Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946

The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. The Collection reflects and documents the state's colorful pattern of immigration and occupational development during those years.

The Collection contains Wisconsin field recordings, notes, and photographs made by UW-Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin and the Library of Congress during the summers of 1940, 1941, and 1946; and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration. <more>

Materials in the Collection:

• Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
• Folk Music from Wisconsin (Library of Congress Recording)
• Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection
• Mills Music Library Special Collections
• Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection (1937)
• Wisconsin folk singers photographs, 1940-1941, 1946.