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Lomax and Alan Lomax created nearly 500 hours of disc recordings over the next 10 years, a blip in the 220-year history of the Library of Congress, but so rich in content and context as to warrant the extended treatment given by countless published recordings and writings. Among this body of work are found discs from nearly every state from the Gulf Coast to New England. During this decade, the Library purchased disc recorders from a string of manufacturers. While data about the audio content has long been accessible in numerous forms, information about the machines--their specifications, their use, their durability--lies in the archive's administrative correspondence. This body of material has just become available online as the John A Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers. Online access of these papers affords researchers granular detail, such as the fact that on Alan's 1938 field trip to Indiana, he packed \"one-hundred red shank playing needles.\" This paper dives into the newly-accessible written material and underpins it with an understanding of the gear. The result provides all-important context that precedes real understanding of any archives and, in practical terms, continues to make the Lomax corpus relevant.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe instantaneous disc era at the Library of Congress began with a splash in the hot Southern summer of 1933 when the honorary curator of the Archive of American Folk Song and his son made the first of some 3000 recordings. John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax created nearly 500 hours of disc recordings over the next 10 years, a blip in the 220-year history of the Library of Congress, but so rich in content and context as to warrant the extended treatment given by countless published recordings and writings. Among this body of work are found discs from nearly every state from the Gulf Coast to New England. During this decade, the Library purchased disc recorders from a string of manufacturers. While data about the audio content has long been accessible in numerous forms, information about the machines--their specifications, their use, their durability--lies in the archive's administrative correspondence. This body of material has just become available online as the John A Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers. Online access of these papers affords researchers granular detail, such as the fact that on Alan's 1938 field trip to Indiana, he packed \"one-hundred red shank playing needles.\" This paper dives into the newly-accessible written material and underpins it with an understanding of the gear. 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