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Recording

The wreck of the Marold; Sweet Raquale; The White Holland handkerchief

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TypeRecording

Date1938-08-28

WithinSaint James · Beaver Island

ErasModern era

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Summary
Catalog metadata
Provenance and limits
See also
Sources

Photograph: The wreck of the Merold, 1938-08. — The wreck of the Merold Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); McCanley, Edward (Singer)

Recording

Date: 1938-08-28
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: music-folkloreheritage
Within: Saint James · Beaver Island
Media: Sweet Raquale · The white Holland handkerchief · The wreck of the Merold

Summary

The Library of Congress catalogues The wreck of the Marold; Sweet Raquale; The White Holland handkerchief as a sound recording, AFC 1939/007: AFS 02294 A, and dates it to 28 August 1938. The held item is afc1939007_afs02294a. The catalog credits the performance to Green, John W., 1871-1963 and McCauley, Edward. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector. That title runs three songs together; they stay one item here because the catalog keeps them as one.

Catalog metadata

Library of Congress identifier: afc1939007_afs02294a
Call number: AFC 1939/007: AFS 02294 A
Catalog date: 1938-08-28
Catalog contributor labels: Green, John W., 1871-1963 (Performer); McCauley, Edward (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

Library of Congress, 'The wreck of the Marold; Sweet Raquale; The White Holland handkerchief', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02294 A, recorded 1938-08-28.
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_afs02294a · item

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The wreck of the Marold; Sweet Raquale; The White Holland handkerchief”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-afc1939007-afs02294a/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'The wreck of the Marold; Sweet Raquale; The White Holland handkerchief', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02294 A, recorded 1938-08-28..

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