Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song
Subtitle: correspondence, 1940-1950.
Contributors: Archive of American Folk Song.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Guthrie, Woody, -- 1912-1967 -- Correspondence.; Composers -- United States -- Correspondence.; Folk singers -- United States -- Correspondence.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: American Memory web site that highlights letters 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. The letters were 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. Provides browsing letter titles and subject (including names of correspondents). Also includes a biographic sketch of Guthrie by Mark Allan Jackson, chronology, selected discography, and bibliography.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on Feb. 9, 2006).

Mode of access: World Wide Web.