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Collection Number: 20195

Collection Title: Stephen B. Green Collection, 1920s-1970s

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items)
Abstract The collection of archivist Stephen B. Green contains old-time music song books from the 1920s and 1930s, photomechanical reproductions with images of hillbilly and country music artists, and newsletters, flyers, handbills, event calendars, brochures, ticket stubs from concerts and festivals, and other ephemeral items related to folk and country music. The ephemeral items related to folk music are chiefly from the 1960s and 1970s and include issues of "The Folk Letter" published by the Folksong Society of Greater Boston (Mass.) and event calendars for the Chelsea House Folklore Center in Brattleboro, Vt., and Club 47 Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Green, Stephen B., 1950-
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting this collection.
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 Stephen B. Green Collection #20195, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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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This summary description was created in July 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith, July 2018

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Stephen B. Green is an archivist who has worked with the Western Folklife Center, the Southern Folklife Collection, and the National Folklore Archives Initiative (NFAI), which is managed by the American Folklore Society.

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