- Date
- 1938-08-27
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folkloreheritage
- Within
- Saint James · Beaver Island
- Media
- Tommy Boyle
Summary
The Library of Congress catalogues Tommy Boyle as a sound recording, AFC
1939/007: AFS 02289 A, and dates it to 27 August 1938. The held item is
afc1939007_afs02289a. The catalog credits the performance to McDonough,
Patrick, 1862-1947. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector.
Catalog metadata
- Library of Congress identifier:
afc1939007_afs02289a - Call number:
AFC 1939/007: AFS 02289 A - Catalog date: 1938-08-27
- Catalog contributor labels: McDonough, Patrick, 1862-1947 (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.
See also
Sources
- Held item.json identifies this record as a sound recording and preserves its catalog title, date, location, call number and contributor labels.audio · lomax_michigan_1938_beaver_island · afc1939007_afs02289a · item
Added 31 July 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Tommy Boyle”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-afc1939007-afs02289a/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'Tommy Boyle', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02289 A, recorded 1938-08-27..
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