When first I went to sea

Photograph

Date: 1938-08
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: music-folkloreheritage
Within: Saint James · Beaver Island

Summary

A catalog card for When first I went to sea, digitized by the Library of Congress as afc9999005.9655 and catalogued under AFS Number: AFS 02301 B; AFS Number: AFS 02302 A01. Its call number names two disc sides; the first is AFS 02301, side B. The catalog dates it to August 1938.

Catalog metadata

Library of Congress identifier: afc9999005.9655
Call number: AFS Number: AFS 02301 B; AFS Number: AFS 02302 A01
Catalog date: 1938-08
Catalog contributor labels: Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Gallagher, Andrew E. (Mary Ann) (Singer)
Original format: photo, print, drawing
Catalog note: This is a digitized catalog card, not an audio recording.
Catalog note: Statement of responsibility: Sung by Andrew E. (Mary Ann) 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.

Catalog cross-link

The card’s AFS keys answer to two held recordings: When first I went to sea (When first I went to sea) and When first I went to sea; Protestant cow (When first I went to sea; Protestant cow). That is call-number arithmetic, and nothing on the card has been compared with the audio.

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

Does the card’s own hand record anything the catalog transcription left out?

Sources

Library of Congress, 'When first I went to sea', AFS Number: AFS 02301 B; AFS Number: AFS 02302 A01, digitized catalog-card photograph, 1938-08.
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 · afc9999005.9655 · item

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “When first I went to sea”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-card-afc9999005-9655/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'When first I went to sea', AFS Number: AFS 02301 B; AFS Number: AFS 02302 A01, digitized catalog-card photograph, 1938-08..

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