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Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings and catalogue cards (1938)afc9999005-9562

The Protestant minister

Photograph: The Protestant minister, 1938-08.

Lomax 1938 Beaver Island recording/card: The Protestant minister. LOC item https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.9562/.

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A black-and-white image shows a typed catalogue card on a light background. The card has a reference number at upper left, several lines of centered text, and a dark circular mark near the lower center.

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Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Gallagher, Dominick (Speaker)

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Subjects and keywords

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Transcribed from the object itself.

2270
A1
The Protestant minister
Spoken by Dominick Gallagher.
St. James, Beaver Island, Mich.,
Aug., 1938.

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The catalogue record identifies the item as part of Alan Lomax's 1938 field recordings and catalogue cards, held by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. It lists Alan Lomax as recordist and Dominick Gallagher as speaker.

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Public domain (Library of Congress; no known restrictions)

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Provenance

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Library of Congress, American Folklife Center
Collection
Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings and catalogue cards (1938)
Named on the record
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Gallagher, Dominick (Speaker)
Date
1938-08
Original
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/afc/afc9999005-9562/0620.jp2
Copy taken
2026-07-31
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Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist); Gallagher, Dominick (Speaker). “The Protestant minister”. 1938-08. Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/afc9999005-9562/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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