Don't judge a man by the clothes that he wears; Boring for Oil

Recording

Date

1938-08-24

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

music-folkloreheritage

Within

Saint James · Beaver Island

Media

Boring for oil · Don't judge a man by the clothes that he wears

Summary

The Library of Congress catalogues Don’t judge a man by the clothes that he wears; Boring for Oil as a sound recording, AFC 1939/007: AFS 02267 A, and dates it to 24 August 1938. The held item is afc1939007_afs02267a. The catalog credits the performance to Gallagher, Andrew E. and Gallagher, Emerald. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector. That title runs two songs together; they stay one item here because the catalog keeps them as one.

Catalog metadata

• Library of Congress identifier: afc1939007_afs02267a
• Call number: AFC 1939/007: AFS 02267 A
• Catalog date: 1938-08-24
• Catalog contributor labels: Gallagher, Andrew E. (Performer); Gallagher, Emerald (Performer); Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
• Original format: sound recording

The held item.json is the authority for every field above. The contributor labels are the catalog’s own, and this article does not claim that anyone has checked them against the audio.

Provenance and limits

The recording belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings, AFC 1939/007. Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings, 1938 covers all 71 sound recordings and the 108 catalog-card photographs held beside them. What is here is the catalog layer. Song texts and performance attribution beyond the labels are still open.

Added 31 July 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes