber, Virginia, who was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. ","The second individual was Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. who was, at that time, an Instructor of English at the University of Virginia, where he remained throughout his lifetime. C. Alphonso Smith introduced Davis as the person who will \"publish our findings\" and wrote in the Bulletin that \"I shall turn over all of our ballads to him and he will select, reject, and edit as he thinks best.\" Davis was elected Archivist of the Society at that meeting. (Report for 1923, No. II). In June of 1924, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith died in Annapolis, Maryland. With his passing, the Virginia Folklore Society entered the second and longest phase of its history. ","The Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. Years: Meetings of the Society were held intermittently between 1924 and 1967, with both the purpose and organization of the Society becoming less clearly defined and apparent. There were periods of intensive collecting, recording and publishing, alternating with intervals of relative inactivity with regard to folklore. ","In 1929, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. completed his initial work as editor and published 51 ballads collected under the auspices of the Society in Traditional Ballads in Virginia. Later, Davis wrote a series of articles for The University of Virginia News Letter (April 1, 1931; February 1, 1932; November 15, 1934; and March 1, 1935) describing the ongoing efforts of the Society and urging the further collection of ballads and folksongs. And many Society members did continue through time to actively collect folksongs or other folklore materials and to deposit the results in the Society's archive. ","Beginning in 1932, Davis recorded 325 aluminum disks of folksongs and ballads, many of which, had been previously collected from informants identified earlier in the Society's history. These recordings, which were made possible by a $1,000 grant to Davis and the Society from the American Council of Learned Societies, are among the earliest field recordings of Anglo-American folksong extant in this country. ","In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music. The project only lasted three weeks, but in that short time Stone managed to add another 89 songs to the Society's archive. Davis also was able to employ University of Virginia student and Crozet native, Fred F. Knobloch, in the spring of 1935 through the student-aid provision of another New Deal agency, the Federal Emergency Relief program. ","In addition, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. served at least one term as President of the Southeastern Folklore Society.  Its annual program held at the University of Virginia in April, 1941 included Virginia ballads and folksongs sung by one of Alfreda Peel's informants, Mrs. Texas Gladden of Roanoke County.","In 1949, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. edited and published Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification. Otherwise, Society activities appear to have been at their lowest ebb during World War II and for a number of years following. By the mid-1950s, however, Davis, with the help of students George Walton Williams, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Paul Clayton Worthington, pursued further collecting possibilities and began efforts to make taped copies of the earlier aluminum disk recordings. ","With the assistance of the aforementioned students, Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960. In dedicating the book \"To the Memory of C. Alphonso Smith, Martha M. Davis, Juliet Fauntleroy, Alfreda M. Peel, and John Stone\", Davis gave symbolic recognition--even though belated in some cases--to the passage of an age and a generation in the history of both the Society and of ballad collecting in the old style and tradition. ","On March 15, 1963, Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. wrote another article for The University of Virginia News Letter titled, \"Folklore in Virginia: Its Collection and Study.\" Perhaps stimulated by the urban folksong revival that was underway nationwide, he stated, \"the time seems ripe to revive the Society and to set its course toward the assembling of the State's miscellaneous folklore.\" This article prompted a considerable response and receipt of folklore collectanea. With that renewed interest, the Society began again to have regular annual meetings in 1967 and folklore materials began coming into the Society's archive in greater volume. Davis had plans to expand Society activities, including the publication of a journal, and he had made preliminary steps in those directions. Those projects were left unrealized when Professor Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. died in September, 1972. ","Folklore/Folklife: Professionalization of the Discipline: The third phase of the Virginia Folklore Society's history actually began prior to Davis's death, when the media influence from the urban folksong revival and the development of scholarly programs in Folklore at several universities combined both to attract and create a demand for persons trained in such a discipline. In part in response to those particular circumstances and in part due simply to serendipity, several such newly trained Folklore specialists came to work in Virginia and not unexpectedly, soon became involved with the Virginia Folklore Society. With a Ph.D. from the Folklore Progam at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles L. Perdue, Jr. came to teach Folklore courses in the University of Virginia's English Department in 1971 and later became jointly affiliated with both the English \u0026 Anthropology Departments there. Shortly thereafter J. Roderick Moore, with an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the Cooperstown Program in New York State, began working and teaching first at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, then at the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. ","The contact between Perdue, specifically, and Davis at the University with regard to the Society was obviously shortlived. Nevertheless, a collaborative effort to revitalize the Society shortly after Davis's death involved long-time members, Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., President; C. Alphonso Smith, Jr. and Virginia F. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; and Fred F. Knobloch, Secretary-Treasurer; along with Perdue and Moore, their wives Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas E. Barden, a former student of Davis's, and many others. ","The decision was made to separate the Society from its former association with the Virginia Educational Association and to hold regular, annual meetings, independently, each Fall in Charlottesville, Virginia. These were begun in November, 1974, with occasional Spring meetings held in various regions of the State. In 1979 the Society began publication of an occasional journal, with this being the fourth volume in the series of Folklore and Folklife in Virginia. ","In spite of its new face, the reorganized Society retained the stamp of an earlier era, which was manifested to a large degree through the personalities and interests of Ben C. Moomaw, Jr., who continued as president of the Society until his death in 1978, and Fred F. Knobloch, who retired as the Society's secretary-treasurer shortly before his death in 1981. ","The changes that have taken place in the Virginia Folklore Society reflect changes that have occurred in the field of Folklore generally, and also in other similar disciplines nationally, since 1913. The expansion of definitions of folklore to include material culture; the establishment of graduate programs in Folklore at Indiana University, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas, and California at Los Angeles, and elsewhere; and the movement of folklorists, who were trained in those settings and who thus have a broader view of the discipline, into a wide range of public sector positions have led to a gradual professionalization of the field. ","Consistent with those directions, the Society was in recent years directly involved in the creation of the position of Virginia Folklife Coordinator. A proposal to create such a position was submitted by VFS Executive Board members to the National Endowment for the Arts, Folks Arts Program, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) in 1988. This venture, which was subsequently funded, was a cooperative one between NEA, VCA, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFHPP). The Folklife Coordinator, Garry W. Barrow, hired in 1989 to develop and administer a statewide Virginia Folklife Program, working under the heading of the VFHPP in Charlottesville. Initially, the Virginia Folklore Society Executive Board acted in an advisory capacity to that program, along with representatives from VCA and VFHPP. The fact that the position was called the Virginia Folklife Coordinator was, in itself, a reflection of the changes, already suggested, that had been occurring in the field of folklore/folklore in the late 1960s to 1970s. ","Excerpted from http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/archive.htm. "],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterial transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Material transferred from the papers bequeathed to the Library by Arthur Kyle Davis.  By agreement with Charles Perdue, archivist of the Virginia Folklore Society, the material, which was originally collected for the society, is now to become the archives of the Society.  It is not to be withdrawn from the library by the Society."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026amp; Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory","Inventory"],"odd_tesim":["This resource contains racially insensitive and offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","•\tA.K. Davis Duplication Project documents include annotated indices of 180 discs recorded by AK Davis (1932-34) and of 8 reels recorded by Fred Knobloch (1948) (n.b.: the indices indicate that the recordings were transferred to cassette from their original formats), photocopies of typed descriptions of the recordings ca. 1970-1973, standardized notes on songs recorded in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1970s.\n•\tMembership documents include membership application forms (blank and processed) ca. 1981-1987, membership card for the Virginia Folklore Society (in \"VFS Archive \u0026 Application Materials\" folder), Virginia Folklore Society Membership Directories and newsletters ca. 1998-1999.\n•\tMaterial related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program including materials ca 1990 and 1987 (in \"Folklore Advisory Committee: Current\" and \"VFS: Folklife Coordinator\" folders), also includes 2 manilla envelopes: one of papers ranking each possible head coordinator, titled \"Folklife Coordinator Rankings,\" and one addressed to Charles Perdue with each applicant's application materials.  \n•\tPhotographs of collectors and subjects of the original Virginia Folklore Society, (many in the sm. brown envelope include information each photo on its back). In four small manilla envelopes, ca 1900-1920s (each of the three white envelopes also include original negatives). In 5 large white manilla envelopes, sheets of printed photo-negatives that seem to accompany the archival photographs.\n•\tCorrected and final proofs for the Virginia Folklore Society Folklore and Folklife in Virginia Volume 4, 1988 (75th anniversary edition)—3 versions in soft plastic container.","•\tMembership records include: \"Membership Applications—Old\" ca. 1970s, 1988 membership directory, processed memberships 1988-1989, membership lists from 1980-1982 (multiple printed copies) and 1977 (in \"Old, outdated mailing lists\" folder), membership lists, n.d., directory of members (1997) and of scholars (n.d.), memberships 1989-2002.\n•\tAlso includes publicity and mailing lists (n.d.), blank Virginia Folklore Society mailing labels, journal orders and invoices (in booklets) ca 1980s, correspondence including \"Returned to Sender\" Virginia Folklore Society materials ca. 2001, correspondence with Hubert Davis Jr. ca 1980, and assorted miscellaneous papers.","•\tMultiple correspondence folders (1980s-1990s) including miscellaneous correspondence from 1985 onwards, and between Charles and Nancy Perdue and: Wayland D. Hand, George F. Jones, Fred F. Knobloch, Ann McCleary, Mary Anne McDonald, Benjamin C. Moomaw, Carol L. Oakey, Dan Patterson, Lila W. Robinson, John C. Rogers, Raymond H. Sloan, Elmer L. Smith, Margaret (Peggy) Yocom.\n•\tAssorted Virginia Folklore Society promotional and public-facing materials including: newsletters ca 1980s-1990s, logo drafts, stationary proofs and final papers, brochures, and an unlabeled folder containing paper documents (including original case labels) for the exhibition: \"75 Years in the History of the Virginia Folklore Society,\" presumably gathered for the 75th anniversary in 1988.\n•\tVirginia Folklore Society meeting materials: handouts for executive board meetings ca. 1993, meeting plans, notes, and invitations ca. 1990, and Virginia Folklore Society meeting programs with some notes from 1992, 1994, and 1995.\n•\tAssorted photocopies, materials related to Fred F. Knobloch, data sheets including grant awards and names of Virginia-local craftspeople from various regions (n.d.), handwritten membership reports ca. 1970s-1980s, assorted financial documents, other miscellaneous Virginia Folklore Society papers.","•\t3-ring binder of Virginia Folklore Society administrative materials ca. 1970s-1980s including membership list, newsletter, an Archive Report, newsletters ca. 1970s-1980.\n•\tAssorted folders of Virginia Folklore Society documents (correspondence, bank documents, etc) ca. 2000s.\n•\tOnline printouts of Virginia Folklore Society-centered material: pages from the Society website, the guide to its collection at UVA Special Collections, pages from the Virginia Folklife Program, assorted folklore-topical book records found in Virgo. Some of the Virginia Folklore Society website material is written in code. ca. 1990s. \n•\tAssorted periodicals ca. 1970s-1980s, including bibliographies and Library of Congress collection guides and folklore and folklife-specific special topics. Multiple issues of \"The Appalachian South: Cultural Heritage—Folklore, Song, History, People,\" vol. 1 no 1, 3, 4, vol. 2 no. 2, 1966-1967) and of \"Virginia Wildlife\" vol XXXIII no. 1, 2 and XXXII no. 2. A few focus on Virginia and the Blue Ridge Parkway.\n•\tA number of books, catalogued separately."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Folklore Society records (1913-1967; 22.7 cubic feet) consist chiefly of songs collected by the society's fieldworkers in the 1930s under the direction of society archivist Arthur Kyle Davis.  Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRegarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder 1 contains transcripts and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTexas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHorton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMolly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSusie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMyrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColeman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePerformance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Dold, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLouise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRuby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinor Wilson, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRonald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlorence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. F. Russell, dulcimer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVictoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrank Geldand, piano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBetty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis (1st work).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.K. Davis, vocals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a mixture of materials (ephemera, cassettes (filed separately), original and photocopied correspondence, research, and primary source documents, administrative documents, flyers, photographs, and other papers) related to the Virginia Folklore Society at its inception and ca. 1970s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains administrative and public-facing documents related to Virginia Folklore Society meetings and website, discontinuously from 1981-2001. It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the A.K. 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Sheet music, folklore, newsletters and photographs are also included, as are recordings of many of the songs.","Regarding boxes 6-10 and 21-24: These boxes contain the correspondence of C.A. Smith and Arthur K. Davis dealing primarily with folksong and ballad collecting.  Some of this correspondence is with members of the Virginia Folklore Society and some to miscellaneous individuals who sent in material or had information and/or questions regarding folksongs. ","The recordings in this collection include a large collection of the recordings made by A. K. Davis, with the assistance of Fred Knobloch and other Virginia Folklore Society members/collectors on Fairchild aluminum transcription disks.  Davis divided the recordings into four groups: A (12 inch disks), B: (10 inch disks), C: (8 inch disks), D: 6 inch disks).","Please note, there are some song titles and lyrics that contain racially insensitive and/or culturally offensive language. In an effort to represent the resource as accurately as possible, library staff have transcribed the title exactly as it appears on the archival material or object.","Folder 1 contains transcripts and notes.","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals. Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Texas Gladden, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Horton Barker, vocals. Performance location: Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work); Mrs. J. P. McConnell, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: East Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Martha Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Orilla Keyton, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Orpha Pedneau, vocals. Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Molly Stinett Whitehead, vocals. Performance location: Agricola, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","S.F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Virginia Howdyshell, Mary Howdyshell, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Minter Grubb, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Fanny Grubb, vocals (1st work) ; Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mr. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J.S. Witt, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Susie A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","John M. Hunt, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, Vergie Wallace, vocals. Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; G.W. Palmer, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W.F. Starke, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Myrtle Griffitts, vocals. Performance location: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals (1st work) ; Roselle Faulkner, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Lawrence Wilsher, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Albemarle County, Virginia, United StatesPerformance location:","Robert Bennett Bean, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","George B. Eager, Jr., vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Lambert Davis, vocals (1st work) ; Charles Morris, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Coleman Williams, vocals. Performance location: Halifax County, Virginia, United States","Performance location: Henrico County, Virginia, United States","Gospel Train Quartet, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Carter Wicks, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","William Elliott Dold, vocals.","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Richard D. Smith, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals (1st work) ; Kit Williamson, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Kit Williamson, vocals . Performance location: Yellow Branch, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals . Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. W. F. Stark, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Marion Edna Chapman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Wayne Crabtree, vocals. Performance location: Cleveland, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Nannie Harrison Ware, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","George Basil Hall, vocals. Performance location: Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","J. H. Chisholm, vocals. Performance location: Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","G. W. Palmer, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","J. W. Fields, vocals. Performance location: Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, United States","Lena Gardner, vocals. Performance location: Woodlawn, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Roselle Faulkner, vocals. Performance location: Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Eleanor Christian, vocals. Performance location: New Glasgow, Amherst County, Virginia, United States","Margaret Michie Carter, vocals. Performance location: Carlottesville, Virginia, United States","Allie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. S. A. Bishop, vocals. Performance location: Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, United States","Louise Forbes, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Charles Lee, vocals. Performance location: New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Abner Keesee, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Abner Keesee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. John Webb, vocals. Performance location: Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals. Performance location: Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia, United States","Ruby Bowman, vocals (1st work) ; Eunice Yates, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Eunice Yates, vocals. Performance location: Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia, United States","Alfreda M. Peel, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Marth Elizabeth Gibson, vocals. Performance location: Crozet, Albermarle County, Virginia, United States","Lucy Perrin Gibbs, vocals. Performance location: Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. B. Crawford, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (1st work) ; Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Thelma Tinsley Lee, vocals (1st, 3rd works) ; Merkley Keesee Lewis, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","H. W. Adams, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Vergie Wallace, vocals (1st work) ; Leta Adams, vocals (2nd-3rd works). Performance location: Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Mrs. J. F. Hodges, vocals (1st work) ; Daisy Pruitt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","J. P. Whitt, vocals (1st work) ; Mrs. W. E. Gilbert, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Radford, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","W. J. Lewis, vocals. Performance location: Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia, United States","Minor Wilson, vocals.","Russell Davis, vocals. Performance location: Greene County, Virginia, United States","Ronald Witt, vocals (1st work) ; J. S. Witt, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Rosa Lewis Baltimore, vocals. Performance location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States","Sis Sears, vocals. Performance location: Roanoke County, Virginia, United States","Florence Ogg, vocals (1st work) ; Ruby Bowman, vocals (2nd work). Performance location: Virginia, United States","S. F. Russell, dulcimer.","Victoria Morris, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","Frank Geldand, piano.","Betty Booker, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis, vocals. Performance location: Albemarle County, Virginia, United States","A.K. Davis (1st work).","A.K. 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It also contains documents related to the creation of the Virginia Folklife Program ca. 1988-1990s.","This box contains a number of Virginia Folklore Society newsletters, documents related to the creation and publication of the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), documents related to the Virginia Folklore Society website, and other Virginia Folklore Society documents and ephemera including flyers and stationary.","A large volume of materials related to the Journal of the Virginia Folklore Society (Folklore and Folklife in Virginia), all related to Volumes 1-5 (1979-1981, 1988). Administrative and public-facing documents related to the 75th anniversary meeting in 1988, and newsletters dated after that meeting. Documents related to Rosa Bibb, a ballad singer from Virginia.","Papers related to the A.K. 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It began in 1865 as a school in the Lockwood House, a private residence, with the support of the Freewill Baptist Home Mission Society of New England under Reverend Nathan Cook Brackett; in 1867 it officially became Storer Normal School, with the mission of training teachers; and in 1938 Storer became a College. The College closed in 1955 due to declining enrollment, financial problems, and the advent of desegregation.","Although there were dedicated teachers in the beginning, by 1867 there were still only 16 instructors to educate 2,500 students. Reverend Brackett realized the only way to reach all of the students was to train African American teachers, thus necessitating the expansion of the school into a teacher college.","The philanthropist John Storer from Maine came forward and offered a $10,000 grant to the Freewill Baptists to create a teacher college under three conditions: first, the school must eventually become a degree-granting college; second, the school had to be open to all applicants, regardless of race or gender; and finally, the most difficult of the prerequisites, the Freewill Baptist Church had to match his $10,000 donation within a year. After a year-long effort the money was raised, and Storer Normal School opened its doors; and by March 1868 it received its state charter.","\nIn the beginning local residents were resistant to a \"colored school\" and tried to shut it down through slander, vandalism, and local politics. One teacher wrote, \"it is unusual for me to go to the Post Office without being hooted at, and twice I have been stoned on the streets at noonday.\" The attitudes of local residents eventually changed, however, so that later in his life Reverend Brackett became a respected citizen of Harpers Ferry.","Though Storer remained primarily a teacher college, in time it began adding courses in higher education to its curriculum so that students could graduate with a normal degree for teaching, or an academic degree for going on to college. In 1938, under the leadership of school president Henry T. McDonald, Storer became a college. Its enrollment peaked at around 400, and then dipped lower during World War II. The College survived until 1955 when declining enrollment, financial stress, and court-ordered desegregation combined to close it.","In addition to its progressive role in educating African Americans, the College became associated with other advocates of civil rights, such as Frederick Douglas, who visited Storer Normal School in 1881 to deliver a speech on John Brown, and the Niagra Movement led by William Du Bois, who held a conference at Storer in 1906. The NAACP was later to adopt many of the goals of the Niagra Movement.","[This historical note was sourced from the West Virginia Encyclopedia and Wikipedia.]","1131, 1168, 1322, 1471, 2621","Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.","The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:","Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes 1a-61 (73 containers) \nSeries 2. Miscellaneous Correspondence; 1892-1957, undated; boxes 62-72 (14 containers) \nSeries 3. Individual Correspondence; 1920s-1950s; boxes 73-85b (25 containers) \nSeries 4. President's Reports; 1907-1955; box 86a, folders 1a-4 (partial container) \nSeries 5. Board of Trustees; 1926-1960; box 86a, folder 5-box 87b, folder 2b (2 containers, 2 partial containers). \nSeries 6. Dean of Women Reports; 1939-1944; box 87b, folder 3 (partial container) \nSeries 7. Executive Committee; 1924-1957; box 88a - box 88b, folder 1 (1 container, 1 partial container) \nSeries 8. Woman's Commission; 1937-1948; box 88b, folder 2 (partial container) \nSeries 9. By-Laws; 1867-1953; box 88b, folders 3-4 (partial container) \nSeries 10. Faculty; 1940s-1950s; boxes 89-90 (2 containers) \nSeries 11. 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This series includes correspondence regarding Storer College alumni, the annual Alumni Drive, and other topics related to the graduates of the college; correspondence regarding West Virginia state agencies, including the Department of Education; correspondence regarding the construction and renovation of Storer College campus buildings; correspondence regarding post-war education and the GI Bill, including letters between Storer College and the Veterans Administration; correspondence regarding prospective students and enrollment data; correspondence regarding publicity and public relations; correspondence regarding conferences and conventions, including a number of Baptist associated organizations; correspondence regarding the John Brown memorial and John Brown's Fort; as well as correspondence regarding other topics.","This series contains miscellaneous correspondence of Storer College, including originals, typescripts copies, and ephemera, organized by year.","This series contains correspondence between Storer College officials and individual correspondents, including trustees, employees, and alumni, organized alphabetically by the name of the correspondent. This series includes originals, typescript copies, and ephemera. A minority of folders includes notes with explanations of their contents or importance; these notes were appended by President Henry T. McDonald or another Storer College official.","This series contains the annual reports of the President to the Board of Trustees regarding enrollment, attendance, graduation, fundraising, use of buildings, improvements to the campus, teachers, academics, John Brown's Fort, needs, plans, and other topics.","This series contains the records of the Storer College Board of Trustees, including meetings, minutes, correspondence, form letters, and other material.","This series contains the reports of the Dean of Women, Elizabeth M. 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Also contains transcriptions of early Storer College documents (1867-1909) among other material.","This series contains records regarding the faculty of Storer College, including the minutes of faculty meetings, the proposed constitution of the Storer College faculty, correspondence, personal data of faculty, data on prospective and former faculty members, ephemera, and other material.","This series contains various types of printed materials regarding Storer College events and other subjects. This series includes programs (football programs, freshmen week programs, vesper hour programs, movie programs, and miscellaneous), calendars, President's newsletters, printed notices, form letters, news release and publicity materials, commencement materials, and other material.","This series contains records regarding the students of Storer College, including correspondence and other material regarding student veterans and the Veterans Administration; newspaper clippings; photographs and photographic negatives; student transcripts; records and correspondence of African students; records regarding tests and exams; records of students alphabetized by name; and other material.","This series contains financial records of Storer College, including subject files arranged alphabetically by topic; Friends of Storer College donor lists; student accounts; budget reports; ledgers; checks books; cash books; account books; registers from John Brown's Fort; and other material.","This series contains miscellaneous records of Storer College, including private correspondence between President Henry T. McDonald with the Kiwanis International; pamphlets, programs; conference reports; notebooks; address books; a \"Save Storer\" rubber stamp; and other material.","This series contains issues of the Storer College newspaper the \"Storer Record\". The \"Storer Record\" is also available on microfilm, with issues dating from 1892 through 1943 available.","This series contains six scrapbooks regarding Storer College. Scrapbooks contain programs, clippings, invitations, form letters from college officials, and other material. Topics include commencement and graduation exercises, prize declamations, concerts, and sporting events, among others.","This series contains one large felt flag decorated with white felt letters reading \"Storer Alumni\" and a number of small felt pennant flags decorated with the Storer College crest and motto.","This series contains oversize records from Series 1, Correspondence (box 21); Series 3, Individual Correspondence (box 82a); Series 13, Financial Records (boxes 132, 140, and 141); and Series 14, Miscellaneous (box 160).","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Reverend Brackett realized the only way to reach all of the students was to train African American teachers, thus necessitating the expansion of the school into a teacher college.","The philanthropist John Storer from Maine came forward and offered a $10,000 grant to the Freewill Baptists to create a teacher college under three conditions: first, the school must eventually become a degree-granting college; second, the school had to be open to all applicants, regardless of race or gender; and finally, the most difficult of the prerequisites, the Freewill Baptist Church had to match his $10,000 donation within a year. After a year-long effort the money was raised, and Storer Normal School opened its doors; and by March 1868 it received its state charter.","\nIn the beginning local residents were resistant to a \"colored school\" and tried to shut it down through slander, vandalism, and local politics. 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