Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011

Collection Number: 20548

Collection Title: Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011

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Size	14.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1500 items)
Abstract	The Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011, documents the singing and songwriting career of the pioneering bluegrass and folk musician, as well as her support for working class concerns, labor unions, and the coal-mining community. Materials include personal and business correspondence, song lyrics, photographs, posters, tour and event promotional materials, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, interview transcripts, drafts of Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens and related materials, family genealogy, and address books. The collection also contains audiovisual materials of award ceremonies, radio programs, and demos featuring Hazel Dickens and others.
Creator	Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: Use of audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.; Library use only for digital files found in this collection. Contact wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss access options.

Restrictions to Use: No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Hazel Dickens Collection #20548, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Larry Shumate in August 2017 (Acc. 103136).

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Processed by: Patrick Cullom, Nancy Kaiser, Amy Morgan, and Anne Wells, October 2017

Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, Nancy Kaiser, Amy Morgan, and Anne Wells, October 2017

Updated by: Anne Wells, April 2019; Nancy Kaiser, October 2020; Dawne Howard Lucas, March 2022

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Hazel Dickens (1925-2011), a bluegrass and folk musician, wrote and sang songs about coal-mining in her home state of West Virginia and working-class women. She was a central figure in the folk revival movement of the late twentieth century and is well known for her pioneering bluegrass band with Alice Gerrard, "Hazel and Alice," and for her solo career after the break up of that partnership. She received many awards over the course of her career, including the National Heritage Fellowship in 2001.

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The Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011, documents the singing and songwriting career of the pioneering bluegrass and folk musician, as well as her support for working class concerns, labor unions, and the coal-mining community. Materials include personal and business correspondence, song lyrics, photographs, posters, tour and event promotional materials, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, interview transcripts, drafts of Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens and related materials, family genealogy, and address books. The collection also contains audiovisual materials of award ceremonies, radio programs, and demos featuring Hazel Dickens and others.

Contents list

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1. Papers, 1930s-2011.
2. Audiovisual Materials, 1999-2008 and undated.
3. Photographs, circa 1900s-2010.

Expand/collapse Series 1. Papers, 1930s-2011.

1500 items.

Box 1-10 Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4 Box 5 Box 6 Box 7 Box 8 Box 9 Box 10	Papers, 1930s-2011
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20548/1	Award, 2010
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20548/2-4 OPF-20548/2 OPF-20548/3 OPF-20548/4	Posters, 1960s-2000s
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-20548/1	Posters: Festival of American Folklife, 1975-1976
Oversize Box OB-20548/1	Ephemera, 1970s-2000s Includes buttons,ticket stubs, name tags, paper flags, business cards, and a signed bandana

Expand/collapse Series 2. Audiovisual Materials, 1999-2008 and undated.

11 items.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Processing information: Titles compiled from original containers. Letters and memos found with videotapes VT-20548/1-2 reside in Box 9.

Library use only for digital folders found in this series. Contact wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss access options.

Digital Folder DF-20548/1	Wood Songs, old-time radio hour, hosted by Michael Jonathan with guests Tim O'Brien and Buddy Mondlock, 1999 4 audio files (.wav)
Videotape VT-20548/1	2001 Celebration of the National Heritage Fellowship Awards part 1, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2001 VHS
Videotape VT-20548/2	2001 Celebration of the National Heritage Fellowship Awards part 1, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2001 VHS
Digital Folder DF-20548/2	National Endowment for the Arts, Masters of Traditional Arts, circa 2002 5604 data files
Digital Folder DF-20548/3	Highlander Research and Educational Center, Myles Horton and Highlander slideshow featuring "They'll Never Keep Us Down", circa 2005 1 moving image file (.mp4)
Digital Folder DF-20548/4	West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Outlook, Michael Lipton interview, Hazel Dickens, Blind Alfred Reed tribute, show 221, 15 November 2007 1 moving image file (.mp4)
Digital Folder DF-20548/5	West Virginia Public Broadcasting, A Conversation with Hazel Dickens, 11 December 2007 1 audio file (.wav)
Digital Folder DF-20548/6	Song for Hazel, Cabin Fever, 2008 1 moving image file (.mp4)
Digital Folder DF-20548/7	Arnold Lee Dickens 13 audio files (.wav)
Digital Folder DF-20548/8	Gary Ferguson and Sally Love, demonstration recording 4 audio files (.wav)
Digital Folder DF-20548/9	Kathy Mattea, COAL, not mastered 11 audio files (.wav)

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640 items.

Processing information: Photographic materials grouped by dates derived from enclosures or conveyed in images. A majority of materials have additional original descriptions on enclosures. Images depict Hazel Dickens throughout her musical career, musicians she worked with, and members of the Dickens family.

Image Folder PF-20548/1	Photographs, 1910s-1900s Photographic Prints 13 images
Image Folder PF-20548/2	Photograph framed, 1954 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/3	Photograph framed, 1950s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/4	Photographs, 1950s-1960s Photographic Prints 3 images
Image Folder PF-20548/5	Photographs, 1950s-1980s Photographic Prints 5 images
Image Folder PF-20548/6	Photographs, 1956-1990s Photographic Prints 11 images
Image Folder PF-20548/7	Photograph, 1964 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/8	Photographs, 1960s Photographic Prints 9 images
Image Folder PF-20548/9	Photograph, 1960s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/10	Photograph, 1960s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/11	Photographs, 1960s Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/12	Photographs, 1960s-1980s Photographic Prints 12 images
Image Folder PF-20548/13	Photographs, 1960s-1990s Photographic Prints 18 images
Image Folder PF-20548/14	Photographs, 1960s-1990s (images of children) Photographic Prints 15 images
Image Folder PF-20548/15	Photograph, 1970s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/16	Photographs, 1970s Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/17	Photograph, 1970s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/18	Photograph, 1970s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/19	Photograph, 1970s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/20	Photographs, 1970s-1980s Photographic Prints 17 images
Image Folder PF-20548/21	Photographs, 1970s-1990s Photographic Prints 13 images
Image Folder PF-20548/22	Photographs, 1970s-1990s Photographic Prints 50 images
Image Folder PF-20548/23	Photographs, 1970s-1990s Photographic Prints 15 images
Image Folder PF-20548/24	Photographs, 1979-2000s Photographic Prints 6 images
Image Folder PF-20548/25	Photographs, 1970s-2000s Photographic Prints 17 images
Image Folder PF-20548/26	Photographs, 1970s-2000s Photographic Prints 5 images
Image Folder PF-20548/27	Photographs, 1970s-2000s Photographic Prints 19 images
Image Folder PF-20548/28	Photographs, 1982 Photographic Prints 21 images
Image Folder PF-20548/29	Photographs, 1985 Photographic Prints 4 images
Image Folder PF-20548/30	Photographs, 1987 Photographic Prints 13 images
Image Folder PF-20548/31	Photographs, 1987 Photographic Prints 13 images
Image Folder PF-20548/32	Photographs, 19 January 1989 Photographic Prints 14 images
Image Folder PF-20548/33	Photographs, 1980s Photographic Prints 5 images
Image Folder PF-20548/34	Photographs, 1980s Photographic Prints 38 images
Image Folder PF-20548/35	Photographs, 1980s Photographic Prints 5 images
Image Folder PF-20548/36	Photographs, 1980s Photographic Prints 12 images
Image Folder PF-20548/37	Photograph, 1980s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/38	Photographs, 1980s-1990s Photographic Prints 7 images
Image Folder PF-20548/39	Empty photograph enclosures, 1980s-1990s Photographic Prints Empty enclosures with annotations on them.
Image Folder PF-20548/40	Photographs, 1990 Photographic Prints 3 images
Image Folder PF-20548/41	Photographs, 1995 Photographic Prints 14 images
Image Folder PF-20548/42	Photograph, 1996 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/43	Photographs, 1996 Photographic Prints 35 images
Image Folder PF-20548/44	Photograph, 1999 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/45	Photograph, framed, 1990s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/46	Photographs, 1990s Photographic Prints 12 images
Image Folder PF-20548/47	Photograph, 2000 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/48	Photographs, 2001 Photographic Prints 20 images
Image Folder PF-20548/49	Photograph, 2001 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/50	Photographs, 2001 Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/51	Photographs, 2003 Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/52	Photograph, 2003 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/53	Photographs, 2004 Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/54	Photographs, 2004 Photographic Prints 2 images
Image Folder PF-20548/55	Photograph, 2004 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/56	Photographs, 2005-2008 Photographic Prints 6 images
Image Folder PF-20548/57	Photograph, 2006 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/58	Photograph, 2007 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/59	Photographs, 2007-2008 Photographic Prints 6 images DVD included (Get to Anne)
Image Folder PF-20548/60	Photographs, 2010 Photographic Prints 3 images
Image Folder PF-20548/61	Photograph, 2010 Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/62	Photograph, framed, 2000s Photographic Prints 1 image
Image Folder PF-20548/63	Photographs, framed, 2000s Photographic Prints 4 images
Image Folder PF-20548/64	Oversize photograph, 2000s Photographic Prints 1 image
Photograph Album PA-20548/1	Photograph album, 1970s Photographic Prints 23 images
Photograph Album PA-20548/2	Photograph album, 1950s-1990s Photographic Prints 30 images
Photograph Album PA-20548/3	Photograph album, 1960s-1990s Photographic Prints 30 images
Photograph Album PA-20548/4	Photograph album, 1940s-2004 Photographic Prints 24 images
Photograph Album PA-20548/5	Photograph album, 1970s-2004 Photographic Prints 25 images

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Oversize papers (OPF-20548/1-4, XOPF-20548/1)
Videotape (VT-20548/1-2)
Image folders (PF-20548/1-64)
Photograph albums (PA-20548/1-5)
Digital Folders (DF-20548/1-9)

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Collection Number: 20548 Collection Title: Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011

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Box 8

Box 9

Box 10

OPF-20548/2

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OPF-20548/4

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Collection Number: 20548

Collection Title: Hazel Dickens Collection, 1930s-2011