Vance Randolph Collection
AFC 1941/001
Prepared by Clare Norcio and Katie LynPeebles
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
August 2000
Encoded by Library of Congress, 2000;
Revised by Nora Yeh
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af000001
Latest revision: July 2010
Collection Summary
Call No.: AFC 1941/001
Creator: Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980
Title: Vance Randolph Collection
Span Dates: 1941-1972
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1941-1943)
Contents: 24 boxes containing manuscripts, graphic materials, published articles, sound recordings, and maps; 12.5 linear feet; 18,216 items
Repository: Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Summary: Field recordings, photographs, and manuscripts documenting Ozark Mountains folksong, folklife, and local history from 1941 to 1972, collected by Vance Randolph.
Languages: Collection material in English
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. For bibliography see Appendix A.
People
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980, collector, performer.
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980--Correspondence.
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980--Ethnomusicological collections.
Starr, Belle, 1848-1889.
Organizations
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) collector.
Subjects
Ballads, English--Ozark Mountains Region.
Children's songs, English--Ozark Mountains Region.
English language--Dialects--Ozark Mountains Region.
Fiddle tunes--Ozark Mountains Region.
Field recordings--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folk dance music--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folk festivals--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folk literature--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folk music--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folk songs, English--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folklore--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folklorists--Ozark Mountains Region.
Folklorists--United States--Correspondence.
Games--Ozark Mountains Region.
Hymns, English--Ozark Mountains Region.
Material culture--Ozark Mountains Region.
Old-time music--Ozark Mountains Region.
Rites and ceremonies--Ozark Mountains Region.
Shape note singing--Ozark Mountains Region.
Singing games--Ozark Mountains Region.
Storytelling--Ozark Mountains Region.
Superstition--Ozark Mountains Region.
Tales--Ozark Mountains Region.
Tall tales--Ozark Mountains Region.
Traditional medicine--Ozark Mountains Region.
Places
Arkansas--Folklore.
Missouri--Folklore.
Oklahoma--Folklore.
Ozark Mountains--History, Local.
Ozark Mountains--Religious life and customs.
Ozark Mountains--Social life and customs.
Form/Genre
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Field recordings.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts.
Photographic prints.
Sound recordings.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The Vance Randolph Collection began with the field recordings that the Archive of American Folk Song commissioned Randolph to make in 1941 and 1942. Randolph donated his personal papers to the Library of Congress in 1972; the two accessions have been combined.
Processing History
After the 1972 donation, Beverly W. Brannan prepared an inventory in 1977, and an evaluation of the Vance Randolph Collection. The collection was then preliminarily rehoused by Judith Gray. In 1996, Camila Bryce-Laporte and Norbert Sarsfield prepared a more detailed inventory. The 1977 and 1996 inventories are located in the Corporate Subject files in the Folklife Reading Room under "Randolph, Vance." In 1999, Clare Norcio began organizing and continued the rehousing of the collection. Katie Lyn Peebles finished organizing and housing the collection in the summer of 2000.
Location
The American Folklife Center holds custody of this collection; portions are housed in other divisions. The Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (M/B/RS) has the original discs and preservation tape copies AFS 5236-5425 (LWO 3493, reels 14-26), AFS 6397-6464 (LWO 3493, reel 42), and AFS 6897-6904 (LWO 3493, reels 56-57). See the Collection Concordance by Format for more information. The Archive of Folk Culture holds a set of reference tapes. The Prints and Photographs Division holds 40 photographs (Lot 5580) from the 1941-1942 field trips.
Access
Listening and viewing access to the collection is unrestricted. Listening copies of the recordings are available at the Folklife Reading Room.
Restrictions
Restrictions may apply concerning the use, duplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Folklife Reading Room for specific information. See http:// lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/folkrec.html for information about ordering audio reproductions. See http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/pds/photo.html for information about ordering photographic
reproductions.
Publications
Cochran, Robert. "Randolph, Vance." In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
Cochran, Robert. Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Related Materials
The Manuscript Division has a collection entitled "Vance Randolph book typescripts, 1947-1953," which contains the typescripts of Ozark Superstitions, We Always Lie to Strangers, Who Blowed Up the Church House? and Down in the Holler with handwritten corrections (call number MMC-3244). The Music Division has a 1949 manuscript and microfilm copy of "Unprintable Songs
and Other Folklore Materials" from the Ozarks by Vance Randolph [call number M1629.R23 U5 (Case)].
Preferred Citation
Vance Randolph Collection (AFC 1941/001), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Washington D.C.
The Collector
Vance Randolph was a self-educated folklorist who made a living as a professional writer. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1892, he was educated as a scientist: as an undergraduate, he studied biology, and then in graduate school at Clark University, in psychology. As a graduate student, Randolph began to earn money by coaching students and ghostwriting. He then moved to the Ozark Mountains, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He was married twice, the first marriage lasting through the 1930s. In 1962 he married Mary Celestia Parler, a professor of English at the University of Arkansas and an active member of the folklore community, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In the 1920s, Randolph began writing about the Ozark folklore he was collecting. He published several articles on dialect, folk belief, and recreation. His first books of folklore scholarship, The
Ozarks and Ozark Mountain Folks, were published in the 1930s. He went on to publish Ozark Folksongs (4 vols., 1946-50) and Ozark Superstitions (1947). In the 1950s, he published four collections of folktales and a book about language in the Ozarks. His other major publications include Ozark Folklores: A Bibliography (1972), Pissing in the Snow and other Ozark Folktales
(1976), and Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992). In 1978 Randolph was elected as a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, crowning a distinguished career with this formal professional honor.
Scope and Content Note
The Vance Randolph Collection had its beginnings in the early 1940s with fieldwork conducted by the well-known "amateur" Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph. In February 1941, Alan Lomax, then head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, wrote to Vance Randolph, asking if he would consider making field recordings in the Ozarks. Randolph accepted the request and began to conduct fieldwork with recording equipment and film supplied by the Archive. By the end of 1942, he had collected more than 870 selections on 198 discs (either aluminum or glassbased and lacquer) for the Library of Congress and photographs of people he recorded. Randolph used much of the material he collected in his book Ozark Folksongs, while the Archive included selections from these field recordings on the following releases: L-12, Anglo-American Songs and
Ballads; L-14, Anglo-American Songs and Ballads; L-20, Anglo-American Songs and Ballads; L-30, Songs of the Mormons and Songs of the West (this release includes Randolph himself singing "Starving to Death on a Government Claim"); L-61, Railroad Songs and Ballads; and L-62, American Fiddle Tunes.
In addition to the field recordings mentioned above, the Vance Randolph Collection contains the author's personal papers, which he donated to the Library of Congress in 1972. The papers consist of newspaper clippings, bibliographic notes, field notes, research notes, photographic prints, manuscripts, maps, typescripts, telegrams and correspondence, dating from the first decade of the twentieth century to the 1960s.
Related collections can be found in both the Music Division (call number M1629) and the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The Music Division houses one manuscript and 2- reel microfilm copy of Randolph's "Unprintable" Songs and Other Folklore Materials from the Ozarks, while the Manuscript Division possesses the manuscripts of four of Randolph's published
books: Ozark Superstitions; We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks; Who Blowed Up the Church House?; Other Ozark Folk Tales; and Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech.
Collection Concordance by Format
Quantity Physical Description/
Version
Location/I.D. Numbers
Manuscript
Materials
261 folders Boxes 1-20, 23-24
Sound
Recordings
191 12-inch glass-based acetate
discs
AFS 5236-5425 in M/B/RS. AFS 5270, 5320,
5341, 5425 missing; 5300 broken (Preservation
tapes LWO 3493, reels 14-26)
56 16-inch, 12-inch, 10-inch glass-based acetate discs, 8- inch aluminum-based acetate discs AFS 6397-6464 in M/B/RS. AFS 6398 missing; 6400 scratched; 6463 badly broken. AFS 6397 = Preservation tapes LWO 3493, reel 42B; AFS 6399 = Preservation tapes LWO 4872 reel 412A; AFS 6400-6463 = Preservtion tapes LWO 3493, reel 42B-46A; AFS 6464 = Preservation tapes LWO 4872 reel 412A 8 12-inch glass-based acetate discs
AFS 6897-6904 in M/B/RS. AFS 6897 damaged;
6900 broken = Preservation tapes LWO 3493,
reels 56-57
1 5-inch reel-to-reel tape "Some Talk About Belle Starr" in Box 21
Graphic
Materials
213 photographs, including 164
prints, 8 negatives, and 41
photocopied reproductions
In folders 263-79, Boxes 21-22; also in subject
file folders 35, 53, 74, 168, 173
Electronic
Media
2 3.5-inch computer diskettes Folder 1a in Box 1 contains this collection guide,
attachments, finding aid tagged with EAD, and 2
diskettes
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Description of Series
Container Series
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Administrative Files
Subject Files
Correspondence Files
Reprints of Journal Articles and Reviews
Newspaper Clippings
Series II: Sound Recordings
Series III: Graphic Images
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Container List
Container Contents
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Administrative Files
BOX 1
FOLDER 1a
Collection guide.
Contains the collection guide and three appendices listing reprinted
articles and book reviews.
BOX 1
FOLDER 1b
Log of visual images.
Table A describes the photoprints and negatives housed in the AFC
1941/001 collection; Table B describes the photographs housed in the
Prints and Photographs Division as Lot 5580. Descriptions include the
photograph number, subject, location, setting, and related
photographs.
BOX 1
FOLDER 1c
The Vance Randolph Collection: Ozark Folk Music.
Contains photocopies of the Archive's card catalog entries, and the song
lists, performer, place, and recording information for the field
recordings made by Randolph for the Library of Congress. It includes
photocopies of catalog cards for 5236 A-5270 B3, an annotated
manuscript of catalog entries for 5271 A1-5425 B3, an annotated list
of fiddle tunes played by Lon Jordan (5314-5317, 5319-5326,
5376-5379, 5401-5402, 5404-5405), and two lists of fiddle tunes
played by Bill Bilyeu (6897 A1-6904 B3).
Subject Files
BOX 1
FOLDER 2
Ancestors.
Contains typed and handwritten notes about Vance Randolph's family
history.
BOX 1
FOLDER 3
Arthur Aull.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes concerning the
Ozark newspaperman Arthur Aull.
BOX 1
FOLDER 4
Beat Texas.
Contains newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to football.
BOX 1
FOLDER 5
Thomas Hart Benton.
Contains newspaper clippings concerning artist Thomas Hart Benton.
BOX 1
FOLDER 6
Bibliography (Photocopy).
Contains a chronological bibliography of Vance Randolph's published
articles, compiled by Randolph.
BOX 1
FOLDER 7
Bibliography (Original).
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BOX 1
FOLDER 8
Booze, etc. H-V stuff.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten and typed notes dealing
with alcoholism, homosexuality, insomnia, and smoking.
BOX 1
FOLDER 9
"The Butterfly Still Lives."
Contains a 2-page typed manuscript dealing with Vance Randolph's
childhood.
BOX 1
FOLDER 10
Cavemen of the Ozarks.
Contains newspaper clippings and a typed manuscript dealing with
prehistoric settlements in the Ozarks.
BOX 1
FOLDER 11
Children's games. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, handwritten and typed
notes, and a reprint of "Ozark Mountain Party-Games" ( Journal of
American Folklore 1936).
BOX 1
FOLDER 12
Children's games. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains handwritten notes.
BOX 1
FOLDER 13
Children's rhymes. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains a reprint of "Children's Rhymes from Missouri" ( Journal of
American Folklore 1950), newspaper clippings, correspondence, and
typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 1
FOLDER 14
Children's rhymes. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed notes.
BOX 1
FOLDER 15
College such as it was.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes dealing with the
Kansas State College of Pittsburgh.
BOX 1
FOLDER 16
The Concrete Cadillac.
Contains typed and handwritten notes, and a copy of The Oregon
Folklore Bulletin dealing with the urban tale known as "The Concrete
Cadillac." Also contains a Günther Grass passage, translation, and
notes.
BOX 2
FOLDER 17
Covered wagon.
Contains typed and handwritten notes dealing with Vance Randolph's
trip through the Ozarks in a covered wagon.
BOX 2
FOLDER 18
Cuss words.
Contains newspaper clippings, typed and handwritten notes dealing
with Ozark profanities.
BOX 2
FOLDER 19
Dance calls. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings; typed and handwritten notes dealing
with folk dancing.
BOX 2 Dance calls. Folder 2 of 2.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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FOLDER 20
Contains typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 2
FOLDER 21
Dances and fiddle tunes. Folder 1 of 1.
Contains newspaper clippings; typed and handwritten notes dealing
with folk dancing and fiddle playing.
BOX 2
FOLDER 22
Dances and fiddle tunes. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 2
FOLDER 23
"Pea Ridge" Day.
Contains newspaper clippings; typed and handwritten notes dealing
with the professional baseball player Henry Clyde "Pea Ridge" Day.
BOX 2
FOLDER 24
Dialect.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
Includes the following subjects: advertisements, disputes, word list.
BOX 2
FOLDER 25
Dialect articles.
Contains newspaper clippings and notes on articles about dialect.
BOX 2
FOLDER 26
Dialect correspondence.
Contains correspondence dealing with Ozark dialect, including letters
from E.H. Criswell, Elsie and Louis Freund, Herbert Halpert, Louise
Pound, Rose Spaulding, and George P. Wilson.
BOX 2
FOLDER 27
Dialect notes. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains index cards and typed notes in sequential order.
BOX 2
FOLDER 28
Dialect notes. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 2
FOLDER 29
J. Frank Dobie.
Contains a newspaper clipping and index card dealing with the author
J. Frank Dobie.
BOX 2
FOLDER 30
Dulcimer, banjo, guitar.
Contains newspaper clippings, articles, and typed notes dealing with
folk instruments.
BOX 2
FOLDER 31
Maude Duncan.
Contains newspaper clippings dealing with newspaperwoman Maude
Duncan.
BOX 3
FOLDER 32
Fake antiques.
Contains typed and handwritten notes; articles.
BOX 3
FOLDER 33
Fiddle. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes and newspaper clippings about
tuning and the manner of playing.
BOX 3 Fiddle. Folder 2 of 2.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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FOLDER 34
Contains typed and handwritten notes about the differences between
violin and fiddle playing. Includes a paginated manuscript.
BOX 3
FOLDER 35
Fiddle construction.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with the construction of fiddles. Also contains an annotated
photoprint of a man playing a "mussel-shell" fiddle, along with the
corresponding negative. Includes notes on snake rattles, the threestring
fiddle, and the gourd fiddle.
BOX 3
FOLDER 36
Ozark fiddle tunes.
Contains correspondence, articles, and typed and handwritten notes.
Also contains a reprint copy of Vance Randolph's article "The Names
of Ozark Fiddle Tunes" ( Midwest Folklore 1954).
BOX 3
FOLDER 37
John Gould Fletcher.
Contains handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, newspaper
clippings dealing with the poet John Gould Fletcher and the Ozark
Folklore Society.
BOX 3
FOLDER 38
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 1 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings and typed and handwritten notes.
Includes articles by Vance Randolph.
BOX 3
FOLDER 39
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 2 of 6.
Contains typed and handwritten notes, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, and a term paper. Topics included: fishing and folk
medicine.
BOX 3
FOLDER 40
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 3 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings and a term paper. Topics included: lead
miners and miscellaneous articles.
BOX 3
FOLDER 41
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 4 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. Includes: miscellaneous notes and "Our Town"
column.
BOX 3
FOLDER 42
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 5 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, brochures, and typed and handwritten
notes. Includes: pamphlets, and advertisements.
BOX 3
FOLDER 43
Folk belief and superstition. Folder 6 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. Topics include: weatherlore.
BOX 3
FOLDER 44
Folk belief and superstition: Correspondence.
Contains letters and newspaper clippings. Includes correspondence
with Charles M. Bogert, William Edward Cox, Wayland D. Hand, Mrs.
Mahnkey, May Kennedy McCord, in re. Albert Pike, Rose Spaulding,
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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Barre Toelken, and Ruth Tyler; also includes miscellaneous
correspondence.
BOX 4
FOLDER 45
Folk festivals. Folder 1 of 5.
Contains newspaper clippings, festival programs, correspondence, and
typed and handwritten notes. Includes: Arkansas Folklore Society,
American Folklore Society, American Anthropology Associations,
Florida Folk Festival, National Folk Camp, and other associations.
BOX 4
FOLDER 46
Folk festivals. Folder 2 of 5.
Contains newspaper clippings, festival programs, correspondence, and
typed and handwritten notes. Includes: National Folk Festival in
Cleveland (1946), St. Louis (1948-54).
BOX 4
FOLDER 47
Folk festivals. Folder 3 of 5.
Contains newspaper clippings, festival programs, correspondence, and
typed and handwritten notes. Includes: National Folk Festival in
Oklahoma City (1957), Ozark Folk Festival in Rolla, MO (1935),
Eureka Springs (1949-53).
BOX 4
FOLDER 48
Folk festivals. Folder 4 of 5.
Contains newspaper clippings, festival programs, correspondence, and
typed and handwritten notes. Includes: Ozark Folk Festival in Eureka
Springs (1954-65).
BOX 4
FOLDER 49
Folk festivals. Folder 5 of 5.
Contains assorted newspaper clippings.
BOX 4
FOLDER 50
Folklore and history.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with folklore studies in academia and the relationship
between folklore and history.
BOX 4
FOLDER 51
Folksong. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains correspondence, typed and handwritten notes, and song
transcriptions.
BOX 4
FOLDER 52
Folksong. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 4
FOLDER 53
Folksong articles.
Contains assorted newspaper clippings about folksong, articles by
Vance Randolph, John Gould Fletcher, and Sidney Robertson Cowell
and Henry Cowell, and a 1939 photograph of Sidney Robertson
Cowell.
BOX 4
FOLDER 54
Folksong letters. Folder 1 of 3. 1927-40.
Contains correspondence to and from Vance Randolph dealing with his
experiences collecting folksongs in the Ozarks. Correspondents
include: Louise Pound, Franz Boas, Harvard University Press, George
Lyman Kittredge, Dororthy Scarborough, "The Twelve Apostles," and
"The Mermaid."
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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BOX 4
FOLDER 55
Folksong letters. Folder 2 of 3. 1941-42 (June).
Correspondents include: The Library of Congress, Alan Lomax, Edward
Water, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Thomas Benton, John Stilley, John
Robert Moore (re. the integrity of Child 218), and the Music Library
Association.
BOX 5
FOLDER 56
Folksong letters. Folder 3 of 3. 1942 (August)-57.
Correspondents includs: The Library of Congress, B.A. Botkin, Wayland
D. Hand, Mildred McMullen Green, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and
Evelyn K. Wells.
BOX 5
FOLDER 57
Folksong: "Songs Collected in the Ozark Mountains."
Contains a list of folksongs compiled by Vance Randolph.
BOX 5
FOLDER 58
Fox hunting. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and typed and
handwritten notes.
BOX 5
FOLDER 59
Fox hunting. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings.
BOX 5
FOLDER 60
Connie Franklin.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing the alleged murder of Connie Franklin.
BOX 5
FOLDER 61
Girard Airship.
Contains a newspaper clipping dealing with the first airplane factory and
flying school in Kansas.
BOX 5
FOLDER 62
Gone Are the Days.
Contains one copy of Gone Are the Days: A Book of Boyhood
Memories , written by L.J. Hedgecock.
BOX 5
FOLDER 63
"A Green Fork Turns to Water."
Contains a newspaper clipping entitled "A Green Fork Turns to Water,"
which deals with water witches.
BOX 5
FOLDER 64
Groundhog.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with groundhogs and woodchucks.
BOX 5
FOLDER 65
Guns and gunplay.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence.
BOX 5
FOLDER 66
Louis Hanecke.
Contains typed and handwritten notes dealing with Louis Hanecke,
owner of the Allred Hotel in Carroll County.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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BOX 5
FOLDER 67
The healing waters.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with mineral water and spring water in the Ozarks.
BOX 5
FOLDER 68
Hidden treasure. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence, Exciting Adventures Along the Indian
Frontier by W.R. Draper, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 5
FOLDER 69
Hidden treasure. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 5
FOLDER 70
Hidden treasure. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings.
BOX 6
FOLDER 71
Hog calling.
Contains two typewritten pages of notes.
BOX 6
FOLDER 72
Hollywood.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with Hollywood's
treatment of writers.
BOX 6
FOLDER 73
Introduction.
Contains a typescript of a title page and notes for the preface of Ozark
Folklore: Selected Papers of Vance Randolph, arranged and edited by
Mary Celestia Parler.
BOX 6
FOLDER 74
Jacob's Cavern. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains manuscript articles by Vance Randolph and Vernon C. Allison
and photographs of Jacob's Cavern, Missouri.
BOX 6
FOLDER 75
Jacob's Cavern. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, a
drawing, and correspondence dealing with Jacob's Cavern and the
history of elephants.
BOX 6
FOLDER 76
Jacob's Cavern. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains journal articles about Jacob's Cavern.
BOX 6
FOLDER 77
Jacob's Cavern: Bone Correspondence.
Contains letters about the decorated bone found in Jacob's Cavern and
the resulting controversy.
BOX 6
FOLDER 78
Joke book letters. Contains correspondence to and from Vance Randolph
related to Randolph's book Hot Springs and Hell .
Correspondents include: Robert Yoder, Woman's Day, Richard Dorson,
Columbia University Press, Herbert Halpert, Kenneth Goldstein
(Folklore Associates), Carl Withers, and Gershon Legman.
BOX 6
FOLDER 79
Sam Leath.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes about
Sam Leath, an Ozarks collector and explorer.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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BOX 6
FOLDER 80
Lecture notes taken by Vance Randolph (Photocopy).
Contains the photocopy of a notebook with Vance Randolph's
handwritten notes on G. Stanley Hall's 1914-15 lectures at Clark
University in Worcester, Massachusetts, on "The Psychology of
Christianity."
BOX 6
FOLDER 81
Lecture notes taken by Vance Randolph (Original).
Contains the original notebook photocopied in Folder 80.
BOX 6
FOLDER 82
Locusts from the city.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes dealing with the
impact of tourists from the city on the Ozarks.
BOX 6
FOLDER 83
Walter Clare Martin.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with the bow hunter Walter Clare Martin.
BOX 7
FOLDER 84
The Master's desk.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with the poet
Edgar Lee Masters.
BOX 7
FOLDER 85
Medicine show.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with medicine
shows.
BOX 7
FOLDER 86
The Menace .
Contains newspaper clippings and reprints of journal articles, and typed
notes dealing with the Aurora, Missouri, newspaper The Menace.
BOX 7
FOLDER 87
The Mollyjoggers.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with fraternal
organizations.
BOX 7
FOLDER 88
Moonshine liquor.
Contains a newspaper clipping, and a handwritten note dealing with
moonshiners.
BOX 7
FOLDER 89
Tom P. Morgan. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and handwritten and
typed notes, dealing with humorist and newspaper columnist Tom P.
Morgan.
BOX 7
FOLDER 90
Tom P. Morgan. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed notes.
BOX 7
FOLDER 91
Mysterious lights.
Contains a typescript about the sightings of unexplained lights in
northeastern Oklahoma.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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BOX 7
FOLDER 92
Names and nicknames. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with distinctive names and nicknames of the Ozarks.
BOX 7
FOLDER 93
Names and nicknames. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains index cards.
BOX 7
FOLDER 94
"The Nobility of the Mountaineer."
Contains typed notes about the character and nature of people living in
the rural Ozarks.
BOX 7
FOLDER 95
Nonsense speeches.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with nonsense speeches and illiterate elocutionists.
BOX 7
FOLDER 96
Old customs. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes and typescripts dealing with
traditional Ozark social customs.
BOX 7
FOLDER 97
Old customs. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, articles, and correspondence.
BOX 7
FOLDER 98
Old Man Burgess.
Contains correspondence and a handwritten note dealing with the faith
healer J.W. Burgess.
BOX 8
FOLDER 99
Outlawry.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
brochure about the Eureka Springs 1922 bank robbery and famous
male and female outlaws.
BOX 8
FOLDER 100
Ozark eccentrics.
Contains newspaper clippings, brochure, and typed and handwritten
notes about interesting Americans and Ozark eccentrics.
BOX 8
FOLDER 101
Ozark life.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and typed and
handwritten notes about returning to the land. Also includes two
typescripts, "Christmas in the Ozarks" and "The Lure of the Ozarks."
BOX 8
FOLDER 102
"Ozarks, Where Are You?" Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings and typed and handwritten notes
concerning the size of the Ozarks.
BOX 8
FOLDER 103
"Ozarks, Where Are You?" Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence and a typescript for an article entitled
"Ozarks, Where Are You?"
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BOX 8
FOLDER 104
Place names. Folder 1 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects:
A-L; M-Z; Correspondence. Guide for Students; History and Origin;
Listing; Mountains.
BOX 8
FOLDER 105
Place names. Folder 2 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
Includes: Guide for Students; History and Origin.
BOX 8
FOLDER 106
Place names. Folder 3 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
Included: Listing; Pronunciation; Mountains; Waterways.
BOX 8
FOLDER 107
Place names. Folder 4 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. Includes: Missouri Barry County; Missouri
MacDonald County (photocopy).
BOX 8
FOLDER 108
Place names. Folder 5 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
Includes: Missouri MacDonald County (original).
BOX 8
FOLDER 109
Place names. Folder 6 of 6.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. Includes notes and index cards.
BOX 8
FOLDER 110
Politics.
Contains newspaper clippings about politics.
BOX 9
FOLDER 111
Randolph, Vance. Biographical Material.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with the life and
work of Vance Randolph.
BOX 9
FOLDER 112
Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 1 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence
dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes:
Correspondence; The Devil's Pretty Daughter.
BOX 9
FOLDER 113
Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 2 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence
dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: Down in
the Holler; Hot Springs and Hell; Lists; Ozark Folksongs.
BOX 9
FOLDER 114
Randolph, Vance. Book reviews. Folder 3 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence
dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: Ozark
Superstitions; Sticks in the Knapsack; The Talking Turtle.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
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BOX 9
FOLDER 115
Randolph, Vance. Book Reviews. Folder 4 of 4.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence
dealing with reviews of Vance Randolph's books. Includes: The
Talking Turtle; We Always Lie to Strangers; Who Blowed Up the
Church House?
BOX 9
FOLDER 116
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 1 of 8. Photocopy A.
BOX 9
FOLDER 117
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 2 of 8. Original A.
Contains scrapbook pages with mounted newspaper clippings, dealing
primarily with reviews of Vance Randolph's books.
BOX 9
FOLDER 118
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 3 of 8. Photocopy B.
BOX 9
FOLDER 119
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 4 of 8. Original B.
Contains scrapbook pages with mounted newspaper clippings, dealing
primarily with reviews of Vance Randolph's books.
BOX 10
FOLDER 120
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 5 of 8. Photocopy C.
BOX 10
FOLDER 121
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 6 of 8. Original C. books.
Contains scrapbook pages with mounted newspaper clippings, dealing
primarily with reviews of Vance Randolph's books.
BOX 10
FOLDER 122
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 7 of 8. Photocopy D.
BOX 10
FOLDER 123
Randolph, Vance. Scrapbook pages. Folder 8 of 8. Original D.
Contains scrapbook pages with mounted newspaper clippings, dealing
primarily with reviews of Vance Randolph's books.
BOX 10
FOLDER 124
Reading lists, annotated. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains annotated notebooks kept by Vance Randolph listing books he
read. The folder is subdivided into the following groups: 1/1/1916 -
9/?/1919; 5/25/1919 - 11/29/1919.
BOX 10
FOLDER 125
Reading lists, annotated. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains annotated notebooks kept by Vance Randolph listing books he
read. The folder is subdivided into the following groups: 2/1/1920 -
12/30/1920; 1/1/1921 - 9/8/1921.
BOX 11
FOLDER 126
Religion. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence dealing with religious expression in the Ozarks.
Includes: Articles; bibliographic notes; sect name list.
Correspondence; notes; sect name list; stories.
BOX 11
FOLDER 127
Religion. Folder 2 of 3.
Includes: Correspondence; stories. Contains a two-page typescript
entitled "Relative to Religion."
BOX 11 Religion. Folder 3 of 3.
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FOLDER 128
Includes typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 11
FOLDER 129
Will Rice.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with the newspaper columnist Will Rice.
BOX 11
FOLDER 130
Ted Richmond.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence dealing with writer and "Wilderness Librarian"
James T. "Twilight Ted" Richmond.
BOX 11
FOLDER 131
Riddles. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes and correspondence.
BOX 11
FOLDER 132
Riddles. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains typed and handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and
reprints of journal articles by Vance Randolph, Archer Taylor, and
Isabel Spradley, dealing with riddles.
BOX 11
FOLDER 133
Ritual planting.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with agricultural superstitions.
BOX 11
FOLDER 134
Roaring River.
Contains a nine-page typescript entitled "Roaring River," which
describes the Roaring River in Missouri.
BOX 11
FOLDER 135
Spider Rowland.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with newspaper
columnist and Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Hardy "Spider"
Rowland.
BOX 11
FOLDER 136
"The Honorable" Salts (J.D. Salts).
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed notes dealing with author and
presidential candidate James D. "The Honorable" Salts.
BOX 11
FOLDER 137
Buck Saunders.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with gun collector Col. C. B. "Buck" Saunders.
BOX 11
FOLDER 138
Shape notes (Modal tunes, gapped scales).
Contains typed and handwritten notes dealing with shape note singing.
BOX 11
FOLDER 139
The Shibboleths.
Contains typed and handwritten notes and newspaper clippings dealing
the proper pronunciation of the word Arkansas.
BOX 11
FOLDER 140
Leonard Short.
Contains newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes dealing with the
outlaw Leonard Short.
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BOX 11
FOLDER 141
Short change.
Contains newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes dealing with con
artists.
BOX 11
FOLDER 142
Show business.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings about the intersection of
show business and the Ozarks.
BOX 12
FOLDER 143
Skipping games.
Contains newspaper clippings, reprints of journal articles, handwritten
and typed notes, and correspondence dealing with jump rope rhymes
and skipping games.
BOX 12
FOLDER 144
"Some Call it Guts."
Contains a five page typescript recounting a shooting incident that
Vance Randolph was involved in as a young man.
BOX 12
FOLDER 145
Belle Starr: Correspondence. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence on the subject of Belle Starr: 3/24/1930 -
3/18/1937; 1/22/1939 - 3/3/1939; 3/10/1939 - 5/26/1939.
Belle Starr was born on Feb. 3, 1848, in Medoc, Missouri, under the
name Myra Belle Shirley, to Mr. and Mrs. John Shirley after the family
moved from Virginia to Missouri about 1842. She had two older
brothers; one was a confederate solder. Belle was described to be
rather small, pretty, vivacious and of fiery temper. She later became
the head of her own gang of outlaws. The name Belle Starr was
derived from one of her husbands, Sam Starr, also an outlaw, who
died before Belle died. She was murdered by her own son, Ed Reed,
when she beat him. Her daughter Pearl, supposedly also a "bad
woman," died in Arizona. Her granddaughter showed a writer some
poetry clippings and pressed flowers collected by Belle. According to
a taped interview, Starr always got away, leaving men behind to be
hung. See Folders 145 through 154, 257, and 262 for more
information about Belle Starr.
BOX 12
FOLDER 146
Belle Starr: Correspondence. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains correspondence: 6/10/1939 - 10/(n.d.)/1939; 4/3/1940 -
4/25/1941; 5/17/1941 - 5/23/1941.
BOX 12
FOLDER 147
Belle Starr: Correspondence. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains correspondence: 5/27/1941 - 7/2/1941; 7/7/1941 - 3/23/1948;
5/6/1952 - 9/3/1963.
BOX 12
FOLDER 148
Belle Starr. Folder 1 of 7.
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and handwritten and
typed notes. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects:
Appearance; Charles Cummins; Ed Reed; Pearl Starr; Hugh Harp;
Riley Robertson.
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BOX 12
FOLDER 149
Belle Starr. Folder 2 of 7.
Contains index cards, and handwritten and typed notes. The folder is
subdivided into the following subjects: Index cards; assorted notes.
BOX 12
FOLDER 150
Belle Starr. Folder 3 of 7.
Contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and
handwritten and typed notes. The folder is subdivided into the
following subjects: Charles Shirley; Hands Up!; B. Babcock; Verses;
Hell on the Border; Raymond Hatfield Gardner; The True Story of
Belle Starr.
BOX 12
FOLDER 151
Belle Starr. Folder 4 of 7.
Contains newspaper clippings, and handwritten and typed notes. The
folder is subdivided into the following subjects: Calamity Jane and the
Lady Wildcats; The Story of Belle Starr; pictures; references; selected
bibliography.
BOX 12
FOLDER 152
Belle Starr. Folder 5 of 7.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings, and handwritten and typed
notes. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects: Interviews;
assorted newspaper clippings; assorted magazine articles.
BOX 12
FOLDER 153
Belle Starr. Folder 6 of 7.
Contains a numbered manuscript.
BOX 13
FOLDER 154
Belle Starr. Folder 7 of 7.
Contains the Shackleford Manuscript.
BOX 13
FOLDER 155
Gabby Street.
Contains newspaper clippings dealing with baseball player, manager,
and radio commentator Charles E. "Gabby" Street.
BOX 13
FOLDER 156
Tall tales. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains articles, manuscript, and newspaper clippings. The folder is
subdivided into the following subjects: "Aged in the Woods"; Tall
Tales from the Ozarks; articles.
BOX 13
FOLDER 157
Tall tales. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects:
Correspondence; notes.
BOX 13
FOLDER 158
Tall tales. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes, and
correspondence. The folder is subdivided into the following subjects:
Jokes; natural occurrences; song.
BOX 13
FOLDER 159
Tall tales: Animals. Folder 1 of 3. Contains typed and handwritten notes.
Topics include: Bees, bugs, birds, game, fowl, cats, cows, and dogs.
BOX 13 Tall tales: Animals. Folder 2 of 3.
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FOLDER 160
Contains typed and handwritten notes and newspaper clippings.
Includes: Fish, frogs, horses, small mammals, squirrels, turtles.
BOX 13
FOLDER 161
Tall tales: Animals. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains newspaper clippings about animals and typed notes about
people.
BOX 13
FOLDER 162
This Writing Racket. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with ghost writing and other aspects of the writing business.
Includes: Book ideas; writers (miscellaneous).
BOX 13
FOLDER 163
This Writing Racket. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes.
BOX 13
FOLDER 164
"Titanic Slim" Thompson.
Contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes dealing with the
gambler Alvin Clarence "Titanic Slim" Thompson.
BOX 13
FOLDER 165
Travel and travelogues. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with various travel
destinations and tourist attractions. Includes photocopies dated
1909-39.
BOX 14
FOLDER 166
Travel and travelogues. Folder 2 of 3.
Includes photocopies dated 1949-57.
BOX 14
FOLDER 167
Travel and travelogues. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains originals.
BOX 14
FOLDER 168
Typescripts. Folder 1 of 4.
Contains student projects and a typescript of the article "Folklore of the
Smackover Oil Field," including photographs.
BOX 14
FOLDER 169
Typescripts. Folder 2 of 4.
Contains the following typescripts of articles: "H.H. Dalhoff, 1/19/56";
"How to Tell an Ozark Hillbilly Today"; "Folklore and Folkways of the
Ozark Region"; "The Missouri Ozarks."
BOX 14
FOLDER 170
Typescripts. Folder 3 of 4.
Contains typescripts of the following articles: "Ozark Superstitions";
"Racial Elements and Folklore."
BOX 14
FOLDER 171
Typescripts. Folder 4 of 4.
Contains typescripts of the following articles: "Snap-Shots for
Sportsmen"; "The Sport of Gigging Suckers"; "Way Back in the Hills."
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BOX 14
FOLDER 172
Two Gentlemen from Verona (Harry and Jim Browning).
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
correspondence, and pamphlets dealing with the wrestler Jim
Browning and his cousin Harry Browning, a poet.
BOX 14
FOLDER 173
Jean Wallace.
Contains newspaper clippings and an annotated photoprint dealing with
Jean Wallace, "The Mystery Maid of Roaring River."
BOX 14
FOLDER 174
The White River Monster.
Contains newspaper clippings dealing with a legendary monster in the
White River of Arkansas.
BOX 14
FOLDER 175
Wild Men hermits.
Contains newspaper clippings, and typed and handwritten notes,
dealing with hermits and recluses.
BOX 14
FOLDER 176
Thomas Williamson.
Contains typed and handwritten notes about the novelist Thomas
Williamson and his time in the Ozarks.
BOX 14
FOLDER 177
Witchcraft.
Contains correspondence, a copy of "A Witch Trial in Carroll County,"
handwritten notes, and a typescript of "The Hills are Full of Witches."
BOX 14
FOLDER 178
World War I.
Contains four typed pages of notes dealing with Vance Randolph's
experiences during World War I.
BOX 14
FOLDER 179
Writers' Project. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains newspaper clippings and correspondence dealing with the
WPA Federal Writers' Project.
BOX 14
FOLDER 180
Writers' Project. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence 1936-37 about the WPA Federal Writers'
Project.
Correspondence Files
BOX 15
FOLDER 181
"A" Correspondence.
Contains letters to and/or from: The Arkansas Gazette; The American
Legion; Russell Ames; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 182
"B" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains letters to and/or from: H.M. Belden, University of Missouri;
Thomas Hart Benton; Walter Blair, University of Chicago; Boston
University; Benjamin Botkin.
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BOX 15
FOLDER 183
"B" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Carroll Bowen, University of Chicago
Press; Bertrand Bronson, University of California; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 184
"C" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Irene Carlisle; Cyril Clemens; Dean
Coffin Press; Columbia University; Jack Conroy; Josiah Combs.
BOX 15
FOLDER 185
"C" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Henry Cowell; Sidney Robertson Cowell;
and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 186
"D" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Clarence Decker; J. Frank Dobie; Dover
Publications; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 187
"D" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Richard Dorson, 1952-67.
BOX 15
FOLDER 188
"E" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Albert Einstein; Duncan Emrich; Robert
Erwin; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 189
"F" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Clifton Fadiman; Orval Faubus; Charlie
May Fletcher; Isabel France; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 190
"G" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Henry Glassie; Kenneth Goldstein; Rayna
Green; Edith Greenburg; and others.
BOX 15
FOLDER 191
"H" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Leonard Hall; Herbert Halpert; Wayland
Hand; A.M. Haswell; Marion Hardgrove.
BOX 15
FOLDER 192
"H" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Lee Hays; Jack Henle, Vanguard Press;
Wayman Hogue; Mary D. Hudgins; John Huff.
BOX 15
FOLDER 193
"H" Correspondence. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Betty Hughes; Tom Hurley, Channel 9
KETC; and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 194
"J" Correspondence. Contains correspondence with Moritz Jagendorf;
Katherine Jarrell; LeRoi Jones; Louis Jones, New York State Historical
Association; Louis Webster Jones, University of Kansas.
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BOX 16
FOLDER 195
"K" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Helen Keller; Reamer Keller; Alfred
Knopf, the American Mercury; Sarah Gertrude Knott; George Korson;
and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 196
"L" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Rose Wilder Lane; Ray Lawless;
MacEdward Leach, the American Folklore Society; Sam Leath; Walt
Lemke, University of Arkansas; Lawrence Levin; Homer and Wilbur
Leveret.
BOX 16
FOLDER 197
"L" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with H.H. Lewis; Alan Lomax; George Dewey
Lorey; and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 198
"Mc" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with May Kennedy McCord; Judith McCulloh;
and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 199
"M" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Mrs. Mahnkey; James Masterson; H.L.
Mencken; George Milburn.
BOX 16
FOLDER 200
"M" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Nellie Mills; Mirandy; Merlin P. Mitchell;
Ethel Moore; Ruth Ann Musick; and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 201
"N" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with N.C. Nelson; Marion Neville; Peter Nemo
(pseudonym of Vance Randolph).
BOX 16
FOLDER 202
"O" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains the Ozarks Folklore Newsletter.
BOX 16
FOLDER 203
"O" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with O'Bryant; University of Oklahoma Press;
Jim Owens Enterprises; Clay Anderson, of the Ozark Mountaineers;
Arkansas Folklore Society (originally the Ozark Folklore Society).
BOX 16
FOLDER 204
"P" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Russell Holman, Paramount Pictures;
Louise Pound, Department of English, University of Nebraska; Gerry
Parker; and others.
BOX 16
FOLDER 205
"R" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Gould Randolph; John Randolph (Sr. and
Jr.); and others. Also contains reviews for Richard Dorson's American
Folklore and Kenneth Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor.
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BOX 17
FOLDER 206
"R" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 2.
Contains correspondence with Otto Ernest Rayburn, notes, newspaper
clippings, and an inscribed copy of Forty Years in the Ozarks.
BOX 17
FOLDER 207
"S" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Carl Sandburg; Dore Schary.
BOX 17
FOLDER 208
"S" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Howard Shapley; Floyd Shoemaker; Rose
Spaulding.
BOX 17
FOLDER 209
"S" Correspondence. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Harold Spivacke; Isabel Spradley;
Edward G. Stoy; and others.
BOX 17
FOLDER 210
"T" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Jean Thomas; Shelby Thompson; Stith
Thompson; and others.
BOX 17
FOLDER 211
"U" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Lucile M. Upton; Francis Lee Utley.
BOX 17
FOLDER 212
"V" Correspondence.
Contains correspondence with Vanguard Press; John M. Virden.
BOX 17
FOLDER 213
"W" Correspondence. Folder 1 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Leila Wade; Therese Westermeier,
Arkansas Folklore Society; John Turner White.
BOX 17
FOLDER 214
"W" Correspondence. Folder 2 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Henry H. Wiggins; Thames Williamson;
Charles Morrow Wilson.
BOX 17
FOLDER 215
"W" Correspondence. Folder 3 of 3.
Contains correspondence with Carl Withers; Ray Wood; and others.
Reprints of Journal Articles and Reviews
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 216
"Autograph Albums in the Ozarks," by Vance Randolph and May Kennedy
McCord.
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 217
"Bedtime Stories from Missouri," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from
Western Folklore (January 1951).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 218
"A Calendar of Kansas Butterflies," by Vance Randolph, from
Entomological News (March 1929).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 219
"Children's Rhymes from Missouri," by Ruth Ann Musick and Vance
Randolph, reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (October-
December 1950).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 220
"The Collection of Folk Music in the Ozarks," by Vance Randolph and
Frances Emberson, reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (April-
June 1947).
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BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 221
"Folksong Hunters in Missouri," by Vance Randolph and Ruth Ann Musick,
reprinted from Midwest Folklore (1951).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 222
"Further Studies of the Reliability of the Maze with Rats and Humans," by
Vance Randolph and Walter S. Hunter, reprinted from Journal of
Comparative Psychology (August 1924).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 223
"Jump Rope Rhymes from Arkansas," by Vance Randolph, reprinted
from Midwest Folklore (III:2)
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 224
"Nakedness in Ozark Folk Belief," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from
Journal of American Folklore (October-December 1953).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 225
"The Names of Ozark Fiddle Tunes," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from
Midwest Folklore (IV:2).
BOX 18 (oversize)
FOLDER 226
New York Times book reviews by Vance Randolph: Tales From the Past,
Some Tall, Some True (1960); A Treasury to Draw Upon (1960); The
Roots Go Deep (1963).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 227
"A Note on the Reliability of the Maze as a Method of Learning in the
Angora Goat," by Vance Randolph and Walter S. Hunter, reprinted
from Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology (March
1926).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 228
"On the Seasonal Migrations of Dione vanillae in Kansas," by Vance
Randolph, reprinted from Annals of the Entomological Society of
America (June 1927).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 229
Ozark Ghost Stories: Gruesome and Humorous Tales of the Supernatural
in the Backwoods of the South, by Vance Randolph, Haldeman-Julius
Publications (1944).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 230
"Ozark Mountain Party Games," by Vance Randolph and Nancy Clemens,
reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (January-March 1933).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 231
"Ozark Mountain Riddles," by Vance Randolph and Isabel Spradley,
reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (January-March 1934).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 232
"Ozark Superstitions," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from Journal of
American Folklore (January-March 1933).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 233
"Prehistoric Inhabitants of Crawford County, Kansas," by Vernon C.
Allison and Vance Randolph, reprinted from The American
Anthropologist (July-September 1927).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 234
Reviews of Frank Brown's The Frank Brown Collection of North Carolina
Folklore, by Vance Randolph, reprinted from Journal of American
Folklore (April-June 1953) and Mississippi Valley Historical Review (June
1953).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 235
Review of John A. Lomax's Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, by Vance
Randolph, reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (January-March
1948).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 236
"Riddles from Arkansas," by Vance Randolph and Mary Celestia Parler,
reprinted from Journal of American Folklore (July-September 1954).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 237
"Tales from the Ozarks," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from Western
Folklore (January 1955).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 238
"A Witch Trial in Carroll County," by Vance Randolph, reprinted from
Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Spring 1957).
BOX 19 (oversize)
FOLDER 239
Other authors. Contains journal articles and reviews not authored in whole
or in part by Vance Randolph. Includes the authors Mary Celestia Parler,
B.B. Ashcom, J. Frank Dobie, and H.C. Woodbridge.
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Newspaper Clippings
Note: Originals are contained in oversized Box 23 (Folder 240 to Folder
250) and in oversized Box 24 (Folder 251 to Folder 261); photocopies
of these originals are located in Box 20.
BOX 20
FOLDER 240
Map of Kansas and Missouri, American Automobile Association, 1996.
BOX 20
FOLDER 241
Alcohol
BOX 20
FOLDER 242
Character sketches
BOX 20
FOLDER 243
Dialect
BOX 20
FOLDER 244
Folk belief and superstition
BOX 20
FOLDER 245
Guns and gunplay
BOX 20
FOLDER 246
Hidden treasure (1 of 2)
BOX 20
FOLDER 247
Hidden treasure (2 of 2)
BOX 20
FOLDER 248
Legend
BOX 20
FOLDER 249
Literature
BOX 20
FOLDER 250
Music (as subject)
BOX 20
FOLDER 251
Place-names
BOX 20
FOLDER 252
Politics
BOX 20
FOLDER 253
Prehistoric Ozarks
BOX 20
FOLDER 254
Randolph, Vance. Book reviews and articles authored by him.
BOX 20
FOLDER 255
Randolph, Vance (as subject)
BOX 20
FOLDER 256
Religion
BOX 20
FOLDER 257
Starr, Belle
BOX 20
FOLDER 258
Tall tales
BOX 20
FOLDER 259
Miscellaneous: neighborliness, death, sorghum making
BOX 20
FOLDER 260
Weather
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BOX 20
FOLDER 261
Writing: Habits and methods of professional writers
Series II: Sound Recordings
Note: For song titles, see Archive of Folk Culture card catalog; photocopy in
Folder 1c in this collection contains photocopies of catalog cards for 5236
A-5270 B3, an annotated manuscript of catalog entries for 5271 A1-5425
B3, an annotated list of fiddle tunes played by Lon Jordan (5314-5317,
5319-5326, 5376-5379, 5401-5402, 5404-5405), and two lists of fiddle
tunes played by Bill Bilyeu (6897 A1-6904 B3).
The originals and preservation masters are located in Motion Picture,
Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound (M/B/RS) at the Library of Congress.
See Collection Concordance by Format.
5236-5425 (AFS) 191 12-inch glass-based acetate records of original field recordings in the
Ozarks, 1941-42; 5270, 5320, 5341, 5425 missing; 5300 broken.
Duplicated on LWO 3493, reels 14-26.
6397-6464 (AFS) 4 16-inch, 45 12-inch, 2 10-inch, 5 8-inch glass and aluminum-based records
of "Dear Mr. President," January and February 1942. 6398 missing; 6400
n/g; 6463 badly broken. Duplicated on LWO 3493, reel 42.
6897-6904 (AFS) 8 12-inch glass-based acetate records of original field recordings in the
Ozarks, 1943; 6897 damaged; 6900 broken. Duplicated on LWO 3493, reels
56-57.
BOX 21
FOLDER 262
"Some talk about Belle Starr." Contains the 5-inch reel-to-reel original
master and a reference copy on a 60-minute audio cassette of an interview
with Florence Watts.
Series III: Graphic Images
Note: For a complete description of images, see Folder 1b: Log of Visual
Images.
BOX 21
FOLDER 263
"Photos in Folksong MS, Dec., 1944."
Contains a list of photographs selected for inclusion in Ozark Folksongs
(1946-50), including the name of the subject and the place of the
photograph. Also contains front-and-back album covers entitled
"Photographs of Singers."
BOX 21
FOLDER 264
Photographs 1-10.
Contains 12 photoprints identified by subject and place, corresponding to
the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21
FOLDER 265
Photographs 11-23.
Contains 11 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place,
corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21
FOLDER 266
Photographs 24-35.
Contains 12 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place,
corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
BOX 21
FOLDER 267
Photographs 36-50.
Contains 9 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and place,
corresponding to the list in Folder 262.
Series I: Manuscript Materials
Container Contents
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BOX 21
FOLDER 268
Photographs 51-60.
Contains 11 photoprints and 1 negative, identified by subject and/or
annotated.
BOX 21
FOLDER 269
Photographs 61-69. .
Contains 11 photoprints, of which P61-64 are annotated and P65-67 are
identified by subject
BOX 21
FOLDER 270
Photographs 70-83.
Contains 14 photoprints, all unidentified.
BOX 22
FOLDER 271
Photographs 84-96.
Contains 13 photoprints, of which P84-86 are unidentified, P87-92 are
annotated, and P93-96 are identified by subject.
BOX 22
FOLDER 272
Photographs 97-102.
Contains 6 photoprints, all unidentified.
BOX 22
FOLDER 273
Photographs 103-12.
Contains 10 photoprints, all annotated.
BOX 22
FOLDER 274
Photographs 113-22.
Contains 10 photoprints, of which only P121 is not annotated but identified
by place.
BOX 22
FOLDER 275
Photographs 123-34.
Contains 12 photoprints, all annotated.
BOX 22
FOLDER 276
Photographs 135-43.
Contains 9 photoprints with annotations and 1 negative.
BOX 22
FOLDER 277
Photographs 144-47.
Contains 4 photoprints and 2 negatives, all unidentified.
BOX 22
FOLDER 278
Photographs 148-58.
Contains 9 photoprints, of which P148-51 are annotated and P154-56 are
identified. Also contains 1 negative with a note from Ruth Tyler, a
photocopy of the 1958 Folklore Institute photograph, and the annotated
captions for 2 photographs.
BOX 22
FOLDER 279
Prints and Photographs Division, Lot 5580.
Contains photographs 1-39 (photocopies of originals), most of which are
tentatively identified. Described by subject, place, and visual image in
Table B of the Log of Visual Images (Folder 1b).
BOX 23 (oversize) Original Newspaper Clippings: A to N
Photocopies of these originals are in Box 20.
BOX 24 (oversize) Original Newspaper Clippings: O to Z
Photocopies of these originals are in Box 20.
Series III: Graphic Images
Container Contents
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Appendix A: Bibliography
Articles by Vance Randolph
"Bedtime Stories from Missouri." Western Folklore X:1 (January 1951). Folder 217
"Book Review: Adventures of a Ballad Hunter." Journal of American Folklore (January-March
1948). Folder 235
"Book Review: The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore." Journal of American
Folklore 66:260 (April-June 1953). Folder 234
"Book Review: The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore." The Mississippi Valley
Historical Review (June 1953). Folder 235
"A Calendar of Kansas Butterflies." Entomological News, XL (March 1929). Folder 218
"Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas." Midwest Folklore III:2. (1953?) Folder 223
"Nakedness in Ozark Folk Belief." Journal of American Folklore 66:262 (October-December
1953). Folder 224
"The Names of Ozark Fiddle Tunes." Midwest Folklore IV:2 (1954). Folder 225
"On the Seasonal Migrations of Dione Vanillae in Kansas." Annals of the Entomological Society of
America XX:2 (June 1927). Folder 228
Ozark Ghost Stories: Gruesome and Humorous Tales of the Supernatural in the Backwoods of the
South. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1944. Folder 229
"Ozark Superstitions." Journal of American Folklore 46:179 (January-March 1933). Folder 232
"The Roots Go Deep." New York Times Book Review (November 17, 1963). Folder 226
"Tales from the Ozarks." Western Folklore XIV:1 (January 1955). Folder 237
"Tales From the Past, Some Tall, Some True." New York Times Book Review (January 3, 1960).
Folder 226
"A Treasury to Draw Upon." New York Times Book Review (February 26, 1960). Folder 226
"A Witch Trial in Carroll County." Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Spring 1957). Folder 238
Co-Written Articles
Allison, Vernon C., and Vance Randoph. "Prehistoric Inhabitants of Crawford County, Kansas."
American Anthropologist 29:3 (July-September 1927). Folder 233
Clemens, Nancy, and Vance Randolph. "Ozark Mountain Party-Games." Journal of American
Folklore (January-March 1933) Folder 230
Emberson, Frances, and Vance Randolph. "The Collection of Folk Music in the Ozarks." Journal of
American Folklore (April-June 1947). Folder 220
Hunter, Walter S., and Vance Randolph. "Further Studies of the Reliability of the Maze with Rants
and Humans." Journal of Comparative Psychology IV:4 (August 1924). Folder 222
Hunter, Walter S., and Vance Randolph. "A Note on the Reliability of the Maze as a Method of
Learning in the Angora Goat." The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology
XXXIII.I (March 1926). Folder 227
McCord, May Kennedy, and Vance Randolph. "Autograph Alhums in the Ozarks." Journal of
American Folklore (April-June 1948). Folder 216
Musick, Ruth Ann, and Vance Randolph. "Children's Rhymes from Missouri." Journal of American
Folklore (October-December 1950). Folder 219
Musick, Ruth Ann, and Vance Randolph. "Folksong Hunters in Missouri." Midwest Folklore
(1951). Folder 221
Parler, Mary Celestia, and Vance Randolph. "Riddles from Arkansas." Journal of American
Folklore 67:265 (July-September 1954). Folder 236
Spradley, Isabel, and Vance Randolph. "Ozark Mountain Riddle." Journal of American Folklore
47:183 (January-March 1934). Folder 231
Articles by Other Authors
Ashcom, B. B. "Notes on the Language of the Bedford, Pennsylvania, Suarea." American Speech
XXVIII:4 (December 1953). Folder 239
Dobie, J. Frank. The Mezcla Man. El Paso, Texas: El Paso del Norte, 1954. Folder 239
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Parler, Mary Celestia. "The Forty-Mile Jumper." Journal of American Folklore 64:254 (422-23)
(October-December 1951). Folder 239
Woodbridge, Hensley C. "Folklore in the Works of Janice Holt Giles." The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society (October 1957). Folder 239