Art Thieme Folk Music Slides
name: label: Creator
content: Thieme, Art, 1941-2015
topic: label: Topic
content: Musical instruments -- 20th century
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content: Concerts
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content: Folk music -- United States
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content: Folk musicians
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content: Folk songs -- United States
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content: Folk music -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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content: Folk festivals
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content: Folk music
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content: Musicians -- 1950-2000
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Art Thieme in 2012.
creator: label: Creator
content: Thieme, Art, 1941-2015
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content: Art Thieme Folk Music Slides
abstract: label: Summary
content: Art Thieme was a noted folk singer who recorded many traditional ballads and folk songs from midwestern states. This collection is a series of 459 color slides documenting folk musicians and folk music, in both concert settings and informal portraiture, all taken by the donor.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art Thieme was born on July 9, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He becamea noted folk singer. He launched his career at a Hyde Park, Chicago club, the Limelight, in 1959 and went on to perform for many years at a coffeehouse called No Exit, also in Chicago. Touring all over the country, he photographed and recorded many folk singers and concerts, documented in this collection. At the end of his career, he performed on the steamboats Julia Belle Swain, Twilight on the Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers. He has recorded traditional folk songs rendered by himself for Folk Legacy Records. Thieme died on May 26, 2015.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 459 Slides (photographs)
label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960s-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1239
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Slides (photographs)
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content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Chromogenic processes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Slides received in plastic storage sheets, many of which were damaged, although the slides did not seem to be physically damaged. Those that were damaged were replaced. The plastic storage sheets were contained in a red vinyl three-ring binder that has since been replaced with an acid-free binder box. The slides did not appear to be in any order.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Color transparencies -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Chromogenic processes
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content: Slides (photographs) -- 1950-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 459 35mm color slides documenting folk musicians and folk music, in both concert settings and informal portraiture, all taken by the donor, Art Thieme, a noted folksinger. Subjects include such well-known performers as Stephen Wade, the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Jack Elliott, Ike Everly, B.B. King, Dave Edmonson, Ray Harris, Kenny Baker, Tom Paxton, John Hammond, Bill Monroe, Justin Bishop, Steve Goodman, Cathy Fink, Wes Asbury, Ron F. Kirkpatrick, Doc Watson, Jim Kweskin, and Lightnin' Hopkins, and other notables such as oral historian Studs Terkel. The collection also contains a CD with Thieme's recordings and a folder of newspaper clippings, a program, and a map of local folk singers across the country. The slides are unarranged, but most slides have names, places, and dates.