Inventory of the Tom Davenport Posters, 1973-1987

Collection Number 20025


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection Information


Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator
Davenport, Tom.
Title
Tom Davenport Papers, 1973-1987
Call Number
20025
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
Items: 5
Abstract
Beginning in 1976, documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport and Davenport Films 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.
The collection contains posters advertising 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.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Acquisitions Information
Source unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by: James McGlothlin, May 2008
Encoded by: James McGlothlin, May 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Tom Davenport Posters #20025, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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

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).

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Collection Overview

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.


Detailed Description of the Collection

Posters.
5 items.
Oversize Paper XOP-20025/1
News and Observer page reproduction, 29 July 1938
Oversize Paper XOP-20025/2
A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle, directed by Tom Davenport, Allen Tullos, and Dan Patterson
Oversize Paper OP-20025/1
A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, N.C., 13 July 1989
Oversize Paper OP-20025/2
It Ain't City Music: A Film by Tom Davenport, Tom Davenport Films, Delaplane, Va.
Oversize Paper OP-20025/3
Performing Like a Family: Oral Histories of Southern Cotton Mill Life

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