Collection Number:
20265
Collection Title: Harry W. Porter Collection, 1847, 1940-1941
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Size |
5 items |
Abstract |
The collection of Harry W. Porter of Chapel Hill, N.C., contains a color lithograph
of Christy's Minstrels dated 1847 and four recordings on acetate discs of ballad singer
Charles K. "Tink" Tillett of Wanchese, N.C., and others. The lithograph of the blackface
minstrel group founded by Edwin Pearce Christy (1815-1862) in Buffalo, N.Y., is cross
listed in Southern Folklife Collection Posters (30021). The acetate discs were recorded
by folklorists and song catchers Frank Warner and Anne Warner of New York. Other artists
on the 1940 and 1941 recordings are Mrs. C.K. Tillett, Steve Meekins, [John] Culpepper,
Sally Daniels, and Albert Etheridge. Song titles performed and recorded include "72
Today My Boys," "Somebody's Waiting for Me," and "Bony on the Isle of St. Helena."
Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
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Creator |
Porter, Harry W. |
Curatorial Unit |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language |
English |
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- 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 Harry W. Porter Collection #20265, Southern Folklife
Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
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- Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
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This summary description was created in January 2019 to provide information about
unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith
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Harry W. Porter's grandfather, born in 1809, performed with Edwin Pearce Christy's
Minstrels.
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