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The one-legged Indian

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TypePhotograph
Date1938-08
WithinSaint James · Beaver Island
ErasModern era
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Photograph
Date
1938-08
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
music-folkloreheritage
Within
Saint James · Beaver Island

Summary

A catalog card for The one-legged Indian, digitized by the Library of Congress as afc9999005.9563 and catalogued under AFS Number: AFS 02270 A02. It indexes AFS 02270, side A, one of two held cards for that side. The catalog dates it to August 1938.

Catalog metadata

  • Library of Congress identifier: afc9999005.9563
  • Call number: AFS Number: AFS 02270 A02
  • Catalog date: 1938-08
  • Catalog contributor labels: Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Gallagher, Dominick (Speaker)
  • Original format: photo, print, drawing
  • Catalog note: This is a digitized catalog card, not an audio recording.
  • Catalog note: Statement of responsibility: Spoken by Dominick Gallagher.

The held item.json is the authority for every field above. The card is a Photograph source entity, and its title and contributor labels stay the catalog’s rather than becoming song or biographical claims here.

No held sound recording answers to this card’s AFS key. The card stays in the graph with no link rather than a guessed one.

A02 identifies this card as a component, rather than evidence that an ordinary A/B recording pair was collected. The card is linked to Dominick Gallagher only as catalog evidence for the speaker label; it does not allocate the card’s spoken content to a biography or connect it to an unheld audio item.

The catalog’s image URL is the digitized card image.

Provenance and limits

The card belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings, AFC 1939/007. Alan Lomax Beaver Island catalog-card photographs, 1933–1938 covers all 108 cards and the 71 held sound recordings beside them. What the card records is catalog metadata until someone sets it against the recording.

Open questions

  • Which recording does this card index? Nothing in the held 71-item export carries its AFS key.

A direct Library of Congress item lookup was not available to this retrieval pass, so the lack of a local match is not evidence that no sound recording exists.

See also

Sources

  1. Held item.json identifies this item as a still image in the Traditional Music and Spoken Word Card Catalog and preserves its title, date, call number, contributor labels and LOC identifier.
    audio · lomax_michigan_1938_beaver_island · afc9999005.9563 · item

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The one-legged Indian”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-card-afc9999005-9563/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'The one-legged Indian', AFS Number: AFS 02270 A02, digitized catalog-card photograph, 1938-08..

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