Boarding-house song

Summary

Boarding-house song, identified as afc9999005.9660. The held Library of Congress metadata classifies it as a digitized catalog-card photograph and assigns the call number AFS Number: AFS 02303 A03.

Catalog metadata

• Library of Congress identifier: afc9999005.9660
• Call number: AFS Number: AFS 02303 A03
• Catalog date: 1938-08
• Catalog contributor labels: Unidentified (Singer); Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist)
• Original format: photo, print, drawing
• Catalog note: This is a digitized catalog card, not an audio recording.
• Catalog note: Statement of responsibility: Sung by anonymous singer.

The held JSON is the authority for this item’s catalog metadata. The card is represented as a Photograph source entity; its title and contributor labels are not independently expanded into song or biographical claims.

Catalog cross-link

The card’s AFS call-number key matches Fiddle-o-dum; Oh honey take your leg off mine; Torch Lake (Fiddle-o-dum; Oh honey take your leg off mine; Torch Lake). This is a catalog cross-link based on the held call numbers; it does not assert that the card contains additional audio analysis.

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

Provenance and limits

This item belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings (AFC 1939/007). The aggregate article at Alan Lomax Beaver Island catalog-card photographs (1933–1938) describes the full 108-card inventory and its relationship to the 71 held sound-recording records. The catalog card may preserve song, performer, or session information, but those details remain catalog metadata until independently compared with the held recording and other sources.

Open questions

None outstanding for the catalog-level audio cross-link.

See also

• Alan Lomax Beaver Island catalog-card photographs (1933–1938)
• Music and folklore
• Saint James