Title : Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert
Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
Subject : migrant work camps; california; folk song; folk culture;
US; united states; america
Description : The collection consists of approximately 18 hours of
audio recordings (436 titles on 122 recording discs),
28 graphic images (prints and negatives), and 1.5 linear
feet of print materials including administrative
correspondence, field notes, recording logs, song text
transcriptions, dust jackets from the recording discs
with handwritten notes, news clippings, publications,
and ephemera. The online presentation provides access to
371 audio titles, 23 graphic images, a sampling
of the dust jackets, and all the print material in the
collection. Covering a period between 1940 and 1941, this
collection documents the lives of Dust Bowl migrants
living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in
California.
Owner :
Publisher : Library of Congress
Date :
Language : en-us
Source :
Coverage : California, USA, 1940-1941
Relation : IsPartOf http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Type : Collection.Sound
Notes :
Purpose :
Rights : http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tscpyrt.html
UseConstraints :
Logo :
Access :
Identifier : http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
AccessTimes : Any
Location : Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
Admin : ndlpcoll@loc.gov
AccessPolicy : Open
ChargingPolicy : Free
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