Collection Number: 70036-z

Collection Title: Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012

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Size 800 items
Abstract Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd (1946-), a white blues journalist and photographer for Nighthawk Productions: All the "BLUES" All the Time, has lived in various places, including Garden Grove, Calif., San Diego, Calif., and Roxboro, N.C. The Mike Floyd Collection consists of photographs of blues performers, blues festival posters, small blues publications and printed ephemera, and correspondence. There is also a 1959 yearbook for Izaak Walton Junior High School in Garden Grove, Calif.
Creator Floyd, Mike "Nighthawk", 1946-
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 Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection #70036-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd in February 2020 (Acc. 20200214.4).
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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Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd (1946-), a white blues journalist and photographer for Nighthawk Productions: All the "BLUES" All the Time, has lived in various places, including Garden Grove, Calif., San Diego, Calif., and Roxboro, N.C.

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The Mike Floyd Collection consists of photographs of blues performers, blues festival posters, small blues publications and printed ephemera, and correspondence. There is also a 1959 yearbook for Izaak Walton Junior High School in Garden Grove, Calif.

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800 items.

Processing Note: received as loose papers and arranged into subject and format groupings by the collecting archivist. Photographs have been grouped according to time stamp and subjects whenever possible.

Folder 1-6

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Papers #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." Folder 1-6

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-70036/1-2

OPF-70036/1

OPF-70036/2

Posters #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." OPF-70036/1-2

Image Folder PF-70036/1-3

PF-70036/1

PF-70036/2

PF-70036/3

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1992 #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/1-3

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints; Color 35mm Roll Film

55 images

Blues performer in PF-70036/1 is also in PF-70037/15.
Image Folder PF-70036/4-10

PF-70036/4

PF-70036/5

PF-70036/6

PF-70036/7

PF-70036/8

PF-70036/9

PF-70036/10

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1993 #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/4-10

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints

22 images

Includes B.B. King.
Image Folder PF-70036/11-12

PF-70036/11

PF-70036/12

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 2006-2007 #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/11-12

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints

22 images
Image Folder PF-70036/13

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/13

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints

37 images

Includes Albert King.
Image Folder PF-70036/14

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/14

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints

45 images

Includes Nick Moss.
Image Folder PF-70036/15

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/15

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints; Color 35mm Roll Film

45 images

Same musician depicted in PF-70037/1.
Image Folder PF-70036/19

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/19

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints (Oversize)

16 images
Image Folder PF-70036/20

Photographs: Blues performers onstage, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/20

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints (Oversize)

10 images
Image Folder PF-70036/16

Photographs: Autographed prints of blues performers, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/16

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints

16 images
Image Folder PF-70036/21

Photographs: Autographed prints of blues performers, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/21

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints (Oversize)

30 images
Image Folder PF-70036/22

Photographs: Autographed prints of blues performers, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/22

Black-and-White Photographic Prints; Color Photographic Prints (Oversize)

19images
Image Folder PF-70036/17

Photographs: Promotional images of blues performers, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/17

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

20 images
Image Folder PF-70036/18

Photographs: Not depicting musicians, circa 1990s-2000s #70036-z, Series: "Mike "Nighthawk" Floyd Collection, 1959-circa 2012." PF-70036/18

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

20 images
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Processing Information

This finding aid compiles archival collecting, description, and preservation work performed by Nancy Kaiser, Patrick Cullom, and Steve Weiss, March 2020.

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2020

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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