Items and Collections

Select "Records and Full text" to search both the metadata and available full text.

Select "Records" to search only metadata for items. (All items have metadata.)

Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. (Not all items have full text)

Use quotation marks to search as a phrase

Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included)

Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude

Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic

You can use parentheses in your complex expressions

Truncation and wildcards are not supported

This Search	Will Find
“Floyd Jillson”	Records that have the name Floyd Jillson
girl scouts +low	Records with the word low that also contain girl and/or scouts
brunswick -stew	Records with the word Brunswick but not the word stew
“African American” AND art	Records containing the phrase “African American” and art
bread AND (butter OR fruit)	Records containing the words bread and butter or bread and fruit

Lomax Collection

Photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song.

More About This Collection

Creator
Lomax, Alan
Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)

Date of Original
1930/1949

Subject
African Americans--Georgia
Musicians--Georgia

People
Tatnall, Bill
McTell, Blind Willie
Quarterman, Wallace
Commeaux, Luneda
Herring, Susie

Location
United States, Georgia, Frederica, 31.22280755, -81.38989675767161
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Texas, Travis County, Austin, 30.26715, -97.74306

Medium
group portraits
photographic portraits

Type
Still Image

Description
The photographs in the Lomax Collection were compiled in the course of the work of members of the Lomax family, including John Avery Lomax, his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, and his son Alan Lomax, to document folk music and folklore. The photographs not only depict performers and the settings in which they were recorded, but serve to illuminate the documentation effort itself. The information about John Avery Lomax and Ruby Terrill Lomax below provides further context for understanding the work of the Lomax family and the photographs that resulted from it.

Metadata URL
https://www.loc.gov/collections/lomax/

Original Collection
Lomax Collection, Library of Congress

Holding Institution
Library of Congress

Rights