Contents

Collection Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection

Selected Search Terms

Correspondence, 1908-1988, bulk 1920-1979

Materials Relating to Fieldwork, 1936-1962

Materials Relating to Henry Cowell, 1915-1992

Biographical Material, 1901-1985, bulk 1929-1985

Writings and Publications, 1911-1990

Subject Files, 1942-1990, bulk 1950-1988

Photographs

Teaching Materials, 1948-1959

Songs and Song Books

Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection

Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress

2010

Biographical Note

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Scope and Content Note

The Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection, numbering more than 5,000 items, contains material from her work as a folk song collector and ethnographer; voluminous correspondence to her family, friends and colleagues--many of whom are prominent figures in 20th century American music--published and unpublished essays, reviews, and articles; biographical narratives; instructional materials from various stints as a music teacher, and an extensive subject file. The collection contains a great amount of information on Sidney Robertson Cowell’s husband, modernist composer Henry Cowell, including material pertaining to their marriage, writings by and about him, material dealing with his professional relationships with other notables in the music world, and documents concerning his musical legacy, which was carefully nurtured by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

A large part of the collection deals with two major aspects of Cowell’s life: her innovative and groundbreaking work as an ethnographer and folksong and ethnic music collector and recordist; as well as her role as husband Henry Cowell’s personal and professional partner and proprietor of his musical legacy. The extensive fieldwork materials she collected exemplify Sidney Robertson Cowell’s keen insights into the people and music she encountered and offer a behind-the-scenes look at the history and process of her work. The collection is also rich in material that details Cowell’s complex life with Henry Cowell, whom she married in 1941. There is material dealing with their personal lives as well as extensive material related to their writing and travelling collaborations and business and publishing ventures. After Henry Cowell’s death in 1965, Sidney took charge of his personal and professional reputation, which is reflected in correspondence and other material from the 1970s through the 1990s. The collection consists of nine series: Correspondence, Materials Relating to Fieldwork, Materials Relating to Henry Cowell, Biographical Material, Writings and Publications, Subject Files, Photographs, Teaching Materials, and Songs and Song Books.

The Correspondence series is divided into two subseries: Personal (non-family) and Professional Correspondence; and Family Correspondence. The first series covers a myriad of topics with a primary focus on professional matters. Correspondence with Suzanne Bloch, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lukas Foss, Alfred Frankenstein, Lou Harrison, Colin McPhee, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson concerns professional projects and interests, and offers personal news and viewpoints. Issues relating to Henry Cowell, such as music publishing, discographical entries, and biographical topics are the focus of extensive correspondence with H. Wiley Hitchcock, John Kirkpatrick, William Lichtenwanger, Bruce Saylor, and others. A large amount of the Lichtenwanger and Hitchcock correspondence deals with the catalog of Henry Cowell’s music, which was compiled by Lichtenwanger and published by Hitchcock’s Institute for the Study of American Music. Richard Franko Goldman, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Hugo Weisgall are also frequent correspondents. Sidney Robertson Cowell maintained relationships with many notables in the folk music field, including Bertrand Bronson, Sam Eskin, Charles, Peggy and Pete Seeger, and Margaret Valiant, all of whom are represented in this subseries.

The second subseries, Family Correspondence, contains correspondence with several family members, including Cowell’s parents Charles Hawkins and Mabel “Muz” Morrison Hawkins; husbands Henry Cowell and Kenneth Robertson; siblings Charles Ernest Hawkins, John “Bud” Hawkins, Anne Cotton, and Jeane Mibach; and Henry Cowell’s stepmother, Olive Cowell. Letters to her family, particularly to her mother, shed light on Cowell’s early life during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. Extensive correspondence with her sister Anne captures Cowell’s thoughts and feelings on a host of personal and professional topics. In addition, these letters contain a great deal of information about relatives and ancestors from both the Hawkins and Morrison sides of her family.

The Materials Relating to Fieldwork series deals with Cowell’s major folksong and ethnographic music collecting and recording projects. Contained therein are not only finished reports, articles, and song lists derived from these activities, but also handwritten diaries, fieldnotes, letters and draft reports that reveal personal and procedural details about the projects. The series is divided into nine sections. The Resettlement Administration Field Trip to North Carolina with John Lomax section chronicles Cowell’s summer 1936 trip to Western North Carolina with John Lomax and Frank Brown. Cowell was hired in 1936 as Charles Seeger’s music assistant in the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration (RA). Although she had already done some field collecting, Seeger wanted her to become better acquainted with the recording equipment and to benefit from Lomax and Brown’s field experience. The material includes her fieldnotes, correspondence that provides context and background information on the trip, and the final report for the RA.

The Resettlement Administration (RA) section contains extensive fieldnotes, correspondence, memoranda and reports for the remaining field trips that Cowell made during her tenure at the RA, beginning around the autumn of 1936, through 1937, when the Resettlement Administration was reorganized under the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The RA was a New Deal program designed to provide economic aid to struggling rural, and to a lesser extent urban, families during the Great Depression. Cowell explained in a letter that the RA was using the native music of these rural communities as an agent of socialization and cooperation. She recorded extensively in the Ozarks, the Appalachians, and the Great Lakes Region during her time with the RA. Under the FSA, she served as regional representative and relief community manager in the Great Lakes Region for much of 1937. The material included in this subseries reveals Cowell’s sensitive and perceptive prose that offers insights into the communities in which she was living and working. The correspondence, memos, and reports to her RA colleagues, including Adrian Dornbush, Robert Van Hyning, and Grete Franke, illuminate behind-the-scenes problems, issues, and relationships within the RA on almost a weekly basis.

The California Folk Music Project (CFMP) section contains materials relating to Cowell’s most innovative and ambitious project. The CFMP was a New Deal collecting project that Cowell conceived of and managed for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. It was one of the earliest major attempts at documenting traditional and ethnic music in a specific region. Material in the section includes the final report for the project, in addition to notes and an outline for a book on folksong in California that she never completed. Extensive lists of recordings she made of traditional English-language, Western European, and Hispanic ethnic music contain date and place of recording, performer name, and annotations by Cowell.

The Carrie Grover from Gorham, Maine section contains a list of songs by Grover that Cowell recorded in 1941. The Appalachian Trip with Maud Karpeles section contains Cowell’s handwritten diary and notes from the 1950 trip to Appalachia during which she and Karpeles re-recorded performers originally recorded from 1916 to 1918 by English folksong collector Cecil Sharp. A list of the recordings also is included.

The Wolf River Songs and Ford-Walker Family section documents Cowell’s ongoing work with the music-making Ford-Walker family of Wisconsin. The material contains notes and drafts for the Folkways publication Wolf River Songs as well as annotated song sheets and lists of the Anglo-Irish ballads and lumber camp songs that she collected from the family.

The Songs from Cape Breton Island section contains handwritten drafts and annotated song sheets and transcriptions for her Folkways publication Songs from Cape Breton Island. Correspondence sheds light on preparations for the recording trip to Nova Scotia. The material also includes transcriptions of songs recorded by the North Shore Singers during that time and on other occasions.

The Songs of Aran section contains annotated song sheets and transcriptions from Cowell’s 1955 recording trip to Inishmore, the largest of Ireland’s Aran Islands. Cowell used this material in producing Songs of Aran for Folkways.

In the mid-1950s, Sidney Robertson Cowell and her husband Henry Cowell travelled extensively in Asia and the Middle East for both the State Department and the Rockefeller Foundation to lecture, assess grant requests, and report on the status of classical and traditional music in various countries. Sidney Robertson Cowell took the opportunity to record many of the traditional musicians she encountered during these trips. The Travels in Asia and Middle East section contains notes, drafts, and finished reports written by Cowell detailing their activities and describing an area’s music and culture.

The Materials Relating to Henry Cowell series consists of a variety of materials, including correspondence, narratives, articles, and music holographs that are either by or about Henry Cowell. Henry Cowell permeates practically the entire Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection, but it was deemed necessary to create a separate series to accommodate the large amount of material related directly to him. It is divided into three sections. The Miscellaneous Material by and about Henry Cowell section contains narratives written by Sidney Robertson Cowell in later years about various aspects of Cowell’s life and work. In addition, there are essays and articles on music written by Henry Cowell, items relating to his discography, as well as commemorative articles on Cowell written for various occasions. This section also includes materials related to his two stepmothers. The “Henry by Sidney” section contains draft material for a biography of her husband that Sidney Robertson Cowell never completed. In her later years, she recorded onto tape personal and professional reminiscences about Henry Cowell and their life together which she planned to turn into a book. The transcriptions of those tapes are included here with Sidney Robertson Cowell’s notes and annotations. The Music by Henry Cowell section contains a small group of photocopies of musical holographs by Henry Cowell that are held in the Library of Congress.

Of particular interest in the Biographical Material series are narratives and essays written by Sidney Robertson Cowell in the 1970s that offer a revealing look back on her career and life with Henry Cowell. The series also contains a travel diary, notes, anecdotes, and random thoughts about her work, travels, and life in general. This series also includes clippings and articles about Cowell and reviews of her work, in addition to detailed family histories and documents relating to her ancestors from the Morrison-Tonnelle (mother’s side) and Hawkins (father’s side) families. One can also find her diploma, passports, and drawings in this series.

The Writings and Publications series offers a rich trove of Cowell’s writings, many in various stages of creation, from handwritten notes and annotated drafts to finished published products. Some items contain annotations that Robertson Cowell made long after the item was published. The series is divided into three sections. The Published Writings by Sidney Robertson Cowell section consists of her major publications as well as reviews, articles and obituaries of Percy Grainger and Charles Seeger. It also contains three items that were attributed to Henry Cowell, but were actually written by Sidney. Of particular interest in the Unpublished Writings by Sidney Robertson Cowell section is the part containing her Narratives on Collecting, which are revealing and lively accounts of past collecting and recording activities written in the 1980s and 1990s. The Drafts of Reviews, Papers, and Reports part contains drafts for many of the pieces found in the Published Writings section. Of particular interest are several drafts for an unfinished piece called “Three Generations of Folk Singers in the United States” and a draft for an article entitled “Music in Ghana” that was never published. The Miscellaneous part includes items such as project proposals, notes from courses, and fiction and poetry. The third section, Publications Written by Others, contains books, journals, and reports dealing primarily with folklore and traditional and world music. Explanatory narratives by Sidney Robertson Cowell accompany Midsummernight by Carl Wilhelmson and her Farsi primer.

The Subject Files series contains an assortment of materials related to people, organizations, and topics that figured prominently in Cowell’s personal and professional life. There is a significant amount of material (correspondence, articles, narratives and clippings) related to Charles Ives, about whom Sidney and Henry Cowell wrote a highly-respected book entitled Charles Ives and his Music. In addition, there is correspondence, accompanied by related notes, drafts, and essays, with individuals such as Bruce Saylor, Stephen Spackman, and James Ross, asking for advice, discussing writing projects, or consulting on issues related to Henry Cowell. There is background material related to music festivals and conferences in which Sidney Robertson Cowell took a major role. This series also includes material dealing with Cowell’s teaching career and some items relating to the Pan American Union where she worked in the early 1940s, including copies of Recordings of Latin American Songs and Dances: An Annotated Selected List of Popular and Folk Music by Gustavo Duran and edited by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

The Photographs series consists mostly of black and white photographs of Sidney Robertson Cowell; Henry Cowell; their families; and various friends, colleagues, and associates. Photography was Sidney Robertson Cowell’s avocation and she took many of the photographs found in this series. Folk and ethnic music performers that Cowell recorded throughout her career are the subjects of numerous photographs. Photographs of the offices and staff of the California Folk Music Project are included here as well as photographs of nature scenes, landscapes, abstracts, and animals taken by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

The Teaching Materials series contains notes, outlines, song sheets, reports, and narratives related to Cowell’s music classes for children and for a course on rhythm that she taught at the New School.

The Songs and Song Books series contains lists and books of songs that were collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell throughout her career. Of particular interest is a collection of folk songs with piano settings by Henry Cowell. This series also contains a collection of protest and propaganda songs from the 1930s and 1940s and a collection of songs sung by Cinderella Kinnaird, whom Cowell recorded.

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Selected Search Terms

People

• Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984--Correspondence.
• Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990--Correspondence.
• Bloch, Suzanne, 1907-2002--Correspondence.
• Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902-1986--Correspondence.
• Brown, Frank Clyde--Correspondence.
• Cage, John--Correspondence.
• Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965--Correspondence.
• Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965--Photographs.
• Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965.
• Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson--Archives.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson--Correspondence.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson--Ethnomusicological collections.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson--Photographs.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
• Dornbush, Adrian--Correspondence.
• Eskin, Sam--Correspondence.
• Ford, Warde H.
• Franke, Grete--Correspondence.
• Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981--Correspondence.
• Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961.
• Grover, Carrie B.
• Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003--Correspondence.
• Hitchcock, H. Wiley (Hugh Wiley), 1923-2007--Correspondence.
• Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
• Karpeles, Maud--Correspondence.
• Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991--Correspondence.
• Lichtenwanger, William, 1915-2000--Correspondence.
• Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948--Correspondence.
• Maynor, Dorothy--Correspondence.
• McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964--Correspondence.
• Powell, Laurence, 1899-1990--Correspondence.
• Saylor, Bruce--Correspondence.
• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979--Correspondence.
• Seeger, Peggy, 1935- --Correspondence.
• Seeger, Pete, 1919- --Correspondence.
• Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995--Correspondence.
• Spackman, Stephen--Correspondence.
• Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989--Correspondence.
• Valiant, Margaret--Correspondence.
• Van Hyning, Robert--Correspondence.
• Weisgall, Hugo--Correspondence.
• Wyner, Yehudi, 1929- --Correspondence.
• Yuize, Shinʼichi--Correspondence.

Organizations

• Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.
• W.P.A. California Folk Music Project Collection, 1938-1940 (Library of Congress)
• W.P.A. California Folk Music Project Collection, 1938-1940 (Library of Congress)

Subjects

• Ballads, English--United States.
• Ethnomusicologists--United States--Correspondence.
• Field recordings--United States.
• Folk dance music--United States.
• Folk music--Appalachian Region.
• Folk music--Asia.
• Folk music--California.
• Folk music--Canada.
• Folk music--Ireland.
• Folk music--Middle East.
• Folk music--Middle West.
• Folk music--Southern States.
• Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region.
• Folk songs, English--California.
• Folk songs, English--Middle West.
• Folk songs, English--Southern States.
• Folk songs, English--United States.
• Folk songs--California.
• Folk songs--United States.
• Political ballads and songs.
• Protest songs.

Form/Genre

• Clippings (Information artifacts)
• Correspondence.
• Diaries.
• Drafts (Documents)
• Ethnography.
• Field notes.
• Memorandums.
• Photographic prints.
• Proposals.
• Songbooks.
• Songs (Document genre)

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Organization of the Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection

The Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection is organized into nine series:

• Correspondence
• Materials Relating to Fieldwork
• Materials Relating to Henry Cowell
• Biographical Material
• Writings and Publications
• Subject Files
• Photographs
• Teaching Materials
• Songs and Song Books

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Container List

Correspondence, , 1908-1988bulk 1920-1979

Personal (non-family) and Professional, 1913-1988

Correspondence to and from friends, acquaintances, colleagues, associates, businesses and organizations relating to personal and professional activities. May include material attached to letters. Correspondents who are identified by first name only, or are unidentified, are placed at the end of the subseries. Correspondence from a particular individual or organization to Cowell are filed together with items from Cowell to that person or organization.

Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and chronologically therein.

Adams, Ansel, 1964-1965, 1978-1979

Adams, Ansel, 1979-1983

Ambron, Emilio, 1973-1976

Amirkhanian, Charles, 1981, 1986

Arma, Paul, 1980

Asch, Moe, 1975-1977

Avrich, Paul, 1979, 1986-1987

“A” miscellaneous, 1960-1981, undated

Bacon, Ernst, 1975

Bloch, Suzanne, 1967, 1983, undated

Bowen, Carroll “Curley,” 1968

Bronson, Bertrand, 1977-1980see also Container 21, Harvard Universitysee also Container 21, Ives, Charles

Broun, Heywood Hale, undated

Brown, Frank C. see Container 6, Correspondence, 1936

“B” miscellaneous, 1914-1981

Cage, John, 1968, 1982-1987, undated

Carter, Jimmy, 1977-1986

Castro, Gloria, 1977

C.G. Jung-Institut (Zürich, Switzerland) see Hannah, Barbara

Claflin, Avery, 1973-1978

Claflin, Jock, 1979

Clay, Carleton, 1987

Corry, Mary Jane, 1978-1979

Cowell, Henry see Container 4

Cronin, Patrick see Container 21, Harvard University

Cunningham, Merce, 1981-1982

Cuomo, Mario, 1986-1987 see alsoNew York Times

Curtiss, Mina, 1978-1982

“C” miscellaneous, 1928-1988

Da Capo Press see Container 21, Ives, Charles

Daniel, Oliver, 1968, 1973

Davies, Dennis Russell, 1978

Duveneck, Frank see Duveneck, Josephine

Duveneck, Josephine, 1974-1978, undated

“D” miscellaneous, 1979-1988, undated

Echols, Paul C., 1976

Edinger, Dora, undated

Elise, Mother, 1979-1982

Elkus, Albert, 1942, 1973-1977

Elkus, Jonathan see Elkus, Albert

Eskin, Sam, 1974-1979, undatedsee also Goodhue, Cornelia “Connie”see also Greer, Lucia C. (Chia)see also Resnick, Nat

Eskin, Stanley see Eskin, Sam

Etchepareborde, Felix (SRC’s mother’s houseman), 1939

Fassett, Stephen see Container 21, Hayes, Roland

Feder, Stuart, 1977

Findley, Jannelle Warren- see Warren-Findley, Jannelle

Fitzgibbon, Liam see Container 21, Harvard University

Fleming, Shirley see Container 21, Ives, Charles

Ford, Warde, 1954

Forgostein, Harold E. see Temple of the People

Foss, Lukas, 1983-1984, undated

Fowler, William H. Begbie

Frankel, Max seeNew York Times

Frankenstein, Alfred, 1974-1979, undated

Friedland, Bea see Container 21, Ives, Charles

Garland, Peter, 1973-1977

Gbeho, Philip see Container 21, Africa

Goldman, Daniel Franko, 1984

Goldman, Richard Franko, 1975-1977

Goodhue, Cornelia “Connie,” 1974 see also Eskin, Sam

Grainger, Ella, 1968

Grainger, Percy, 1950-1955 see also Manville, Stewart

Greer, Lucia C. (Chia), 1976 see also Eskin, Sam

“G” miscellaneous, 1983-1984, undated

Hannah, Barbara, 1977

Harlem School of the Arts, 1969-1979, 1985see also Rooks, Shelby

Harootunian, Hollis see Container 21, Ives, Charles

Harris, Leonard R. seeNew York Times

Harrison, Lou, 1947-1979

Harrison, Lou, 1983-1988

Harrison, Lou, undated

Harvard Universitysee Container 21, Harvard University

Hawkins, Erick, 1984

Hayes, Afrika see Container 21, Hayes, Roland

Henahan, Donald seeNew York Times

Herron, Eileen Curran see Container 21, Harvard University

Higgins, Dick see Container 21, Cage, John

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, 1974-1977

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, 1978-1980

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, 1981-1987, undatedsee also Container 21, Ives, Charles

Hood, Mantle, 1978

Hulme, Kathryn see Container 21, Hulme, Kathryn

Humphrey, Hubert, 1977

“H” miscellaneous, 1958, 1968, 1976-1977, undated

Institute for the Study of American Music see Hitchcock, H. Wiley

International Folk Music Council, undated

Ives, Harmony, 1964

Jackson, Richard, 1981

Jellinek, George, 1977-1979

“J” miscellaneous, 1943, 1952, 1986, undated

Karas, Josef “Joza” M., 1985

Karpeles, Maud, 1961

Kershaw, Maureen, 1978-1988, undated

Kikuzawa, James (family cook), 1940-1941, 1959-1964

King, Terry, 1982

Kirkpatrick, John, 1974-1976, undated see also Container 21, Ives, Charles

“K” miscellaneous, 1957, 1977-1979

Leavitt, Donald, 1985

Libove, Charles, 1972, undated

Lichtenwanger, William, 1981-1982

Lichtenwanger, William, 1983-1984

Lichtenwanger, William, 1985-1986, undatedsee also Container 22, Saylor, Bruce

Linsley, Ralph, 1979-1980, undated

Lomax, John, 1936 see also Container 6, Correspondence, 1936

Luening, Otto, 1936, 1958, 1975

Lugovoy, Nina see Libove, Charles

“L” miscellaneous, 1957-1961, 1975-1978

MacLeod, Malcolm Angus see Container 21, Harvard University

Maizner, Helen see WBAI Radio

Mandel, Nancy Siegmeister and Alan, 1973

Manion, Martha, 1979-1980

Manville, Stewart, 1975, 1978 see also Grainger, Percy

Maynor, Dorothy see Harlem School of the Arts

Mazzeo, Rosario see Adams, Ansel

McCann, Gordon, 1988

McKinney, Eleanor see WBAI Radio

McPhee, Colin, 1962-1964, undated

McPhee, Colin, 1946-1950

McPhee, Colin, 1951-1963

McPhee, Colin, undated

Mead, Rita, 1976, 1978, 1983

Mennin, Peter, 1975

Mikhashoff, Yvar, 1983

Miller, Philip Lieson, 1981

M.I.T. Press see Bowen, Carroll “Curley”

Moore, Douglas see Container 21, Columbia University

Mother Elise see Elise, Mother

Musical America see Container 21, Ives, Charles

“M” miscellaneous, 1945, 1964, 1975, 1983-1988, undated

New York Public Library see Jackson, Richard

New York Times, 1979-1985, undated see also Container 1, Cuomo, Mario

“N” miscellaneous, 1951, 1971, 1978

Oppens, Ursula, 1984-1986, undated

O’Reilly, F. Warren, 1973

Oxford University Press see Container 21, Ives, Charles

“O” miscellaneous, 1965, 1975-1977

Packard, Emmy Lou, 1956, 1965

Parsons, William, 1981

Payne, C. Robert and Jane, 1975-1979, undated

Pazmor, Radiana, 1978-1979

Perlis, Vivian, 1974-1979

Podesta, Evelyn Wells see Wells, Evelyn

Powell, Laurence, 1974

Prabha, Chun, 1958

“P” miscellaneous, 1943, 1959, 1968, 1975-1978

Rasiej, Maria see Container 21, Hulme, Kathryn

Ray, Nicholas see Container 6, Correspondence, fieldnotes, 1937 May-June

Resnick, Nat, 1975 see also Container 1, Eskin, Sam

Reston, James seeNew York Times

Ritchie, Jean see Container 21, Columbia University

Rooks, Shelby, 1960-1964, 1977see also Harlem School of the Artssee also Container 21, Hayes, Roland

Roosevelt, James, 1978

Rorem, Ned, 1979

Rosenfield, Lib and Milton, 1972

Ross, James see Container 22, Ross, James

Rossiter, Frank R., 1974

“R” miscellaneous, 1974-1977, 1985, undated

Sadie, Stanley, 1976 see also Saylor, Bruce

Saylor, Bruce, 1974-1979 see also Sadie, Stanley see also Container 22, Saylor, Bruce

Schickele, Peter, 1986

Schuman, William, 1977

Seeger, Charles, 1940, 1959-1973 see also Container 6, Correspondence, 1936 see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, notes, 1936 Jan.-Oct. see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, field reports, 1936 Nov. see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, fieldnotes, 1936, Nov. 21-23 see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1936, Nov. 27-Dec. 30 see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, 1937 Jan.-Feb. see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1937 July-Sept. see also Container 6, Correspondence, memoranda, 1938 Jan., undated see also Container 22, Pan American Union

Seeger, Peggy, 1976, 1985, undated

Seeger, Pete, 1978-1984

Shumway, Eleanor M. see Temple of the People

Sicade, Sally, 1940

Silver, Brian, 1976-1977

Slattery, Thomas C., 1968

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1985

Spackman, Stephen see Container 22, Spackman, Stephen

Stevens, Denis, 1980

Stone, Kurt, 1974

“S” miscellaneous, 1969, 1973-1985

Temple of the People, 1985

Thomson, Virgil, 1953-1954, 1976-1979, 1985-1987, undated see also Container 21, East-West Music Encounter Union

Tuckwell, Barry, 1976

Tureck, Rosalyn, 1981

Turnbull, Pete, 1958, 1979, undated

“T” miscellaneous, 1954, 1974-1984, undated

Valiant, Margaret, 1946, 1979, undated

“V” miscellaneous, 1965, 1975-1980

Walton, Marion, 1964-1968, undated

Warren-Findley, Jannelle, 1976-1980

WBAI Radio, 1966, 1973

Weisgall, Hugo, 1966, 1975-1976

Wells, Evelyn, 1947, 1962-1963, 1976-1978

Weschler, Lawrence see Container 21, Ives, Charles

White, Lynn, 1955

Whitney, Elizabeth G., 1940

Williams, Brent see Container 21, Hayes, Roland

Wilson, Dwight, undated

Wolff, Leona, 1975

Wood, Robert C. see Container 21, Harvard University

Wyner, Yehudi, 1978, 1986, undated

Wyss, Niklaus, 1975

“W” miscellaneous, 1953, 1961-1969, 1972-1976, 1986

Yates, Peter, 1966, 1978

Yuize, Shin’ichi, see also Container 21, East-West Music Encounter 1978-1980

Zulueta, Jorge, 1973

Letters identified by first name, A-G

Letters identified by first name, J-L

Letters identified by first name, M-T

Unidentified, 1913, [1924?], 1954

Fragments of letters

Family, 1908-1988

Correspondence to and from husbands, parents, siblings, in-laws and other family members relating to personal and professional activities. May include material attached to letters. Family members identified by first name only and correspondence addressed to “family” are placed at the end of the subseries. Correspondence both to and from Cowell and a particular individual are usually filed together within each folder. It will be noted when correspondence is separated.

Arranged alphabetically by name of person and chronologically therein.

Cotton, Anne Wendela Morrison (SRC's sister), 1965-1977, undated

Cotton, Anne Wendela Morrison, 1960-1964

Cotton, Anne Wendela Morrison, 1964-1965

Cotton, Anne Wendela Morrison, 1966-1977

Cowell, Henry, 1938

Cowell, Olive (SRC's mother-in-law), 1941-1948

Cowell, Olive, 1948-1976

Cowell, Olive, 1976-1980, undated

Cowell, Olive, 1976-1977

Cowell, Olive, 1977-1981

Hawkins, Charles Albert (SRC's father), 1921, undated

Hawkins, Charles Albert, 1921-1922, 1937-1952

Hawkins, Charles Ernest (SRC's half-brother), 1962, 1966

Hawkins, Helen, 1968, 1986-1988

Hawkins, John “Bud” (SRC's brother), 1912, 1964, undated

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison (SRC's mother), 1911-1919

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1920-1921 May

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1921 Oct.-1921 Dec.

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1922-1925

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1934 Oct.-1935 Sept.

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1935-1936 May

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1936 June-1937 May

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1930s

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1940s

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, undated

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1908, 1916, 1940-1943

Hawkins, Mabel “Muz” Morrison, 1912, 1916, 1934-1935, 1943

Hawkins, Odelia Comba (SRC's step-mother), 1941-1953

Insley, Ida E., 1955-1960

Mibach, H. J., 1956, 1962

Mibach, Jeane Mary Morrison (SRC's sister), 1957

Mibach, Lisa (SRC's niece), 1954-1963, 1987

Robertson, Kenneth (SRC's ex-husband), 1937, undated

Betsy (niece), 1983

Nancy (niece), 1985

Sally (sister-in-law), 1968, 1981-1983, undated

To family from SRC, 1912-1921

To family from SRC, 1922-[1928?]

To family from SRC, 1941, undated

Materials Relating to Fieldwork, 1936-1962

Materials related to Cowell’s field recording trips, from various phases of her career, including reports, fieldnotes, correspondence, memoranda, training documents, lists of songs and recordings, song pamphlets, song transcriptions, articles, drafts of reports and handwritten notes.

Arranged chronologically.

Resettlement Administration Field Trip to North Carolina with John Lomax, 1936

Final report, fieldnotes, annotated song list, correspondence.

“Report on Two Weeks’ Trip to North Carolina,” 1936

Fieldnotes, 1936

“Titles and Notes on Tunes that Turned Up in One Form or Another at the Mountain Music and Dance Contests at Asheville, North Carolina, July 23-25, 1936”

Correspondence, 1936see also Container 2, Lomax, Johnsee also Container 3, Seeger, Charles

Resettlement Administration, 1936-1938

Correspondence, memoranda, field reports, fieldnotes, training documents, song lists, song pamphlets, articles.

Correspondence, memoranda, field reports and notes are arranged chronologically.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, 1936 Jan.-Oct.

Correspondence, memoranda, field reports, 1936 Nov.

Correspondence, memoranda, fieldnotes, 1936 Nov. 21-23

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1936 Nov. 27-Dec. 30

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, 1937 Jan.-Feb.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, 1937 Mar.-Apr. 4

Correspondence, fieldnotes, 1937 May-June

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1937 July-Sept.

Correspondence, reports, 1937 Oct.-Dec.

Correspondence, memoranda, 1938 Jan., undated

“Collection of American Traditional Music,” undated

Drafts of music program memorandum, 1936

Training documents, undated

“Harmonica Playing Bibliography,” undated

“Mrs. Dusenbury,” undated

“Proposed List of Songs for Publication in Song Sheet Form,” 1936 Aug. 22

“Reservations and Limitations on Records, SR Series, nos. 1-156,” undated

Lists of recordings from National Folk Festival and from Minn. and Wis., 1937

Lists of songs

Information on playing recordings and other topics

Song pamphlets

“Accession List of Records” from the Special Skills Division, undated

Articles on the Resettlement Administration

Miscellaneous

California Folk Music Project, 1937-1954

Final report, notes, lists of songs, correspondence.

“A Study of California Folk Music,” 1940 Jan.

“Outline for a Book Tentatively Called Folksong in California,” 1954 July

Handwritten notes for “Folksong in California”

Checklist of recordings made for the California Folk Music Project, 1937 July-1939, July 18

Lists of California folk music, 1938-1939, 1954, undated

Correspondence, 1938

Black, Eleanora and Sidney Robertson, comp. The Gold Rush Song Book. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940.

Carrie Grover from Gorham, Maine, 1941

List of recordings.

“Records of the Singing and Fiddle Playing of Mrs. Carrie Grover, from Gorham, Maine”

Appalachian Trip with Maud Karpeles, 1950

Handwritten diary, notes, list of recordings.

Handwritten diary and notes

Typewritten notes, 1950 Sept. 8- Oct. 18

“Tape Recordings Made in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Sept.-Oct. 1950,” by Maud Karpeles and Sidney Robertson Cowell

Wolf River Songs and Ford-Walker Family, 1952-1957

Drafts of article, notes, song sheets, lists of songs.

Cowell, Sidney Robertson. Wolf River Songs. New York: Folkways Records, 1956.

Typewritten drafts for Wolf River Songs, [1952-1954?]

Handwritten notes for Wolf River Songs, [1952-1954?]

Song sheets with accompanying notes and annotations

“Sidney Robertson Cowell Duplication Project,” 1957 Dec. 10

Songs from Cape Breton Island, 1950-1962

Drafts of article, song sheets, song transcriptions, list of recordings, correspondence, article, program sheets.

Cowell, Sidney Robertson and John P. Hughes. Songs from Cape Breton Island. New York: Folkways Records, 1955.

Drafts for sections of Songs from Cape Breton Island, undated

Song sheets with notes and annotations, undated

Transcriptions of songs recorded of North Shore Singers in Nova Scotia, Newton, Mass. and at Harvard, 1950-1953 or 1954

Lists of recordings from the project, including from a Library of Congress Sidney Robertson Cowell duplication project

Correspondence, 1953-1955

Abstract of “The Connection between the Precenting of Psalms on Cape Breton Island and in Colonial New England Churches,” 1962

Miscellaneous

Program sheets, 1953

Travel materials

Songs of Aran, 1955-1957

Song sheets and transcriptions with annotations.

Cowell, Sidney Robertson. Songs of Aran. New York: Folkways Records, 1957

Song sheets and transcriptions with notes and annotations, [1955-1956?].

Travels in Asia and the Middle East, 1955-1957

Final reports, drafts, anecdotes, notes.

Arranged alphabetically by country.

“A Note on Music in Colombo (Ceylon),” undated

“Report on Music in Hong Kong,” undated

“A Note on Music in Macao (Macau),” undated

“Report on Music in Madras and Bombay,” undated

“A Report to the Rockefeller Foundation on Music in Iran,” undated

“Persian Tales: SRC to S.E. Iran,” undated

“Persian Tales: Iranian WPA,” undated

“Persian Tales and Travelogue, cont’d.,” undated

“From SRC’s Notebook: Recording Session at Nomad Encampment outside Abadan,” undated

Random anecdotes, notes and comments about Iran, undated

“A Note on Korean Performances (Orchestra, Ballet) Heard in Hong Kong,” March 1957

“A Report to the Rockefeller Foundation on Music in Lebanon,” undated

“A Report to the Rockefeller Foundation on Music in Pakistan,” undated

“A Report on Music in Singapore,” undated

“Report on Music in Thailand,” undated

“A Report to the Rockefeller Foundation on Music in Turkey,” undated

Materials Relating to Henry Cowell, 1915-1992

Personal narratives by Sidney Robertson Cowell on Henry Cowell's life and work; articles and essays by and about Henry Cowell; discographical material; and photocopies of a selection of Henry Cowell holographs with annotations by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

Miscellaneous Material by and about Henry Cowell, 1920-1992

Personal narratives by Sidney Robertson Cowell, discographical material, information about family, articles and essays by Henry Cowell, articles about Henry Cowell, clippings.

Narratives about Henry Cowell and Sidney Robertson Cowell written by SRC, 1971, undated

Biographical essay on Henry Cowell (possibly written by SRC), undated

Narrative on honors bestowed upon Henry Cowell, written by SRC, 1990

“HC and Foreign State Department Assignments,” written by SRC, 1990

Material on Henry Cowell and Iran, 1957, 1975-1977, 1988, undated

“HC and the National Institute of Arts and Letters,” written by SRC, 1990

Narrative on Henry Cowell’s wristwatch, written by SRC, 1990

Materials relating to Henry Cowell’s discography

“Anniversary Pieces: Music by Henry Cowell for His Wife, 1941-1965,” list compiled in 1979

“Music photocopied for me in 1985, from a closed private collection, which I may not identify, in Northern California,” see also Container 29 1985

Materials relating to Olive Cowell (Henry Cowell’s stepmother), 1976, 1990

“Henrietta,” by Sidney Robertson Cowell, undated

Miscellaneous documents by SRC on Henry Cowell, undated

“The Composer’s World,” by Henry Cowell, 1961

“International Music?” by Henry Cowell, 1961

“Oriental Influence on Western Music,” by Henry Cowell, 1961

“Piano Instruction Course,” by Henry Cowell, 1920

“Music is My Weapon” essay by Henry Cowell, [194?]

“Tonal Therapy,” by Henry Cowell, 1922

“The Music of Henry Cowell,” by Hugo Weisgall

Henry Cowell: March 10, 1912, 50th Anniversary/March 11, 1897, 65th Birthday. S.l.: Broadcast Music, Inc., 1962

“Piano Music” by Henry Cowell. New York: Folkways Records, 1963

“How May a Composer Live in the Whole World of Music?” by David Hall, 1964

“Henry Cowell BMI.” S.l.: Broadcast Music, Inc., 1965

Newspaper clipping annotated by SRC, 1987

“Henry by Sidney” Material, circa 1980-circa 1990

Draft material for a biography that Sidney Robertson Cowell was planning to write about Henry Cowell called “Henry by Sidney.”

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Draft material for biography

Music by Henry Cowell, 1915-circa 1950

Photocopies of a selection of Henry Cowell holographs that are held in the Library of Congress Music Division. Many contain annotations by Sidney Robertson Cowell.

Arranged alphabetically by title.

“The Changes Change” Continuation, 1917

Chrysanthemums, 1936

Clusteriana no. 1: Analysis of tone cluster examples in the form of movement of one cluster, 1916-1917?

Consecration, 1917

For Violin, [1924-1926?]

For Xmas ’20, 1920

Japanese children’s song

Letter [to J.O. Varian], [1915-1916?]

Polyphonica no. 1, 1916

Polyphonica no. 2, 1916

System, 1918-1919

The Word Eternal, 1917?

Biographical Material, , 1901-1985bulk 1929-1985

Autobiographical narratives and essays; anecdotes, personal thoughts and musings on various subjects; articles, clippings and reviews; family histories and documents; drawings; diary; passport; diploma from Stanford University.

Autobiographical narratives (drafts), 1970, undated

Autobiographical narratives (drafts), 1971, undated

Biographical essays and curriculum vita, 1978, undated

Anecdotes from travels in the 1930s, circa 1947

Diary--Ireland, London, Amsterdam, Lugano, Greece, 1956

Personal health history, 1984

Anecdotes from various dates

Personal thoughts

“What It Is to Grow Old,” handwritten by SRC, undated

Notices of activities, 1951, 1959, undated

Miscellaneous notes, musings

Articles about Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1957, 1980, 1982

Clippings about Sidney Robertson Cowell and reviews of her work, 1929-1985, undated

Identity documents, 1921, 1969

Leland Stanford Junior University diploma of graduation, 1924

Miscellaneous biographical material

Drawings by Sidney Robertson Cowell

Miscellaneous

Hawkins and Morrison-Tonnelle family histories, undated

Miscellaneous Hawkins family documents

Documents relating to Odelia Comba Hawkins relatives, 1901

Letter to John regarding the Binkley family relations, 1982

Writings and Publications, 1911-1990

Published articles, essays, program notes, and reviews by Sidney Robertson Cowell; unpublished writings by Sidney Robertson Cowell, including drafts, anecdotes, personal narratives, project proposals, class notes, fiction and poetry; also includes books, journals, and reports written by others.

Published Writings by Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1938-1988

Articles, essays, program notes, reviews, and obituaries.

Arranged chronologically.

“The Songs of a Nation Collect a Forgotten Claim,” 1938

“The Recording of Folk Music in California,” 1942

American Folk Song and Folk Lore: A Regional Bibliography, 1942

“White Spirituals,” 1943

Program notes written for Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of Henry Cowell’s Short symphony no. 4, 1947

“Old Harp Singing,” 1951

Review of Dances of Early California Days, by Lucile K. Czarnowski, [1950?]

Review of American Folk Songs of Protest, by John Greenway, [1953?]

“Songs from Cape Breton Island,” 1955

“Wolf River Songs,” 1956

“Songs of Aran,” 1957

Review of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. I, by Bertrand Harris Bronson, [1959?]

Review of Shanties from the Seven Seas, compiled by Stan Hugill, 1961

“The Connection between the Precenting of Psalms on Cape Breton Island and in Colonial New England Churches,” 1962

Obituary of Percy Grainger, 1962

Review of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. II, by Bertrand Harris Bronson, 1963

“Early American Spirituals,” 1967

Obituary of Charles Seeger, 1979

Introduction in Jaime de Angulo: The Music of the Indians of Northern California, 1988

Two reviews attributed to Henry Cowell but were actually written by SRC, 1945, 1959

Miscellaneous items, 1956, 1987, undated

Unpublished Writings by Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1911-1990

Narratives on Collecting, 1986-1990

Narratives, drafts of talks, notes, anecdotes, letters.

Narrative on California field collecting, undated

“Cinderella Kinnaird,” undated

Narrative on Mrs. Dusenberry, undated

Narrative on California field collecting, 1990

Narrative on field recordings, undated

“Fieldwork in Three Great Lake States,” undated

“First Solo Field Recordings, Nov. 10, 1936,” undated

Narrative on Leon Henderson, 1986

“Lady on Wheels,” undated

“Missing Uncle Charlie,” 1990

“My collection of folk music is unusual in these respects ...” undated

“Random notes on SRC’s folksong collecting in late 1930s,” undated

“The Walker-Ford Family of Singers,” 1990

Wayfaring Stranger—song sheet #9, undated

1936 remembrance, 1990

Resettlement Administration story, 1990

Collecting anecdote, 1990

Edson’s tune book, undated

Narrative about traveling in Japan, undated

Letters on folk singing, to Sam Eskin, undated

Handwritten narrative on folk song collecting, undated

Drafts of Reviews, Papers, and Reports, 1949-circa 1967

Draft of review for American Folk Songs of Protest, [1953?]

Draft of “The Connection between the Melismatic Psalm Singing of Cape Breton and of Colonial New England Churches,” 1961

Draft of “Early American Carols,” [1967?]

Draft of “Early American Spirituals,” 1966

Draft of review for England’s Dances by Douglas Kennedy, [1949?]

Draft of review for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads and Great British Ballads Not Found in Child, undated

Draft of paper on improvisation, rhythm in education and children’s music, undated

Draft of “Lessons with the Boston Symphony,” 1954

Drafts for “Music in Ghana,” [196-]

Draft of review for Negro Folk Music of Alabama, undated

Draft of review for Vance Randolph’s publications on the Ozarks, undated

Draft of an obituary for Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1954

Draft of review for Shanties from the Seven Seas, [1961?]

Draft of review for Songs of the Irish, [1960?]

Drafts of “Three Generations of Folk Singers in the United States,” [195-?]

Draft of review for The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. I, [1959?]

Draft of review for The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. II, [1963?]

Draft of a review for Wayfaring Stranger, undated

Draft and notes for “White Spirituals,” undated

Miscellaneous, 1911-1967

Project proposals, class notes, fiction and poetry.

Materials related to project proposals, 1950-1951, undated

Draft project proposals, 1937, 1951, undated

“Asia by Ear” notes, 1959

Notes from Japanese language course, 1967, undated

Notes from Lycée de jeunes Filles class, 1922-1923

“Anecdotes in the Chronicles of Matthew Paris,” [192-]

Fiction by SRC, 1923

Poems by SRC, 1911, [194-?]

Miscellaneous notes, undated

Publications Written by Others

Books, journals, and reports. Two items are accompanied by explanatory narratives written by SRC.

Subject Files, 1942-1990, bulk 1950-1988

Correspondence, narratives, planning documents, programs, articles, clippings, and notes relating to individuals, organizations, and personal and professional interests and activities.

Arranged alphabetically by name of person, organization, or topic.

Africa, 1954, 1966, 1974,1980

The Boardman School Inc., 1949

Cage, John, 1986

Columbia University, Sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music, 1950

East-West Music Encounter, 1960-1961

Friends of SRC, A-E

Friends of SRC, H-S

Gifts to libraries, 1971-1977, 1990

Harvard University, Conference on Folk Music and Ballads, 1955

Hayes, Roland, see also Container 3, Rooks, Shelby 1976

Hulme, Kathryn, 1984

International Folk Music Council, 1955-1979

Iran see East-West Music Encounter

Ives, Charles, see also Container 1, Bronson, Bertrand see also Containers 1-2, Hitchcock, H. Wileysee also Container 2, Kirkpatrick, John 1967-1988

Japan see East-West Music Encounter

Letters of introduction, 1953-1956

Mills College, 1944, 1950, 1955-1956

Pan American Union, 1942-1943

Photography of SRC, see also Photographs Series 1962-1965

Ross, James, [195-?]

Saylor, Bruce, see also Container 3, Saylor, Bruce 1975-1976

Spackman, Stephen, 1978-1983, undated

University of Southern California, 1950-1951

Miscellaneous clippings

Photographs

Chiefly black and white photographs of Sidney Robertson Cowell; Henry Cowell; their families; friends and colleagues in the music world; and musicians and performers that Sidney Robertson Cowell recorded throughout her career. Many of the photographs in this series were taken by Sidney Robertson Cowell. Includes artistic photographs taken by Cowell as well as photographs of the California Folk Music Project staff and offices.

Sidney Robertson Cowell alone, as a child and young girl Sixteen black and white photographs

Sidney Robertson Cowell, alone, as an adult Seventeen black and white photographsOne color photograph One negative

Sidney Robertson Cowell with others Sixteen black and white photographs

Sidney Robertson Cowell with Henry Cowell Four black and white photographs (some with other people)

Henry Cowell alone Twenty-three black and white photographs

Henry Cowell with others Eleven black and white photographs

Sidney Robertson Cowell’s family Twelve black and white photographsOne color photograph of Cowell house in Shady, N.Y.

Individuals and groups Seventy-one black and white photographs

California Folk Music Project (some with Sidney Robertson Cowell) Ten black and white photographs

Street scenes, photo from plane, Ernest Bloch death mask, African people and musicians Thirteen black and white photographsThree negative strips (two photos from the negatives are in this file)

Natural scenes, landscapes Seven black and white photographs

Street scenes, landscapes, nature shots Seventeen black and white photographs

SRC’s cats Twenty-six black and white photographs

SRC’s cats, animal shots, abstract shots Sixteen black and white photographs

Miscellaneous oversize photographs Seven black and white photographs

Teaching Materials, 1948-1959

Notes, outlines, song sheets, reports and narratives relating to courses Cowell taught.

Arranged chronologically.

Teaching materials for Hamilton School, 1948

Music for Young Children, 1951, undated

Teaching materials for course on rhythm at the New School, 1953-1959

Songs and Song Books

Some songs set to music, others include lyrics only. Includes single song sheets, sheets with multiple songs, and the following groupings: songs with piano settings by Henry Cowell, protest and propaganda songs of the 1930s-1940s, and songs collected from Cinderella Kinnaird.

Single song sheets are arranged alphabetically by song title. Protest and propaganda songs and Kinnaird’s songs are arranged alphabetically by song title within those groupings.

Folk songs, some with piano settings by Henry Cowell

Miscellaneous songs, A-B

Miscellaneous songs, C-D

Miscellaneous songs, E-G

Miscellaneous songs, H-I

Miscellaneous songs, J-K

Miscellaneous songs, L-M

Miscellaneous songs, N-O

Miscellaneous songs, P-R

Miscellaneous songs, S

Miscellaneous songs, T-U

Miscellaneous songs, V-W

Miscellaneous songs, X-Z

Miscellaneous songs, multiple songs per sheet

Unidentified songs

Miscellaneous song material

Mrs. Kinnaird’s songs, 1937

Protest /Propaganda songs of the 1930s-1940s

Potamkin, Harry Alan. Pioneer Song Book: Songs for Workers’ and Farmers’ Children. New York: New Pioneer, 1933

“Song Book: New York City School for Workers,” 1934

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union song sheets, undated