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Size | About 425 items |
Abstract | The Southern Folklife Poster collection comprises posters received from various sources and assembled by the SFC. The posters include advertisements for live performances, conventions, festivals, meetings, dances, and exhibits; promotional materials for commercial recordings; reproductions of drawings, engravings, and other works of art; and other assorted ephemera. Highlights include an 1847 poster for Christy's Minstrels; circa 1950 two-color posters for Grand Ole Opry stars Ernest Tubb, Minnie Pearl, Bill Monroe, Eddy Arnold, and Whitey "The Duke of Paducah" Ford; advertisements for Carolina Folk Festivals in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and folk festivals in Berkeley, Calif., New York, N.Y., and Chicago, Ill., in the 1960s; a series of circa 1950 posters for country and bluegrass shows at the Lyric Theatre in Rainelle, W.Va.; a circa 1950 poster for a "Hillbilly and Variety Show" in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia; and a poster advertising the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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.
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The Southern Folklife Poster collection comprises posters received from various sources and assembled by the SFC over the 22 years of its existence. At least one of the posters was included in the John Edwards Memorial Collection which formed the basis of the SFC holdings. The posters include advertisements for live performances, conventions, festivals, meetings, dances, and exhibits; promotional materials for commercial recordings; reproductions of drawings, engravings, and other works of art; and other assorted ephemera. Highlights include an 1847 poster for Christy's Minstrels; circa 1950 two-color posters for Grand Ole Opry stars Ernest Tubb, Minnie Pearl, Bill Monroe, Eddy Arnold, and Whitey "The Duke of Paducah" Ford; advertisements for Carolina Folk Festivals in the late 1940s and early 1950s and folk festivals in Berkeley, Calif., New York, N.Y., and Chicago, Ill., in the 1960s; a series of circa 1950 posters for country and bluegrass shows at the Lyric Theatre in Rainelle, W.Va.; a circa 1950 poster for a "Hillbilly and Variety Show" in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia; and a poster advertising the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. Materials are divided loosely by genre.
Back to TopArrangement: alphabetical.
Posters advertising live appearances or recording releases by specific bluegrass artists.
Arrangement: alphabetical by state.
Posters advertising festivals and performances that focus on the venue or sponsoring entity. Includes an advertisement for classes on banjo and vernacular music at Piedmont Community College.
Arrangement: alphabetical by artist.
Posters advertising live appearances and recording releases by specific blues, rhythm and blues, or soul artists.
Posters advertising festivals, tours, and other live appearances in which the venue or sponsoring entity is the focus of the advertisement.
Items that relate to blues, rhythm and blues, or soul music but are not associated with a specific performer or event. Includes posters promoting a record label, a label sponsored tour, a record store, and a book about African-American vernacular music.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Posters advertising live appearances or recording releases by specific country music performers.
Posters advertising country music festivals and live appearances in which the event, venue, or sponsor is the focus of the advertisment.
Posters on cardboard advertising performances circa 1950 at the Lyric Theatre in Rainelle, W.Va.
Large two-color posters which advertise specific performers with the tag line "Star of the Grand Ole Opry."
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/27 |
Ernest Tubb in Person, Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry #30021, Subseries: "3.4. Country: Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry" XOP-30021/27 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/28 |
Minnie Pearl, Star of the WSM Grand Ole Opry #30021, Subseries: "3.4. Country: Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry" XOP-30021/28 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/29 |
Eddy Arnold #30021, Subseries: "3.4. Country: Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry" XOP-30021/29 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/30 |
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys. Stars of the Grand Ole Opry #30021, Subseries: "3.4. Country: Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry" XOP-30021/30 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/144 |
The Duke of Paducah. Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry #30021, Subseries: "3.4. Country: Star of WSM Grand Ole Opry" XOP-30021/144 |
Bumper stickers that relate in a general way to country music and are not associated with individual performers, events, or corporate entities.
Posters that relate in a general way to country music and not associated with individual performers, events, or corporate entities.
Items advertising live appearances or recording releases by specific artists.
Arrangement: alphabetical by state.
Items advertising live performances, largely festivals, of folk music. The focus of the advertisement is on venue or sponsoring entity.
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/103 |
The Original Christy's Minstrels, New York, 1847 #30021, Subseries: "6.1. Medicine Shows: Artists" XOP-30021/103The color lithograph is a part of the Harry W. Porter Collection (20265). |
Oversize Paper OP-30021/73 |
Carolina Jug Band, 18 July, Pittsboro, N.C #30021, Subseries: "6.1. Medicine Shows: Artists" OP-30021/73 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/100 |
Free Show Tonight, Music, Comedy, Dancing, and Hear the Health Evangelist, October 1980, Bailey, N.C #30021, Subseries: "6.2. Medicine Shows: Events" XOP-30021/100 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/101 |
Free Show Tonite presented by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television #30021, Subseries: "6.3. Medicine Shows: Other" XOP-30021/101 |
Oversize Paper OP-30021/72 |
Sense and Nonsense, J.H. White of Chicago #30021, Subseries: "6.3. Medicine Shows: Other" OP-30021/72 |
Extra Oversize Paper XOP-30021/102 |
Photocopy of a letter sent to Van Patten from James H. White #30021, Subseries: "6.3. Medicine Shows: Other" XOP-30021/102James White was teaching socialism in a road show. |
Items pertaining to Old Time music that focus on particular performers.
Arrangement: Alphabetical by state. Events outside of United States are listed at end.
Items advertising old-time fiddle contests, mountain music festivals, and dances.
Items pertaining to mountain music or culture but not associated with a particular performer or event.
Oversize Paper OP-30021/98 |
The Arkansas Traveler #30021, Subseries: "7.3. Old Time Music, Fiddle Conventions, and Mountain Culture: Other" OP-30021/98Currier and Ives print. |
Oversize Paper OP-30021/99 |
Fiddler drawing #30021, Subseries: "7.3. Old Time Music, Fiddle Conventions, and Mountain Culture: Other" OP-30021/99 |
Oversize Paper OP-30021/100 |
Warning Deadly Poison-Moonshine Liquor #30021, Subseries: "7.3. Old Time Music, Fiddle Conventions, and Mountain Culture: Other" OP-30021/100 |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Posters advertising live appearances or recording releases by specific artists.
Posters advertising performance events featuring more than one performer and in which the venue or the sponsoring entity is the focus of the item.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 103482
Promotional posters for concerts and recordings by contemporary musicians Jason Isbell, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, Greg Hawks, Jim James, Billy F. Gibbons, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Iron & Wine, and Reverand Payton's Big Damn Band.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-30021/1 |
Posters, 2018 #30021, Series: "8A. Rock and Pop, 2018 (Addition of November 2018)" OPF-30021/1 |
Posters promoting conferences, exhibits, concert series, and collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Contains items not directly related to vernacular music.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 103685
Posters promoting musical performers, concerts, and festivals.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-30021/2 |
Carolina Folk Festival, 1940s-1950s #30021, Series: "Miscellaneous Posters, 1940s-2010s (Addition of August 2019)" OPF-30021/2 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-30021/3-10
OPF-30021/3OPF-30021/4OPF-30021/5OPF-30021/6OPF-30021/7OPF-30021/8OPF-30021/9OPF-30021/10 |
Miscellaneous posters, 1960s-2010s #30021, Series: "Miscellaneous Posters, 1940s-2010s (Addition of August 2019)" OPF-30021/3-10 |
Processed by: James McGlothlin, May 2008
Encoded by: James McGlothlin, May 2008
Revisions by: Mary Oliva, November 2016 and December 2016; Nancy Kaiser, January 2017, June 2017, November 2018, January 2020, February 2021; Dawne Howard Lucas, September 2020
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