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Item Summary

Packet 4 : Songs and Shanties

Scope and Content Notes

'Originally bound, now separate 8½ x 6½ inch sheets of typewritten and annotated song texts. Includes title of song and often name of informant, date, and location. Pages are numbered but not necessarily arranged in numerical order. Begins with six-page typewritten and annotated "Index to Songs and Chanties" that lists titles of songs in numerical order and its number (page?)'. (From Guides to the Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: The James Madison Carpenter Collection, AFC 1972/001, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, June 1996 © Library of Congress, reproduced with permission.)

Subdivisions

Folder 36 : Songs and Chanties - A
Folder 37 : Songs and Chanties - B
Folder 38 : Songs and Chanties - C
Folder 39 : Songs and Chanties - D


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