Benjamin A. Botkin Collection of Applied American Folklore

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-0066

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Botkin collection includes two major components, Botkin's personal library and papers relating to his research and publications. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of Botkin's books, articles, and speeches. His field notes, notebooks, and card files supplement the research materials used for his work and publications. In addition, the collection contains tape recordings and phonograph records of material relating to folklore. There are thousands of letters between Botkin and other folklorists as well as individuals within the fields of literature, history, music, and publishing. Among the notable correspondents are Ira Gershwin, Mari Sandoz, Woody Guthrie, Louis L'Amour, Katherine Ann Porter, Norman Rockwell, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Francis Lee Utley, and Robert Penn Warren. A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed the University Libraries to create preservation microfilm for materials in the Botkin Collection. Selected materials in Series 1-6 were microfilmed. Please note that not all series are represented in the container list at this time.

Dates

1919-1975

Creator

Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975 (Person)

Extent

874.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

African Americans -- Biography Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Folklore Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
American literature -- 20th century Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
American wit and humor Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Anecdotes Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Children's literature Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
City and town life Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folk Music Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folk Songs, English -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folk Songs, English -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folk music -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- Mississippi River Valley Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- South Carolina Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- Southern Staters Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- Southern States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Folklore -- West (U.S.) Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Legends -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
New England -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
New York, (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Oklahoma --Social life ad customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Play-party Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Poetry of places -- Southwest, New Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Popular music -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Railroads -- Folklore Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Slaves -- United States --Social conditions Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
South Carolina -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Southern States -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Southwest, New -- Descriptions and travel -- Poetry Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Spirituals (Songs) Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Tales -- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anecdotes Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
United States -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Work songs Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Classifications

- MS. Manuscript

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Status: Completed
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin

Contact:
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