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University of Texas, Center for American History

A Guide to the John Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1853-1986


Descriptive Summary

CreatorLomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.
TitleLomax (John Avery) Family Papers
Dates: 1842, 1853-1986.
Abstract Papers of John Avery Lomax (1867-1948) and family members. Lomax was a collector of North American folk songs, publishing collections of folk songs and serving as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. He also served the University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. The collection includes song lyrics, music, sound recordings, literary productions, diaries, and scrapbooks.
ID30425536
Extent45 ft., 7 in.
LanguageEnglish.
RepositoryCenter for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Collector and publisher of North American folk songs, born in Mississippi; settled near Meridian, Texas (1869); served University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. He published collections of folk songs (1910, 1927-1947) and a memoir (1947); and served as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. Married Bess Baumann Brown (1904), who died in 1931, and Ruby R. Terrill (1934). Fathered four children: Shirley Lomax Mansell Duggan; John Avery Lomax, Jr.; Alan James Lomax; and Bess Brown Lomax Hawes.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, song lyrics, music, literary productions, diaries and logs, scrapbooks, classified files, financial records, photographs, phonograph recordings, audio tapes, newspaper and magazine clippings relate to John A. Lomax, Sr., and family members. Papers concern American folksongs and folklore, Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly"); Library of Congress Music Division; and the University of Texas.

 

Organization
Organized into 8 series: 1. Susan F. Cooper (Mrs. James Avery) Lomax 2. John A. Lomax, Sr. 3. Bess Baumann Brown Lomax. 4. Ruby Rochelle Terrill Lomax. 5. Shirley Lomax Mansell. 6. Bess Brown Lomax Hawes. 7. Alan James Lomax. 8. John A. Lomax, Jr. Series 2 arranged into 9 subseries: Personal; Early teaching career; University of Texas career; Texas A & M College; Harvard University; Investment and banking business; Folk poetry and folk songs; General folklore; Various other activities. Series 8 contains subseries related to Margaret Marable Lomax, John M. Lomax (John Lomax, III), and Joseph F. Lomax.

Restrictions

Portions of series 4 is restricted from public access. Quotations from the unpublished writings of John A. Lomax, Sr., may be published only with the permission of the majority of his surviving children.

Index Terms

Subjects (Persons)
Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944
Rainey, Homer P. (Homer Price), 1896-
Subjects (Organizations)
Ex-students' Association of the University of Texas.
Archive of American Folk Song.
Texas Folklore Society.
Subjects
African Americans--Folklore.
African Americans--Songs and music.
Cowboys--Songs and music.
Folklore--United States.
Folk music--United States.
Folk poetry, American.
Folk-songs--United States.
Other Authors
Ajayi, Lattevi H.
Blank, Les.
Crane, Edward, 1883-1959.
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.
Green, Shirley R., d. 1903.
Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944
Hawes, Bess Lomax, 1921-
Leadbelly, 1885-1949.
Lomax, Alan, 1915-
Lomax. Bess Baumann Brown.
Lomax, John, III.
Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1907-1974.
Lomax, Joseph Franklin, 1949-
Lomax, Margaret Marable, 1908-1973.
Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
Lomax, Susan F. Cooper.
Mansell, Shirley Lomax, 1905-
Rainey, Homer P. (Homer Price), 1896-
Tartt, Ruby Pickens, 1880-1974.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

James Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1853-1986, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Papers:

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3D147Susan F. Cooper (Mrs. James Avery) Lomax item: "Trip to Texas," 1914
John A. Lomax, Sr., papers:
Personal:
Family correspondence:
Bess Baumann Brown Lomax:
1898-April 1904
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3D148 May 1904-1923 and undated
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3D149 Undated
Ruby Rochelle Terrill Lomax
1933-April 1934
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3D150 May 1934-March 27, 1935
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3D151 March 28, 1935-October 15, 1936
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3D152 October 17, 1936-1947 and undated
Shirley Lomax Mansell and family, 1910-1947 and undated
John Avery Lomax, Jr., and Margaret Marable Lomax:
1912-1939
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3D153 1940-1948 and undated
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3D222Alan James Lomax, 1919-1948 and undated
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3D153Bess Brown Lomax Hawes and family, 1931-1947 and undated
Alice Lomax Pedigo and Eugene R. Pedigo, 1899-1948 and undated
Brown Family:
1903-1947 and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V621Oversize magazine clipping, 1944
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3D153Miscellaneous family, 1890-1948 and undated
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3D154Friends and colleagues, correspondence and other papers:
Eugene C. Barker, 1898, 1906, 1919, 1926, 1943-1948, and undated
William J. Battle, 1897, 1900, 1911-1921, 1931-1947, and undated
Roy Bedicheck, 1900-1919, 1934-1947, and undated
H. Y. Benedict, 1901, 1907, 1917-1920, 1930-1937, and undated
L. B. R. Briggs, 1898-1932 and undated
L. G. Bugbee, 1899-1901
Orville Bullington, 1917-1947
Oscar Callaway and Stella Callaway, 1900, 1910, 1931-1947, and undated
Genevieve Chandler, 1936-1947 and undated
Choate School, 1929-1935, 1945, 1946, and undated
James B. Clark Family, 1897-1904, 1943, 1944, and undated
Tom Connally, 1904-1924, 1940
Edward Crane, 1900, 1917-1948, and undated
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3D155Tom Peete Cross, 1919-1924
Donald Day and the Southwest Review, 1942-1947 and undated
J. Frank Dobie, 1922-1950, 1964, 1965, and undated
E. P. R. Duval, 1904, 1914-1920, 1940-1945
Shirley Green:
1897-June 1899
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3D156 July 1899-July 1902
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3D157 August 1902-1903
Undated and fragments
George Herzog, 1934-1936 and undated
Tom A. Hight, 1911, 1912, 1924-1940
Will C. Hogg, 1916-1922
Gene Boardman Hoover, 1935-1938, and undated
John B. Jones, 1912, 1915, 1929-1945, and undated
Richard H. Kimball family, 1900-1904, 1917, 1923, 1935, 1937, 1947, and undated
George Lyman Kittredge, 1907-1943 and undated
Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly"):
Various materials, 1934-1944 and undated
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3D200Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1934-1951, 1960-1977, and undated
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2.325/V625Oversize, 1945 and undated
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3D157Janice Reed Lit, 1933-1940 and undated
J. E. McCauley, 1910-1925, 1944
Sidney E. Mezes, 1897-1931
Charles S. Potts, 1904-1910, 1934-1946, and undated
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3D158William L. Prather family, 1899-1903
Carl Sandburg, 1920-1934, 1945, 1947, and undated
Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Seeger, 1937-1946 and undated
John Lang Sinclair family, 1901, 1912-1925, 1935-1948, and undated
Reed Smith, 1934-1944
Harry R. Stephens, 1911, 1942-1947, and undated
SMS Ranches, Frank S. Hastings, and W. G. Swenson, 1916-1920, 1935-1945
Ruby Pickens Tartt, 1936-1948, 1964, and undated
Jean Thomas, 1933-1937 and undated
Stith Thompson, 1933-1934, 1944-1946, 1966
William D. Totten, 1911-1917, 1933
Leslie Waggener family, 1917-1947
Alonzo Wasson, 1915-1917, 1940-1947, and undated
Barrett Wendell, Jr., 1917-1947 and undated
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3D159Barrett Wendell, Sr., 1907-1924 and undated
George T. Winston, 1898-1904 and undated
Lewis T. Winston and P. H. Winston, 1899-[1903?]
Edgar E. Witt, 1900-1947
Ray Wood, 1939-1944 and undated
General:
1897-1911
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3D160 1912-1935
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3D161 1936-1948 and January-December undated
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3D162 Undated
Financial records:
Insurance and loans on policies, 1893-1947 and undated
Correspondence, invoices and receipts:
1900-1947 and undated
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2.325/V62 1Oversize tax receipt, 1928
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3D162Bank books, 1906-1908, 1915
Check stubbs, 1926-1927
Checks to Mrs. Susan F. Lomax, 1899-1914
Miscellaneous checks:
1900-July 1945
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3D163 Aug. 1945-1946
Deposit Slips, 1911-1947
Bank statements, 1933-1946
Miscellaneous, 1920, 1937, and undated
Student Papers:
Various schools, colleges, and universities, 1880-1898, 1903, and undated
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2.325/V62 1University of Texas diplomas, 1897, 1906
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3D163Harvard University:
1904-1907 and undated
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2.325/V62 1Diploma, 1907
box
3D163Organizations, correspondence and other materials:
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1900-1901, 1912-1925, 1947, and undated
Modern Language Association, 1912-1941
Various organizations, 1907-1925, 1936-1947, and undated
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2.325/V62 1Oversize Philosophical Society of Texas membership, 1936
box
3D163Diary and ledger, 1934-1935
box
3D164Eightieth birthday:
John Avery Lomax: His 80th Birthday, bound of letters, 1947
Loose materials removed from John Avery Lomax: His 80th Birthday, 1911, 1947-1950, and undated
Photocopy of John Avery Lomax: His 80th Birthday and loose materials, 1911, 1947-1950 and undated
Other correspondence, 1947
Death:
Correspondence, 1948 and undated
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3D165Newspaper clippings, 1948
Will and estate papers, 1942-1948
Miscellaneous items, 1948
Biographical materials, 1936, 1947, 1948, and undated
Lomax family tree, coat of arms, and other materials, 1910 and undated
Early teaching career, [1888-1895?]
University of Texas career:
Business correspondence, 1898-1930, 1940-1947, and undated
Students:
General correspondence:
1896-1900
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3D166 1901-1925 and undated
Working Students' Bulletin, 1911-1912 and undated
Cullen F. Thomas Scholarship/Alumni Loan Fund correspondence:
Cullen F. Thomas, 1912-1914
Applicants:
January-June 20, 1913
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3D167 June 21-September 1913 and undated
Correspondence courses:
Correspondence, 1913-1914
Syllabus for folklore course, undated
Statistics, 1911-1914
Texas Legislature and proposed merger of University of Texas with
Texas A & M College:
Correspondence:
1910-1912
1913-1915
Legislative bills, amendments, lists of legislators, newspaper clippings, and other materials, 1913 and undated
Governor James E. Ferguson controversy:
John A. Lomax vs. G. S. McReynolds et al, 1917
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3D168Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials, 1916-1918, 1925, 1940-1944, and undated
"Random Recollections of the University `Bear Fight,' " reminiscence, undated
Ex-Students Association:
Correspondence, 1919-1925, 1942, 1945
Historical reminiscence, 1942
Magazine clippings, 1962
Printed item, undated
Homer Price Rainey controversy, correspondence and other materials, 1939-1947
Various printed items and newspaper clippings:
1904-1945 and undated
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2.325/V62 1Oversize Book of Texas prospectus, 1916
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3D169A & M College:
Long Horn, prospectus, 1904
Commencement dance program, 1906
Correspondence, 1906-1917, 1945-1947, and undated
Notes and reminiscences related to student strike of 1908, ca. 1945-1947
Harvard University, correspondence and printed material, 1909-1919, 1936-1942, and undated
Investment and banking business:
Lee, Higginson & Company and investments, correspondence, 1917-1925
"Liberty Bond Selling in World War I," reminiscence, 1942
Republic National Bank, Dallas, correspondence and other materials:
1928-1947
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2.325/V62 1Oversize brochure, "How to Modernize Your Home," undated
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3D169Folk poetry and folk songs:
Correspondence:
Ballad collecting:
General:
1906-May 1913
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3D170 June 1913-1947 and undated
Carnegie Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation grants, 1907-1909, 1933-1935, 1942
Recording equipment, 1932-1936 and undated
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3D171Prisons and prisoners, 1933-1942 and undated
Lectures and performances:
Alone, or with Alan Lomax:
1910-Sept. 1915
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3D172 Oct. 1915-1948 and undated
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2.325/V 62 1Oversize Items, 1910-1916
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3D172With Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly"), 1934-1935
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3D173Publishing:
Articles, 1907-1947
Books:
General, 1909-1947 and undated
Securing permissions to reprint, 1917, 1930-1947
Granting permisssions to reprint:
1912-1939
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3D174 1940-1947 and undated
Copyright and authorship controversy related to "Home on the Range," 1853, 1904-1911, 1930-1949, and undated
Musical compositions and arrangements by others, 1914-1947 and undated
Permissions for concert performances, radio broadcasts, record publishing, and motion picture films by others, 1919-1948 and undated
Sales:
1911-Feb. 10, 1917
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3D175 Feb. 11, 1917-1947 and undated
Responses and requests:
1909-1945
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3D176 1946-1948 and undated
Library of Congress affiliation, 1933-1947 and undated
Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers' Projects, 1936-1941 and undated
Folklore Societies, 1910-1946 and undated
Lyrics, notes, and music:
Classification system, file cards:
I, Cowboy and Western Frontier Songs, A-L, undated
II, Negro Songs, A-D, undated
III, Traditional Songs, undated
IV, Child Ballads, undated
V, Indian Songs, undated
VI, French Songs, undated
VII, Spanish Songs, undated
VIII, Railroad Songs, undated
IX, Army Songs, undated
X, Sailor Songs, undated
XI, Lumbermen Songs, undated
XII, Play Songs, undated
XIII, Old Religious Songs, undated
XIV, Collier Cobb Songs, undated
XV, Miscellaneous songs, undated
Songs, undated
[Frontier?] Sayings, undated
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3D177Classified Songs:
I, Cowboy and Western Frontier Songs:
A, 1865, 1906-1915, 1937, and undated
B, Ranger Songs, undated
C, 1904-1910 and undated
D, 1894, 1907-1915, and undated
E, 1909-1911 and undated
F-H, 1910-1915 and undated
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3D178J, undated
K, undated
L, 1895-1911 and undated
II, Negro Songs:
A:
General, 1912, 1939, and undated
1-20, undated
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3D179121-145, undated
B, undated
C, undated
D, undated
III, Traditional songs, undated
IV, Child Ballads, undated
V, Indian Songs, undated
VI, French Songs, undated
VII, Spanish Songs, undated
VIII, Railroad Songs, undated
IX, Army Songs, undated
X, Sailor songs, undated
XI, Lumbermen Songs, undated
XII, Play Songs, undated
XIV, Carolina Coast Songs From Collier Cobb, undated
XV, Miscellaneous Songs, undated
Unclassified songs:
Cowboy songs, undated:
1909-1938 and undated
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3D180 1895-1945 and undated
Ranger songs, undated
Negro songs, undated
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3D181Negro songs collected from Ruby Pickens Tartt, undated
Negro songs and other religious songs, undated
Negro songs and other miscellaneous songs, undated
Traditional English ballads, undated
Child ballads, undated
Spanish songs, undated
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3D182Army songs, undated
Sailor songs, undated
Prison songs, undated
Texas songs, undated
Cotton songs, undated
Bawdy songs, undated
Dance calls, undated
"Old Popular Song Texts," undated
Children's songs:
"American Mother Goose," undated
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3D183"American Mother Goose," undated
General, undated
General songs, "Not used anywhere," undated
General songs, undated
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3D184General songs, undated
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3D185General songs, undated
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3D186General songs, undated
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3D187General songs, undated
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2.325/V62 2Oversize, 1913, 1928-1942, and undated
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3D187Literary Productions:
Books:
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads:
ca. 1910
boxfolder
2.325/V62 3Oversize words and music, undated
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3D187Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp, ca. 1918
American Ballads and Folk Songs, ca. 1934
Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly, ca. 1936
Our Singing Country:
Manuscript and notes, ca. 1941
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3D188Manuscript and notes, ca. 1941
Rejected material, 1941
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2.325/V62 3Oversize rejected material, ca. 1941
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3D188Folk Song, U.S.A, ca. 1947
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
Notes:
General, ca. 1943-1947
Alabama, ca. 1943-1947
Arkansas, ca. 1943-1947
Florida, ca. 1943-1947
Mississippi, ca. 1943-1947
Tennessee, ca. 1943-1947
Virginia, ca. 1943-1947
Rough drafts:
Preface, Chapters 1 ("My Life in Bosque County") and 2, ca. 1943-1947
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3D189Chapters 3 through 12, ca. 1943-1947
Unidentified chapters, ca. 1943-1947
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3D190Unidentified chapters, ca. 1943-1947
Semi-final draft, ca. 1943-1947
Final draft:
Preface, Chapters 1 through 4, ca. 1943-1947
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3D191Chapters 5 through 11, ca. 1943-1947
Cow Camps and Cattle Herds, ca. 1945, 1966
Articles, lectures, and other short pieces:
Drafts and notes:
"Iron Head (James Baker) and "Clear Rock" (Mose Platt), undated
"Los Pastores," undated
"Henry Truvillon (Trevelyan?)," undated
Cowboy articles, undated
Century Magazine article, undated
"Miscellaneous Negro Reels" (Classification IIC) [article?] for West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, undated
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3D192"Miscellaneous Negro Reels" (Classification IIC) [article?] for West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, undated
"Vulgar" Negro Songs (Classification IID) article for American Historical Review, undated
"Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress," undated
Lectures at Texas State College for Women, undated
Lecture on Negro spirituals, undated
Printed items:
"Cowboy Songs of the Mexican Border," Sewanee Review, January 1911 (2 copies); and Texas Magazine, March 1911
"Cowboy songs, " M.A.B. (Mainly About Books), February 1912
"Some Types of American Folk Song, Journal of American Folklore, January-March 1915
"Self-pity in Negro Folk-Songs," Nation, August 9, 1917
"Cowboy Lingo," Sunny Slopes of Long Ago, Texas Folklore Society Publication 33, 1966 (first published 1920)
Miscellaneous pieces, fragments, and notes, undated
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3D193Miscellaneous pieces, fragments and notes, undated
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3D194Miscellaneous pieces, fragments, and notes, undated
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3D195Miscellaneous pieces, fragments, and notes, undated
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3D196Miscellaneous pieces, fragments and notes, undated
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2.325/V62Literary productions with others:
3Sunny Slopes of Long Ago, Texas Folklore Society Publication 33, 1966:
3Galley proofs
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3D196Page proofs
"Report of the Committee on Folksong of the Popular Literature Section of the Modern Language Association of America," Southern Folklore Quarterly, June 1937
"The Southwest, Inventory and Sampling," Saturday Review of Literature, May 16, 1942
Literary productions by others:
Texts:
Collier Cobb, 1909;
Shearin, 1911;
Chapman, 1916;
Thompson, 1922;
Fletcher, 1931;
Espinosa, 1932;
White and O'Malley, 1934;
Ruby T. Lomax, 1939;
Building America, 1942;
Day, 1945,
Bluestein, 1962;
Brininstool, undated;
Butler, undated;
Chittenden, undated;
Unidentified, undated
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3D197Ives, 1922;
Ostrander, 1945;
Prude, 1950;
Houston, 1953.
Correspondence, 1909-1923, 1933-1947
Song anthologies and sheet music:
Negro songs, 1850, ca. 1905, 1907, 1928, and undated
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3D198Various songs, 1868, 1922, 1930-1941, and undated
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2.325/V62 4Oversize sheet music, 1842, 1853, 1858, 1909, 1910, 1920-1943
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3D198Recording trips, daybook notes, and reports, 1937-1942 and undated
Maps:
Great Texas Cattle Trail, 1875
Roads, Houston-Austin-Waco-College Station, Texas, area, [1900-1940]
boxfolder
2.325/V62 4San Francisco, California-Reno, Nevada area, undated
4Road and Railroad Map of Puerto Rico, 1932-1933
box
3D198Printed material related to Library of Congress:
"Archive of American Folksong, A History, 1928-1939," 1940
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3D199Statements, reports, catalogs, articles, and other items, 1936-1947, 1964, 1968, and undated
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3.235/V62 5"Provisional Check-List of Disks (Excluding Primitive) in the Archives of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress," 1936
(2 copies)
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3D199Ballard Branch (Virginia) Bog Trotters materials:
1940 and undated
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2.325/V62 5Oversize, undated
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3D199Newspaper and magazine clippings and other printed items: Related to John A. Lomax, Sr.:
1893, 1904-1946
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3D200 1947-1958 1966, and undated
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3.235/V62 5Oversize, 1912, [1941?], 1947
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3D200General folkmusic subjects:
1908-1951 and undated
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2.325/V62 5Oversize, 1920, 1935, 1947
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3D201General folklore:
Lattevi H. Ajayi, Yoruba tales:
Correspondence, 1909-1920 and undated
Original texts and typescripts, ca. 1909-1920 and undated
Lomax, "Stories of an African Prince, Yoruba Tales," Journal of American Folklore, January-March 1913
Texas Folklore Society printed material, [1910?], 1928-1943, and undated
Folklore course outline, undated
"Negro lore", notes, undated
Works Progress Administration materials:
Interviews, undated
Writers Division stories, 1936-1938 and undated
Federal Writers Project, Nebraska, 1939
"Negro lore", 1936-1937 and undated
Negro stories, 1937 and undated
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3D202Ex-Slave stories, 1936-1937 and undated
Miscellaneous folklore, 1937 and undated
Instructions for interviewers, catalog, and correspondence, 1936-1941 and undated
Vivid terms and phrases:
Notes, undated
Notecards, undated
Cowboy language, correspondence, 1916, 1921, 1936-1945
Nicknames:
Notes, undated
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3D203Notecards, undated
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3D204Literary productions:
By Lomax:
"Old Mackenzie Trail" (poem), 1908
"Cowboy Lingo," 1915
Book review, "Pioneers of the Ozarks," by Lennis L. Broadfoot, 1944
"Texas Cowboy Tournaments," undated
By J. E. McCauley, "A Cowboy for to Be," 1920-1924, 1942
By Cora Melton Cross, "Stories of Old Trail Drivers of Long Ago: Col. Jack Myers Potter Tells About Life on Cattle
Range in Early Days," Semi-Weekly Farm News, 1934
By various authors:
Cobb, 1910;
Anderson and Cundall, 1910;
Pound, ca. 1914;
Stewart and Watt, 1916;
Hastings, 1916;
Humphreys and Davis, 1921;
Boas, ed., 1922;
Crutchfield, 1929;
Williams, 1931;
Adams, 1936;
Davidson, 1944;
Thompson, 1945;
Guthrie [1942-1945];
Leisy, 1946;
Emrich, 1946;
Pratt, undated;
Bertelson and Cureton, undated;
Niemoller, undated;
Walton, undated;
Unidentified, 1937 and undated;
Several authors, 1943
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, 1937-1942
Southern Folklore Quarterly, 1938
Lists:
Folklore advisors, undated
TSCW student reports, undated
Newspaper and magazine clippings and other printed items:
Articles from Wild West Weekly, 1937 and undated
Articles from West, undated
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3D205Articles from various publications and other items:
1910-1941, 1950, and undated
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2.325/V62 5Oversize items, 1936 and undated
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3D205Various activities:
Literary productions:
By Lomax:
Articles on Will C. Hogg:
Drafts, notes, and magazine clippings, 1940, 1968, and undated
Correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1925, 1930-1946, and undated
Various items:
Texts, 1898, 1903-1911, 1920, 1944, and undated
Correspondence, 1904, 1909, 1918, 1920, 1930, 1941-1947
By various authors, 1903, 1911, 1930, and undated
Santa Anna's saddle, correspondence, 1929-1937
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3D206Newspaper and magazine clippings and other printed items:
1861, 1895-1957, and undated
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2.325/V62 5Oversize, 1913, 1930-1947, and undated
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3D206Clippings from unidentified sources:
1934 and undated
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2.325/V62 5Oversize, undated
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3D206Miscellaneous and unidentified items, 1931, 1936, 1945, and undated
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2.325/V62 5Cartoon by and of O. Henry, undated
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3D207Bess Baumann Brown Lomax papers:
General correspondence:
1895-1931 and undated
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2.325/V62 6Oversize letter, undated
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3D207Financial papers, 1903-1928 and undated
Religious papers, 1898-1908 and undated
School papers:
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2.325/V62 6Diploma, 1898
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3D207Latin, 1923, 1924, and undated
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3D208English literature, 1903 and undated
Literary productions:
Stories, essays, and poetry, undated
Notes and fragments, undated
Authored by others:
Poetry book, 1903-1909, and undated
Books, stories, and poetry, 1858, 1878, 1886, 1903, 1908, 1923, and undated
Authorship unknown, 1901-1905 and undated
Music books:
Notebook from lessons with Bedford F. Moore, 1929
Notebook of A. Baumann, undated
Glee Hive: A Collection of Glees and Part Songs, 1853
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2.325/V62 6Oversize note pages, undated
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3D208Miscellaneous materials, 1887, 1907-1931, and undated
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3D209Ruby Rochelle Terrill Lomax papers:
Family correspondence, 1877-1883, 1894-1904, and undated
Correspondence and other personal papers, 1895-1961 and undated
Literary productions and radio interview transcript, 1918-1928, 1940-1955, and undated
Newspaper clippings, 1925-1938, 1948-1953, 1966, and undated
Miscellaneous printed items, 1921-1923 and undated
Adventuring in New York, 1923
Travel notes, undated
Testimonial book, University Baptist Church, 1937
Final illness and death:
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3D109Correspondence and other papers, (RESTRICTED) 1955-1962
box
3D209Newspaper clippings, condolences, biographical notes, funeral register, florists' cards, 1961-1962
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3D210Shirley Lomax Mansell papers:
Correspondence, 1925-1978 and undated
School papers:
1913
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2.325/V62 6Diplomas, 1919, 1921
box
3D210Juvenile play, 1914
Newspaper clipping, 1919
Book pages and inscription, undated
Chris C. Mansell, medical school notes, undated
Bess Brown Lomax Hawes papers, 1930-1978 and undated
box
3D222Alan James Lomax papers:
Correspondence:
Family, 1931-1974 and undated
box
3D223General, 1925-1948 and undated
School papers, 1920-1933 and undated
Radio scripts, 1941-1945 and undated
box
3D210Literary productions, 1930-1943, 1959-1977, and undated
Printed materials:
Choate School, 1929, 1931
American School of the Air, Teacher's Manual, 1940-1941
Programs, 1941, 1986
box
3D211Newspaper and magazine clippings:
1926-1986 and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Oversize, 1986
box
3D211Miscellaneous, 1931, 1936, 1977, 1980, and undated
John A. Lomax, Jr., papers:
Personal:
Curtis Publishing Company, magazine subscription contest, 1915-1918:
Bound printed material and correspondence
Unbound printed material, correspondence, and notes
Newspaper clipping
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Scrapbook pages
box
3D211Pecan sales venture, printed material, correspondence, and notes, 1921-1924 and undated
Bank book, 1913-1916
Boy Scouts of America items, 1919-1924
School papers:
High school:
1921-1924
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Admission diploma, 1920
box
3D211University:
1924-1928
Newspaper clippings, 1925 and undated
Correspondence:
Margaret Marable Lomax:
1940
box
3D212 1941-1949
General family:
1914, 1924-1950, 1960-1969, and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Oversize, undated
box
3D212General:
1931-1968
box
3D213 1969-1973 and undated
Log of automobile tour, 1932
Literary productions:
Related to 1932 automobile tour, 1932, 1943, and undated
Related to various subjects, 1944, 1963-1969, and undated
Newspaper clippings, sports, 1937, 1946-1967, and undated
Diaries, 1935-1940
Scrapbook materials:
Family, 1947, 1957, and undated
Military career:
1943-1945, and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Oversize, 1942
box
3D213Sports, 1944-1962 and undated
Folksongs, undated
Miscellaneous, 1936, 1946, 1957, and undated
Vacations:
1961-1963 and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 6Oversize, 1961, 1963, and undated
box
3D214Death: newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials, 1974, 1975
Materials related to John A. Lomax, Sr.:
Portrait in oil, University of Texas:
Correspondence, 1963-1973 and undated
Presentation ceremony, April 18, 1964
Literary production by Richard T. Fleming:
"Lomax Profile," ca. 1966
Research materials and notes, 1923, 1933-1937, 1947, 1962-1967, and undated
Correspondence, 1962-1971 and undated
Cow Camps and Cattle Herds, correspondence, 1965-1968 and undated
box
3D215Historical marker, Meridian, Texas, 1970-1971
University of Texas plaque, 1976-1977
Miscellaneous:
1961, 1969, 1982
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize magazine clipping, 1969
box
3D215Materials related to Margaret Marable Lomax:
Personal, 1908, 1927-1944, 1958-1973, and undated
Deaths of parents, Agnes and Frank Marable, 1962, 1963, and undated
Folkmusic:
Performances:
Printed programs, 1955-1976 and undated
Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1953-1974 and undated
Notes, lectures, song lists:
and fragmentary 1950-1972, undated,
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize, undated
box
3D216Song repertoire:
Songbook, undated
Best Songs from the Lomax Collections, 1966
Alphabetical file of texts:
Typescripts, undated
Manuscripts, 1910, 1942, 1948, 1965-1968, and undated
Transcriptions of tunes by Hally Wood, 1969, 1977, and undated
Field recordings made by John A. Lomax, Sr., and Alan Lomax for Library of Congress, Archive of American Folk Song:
Inventory of recordings at University of Texas at Austin, undated
Listing of recordings held by Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History, 1967
Transcriptions by Hally Wood, 1934 and undated:
C92(1-20)
F276-F290
box
3D217F291-F322
Recordings not in the UT Folklore Center
Songs of the Almanac Singers, 1941-1942
Songs from various sources, 1936, 1949, 1958-1964, and undated
[Boy Scout?] song book, Fort Worth, Texas, 1969
Classified files:
Folk Song, U.S.A., (reprinted as Best Loved American Folk Songs), reviews and correspondence, 1948, 1953, 1964-1971
box
3D218Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins:
1960-1973, 1982
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize printed item, 1969
box
3D218"The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins," Les Blank correspondence, 1967-1977
Blind Lemon Jefferson:
1930, 1967-1969, and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Historical Map of Freestone County, undated
box
3D218Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly"), 1950, 1969-1971
Mance Lipscomb, 1966-1976 and undated
Houston Folklore Society:
Periodical publications, 1966-1972
Other materials, 1955-1966 and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize magazine clipping, 1963
box
3D218Texas Folklore Society, 1954-1973 and undated
KHFI-FM Summer Music Festival, Houston, Texas:
1964
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize materials, 1964
box
3D218Berkeley [California] Folk Music Festival:
1959-1965
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7 1970
box
3D219Institute of Texan Cultures:
1968, 1969, and undated
boxfolder
2.325/V62 7Oversize, 1968 and undated