Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46.72 Cubic feet (36 record storage boxes, 3 oversize boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1987
label: Date
content: bulk 1947-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains correspondence between Moses Asch and the artists that recorded with him under the Folkways label. It also contains correspondence between Asch and non-artists (producers, recorders, researchers, scholars, lawyers, managers, other recording-related associates). Materials included are business, personal, and legal correspondence, royalty statements, sales records, promotional materials and printed ephemera, and clippings, as well as miscellaneous published works, photographs, unissued recording materials, and notes. Materials may also include production-related correspondence. Folders may contain correspondence between the artists and people other than Moses Asch. In some cases, folders contain correspondence regarding legal/royalty issues occurring after Folkways' acquisition by the Smithsonian in 1987. Miscellaneous folders contain mostly correspondence between Folkways and prospective artists and customer inquiries, as well as unissued recording materials.