Research Materials-Printed materials, clippings

The George Pullen Jackson collection is divided into five series: Correspondence; Articles; Notes on Songs; Songs; and Phonographs and Tapes.

Series I contains both outgoing and incoming correspondence. Much of it relates to Jackson’s song collecting and arrangements for performances.

In Series II, there are articles by and about Jackson, as well as newspaper clippings and photographs.

The extensive Notes on Songs in Series III include research materials and printed songs. This series also includes a bibliography of Jackson’s publications, and a bibliography of Jackson’s collection of Southern Hymn books now held by the library of The University of California at Los Angeles. In seven boxes of note cards are tune indices, a bibliography of hymn and tune books, a directory of Sacred harp singers, a chronological file of hymn books, 1737-1839, excerpts from song books, and an alphabetical file of song titles.

Series IV consists of songs, song titles, and song fragments. There is an index of song titles and/or first lines and their location within the collection.

In Series V, there are 33 and 1/3 records, reel to reel tapes and cassette tapes of many of the songs Jackson collected. There is an index of the recorded songs and their location with in the collection.