Scope and Content Note Xerox copy of manuscript text (138 pages) and of typewritten transcript (70 pages) of autobiographical sketch, dated March 3, 1954, by Mary Susan High Casey Brisco, a Berryville, Arkansas folk singer whose sound recorded songs are a part of the University Folklore Collection. (See "A Check List of Arkansas Songs," Arkansas Folklore, vol. 4, no. 2, Jan. 1, 1954 and vol. 7, no. 1, Mar. 1957, in Series F4 of University Folklore Collection). Prefatory...

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Collection is a loose leaf binder containing correspondence, literary works by Campbell, and newspaper articles written about Campbell.

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Three framed drawings by Dee Strickland Johnson, in pencil, of performers at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas.

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Many of the photographs were taken by professional photographers, apparently for publication in Arkansas Alumnus. Others are snapshots. Any captions on the verso of prints are enclosed in quotation marks in the picture descriptions that follow. All measurements of the prints are in inches, height given first.

Scope and Content Note Included in the collection is correspondence pertaining to Leo Rainey's activities as a Cooperative Extension Service employee, papers documenting Rainey's activities promoting Ozark crafts and tourism, microfilm of 6 scrapbooks containing publicity materials about the Arkansaw Traveller Folk Theatre, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, audio tapes, records and film. Series 4 and 5 audiovisual materials digitized by Media Preserve in July 2018 are available to...

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Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

Scope and Content Note The core of the collection consists of 8 linear feet (442 reels) of tape-recorded sound captured by field workers of the University Folklore Research Project, 1949-1965, under the direction of Mary Celestia Parler Randolph. While most of the 137,400 tape-feet of recorded sound preserves Arkansas and/or Ozark folk-songs sung by the indigenous folk of the area and recorded "live" in their native locales, a few of the reels also record instrumental music performed without vocal...