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The American Songster, 1907

 Item — Artifact: 37
Identifier: spc-mss1062-s10-i0018
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The Book series (18 items, 1.791 linear feet) consists of books collected by Dom Flemons. The series is sorted into two boxes, one box of more recent publication dating from 1977 to 2022, and one box containing the two American Songster books from 1907. The books in this series are about bluegrass, blues, and soul music, and several of them are songbooks.

Dates: 1907
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives / Dom Flemons American Songster Collection / Books and Magazines

The American Songster, 1907

 Item — Artifact: 37
Identifier: spc-mss1062-s10-i0019
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The Book series (18 items, 1.791 linear feet) consists of books collected by Dom Flemons. The series is sorted into two boxes, one box of more recent publication dating from 1977 to 2022, and one box containing the two American Songster books from 1907. The books in this series are about bluegrass, blues, and soul music, and several of them are songbooks.

Dates: 1907
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives / Dom Flemons American Songster Collection / Books and Magazines

[Marriage Broom Light Wood], 2015

 Item — Artifact: 37
Identifier: spc-mss1062-s17-i0009
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Folk Art and Fan Art series (10 items, 5.29 linear feet) consists of folk art and fan art made for and about The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Dom Flemons, including brooms created by Dom and Vania for a wedding ceremony using a traditional method. The series is organized mainly by material type. This series contains a sculpture, a jug, a stamp, a painting, garments, a quilt, a painted banjo, and Flemons and his wife Vania Kinard’s marriage brooms. Flemons received some of this art from...
Dates: 2015
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives / Dom Flemons American Songster Collection / Folk Art and Fan Art

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