The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
The Library of Congress acquires the material Lomax gathered after his Archive of American Folk Song years, previously housed at Hunter College in New York — reported as including more than five thousand hours of sound recordings, four hundred thousand feet of film, some two and a half thousand videotapes and a working library — reuniting it with the discs he and his father deposited in the 1930s and 1940s. Sixty years of fieldwork across four continents becomes, at that point, a single consultable archive.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress · institution · United States · not located
- Alan Lomax · person · United States · not located
- Field recording · process · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Alan Lomax Collection — Lomax Family Collections at the American Folklife Center
In 2004 the American Folklife Center acquired the Alan Lomax Collection, previously housed at Hunter College, reported as including more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, about 2,450 videotapes and some 2,000 books and journals, reuniting it with the Lomax deposits of the 1930s and 1940s. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to Library of Congress collection materials; the pages were not opened, and the retrieved summaries themselves give two differing linear-footage measures, which this record notes rather than reconciles.
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center · acquired 2004 · Partly verified
loc.gov/collections/alan-lomax-manuscripts, "Lomax Family Collections at the American Folklife Center"
Recorded on American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
- Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
- Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
- The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
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