Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Asch, Moses
- Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
- Folkways Records
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- Moses and Frances Asch Collection
- Extent
- 46.72 Cubic feet (36 record storage boxes, 3 oversize boxes)
- Date
- 1942-1987
- bulk 1947-1987
- Archival Repository
- Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
- Identifier
- CFCH.ASCH, Series 1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
- Scope and Contents note
- This series contains correspondence between Moses Asch and the artists that recorded with him under the Folkways label. It also contains correspondence between Asch and non-artists (producers, recorders, researchers, scholars, lawyers, managers, other recording-related associates). Materials included are business, personal, and legal correspondence, royalty statements, sales records, promotional materials and printed ephemera, and clippings, as well as miscellaneous published works, photographs, unissued recording materials, and notes. Materials may also include production-related correspondence. Folders may contain correspondence between the artists and people other than Moses Asch. In some cases, folders contain correspondence regarding legal/royalty issues occurring after Folkways' acquisition by the Smithsonian in 1987. Miscellaneous folders contain mostly correspondence between Folkways and prospective artists and customer inquiries, as well as unissued recording materials.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643215800446-1643215896163-0
