| Woody Guthrie Archives
MANUSCRIPTS
1935-1958 (1940-1958, bulk)
4.6 linear feet (11 boxes)
Scope and Content: Books,
articles, poems, essays, notes, aphorisms and liner notes covering
the activities and interests of Woody Guthrie. The manuscripts
include autobiographical material; political writings; musings on
love, sex, relationships and family; material on Guthrie's Merchant
Marine service during World War II; and writings about music. Published
versions of manuscripts are not included.
Arrangement note: Manuscripts are arranged chronologically
(Manuscripts-1); undated items are arranged alphabetically
(Manuscripts-2).
Guthrie's completed and unfinished books constitute the major exceptions
to strict chronological arrangement. Segments of each book
have been grouped together, even if written over a lengthy period
of time. Those books are:
I Want To Be Right (Box
1, Folders 4-9)
Bound for Glory and its
earlier version, Boomchasers
(Box 1, Folder 15 through
Box 3, Folder 18)
Silver Mine (originally
part of Bound for Glory and precursor of
Seeds of Man) [Box
3, Folders 19-21]
House of Earth (Box 4,
Folders 39-42)
Seeds of Man and its
earlier versions, Study Butte and Foolish Gold
(Box 4, Folder 61 through
Box 6, Folder 24)
Ship Story (Box 10, Folders
1-40).
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| BOX 1 |
| 01 |
Alonzo M. Zilch's own collection of original songs
and ballads |
April 1935 |
| 02 |
eight items |
1940; 1940[?] |
| 03.1 |
The Railroad Cricket |
January 30, 1941 |
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The Singing Cricket |
February 2, 1941 |
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Dialogue -- Sue and Teeny |
March 3, 1941 |
| 03.2 |
"Every single human being..."; "Today is lonesome and sad..." |
1941[?] |
| Folders 04-09: |
I Want To Be Right |
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| 04 |
Chapters 1,2; unnumbered chapter |
March 11, 1941 |
| 05 |
pp. 16-70 |
c. 1941-43 |
| 06 |
pp. 71-121 |
c. 1941-43 |
| 07 |
pp. 122-170 |
c. 1941-43 |
| 08 |
Sarah Butcher section (Version 1) |
c. 1941-43 |
| 09 |
Sarah Butcher section (Version 2) |
c. 1941-43 |
| 10 |
Jump The Frog |
Spring 1941 |
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The Place Thats Known as Tara |
July 10, 1941 |
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Almanacs Almanac: With the NMU Boys in Cleveland |
1941 |
| 11 |
Hard Hitting songs for Hard Hit People |
c. 1941 |
| 12 |
Union Show Troup |
c. 1941 |
| 13 |
Woody Says (four items) |
c. 1941 |
| 14.1 |
Anybody |
March 13, 1942 |
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The Wide Awakes |
March 16, 1942 |
| 14.2 |
Motor Idling |
April 17, 1942 |
| 14.3 |
five items |
July, Oct.1942;1942[?] |
Box 1, Folder 15 -
Box 3, Folder 18
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Boomchasers, Bound for Glory |
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| 15-22 |
Boomchasers |
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| 15 |
Boom Chasers - A synopsis of the Book |
1940[?] |
| 16 |
Boomchasers - portions of Ch. 1; Ch. 2 |
c. 1942 |
| 17 |
Boom Chasers - Chapter 1 (pp. 1-18) |
c. 1942 |
| 18 |
Boom Chasers - Chapter 1 (pp. 1-25) |
c. 1942 |
| 19 |
Extry Selects (pp. 35-42) |
c. 1942 |
| 20 |
The London House (pp. 29-75, 124) |
c. 1942 |
| 21 |
The Boomchasers - Ch. 1: Soldiers In The Dust, pp. 2-13 |
c. 1942 |
| 22 |
The Boomchasers - notes and assorted pages |
c. 1942 |
Box 1, Folder 23-
Box 2, Folder 05 |
Bound for Glory (carbon 1) |
c. 1942 |
| 23 |
Chapter I |
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| 24 |
Chapter 2 |
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| 25 |
Chapter 3 |
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| 26 |
Cyclone and London House |
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| 27 |
Oil Comes to Okemah |
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| 28 |
Big Jim |
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| 29 |
Ganghouse War |
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| 30 |
Oklahoma City |
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| 31 |
Return to Okemah |
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| 32 |
Sick in the Ganghouse |
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| 33 |
Pampa |
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| 34 |
Trouble Busting |
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| BOX 2 |
| 01 |
Off to California |
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| 02 |
Dam Job |
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| 03 |
Skid Row |
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| 04 |
Stormy Night |
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| 05 |
Soldiers In The Dust |
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| Folders 06-24: |
Bound for Glory (carbon 2) |
c. 1942 |
| 06 |
Chapter 1 |
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| 07 |
Chapter 2, pp. 1-6 |
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| 08 |
remainder of Chapter 2 |
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| 09 |
Chapter 2, various pages |
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| 10 |
Chapter 3 |
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| 11 |
Cyclone and London House |
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| 12 |
Oil Comes to Okemah |
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| 13 |
Big Jim |
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| 14 |
Ganghouse War |
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| 15 |
Oklahoma City |
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| 16 |
Return to Okemah |
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| 17 |
Sick in the Ganghouse |
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| 18 |
Pampa |
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| 19 |
Trouble Busting |
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| 20 |
Off to California |
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| 21 |
Dam Job |
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| 22 |
Skid Row |
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| 23 |
Stormy Night |
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| 24 |
Soldiers In The Dust |
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| 25 |
Bound for Glory - It's A Long Ways
Back To The U.S.A. |
c. 1942 |
| 26 |
Bound for Glory - Assorted pages |
c. 1942 |
| 27 |
Bound for Glory - notes and assorted pages |
c. 1942 |
| BOX 3 |
| 01 |
Bound for Glory - Assorted pages April 17, 1942 ; |
c. 1942 |
| 02-18 |
Bound for Glory - "Copy for the Press" |
Nov. 30, 1942 |
| 02 |
Title page, contents |
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| 03 |
Chapter I - Soldiers in the Dust |
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| 04 |
Chapter II - Empty Snuff Cans |
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| 05 |
Chapter V - Mr. Cyclone |
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| 06 |
Chapter VI - Boomchasers |
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| 07 |
Chapter VII - Cain't No Gang Whip Us Now |
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| 08 |
Chapter VIII - Fire Extinguishers |
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| 09 |
Chapter IX - A Fast-Running Train Whistles Down |
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| 10 |
Chapter X - The Junking Sack |
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| 11 |
Chapter XI - Boy in Search of Something |
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| 12 |
Chapter XII - Trouble Busting |
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| 13 |
Chapters XIII, XIV - Off to California ; The House on the Hill |
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| 14 |
Chapter XV - The Telegram That Never Came |
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| 15 |
Chapter XVI - Stormy Night |
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| 16 |
Chapter XVII - Extry Selects |
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| 17 |
Chapter XVIII - Crossroads |
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| 18 |
Chapter XIX - Train Bound for Glory |
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| *Note: Woody Guthrie Artwork Series 15, #16 includes a listing of Bound for Glory |
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"Chapters in Order" attached to drawing of "Railroad Pete" |
(c. 1942) |
| Folders 19-21: |
Silver Mine |
c. 1942 |
| 19 |
pp. 1-15 |
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| 20 |
pp. 1-80 |
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| 21 |
pp. 81-160 |
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| 22 |
War Songs And Work Songs |
c. 1942 |
| 23 |
World Hope |
c. 1942 |
| 24 |
"Your words of wisdom" |
June 10, 1943 |
| BOX 4 |
| 01 |
five items |
Nov. 3-29, 1943 |
| 02 |
Life¹s Other Side - Chapter 2 |
1943[?] |
| 03 |
seven items |
c. 1943-1944 |
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(re: Merchant Marine, sea) |
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| 04 |
Words On These Waters |
February 27, 1944 |
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I Go Singing Of Bellies |
March 11, 1944 |
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Gunners Card Game |
March 21, 1944 |
| 05 |
re "Songs by Leadbelly" |
April 16, 1944 |
| 06 |
re Merchant Marine, D-Day |
June 17, 1944 |
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re Merchant Marine living, working conditions |
June 18, 1944 |
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Barn Loft |
June 21, 1944 [?] |
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re folk music, WWII, politics |
July 18, 1944 |
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Postage Stamp |
July 19, 1944 |
| 07 |
Folk Music |
July 25, 1944 |
| 08 |
Songs For Victory: music for political action |
August 8, 1944 |
| 09 |
Singing Troopship |
August 30, 1944 |
| 10 |
Train Smoke |
September 26, 1944 |
| 11 |
I've Got to Write A Wild Axe Handle Blues |
October 1944 |
| 12 |
I Went By Myself; Pictures |
October 1944 |
| 13 |
Cathy and Dinny |
November 27, 1944 |
| 14 |
WNEW - 1st Program |
December 3, 1944 |
| 15 |
Write It Right |
December 14, 1944 |
| 16 |
eight items |
1944 |
| 17 |
Asch Recordings - liner notes[?] |
1944[?] |
| 18 |
Britain 's Hardwall |
c. 1944 |
| 19 |
Folksay Album #1 |
c. 1944 |
| 20 |
Folksay: Asch Album Number 432 |
c. 1944 |
| 21 |
re the sea |
c. 1944 |
| 22.1 |
three items |
c. 1944 |
| 22.2 |
Ten Songs |
c. 1944-45 |
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[Ship Story -- see Box 10 , Folders 1-40 c. 1944-47] |
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| 23.1 |
six items |
1945; c. 1945 |
| 23.2 |
Cavalcade of American Song; WWII |
(c. 1942-45) |
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"The main thing is fun." |
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| 24 |
seven items |
March 13-17, 1946 |
| 25 |
Peoples Songs and Its People |
March 19, 1946 |
| 26 |
On Ballad Singers |
March 20, 1946 |
| 27 |
six items |
March 25-31, 1946 |
| 28 |
fifteen items |
April - May, 1946 |
| 29 |
Cathy Puts Sandman To Sleep |
June 1946 |
| 30 |
Stackabones |
June 1946 |
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(with related correspondence) July-August 1946 |
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| 31 |
Songs, People, Papers ... |
September 1, 1946 |
| 32 |
five items |
Sept - Nov., 1946 |
| 33 |
Child Sitting |
Dec. 14, 1946 |
| 34 |
Me and Ingrid |
Dec, 30, 1946 |
| 35 |
Big Papers Dig Own Graves |
1946 |
| 36 |
Hoodis |
1946 |
| 37 |
I Married A Dancer |
1946 |
| 38.1 |
My People |
1946 |
| 38.2 |
love story re dancer |
c. 1946 |
| Folders 39-42: |
House of Earth |
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| 39 |
scene from novel |
October 3, 1946 |
| 40 |
Chapter One - Termites |
January 10, 1947 |
| 41 |
original folder containing Chapter One - Termites |
January 10, 1947 |
| 42 |
House of Earth - final[?] version
(item received from the Irving Lerner Estate) |
c. 1947 |
| 43 |
The Reckless Observer |
January 1, 1947 |
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loveless [.....] |
January 6, 1947 |
| 44 |
The Bowery and Me |
January 14, 1947 |
| 45 |
George Thomson's "Marxism and Poetry" |
c. January 1947 |
| 46 |
Singing High Balladree |
January 23, 1947 |
| 47 |
Passports And Me |
January 25, 1947 |
| 48 |
Rozzy The Sea Girl |
January 26, 1947 |
| 49 |
My Best Songs |
February 6, 1947 |
| 50 |
seven items |
Feb. 8- March 3, 1947 |
| 51 |
Midnite Special |
March 4, 1947 |
| 52 |
eight items |
March 5-14, 1947 |
| 53 |
More Than Places; All of You |
March 31, 1947 |
| 54 |
Seaman's Fone Call |
March 21, 1947 |
| 55 |
thirty items |
May - June 23, 1947 |
| 56.1 |
Three Ballads by Abraham Lincoln |
June 24, 1947 |
| 56.2 |
re: Cathy Guthrie, Phelps-Dodge strike |
June 29, 1947 |
| 56.3 |
Mike Quin
Here's A Tale A Feller Told Me (see also August 31, 1947 Manuscripts 2, Box 1 , Folder 14, Item 1) |
August 17, 1947 |
| 57 |
"You can never judge honest labour people by how pretty or by how ugly they look." |
December 27, 1947 |
| 58 |
And More Talk |
1947 |
| 59 |
Cathy Ann Guthrie |
1947 |
| 60 |
three items |
1947 |
| Box 4 |
Box Folder 61 -
Box 6, Folder 23 |
Foolish Gold, Study Butte, Seeds of Man |
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| 61 |
Foolish Gold |
c. 1947-48 |
| BOX 5 |
| 01 - 26 |
Study Butte/Seeds of Man: typescript (with editor's markings) |
c. 1947-48, 1953 |
| 01 |
Drip Gas, pp. 1-64 |
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| 02 |
Squawling Fiddle, pp. 47-131 |
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| 03 |
Last Supper, pp. 132-211 |
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| 04 |
Rocky Run, pp. 212-308 |
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| 05 |
Windy Road, pp. 309-323 |
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| 06 |
Ranch Of The Sun, pp. 324-412 |
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| 07 |
Old Man Rio , pp. 450-457 |
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| 08 |
Wine Bucket Girl, pp. 458-473 |
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| 09 |
The Study Butte , pp. 474-485 |
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| 10 |
Mud & Sticks, pp. 486-493 |
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| 11 |
Wine Bucket Girl, pp. 458-473 (carbon copy) |
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| 12 |
The Study Butte , pp. 474-485 (carbon copy) |
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| 13 |
Mud & Sticks, pp. 486-500 (carbon copy) |
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| 14 |
Leather Books, pp. 501-516 |
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| 15 |
High Rocks, pp, 517-536 |
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| 16 |
Moon Walking, pp. 537-556 |
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| 17 |
Salty Peter, pp. 557-594 |
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| 18 |
Big New Boss, pp. 595-637 |
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| 19 |
Foolish Gold, pp. 638-675 |
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| 20 |
Tight Blanket, pp. 676-699 |
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| 21 |
Long Haul, pp. 700-726 |
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| 22 |
Big Visit, pp. 727-748 |
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| 23 |
Thorny Days, pp. 749-770 |
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| 24 |
Thirsty Nights, pp. 771-801 |
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| 25 |
Solid Meat, pp. 802-825 |
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| 26 |
Laffing Nuggets, pp. 826-843 |
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Box 5, Folder 27 -
Box 6, Folder 02 |
Study Butte/Seeds of Man: photocopy, with editor's markings |
1953 |
| 27 |
Chapter 1 - Drip Gas, p. 1; pp. 1-64 |
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| BOX 6 |
| 01 |
Chapter 2 - Detour (1 of 2), pp. 65 - 134 |
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| 02 |
Chapter 2 - Detour (2 of 2), pp. 134A-182 |
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| 03-24 |
Study Butte/Seeds of Man: carbon copy |
c. 1947-48, 1953 |
| 03 |
Drip Gas, pp. 1-43 |
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| 04 |
Squawling Fiddle, pp. 43-131 |
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| 05 |
Last Supper, pp. 133-208 |
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| 06 |
Rocky Run, pp. 212-308 |
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| 07 |
Windy Road, pp. 309-324 |
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| 08 |
Ranch Of The Sun, pp. 325-448 |
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| 09 |
Old Man Rio , pp. 449-456
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(see Box 5 , Folders 11-13 for pp. 458-493) |
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| 10 |
Mud & Sticks, pp. 494-500 |
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| 11 |
Leather Books, pp. 501-516 |
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| 12 |
High Rocks, pp, 517-536 |
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| 13 |
Moon Walking, pp. 537-556 |
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| 14 |
Salt Peter, pp. 557-594 |
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| 15 |
Big New Boss, pp. 595-637 |
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| 16 |
Foolish Gold, pp. 638-675 |
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| 17 |
Tight Blanket, pp. 676-699 |
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| 18 |
Long Haul, pp. 700-726 |
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| 19 |
Big Visit, pp. 727-748 |
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| 20 |
Thorny Days, pp. 749-770 |
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| 21 |
Thirsty Nights, pp. 771-801 |
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| 22 |
Solid Meat, pp. 802-825 |
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| 23 |
Laffing Nuggets, pp. 826-843 |
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| 24 |
Study Butte , pp. 1-3 c. 1947-48, 1953 |
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The following items in Box 3 of Woody Guthrie's outgoing correspondence
(Correspondence-1) are written on the backs of pages from Study Butte:
Folder Recipient and date Study Butte chapter and pages |
| 03 |
Mazia, May 6, 1952 Rocky Run, pp. 244-247
Mazia, May 6, 1952 Rocky Run, pp. 233-234 |
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| 04 |
(last item) Mazia, 1952[?] Last Supper, pp. 209-211 |
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| 24 |
Seegers, c. 1952-53 Squawling Fiddle, p. 120 |
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| BOX 7 |
| 01 |
"If all of the good things Cathy done..." |
January 15, 1948 |
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Busting Bubbles |
January 17, 1948 |
| 02 |
Comics That Ain't Funny |
January 17, 1948 |
| 03 |
It's Not Because |
January 19, 1948 |
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Ranian's Finbow: A Letter to Pearly Lang. |
January 25, 1948 |
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Baldness |
January 24, 1948 |
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Nite of Love |
January 26, 1948 |
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Pot of Life |
January 29, 1948 |
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[oversize box The Seed of Man] |
January 28,1948 |
| 03.1 |
Love Letters |
February 25, 1948 |
| 04 |
High Balladry |
February 1948 |
| 05 |
About Marjorie Mazia (Guthrie) (2 versions) |
c. February 1948 |
| 06 |
How To Make Up A Balladsong And Get Away With It |
March 8, 1948 |
| 07 |
twenty-one items |
March 15-26, 1948 |
| 08 |
forty-two items |
Mar. 30 - May 31, 1948 |
| 09 |
three items |
June 1-7, 1948 |
| 10 |
Us Kids |
June 8, 1948 |
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(with related correspondence) |
(July 13, 1948) |
| 11 |
fifteen items |
June 9-17, 1948 |
| 12 |
eleven items |
July 7-24, 1948 |
| 13 |
Songs To Grow On |
July, August 1948 |
| 14 |
Ditzy Greenblatt pieces (four pieces by "Ditzy Greenblatt") |
July, August 1948 |
| 15 |
eighteen items |
August-October 1948 |
| 16 |
six items |
1948 |
| 17 |
My Ideas About the Use of Peoples Songs in the Progressive Party Movement to Elect Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor |
January 9, 11, 1949 |
| 18 |
My Ideas About the Use of Peoples Songs in the Progressive Party Movement to Elect Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor
(ms. submitted to Peoples Songs, with editors' note)
[item sent by Pete Seeger to Harold Leventhal, 1990] |
January 9, 11, 1949 |
| 19 |
fourteen items |
Jan. 11 - May 9, 1949 |
| 20 |
Presidents For Peaceful Peace |
May 11, 1949 |
| 21 |
Dirty Dishes |
May 16, 1949 |
| 22 |
The Maddox Brothers & Rose |
May 20, 1949 |
| 23.1 |
twenty-seven items |
May 24 - June 1949 |
| 23.2 |
Ethnic Folkway Library -- record reviews |
May - June 1949 |
| 24 |
The People Of The United States vs. Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie in regard to: Obscene Letters mailed to: Mary Ruth Crissman, Orland , California - A Statement Of The Facts |
July 6, 1949 |
| 25 |
re "old hurried notes" |
July 19, 1949 |
| 26 |
To Emma Lazarus [oversize box My Man; Out of Work July 31, 1949] |
July 22, 1949 |
| 27 |
Lock Jaw |
July 31, 1949 |
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New London Lady |
August 12, 1949 |
| 28 |
Cowboy Ranch
(with cover letter) (November 24, 1949) |
September 19, 1949 |
| 29 |
Little Thoughts About Atoms |
September 1949 |
| 30 |
Day Lost |
1949 |
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"These are all things I don't know..." |
1949 |
| 31 |
four items |
1950 |
| 32 |
three items |
1951 |
| 33 |
five items |
February - March 1952 |
| 34 |
Funny Money |
c. April 14, 1952 |
| 35 |
Damp Eyes |
April 17, 1952 |
| 36 |
Seeds of Man |
April 17, 1952 |
| 37 |
Some More Alcohol |
April 26, 1952 |
| 38 |
Alcohol And Me And All of You Around Okemah |
April 1952 |
| 39 |
Kings County Hospital writings |
July 1952 |
| Box 7, Folder 40 - Box 8, Folder 06 |
Brooklyn State Hospital manuscripts |
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| 40 - 41 |
Brooklyn State Hospital manuscripts |
July - August 1952 |
| 42 |
Brooklyn State Hospital manuscripts |
August 1952 |
| 43 |
Brooklyn State Hospital manuscripts |
August 1952 |
| BOX 8 |
| 01 - 02 |
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Aug. - Sept. 1952 |
| 03 |
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Aug. - Sept. 1952 |
| 04 |
"Dear Woody, Dear Marjorie: Dear Tony:" (pp. 1-124) |
September 1952 |
| 05 |
"Dear Woody, Dear Marjorie: Dear Tony:" (pp. 125-248) |
September 1952 |
| 06 |
"Earth spins below us ..." |
1952 |
| 07 |
Tweedle Atcheson & Tweedle Eden |
November 1952 |
| 08 |
Why I Dont & Never Can Like Old NYC Anymore |
February 1953 |
| 09 |
Florida manuscripts (thirteen items) |
March - June 1953 |
| 10 |
Topanga Canyon manuscripts (five items) |
August - October 1953 |
| 11 |
Arlo's Whale |
1953 |
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Documentary: French Canadian |
1953 |
| Folders 12 - 31: |
Scripts (1954) |
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| 12 |
Buffalo Skinners |
January 1954 |
| 13 |
Ranger's Command |
January 1954 |
| 14 |
Harriet Tubman |
mid-March 1954 |
| 15 |
Furguson Brothers Killing |
March 1954 |
| 16 |
Skybally |
1954 |
| Folders 17-30: |
scripts received from Will Geer |
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| 17 |
Bottom Doller |
January 23, 1954 |
| 18 |
Big Super |
January 1954 |
| 19 |
Billy The Kid |
January 1954 |
| 20 |
Gypsy Davy |
January 1954 |
| 21 |
My Whore |
February 12, 1954 |
| 22 |
Tom Joad |
February 14, 1954 |
| 23 |
Mathew Kimes |
February 1954 |
| 24 |
Whaley Tail |
February 1954 |
| 25 |
1913 Massacre |
c. April 10, 1954 |
| 26 |
Ludlow Massacre |
mid-April 1954 |
| 27 |
Axeploited |
April 1954 |
| 28 |
Pretty Boy Floyd |
1954 |
| 29 |
Public Debt |
1954 |
| 30 |
Worst Gun Battle |
1954 |
| 31 |
Songs of Struggle and Protest, pp. 1-117 |
September 1954 |
| 32 |
Songs of Struggle and Protest, pp. 118-229, 261-267
(see also Manuscripts-2, Box 1 , Folder 28) |
September 1954 |
| 33 |
"I think I listen my hardest and listen my loudest ..." |
October 1954 |
| 34 |
No Help Known |
November 1954 |
| 35 |
Seeds of Man |
December 11, 1954 |
| 36 |
My Bible |
December 31, 1954 |
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