Joseph S. Hall collection, 1937-1987Call Number: AFC 1987/035
Collection of field recordings, photographs, and manuscripts documenting speech, folktales, local history, customs, beliefs, songs, ballads, hymns, fiddle tunes, and more recorded between 1937 and 1941 (discs) and 1956-1967 (tapes) by Joseph S. Hall in the Great Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee and North Carolina. Discs were recorded with the assistance of Columbia University and the National Park Service. Archive also has 5 reels microfilm of Hall's fieldnotes, transcribed texts, and an inventory. Includes an unbound draft of Hall's Dictionary of Smoky Mountain Speech; photographs, some negatives, slides, drawings, most of them used in Hall's book, Yarns and Tales from the Great Smokies, 1978. Accompanying documentation consists of large envelopes and sheets (used in printing the book), placed in large manuscript box labeled "Photo Documentation."