Alma Mater Recording Co. audio recordings
odd: label: Shared Stewardship of Collections
content: The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://doi.org/10.25573/data.21771155.
name: label: Creator
content: Alma Mater Recording Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Camp songs
label: Topic
content: Folk songs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Alma Mater Recording Company founder and owner Martin Stein in 2001.
creator: label: Creator
content: Alma Mater Recording Company
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content: Alma Mater Recording Co. audio recordings
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection contains audio recordings made by Alma Mater Recording Company, featuring camp, folk, pop and broadway songs recorded at various summer camps and schools in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and North Carolina.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13.62 Cubic feet (265 sound discs (vinyl); 24 sound cassettes; 269 sound tape reels; 1 document case; 1 oversize box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ALMA
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Phonograph records
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
label: Type
content: Audiocassettes
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The Alma Mater Recording Co. audio recordings were processed and described at a basic level in 2010. A more detailed processing of the audio recordings, along with an updated finding aid, was completed by Cecilia Peterson in July 2015.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Phonograph records
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiotapes
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains vinyl discs, cassette tapes, open reel tapes, lacquer discs, and papers produced by the Alma Mater Recording Co. between 1959-1986. The vinyl discs and cassettes represent the commercial recordings produced by the company, while the open reel tapes and laquer disc represent the associated master recordings. Papers include correspondence with various camps, promotional material, and cover designs.