Subjects: Photography / Level: Collection

Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers 10 Linear Feet Summary: 10 ft. (21 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.)

Gainer, Patrick W.

Archives of an eminent folklorist and professor of English at West Virginia University. Manuscripts include field folklore collections, lecture notes, book manuscripts, correspondence, student papers, and folksong arrangements. There are also materials regarding Gainer's position as director of South Atlantic USO activities during World War II and a journal of a folksong collecting trip to Ireland in 1961. Also one hundred and fifty-three audio tapes containing vocal and instrumental folk music, folklore and oral history, recorded in West Virginia and in Scotland and Ireland. Nearly half of the material is performed by Gainer himself. The collection also includes news clippings relating to folklore and Gainer's career, as well as a variety of photographs, film clips and personal awards and memorabilia.

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Photo album 1 Volumes Red album with "photographs" written on cover, string binding, 50pp

Red album with "photographs" written on cover, string binding, 50pp. Features photos of Hampen-Sydney College students as well as images of the campus and various travels to Washington, DC and Houston, TX.

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Photograph of an unknown woman by the White Studio of New York City .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

White Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Silver gelatin print photograph of an unknown woman by the White Studio of New York City, late 1910s - early 1920s.

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Photograph of Arthur Mitchell by Martha Swope .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Swope, Martha

Black and white photograph of Arthur Mitchell dancing in costume with a dance partner by photographer Martha Swope, circa early 1960s.

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Photograph of Carl Sandburg playing guitar and singing .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Black and white photograph of poet Carl Sandburg playing a guitar and singing, taken in 1948. The photo is inscribed and signed by Sandburg in the lower right front corner to his friend and editor Catherine McCarthy at the publisher Harcourt Brace.

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Photograph of John Cage, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor at a concert rehearsal .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center

Black and white photograph of John Cage, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor at a concert rehearsal, taken July 5, 1968. The picture features, from left to right, Gordon Mumma, John Cage, and David Tudor sitting and standing behind electronic music equipment as they adjust parts of the equipment with their hands.

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Photograph of Martha Graham in "Mirror Before Me" by Arnold Eagle .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Eagle, Arnold

Black and white photograph of Martha Graham performing her work "Mirror Before Me" from 1945. The photo features Graham mid-dance in a black dress and posing with an abstract stage prop.

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Photograph of of four dancers by Maurice Goldberg .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Goldberg, Maurice

Black and white photograph of four dancers by Maurice Goldberg, circa 1910s.

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Photograph of young German girls playing recorders walking down hillside .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center

Black and white photograph of eleven German girls and a presumably woman adult playing recorders while walking down a hillside by an unknown photographer, circa 1933.

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Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks 0.7 Linear Feet 8 in. (4 unboxed scrapbooks)

Williams, Phyllis Temple Stealey

Four scrapbooks of Phyllis Temple Williams nee Stealey of Clarksburg who was an administrative assistant and secretary to nine term U.S. Congressman Cleveland M. Bailey (Democrat, West Virginia) from 1955 to 1963. Includes photographs, postcards, programs, invitations, news clippings and newspapers about: political conventions; elections; inaugurations; World War II; the Stealey family; charitable and campaign fundraisers; and a trip to Italy, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. Three of the scrapbooks are of the years she worked for Rep. Bailey and the other one is of years prior to her employment with him. In the earliest scrapbook are newspapers and mementos of World War II such as ration books and coupons.

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Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers 10 Linear Feet Summary: 10 ft. (21 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.)

Photo album 1 Volumes Red album with "photographs" written on cover, string binding, 50pp

Photograph of an unknown woman by the White Studio of New York City .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of Arthur Mitchell by Martha Swope .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of Carl Sandburg playing guitar and singing .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of John Cage, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor at a concert rehearsal .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of Martha Graham in "Mirror Before Me" by Arnold Eagle .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of of four dancers by Maurice Goldberg .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Photograph of young German girls playing recorders walking down hillside .01 Linear Feet 1 photograph

Phyllis Temple Stealey Williams Scrapbooks 0.7 Linear Feet 8 in. (4 unboxed scrapbooks)

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