Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 020226 field work Bessie Jones 1961 transcripts interviews Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BESSIE JONES TAPE 11 This is a two sided tape track 2 both sides at 7 12 IPS Nosongs Transcribed by Dena Hirsch Dated 10661 NYC SIDE 1 Interview by Antoinette Lomax…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 1 ST SIMONS TODAY PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION TL Bessie do they still plant rice down in St Simons BJ Theyre not plantin any rice down round there now They…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 2 Anyway they got that there just to remember an recognizin the old slave ya know Ah the rice farmer Still keepin it ya know up They coulda…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 3 An ah the fort is way up away up on the north end like An ah its where the ah Indians where peoples goes up there now…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 4 BESSIE CREDIT PRESENTDAY ECONOMY ETC paid up then I m gonna wanna make my down payment I ought to TL Who do you owe to BJ I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 5 make ya An then tween that ya get in sumpthin else Ya see Ya got ya got to have sumpin to to look at or to do…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p6 it out then diffrunt members buy it from me Jus buy it You know jus pay that money amount to keep it you from losin Thats what I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 7 somewhere TL Are most of them worth anything Are most of them nice houses BJ Oh yeah Most of em are nice houses but ssome aint All…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p8 know One of the highcostin houses Id rather git a house my mysef where I could lock my door to git ready and know there aint nobody over…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 9 lick a the snake Got Im tellin ya You know cause cause they want them people to take care a the chirrun Got to keep them has…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 10 sometime ya gotta go sick or well you know If you aint got no one to hep ya So thats what way it is An you cant…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 11 DAWSON N GA PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION said Well ah in the what ya call income tax I said Well I thank God to sen it cause it been…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 12 BJ UmhumWell see theres more red clay then when I was little than there is now Cause ya see they got ah uh the roads is built…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 13 callspossum hauls you know small blacklookin berries all over the trees Them funnylookin berries An we calls em possum hauls they kinda well so blueish black black…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 14 as big around as this pa ah not squashes cabbages F you could do like that one cabbageWe all would go home I s I havent seen…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ Tape 11 p 5 muck See thas right The much is ah stuff that jes it itll grow fast its rich an pretty an good an everything But that sand stuff…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ Tape 11 p16 have many a them now But I heard people say they used to carry them out an all that stuff out cant use it an let ah in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 17 An ya harly ever hear talk of the the reglar homers I don know bout the cause they aint no big fields of this stuff together but…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 18 thats thats acausin a lot of sickness today is a lot of that stuff they put on on on the fruits an on the vegetables Im sure…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p19 around there too Good things TL Better than Dawson BJ No not no better but yet and still its good Its good its clay Umhum Yeah an you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 20 TL The trees arent as big as they are in Dawson BJ What the trees Yeah they jus about jus bout as big Not the same kind…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p21 one that got a tree aroun there An he An they small even he had it for years an years He done Hitll bewitch him to take care…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 22 TL Your mother was there huh BJ Yeah My mother was TL How old were you when you went there BJ Oh I was grown The chile…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 23 BJ Oh everybody raise it all along Dont care which way ya go a lil bit a something Ha ha ha ha A lil bit somewheres yeah…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 24 TL Oh they burned them up BJ Yeah they burnt em up TL Thats the place huh BJ Same place Oh a lot a things happen around…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 25 call it TL Horse mule Why BJ Well its a hoss mule cause they had manes You know had TL Oh BJ An a reg TL And…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 26 TL Did you ever try to ride em BJ No my No no I got on a horse END OF REEL Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 27 THE FIGHT WITH MAIMIE LONG STORY BJ Ya mean when I was workin Ya mean Mr Crum Williams place down there Speakin about this girl about peoples…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 28 So anyway shes kinda rowdy an she didnt like it cause so many people ya know They youd be We we got along good Everywhere I vidin…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 29 But that day she went to talkin bout the stockins I didn know what in the worl she wa talkin about no stockins I couldnt understand it…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 30 So she didn want nobody you know you know Cause she know me she know I never git in no fights or nothin She come out there…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 31 ya an kill ya Yall bleed inside an yall die An so she knew I had no AL She musta been hollerin an screamin herself BJ Who…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 32 lookin this way An so an you know an talkin I guess expectin me that way See Mamie gonna come there an mess wit me or sumpin…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 33 that man fowght I know I couldnt astood up with no man as long as she did That woman fowght She took a hoe He knocked her…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 34 er said Well you youll have to go Said I Ill pay your fare home for whatsoever your home at Home was in Savannah So that made…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 35 said to myself you She didn She thought that shed ahad the thing Ha ha But the main part about it I wouldnt ah I always have…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 36 An so after dat den it went on a long time I reckon about 6 years later Oh things had changed I went back to I I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 37 to finish it up Huh Cause I to finish it up You see long in there I didnt have no better sense Ya see me didn care…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962 BJ TAPE 11 p 38 these boys was from Alabama They was cookin down there in a cafe They had met us an they told me an Clara they gonna ah ask…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1961-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
Created / Published
- 1961
Headings
- - Fieldwork
- - Transcripts
- - interviews
- - United States
Genre
- Transcripts
- interviews
Notes
- - Bessie Jones interview transcriptions (September and October, 1961, New York) - tape 11
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 02.02.26
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image