Essay from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. November 1940
Essay about elections in general, with some personal notes, written on tissue paper used in wrapping goods. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Columbia, ca. June 17, 1942
Requests audition. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. late July 1940
Guthrie acknowledges receipt of July 15, 1940 letter from Lomax, and will look up the representative of Alliance Press. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 17, 1940
Account of doings and odds and ends. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. January 1941
Written from Columbia, California, an old gold mining town; has decided he wants to "put the works to the man for printing the Tom Joad song." (Downes and Siegmeister, A Treasury of American Song, published Nov... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. December 1941
Supplies names of Bonneville Power Administration contacts, and requests blank aluminum discs. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, June 17, 1942
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Victor, ca. June 17, 1942
Requests audition. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, June 7, 1942
Offers the Library of Congress a recently found manuscript collection of 200 of his songs, sung on the air in Los Angeles, in return for typed copies. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Library of Congress, ca. 1942
Acknowledges the typed songbook ["Songs of Woody Guthrie"] sent to him. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Almanac Singers, June 19, 1942
Sent to Detroit; says he is enclosing requested song "Goin' Away to Sea." External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Duncan Emrich, September 8, 1950
Again offers to record more songs for the Library of Congress. Mentions enclosing Centralia Ballad books. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. August 1940
Sent from Will Geer's address in New York City; Woody and Cisco [Houston] are playing at Jimmy Sawyer's Sawdust Trail in New York; odds and ends of miscellaneous news. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 22, 1941
Account of trip from New York to California; miscellaneous personal news. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. August 1940
Sent from Will Geer's address in New York City; Woody and Cisco [Houston] are playing at Jimmy Sawyer's Sawdust Trail in New York; odds and ends of miscellaneous news. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 22, 1941
Account of trip from New York to California; miscellaneous personal news. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 8, 1941
Postcard from Portland while on tour with the Almanac Singers [not mentioned specifically]. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 8, 1941
Postcard from Portland while on tour with the Almanac Singers [not mentioned specifically]. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. April 1941
Says he has been singing for various groups; tells Lomax to look up Sarah Ogan [Gunning]; encloses two songs: "Farther Along" (Guthrie parody--earliest version of "I've Got to Know"--dated 3-41) and "The Final ... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, ca. April 1941
Says he has been singing for various groups; tells Lomax to look up Sarah Ogan [Gunning]; encloses two songs: "Farther Along" (Guthrie parody--earliest version of "I've Got to Know"--dated 3-41) and "The Final ... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 25, 1940
Essay with comments on radio programming, book-reading. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 25, 1940
Essay with comments on radio programming, book-reading. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, February 20, 1941
Regrets "Back Where I Come From" is off the air; wired Nick [Ray] about getting back on the show, but the reply was "it was all off." Asks about Pete Seeger; is house-hunting, gives other odds and ends of detai... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, February 20, 1941
Regrets "Back Where I Come From" is off the air; wired Nick [Ray] about getting back on the show, but the reply was "it was all off." Asks about Pete Seeger; is house-hunting, gives other odds and ends of detai... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 13, 1941
Postcard from California, received January 17, 1941: "I'm down here -- really down." Features image of cowboy and lyrics to "A Cowboy's Life," with handwritten comment about which Lomax cowboy songbook contains... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 13, 1941
Postcard from California, received January 17, 1941: "I'm down here -- really down." Features image of cowboy and lyrics to "A Cowboy's Life," with handwritten comment about which Lomax cowboy songbook contains... More
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 15, 1941
Postcard: "I'd almost learnt to love musicians -- How's the book? Tell it hello." [Possibly referring to Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People.] External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, January 15, 1941
Postcard: "I'd almost learnt to love musicians -- How's the book? Tell it hello." [Possibly referring to Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People.] External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Vote for Bloat - Public domain document scan
Essay on elections in general, and those he witnessed around Okemah (Oklahoma). External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, September 19, 1940
Thoughts on songwriting, his dog, music, account of singing at Jimmy Dwyer's, press coverage of same, etc. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, February 15, 1941
From Los Angeles; Guthrie thinks he has gotten his old radio program back; wants to help Alan with his work in the Library of Congress by helping to collect material. External display permitted by Guthrie family
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax, February 15, 1941
From Los Angeles; Guthrie thinks he has gotten his old radio program back; wants to help Alan with his work in the Library of Congress by helping to collect material. External display permitted by Guthrie family