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Collections in the Rinzler Archives

Collections in the Rinzler Archives

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The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections contains several major multi-format collections which are listed below, with links to more detailed information about the individual collections. Where available, links to finding aids appear on the collection description pages.

Moses and Frances Asch Collection Moses Asch (1905-1986) founded Folkways Records in 1948...

Collector Records Collection
Collector Records was founded in 1970 by the late Joe Glazer, an American folk singer...

Emory and Martha Cook Collection Emory Cook (1913-2002) was an audio engineer and inventor who used his Sounds of our Times and Cook Laboratories record labels...

Diana Davies Photograph Collection Diana Davies is a well-known photographer of folk performers and festivals, who photographed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in its earlier years...

Dyer-Bennet Records Collection Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), a major figure in the folk music revival of the 1940s-1970s...

Fast Folk Musical Magazine Collection The Fast Folk Musical Magazine, formed in New York in 1982 as a songwriter/performer cooperative...

The Woody Guthrie Papers Woodrow (Woody) Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) was one of the most important folk composers in American history...

Lee Hays Collection An important figure in the folksong revival of the 1940s-1960s, Lee Hays (1914-1981) was one of the members of the Almanac Singers...

Robert C. Malone Photograph Collection Robert C. Malone donated a small collection of prints, negatives, and contact sheets to the Archives in 1998...

Monitor Records Collection In 1956, Michael Stillman and his business partner Rose Rubin started Monitor Records in New York City...

Paredon Records Collection Founded in 1969 by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber, Paredon Records was part of a wave of cultural expression...

Frederic Ramsey Jr. Tape Collection Frederic Ramsey Jr. (1915-1995) was a jazz scholar and author who worked with a number of musicians in the South and...

Ralph Rinzler Collection Ralph Rinzler (1934-1994) was an important twentieth century folklorist who was the co-founder of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival..

Smithsonian Folklife Festival Documentation Collection The Smithsonian Folklife Festival (1967-present, formerly the Festival of American Folklife) is an annual event on the National Mall...

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