Uj American Memory gyujtemeny a Weben

[Eniko M Basa]

Good morning all.

As usual this announcement is being sent to a number of lists.
Please
accept our apologies for any duplicate postings.

The American Folklife Center's Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection
is
now available online through the Library of Congress American Memory
Web
site at the following URL:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/.

The Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection includes correspondence
between
Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now
the
Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of
Congress, written primarily in the early 1940s, shortly after
Guthrie
had moved to New York City and met the Archive's Assistant in
Charge,
Alan Lomax. Although Guthrie pursued broadcasting and recording
careers,
meeting a cadre of artists and activists and gaining a reputation as
a
talented and influential songwriter and performer, this collection
highlights his talents as a writer of prose. These occasionally,
illustrated reflections on his past, his art, his life in New York
City,
and the looming Second World War provide unique insight into the
artist
best-known for his role as "Dust Bowl balladeer."

The online presentation contains fifty-three items (eighty-four
pages)
of manuscript material by, about, and to Woody Guthrie, 1940-50, and
includes a biographical essay by Guthrie scholar Mark Jackson; a
timeline of Guthrie's life; and an encoded finding aid of archival
materials featuring Woody Guthrie at the Library of Congress.

Other folklife-related online collections, selected publications of
the
American Folklife Center, and information about products and
services
are available from the Center's home page:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife.

American Memory is a project of the National Digital Library Program
of
the Library of Congress, which, in collaboration with other
institutions, is bringing important American historical materials to
citizens around the world. Through American Memory, over 100
multimedia
collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound,
motion
pictures, and text are now available online, free to the public for
educational purposes. This collection is the twelfth collection from
the
American Folklife Center to be added on the American Memory Web
site.
All American Memory collections can be accessed through:

http://memory.loc.gov.

Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll at loc.gov.