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[Identification of item], in the Tom Davenport Posters #20025, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• African Americans--North Carolina.
• Country music.
• Davenport, Tom.
• Film posters, American.
• Posters, American.
• Textile industry--North Carolina.
• Textile workers--North Carolina.

Beginning in 1976, documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport began a collaboration with Daniel Patterson and the Folklore Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that resulted in The American Traditional Culture series of documentary films, which included Born For Hard Luck (1976), Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains (1980), A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle (1986), The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1998), and When My Work is Over: The Life and Stories of Louise Anderson (1998).

The collection contains posters advertising documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport's productions A Singing Stream, about African Americans in North Carolina, and It Ain't City Music, about country music in rural America. Also included is a poster advertising Performing Like a Family: Oral Histories of Southern Cotton Mill Life and a reproduction of a page from the 29 July 1938 issue of News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in the form of a poster.