Joseph S. Hall Great Smoky Mountains Original Recordings Collection

From the American Folklife Center website: Folktales, local history, descriptions of local customs and practices, songs, ballads, hymns, fiddle tunes, etc., recorded between 1937 and 1941 (discs) and 1956-67 (tapes) by Joseph S. Hall in Great Smoky Mountains regions of Tennessee and North Carolina. Discs recorded with the assistance of Columbia University and the National Park Service. Archive also has 5 reels microfilm of fieldnotes, transcribed texts, and an inventory. Also unbound draft of Dictionary of Smoky Mountain Speeches; Photographs, some negatives, slides, drawings, most of them used in Hall's book, Yarns and Tales from the Great Smokies, 1978; Accompanying documentation, consisting of large envelopes and sheets (used in printing the book), placed in large manuscript box labeled "Photo Documentation." Some full-text of Tennessee recordings can be found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/linguistics/. For more information, see: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/NorthCarolina.html and http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Tennessee.html.