Folk music -- Kentucky.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs
Series
Identifier: Series 3
Scope and Contents
This series includes two photographs which include Talitha McClure—Berea Normal School graduation (1916), College library staff (c.1915).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1980
Talitha Ethel Powell McClure Ballad Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0034 SAA 032
Abstract
Talitha Ethel McClure (nee Powell) compiled ballad texts in 1915 by for a contest initiated by Berea College President, William G. Frost. McClure received the prize for collecting the most lyrics. Her mother, Talitha Powell (nee Davis), provided ballad texts to British collector, Cecil Sharp, during a visit to Berea in 1917.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1980