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Category: Alan Lomax

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Crowdsourcing Transcriptions: “At the Library and in the Field: John and Alan Lomax Papers”

Posted by: John Fenn

This guest post comes from Todd Harvey, a Reference Specialist and the curator of Lomax collections at the American Folklife Center. To the Librarian of Congress March 21, 1940 Alan Lomax has in Washington with him today and tomorrow a folk singer for whose excellence he vouchers. This singer, Woodie Guthrie by name, is willing …