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Collection Number: 20059

Collection Title: A. Doyle Moore Collection on the Autoharp and C.F. Zimmerman, 1877-1977 and undated

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items)
Abstract The collection of folklorist and art professor A. Doyle Moore (1931-2013) contains materials Moore compiled in the course of his research on the autoharp, a musical instrument patented in 1882, and C. F. Zimmerman, a German immigrant and accordion maker who invented the autoharp and manufactured the instrument in Philadelphia, Pa., at the end of the nineteenth century. Materials include Moore's notes, Zimmerman's manuscript autobiography and a translated transcription, songbooks, sheet music, music charts, instructional manuals for the autoharp from the 1890s, manufacturers' catalogs and advertisements, newspaper clippings, articles, and printed items related to contemporary auto harpist John Kirby Snow.
Creator Moore, A. Doyle (Alvin Doyle), 1931-
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 A. Doyle Moore Collection on the Autoharp and C.F. Zimmerman #20059, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received prior to 1998 (Acc. 103542).
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: May 2019

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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Folklorist and professor of art A. Doyle Moore (1931-2013) taught graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more than thirty years. His scholarship focused on the autoharp, a popular musical instrument patented in 1882 by German immigrant to Philadelphia, Pa., C. F. Zimmerman. In 1963 Moore published an article "The Autoharp: Its Origin and Development from a Popular to a Folk Instrument" in the New York Folklore Quarterly.

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The collection of folklorist and art professor A. Doyle Moore (1931-2013) contains materials Moore compiled in the course of his research on the autoharp, a musical instrument patented in 1882, and C. F. Zimmerman, a German immigrant and accordion maker who invented the autoharp and manufactured the instrument in Philadelphia, Pa., at the end of the nineteenth century. Materials include Moore's notes, Zimmerman's manuscript autobiography and a translated transcription, songbooks, sheet music, music charts, instructional manuals for the autoharp from the 1890s, manufacturers' catalogs and advertisements, newspaper clippings, articles, and printed items related to contemporary auto harpist John Kirby Snow.

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Contents list

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Box 1

Papers

Notes, correspondence, printed items, and writings.
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