American Folklore Society / WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts / Joint Committee on Folk Arts / Resettlement Administration / Pan-American Union / Harvard / Kentucky State Industrial College / Rare Books and Special Collections Division / McDonald’s Federal Relief Administration / New Deal mission / Fisk University / WPA Education Division / Library’s Manuscript Division / Music Division / Congress / WPA Recreation Division / US Federal Reserve / Federal Theater Committee / WPA-wide Joint Committee on Folk Arts / American Council of Learned Societies / office of War Information / /
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C. Adolph Glassgold / Jerrold Hirsch / John Lomax / Benjamin A. Botkin / BEN BOTKIN / Nick Ray / Harold Spivacke / Charles Seeger / Alan Jabbour / Henry Alsberg / Nicholas Ray / Herbert Halpert / Folk Song / Alan Lomax / Ernestine Friedman / Zora Neale Hurston / Lawrence D. Reddick / /
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title Honorary Curator / Federal Writers Project administrator / national folklore editor / Vice-Chairman / Chief / author / Chairman / writer / titular head / chair / biographer of Ben Botkin / Assistant / lobbyist / Honorary Curator / /
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Nebraska / Virginia / Carolinas / Tennessee / Oklahoma / Mississippi / Coahoma County / Florida / Georgia / /
BEN BOTKIN AND THE ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG [This essay was delivered by Alan Jabbour as a paper at the conference honoring Benjamin A. Botkin at the Library of Congress, November[removed]I’ll begin by warning that