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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.
Archival processing of the Martha Nelson Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Collection Overview
| Size | 66 items |
| Abstract | Martha J. Nelson is a former graduate student in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1994 to 1995 she was staff folklorist at the Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center in Hiddenite, N.C. The collection contains fieldwork and interviews conducted by Martha Nelson in Alexander, Caldwell, Iredell, Lenoir, Watauga, Surry and Wilkes counties in western North Carolina from 1994 to 1995. Materials consist of 31 audiocassettes, 1994-1995, covering several subjects, including musical performance, local history, and life narrative. The collection also includes 35 born-digital tape log documents that correspond with the audio recordings found in the collection. Created by Nelson in 2015, the tape logs primarily consist of technical notes and overviews and were originally housed on a DVD-R. |
| Creator | Nelson, Martha J. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Information For Users
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Processing Information
Processed by: Anne Wells, July 2016
Encoded by: Amanda Loeb, July 2015; Anne Wells, July 2016
Archival processing of the Martha Nelson Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
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Biographical Information
Martha J. Nelson is a former graduate student in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1994 to 1995 she was staff folklorist at the Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center in Hiddenite, N.C.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains fieldwork and interviews conducted by Martha Nelson in Alexander, Caldwell, Iredell, Lenoir, Watauga, Surry and Wilkes counties in western North Carolina from 1994 to 1995. Materials consist of 31 audiocassettes, 1994-1995, covering several subjects, including musical performance, local history, and life narrative. The collection also includes 35 born-digital tape log documents (Microsoft Word files) that correspond with the audio recordings found in the collection. Created by Nelson in 2015, the tape logs primarily consist of technical notes and overviews and were originally housed on a DVD-R.
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Martha Nelson Collection, 1994-2015.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Corresponding field notes and tape logs reside in Digital Folder 1 (DF-20091/1)
Titles and descriptions compiled from the SFC database and Nelson's field notes.
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