Alan Lomax’s photographs from the Lincoln Park Rodeo in Pittsburg, Kansas give a glimpse into Kansas life circa 1944
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), which was founded by musicologist and folk researcher Alan Lomax, is a valuable resource for those interested in folk history. Although you’ll have to visit the American Folklife Center in D.C. to gain access to all of Lomax’s materials, ACE houses an impressive amount of audio recordings, photographs, videos, lectures and original documents created by Alan Lomax online.
A little bit about the collection:
“The American Folklife Center, the Librarian of The Library of Congress, and Anna Lomax Wood worked out a unique partnership by which the Library got the originals (and digital copies) of Alan Lomax’s works and ACE put them into wide circulation. In 2004, through the generosity of an anonymous donor, The Library of Congress acquired the original recordings and photographs, media collections, library, manuscripts, and research materials assembled by Alan Lomax over the course of six decades, uniting them with the recordings made by Alan and his father, John Avery Lomax, for the Archive of American Folk Song from 1933 to 1942.
The Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center of The Library of Congress is curated by Todd Harvey. ACE and the AFC collaborate on exhibitions, conferences, publications, and repatriation projects.
The Collection is indexed and available for research at the American Folklife Center.
I was curious what Kansas materials there were in the online collection and up popped a slew of striking photographs from Alan Lomax’s trip to the Lincoln Park Rodeo in Pittsburg, KS. Here’s a small sampling.
