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Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016655215
Collection material in English, Swedish, French, Hebrew, and other languages.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Organized into the following series: I. Manuscripts; II. Sound Recordings; III. Graphic Materials; IV. Optical Media; V. Artifacts; VI. Publications.
Journals and scrapbooks arranged chronologically. Binders are organized alphabetically by topic that Izzy Young designated. Correspondence, ephemera, and graphic images described at the folder level. Arrangement reflects the intellectual/chronological order rather than the physical numbering of items.
Izzy Young; 2015.
Additional accrual received in January 2020.
The collection was processed by Maya Lerman, with assistance from Kate McDaniel.
A related collection is AFC 2017/047, Izzy Young guest register for the Folklore Center, 1966 January 10-11. https://lccn.loc.gov/2017655422 The guest register (in the form of a standard composition notebook) is from an unidentified event at the Folklore Center, and contains 134 names and addresses on 11 pages. The register includes guests such as Harold Anton, Theodore Wilentz, Carol Janeway, Arthur Rosenbaum, Phil Ochs, Duke Miles, Berenice Abbott, Frank Hanley, Ed Sanders, Ted Berrigan, Tuli Kupferberg, Doc Watson, Ralph Rinzler, Israel Young, Herbert Huncke, and others.
Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Collection is open for research; access to collection materials may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
Izzy Young collection (AFC 2015/040), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Digital preservation masters from original sound tape reels.
Israel (Izzy) Goodman Young was born March 26, 1928 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the 1940s, Young fell in love with square dancing
through his involvement with Margot Mayo's American Square Dance Group, where he met folk musicians such as Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand,
and Reverend Gary Davis. After accumulating a catalog of books about folk music, Young opened the Folklore Center in 1957, a music
store and gathering place for the folk music revival scene in Greenwich Village. Young organized and promoted folk music concerts
and poetry readings at the Folklore Center and at other venues in New York City. He was a founder of the Friends of Old Time Music,
a group which presented concerts of traditional folk musicians in New York City venues. Young also organized what is
thought to be Bob Dylan's first formal concert on November 4, 1961 at Carnegie Hall, as well as the early concerts of musicians such
as Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, and Mississippi John Hurt. He wrote about the folk music scene in his
Collection of manuscripts, including correspondence, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, artwork, and ephemera; photographic prints; and audio recordings comprising the archive of Israel (Izzy) Goodman Young, who was proprietor of the Folklore Center, New York, N.Y. (beginning in 1957), and, beginning in 1973, of the Folklore Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden. The collection documents the late 1950s and 1960s folk music revival, and Izzy Young's contribution to the scene. Includes documentation about prominent musicians, poets, and dancers, and about concerts, music festivals, and music camps around the United States and in Sweden. Includes articles and writings about Bob Dylan and his musical career, and correspondence with significant figures in the folk music scene, such as Pete Seeger, Mark Moss, and Dick Waterman. Scrapbooks document concerts and other events, including the 1961 Washington Square Park Protest, which followed the New York Police Department's attempt to stop singing in the park. Sound recordings in the collection include radio programs, and concerts Young promoted, such as those with Hedy West, David Bromberg, Jean Ritchie, Elizabeth Cotten, Young Tradition, Tom Paley, Mike Seeger, Tuli Kupferberg, and many others. Includes eight pieces of original artwork by Harry Smith, artist, filmmaker, and a friend of Young's.
Handwritten journals labelled by year. Sorted chronologically.
Bound journals as well as loose pages from journals. Includes Young's middle school graduation journal with notes from family members and teachers, as well as a journal written during the time of the Folklore Center's opening.
Includes journal written by Izzy Young's father, Philip Young. Includes journal with commentary by Izzy Young about the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. Also includes "Concerts 1969" journal with details about the concerts that Izzy organized.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, fliers, and newspaper clippings. Includes letters from Young to John Cohen, Happy Traum, and Bob Dylan.
Bound poetry journal and journal including notes about international topics/politics. 1 folder containing "A New Secret History of Folklore U.S.A." by Izzy Young, February 1957. 1 folder containing miscellaneous portions of journals, ca. 1960-1970. 1 folder containing photocopy of Izzy Young's journal titled, Young's anecdotes, ca. 1960-1968. One journal encompassing from 1986-1998.
Includes poetry journal, calendars, address books, and manuscript for Israel G. Young Autobiography, 1928-1938.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, fliers, and newspaper clippings.
Includes loose journal pages. Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, fliers, and newspaper clippings.
Includes loose journal pages. Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, fliers, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Includes loose journal pages. Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, drawings, fliers, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, photographs, personal/business contacts, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, photographs, personal/business contacts, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, photographs, personal/business contacts, scheduling calendars, ticket stubs, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, photographs, personal/business contacts, scheduling calendars, ticket stubs, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Interspersed within journals are correspondence, poetry, photographs, personal/business contacts, scheduling calendars, ticket stubs, drawings, and newspaper clippings.
Scrapbooks compiled, numbered, and notated by Izzy Young.
Written on inside cover: "Folklore Center Scrapbook of Articles on Folkmusic That Appear in Newspapers, Journals of Popular Nature." Includes first preliminary sketch of new sign for Folklore Center by Ray Borgular. Includes newspaper clippings and correspondence (including a letter from Richard Dyer-Bennet).
Includes newspaper clippings, drawings, programs from the Folklore Center, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young.
Includes handwritten notes, folk music news items and annotations by Izzy Young, newspaper clippings, telegrams and correspondence, drawings, "Frets and Frails" columns, fliers and programs.
Lyrics of Bob Dylan song, "Talking John Birch Blues" pasted on page 47 of scrapbook and include notes by Izzy Young. Scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, drawings, concert fliers and programs, and correspondence.
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, drawings, fliers and programs, business cards, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young.
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, fliers, programs and calendars, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young.
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, fliers, programs and calendars, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young.
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, fliers, programs, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young and others, including a write up by David Grisman about the Blue Grass Festival at Roanoke. Information about the Sing-In for Peace Committee.
Scrapbook #9 includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, fliers, programs, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young and others. Includes letter from Sing-In for Peace Committee. Scrapbook #10 includes handwritten notes/correspondence by Izzy Young and others, such as Dick Waterman, Patrick Sky, and Stefan Grossman. Includes program about Hedy West that is translated into Hebrew.
Scrapbook #11 includes newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young. Includes press release about Doc and Merle Watson's State Department tour. Scrapbook #12 includes a Folklore Center Folk Festival program with performances by Hedy West, Rosalie Sorrels, John Hammond, Joni Mitchell, and many others.
Scrapbook #13 includes newspaper clippings, fliers and programs, press releases, correspondence, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young. Scrapbook #14 includes excerpts from Folklore Center newsletters, reviews of the 1968 Newport Folk Festival, and a ticket and program from the Newport Folk Festival.
Includes newspaper clippings, fliers and programs, press releases,
correspondence, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young. Includes excerpts from
Folklore Center newsletters, and
Includes newspaper clippings, advertisements, fliers, and handwritten notes by Izzy Young.
Oversized scrapbook about the Washington Square Protest, following the New York Police Department's attempt to stop singing in the park. Includes news clippings, correspondence, and other materials related to the event. Restored by Mitch Blank in 2009.
Topical binders sorted alphabetically by title, assigned by Izzy Young.
Includes Pete Seeger's history of the Alamanac Singers, 1987, and the program from Hard Traveling, a Woody Guthrie event put on by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Woody Guthrie Archives. Article on Copyright binder includes articles about copyright law, public domain, and folk songs.
Articles about Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Alan Lomax.
Articles/writings by and about Izzy Young. Includes writings about Bob Dylan and an excerpt from the Folk Music Guide USA (November 1959).
Includes writings by and about Izzy Young.
Includes articles about Izzy Young in English and Swedish.
Includes articles about John and Alan Lomax and a Folklore Center reprint of
"Folk Song Style" by Alan Lomax from
Includes articles about Lead Belly and Alan Lomax in English and Swedish. Brev binder primarily includes correspondence.
Primarily includes correspondence.
Includes correspondence to/from Marc Silber, Mike Seeger, and Happy Traum, as well as correspondence regarding music sales and royalties.
Includes correspondence and hand written notes by Izzy Young.
Includes articles and correspondence about Tim Buckley, and a 1967 writing by Izzy Young. Carol binder includes correspondence between Izzy Young and Carol Greene.
Primarily includes correspondence between Ronald Cohen and Izzy Young.
Primarily includes correspondence between Ronald Cohen and Izzy Young. Also includes meeting information about the proposed Folk Music Museum in Greenwich Village.
Primarily includes correspondence between Ronald Cohen and Izzy Young.
Primarily includes correspondence between Ronald Cohen and Izzy Young.
Includes writings about Lead Belly and copyright, including an excerpt from "Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly," (1936) by John and Alan Lomax and a copy of the 1937 agreement between John and Alan Lomax and Lead Belly.
Includes concert fliers, Folkways Records catalog, clippings, and copy of Bob Dylan drawing from Izzy Young's Feb. 22, 1962 notebook. 3 photographs removed from this binder and placed in Series III (Bob Dylan portrait by Bertil Hagert, Izzy Young photograph by Ed Grazda, and Big Joe Williams photograph by David Gahr and 3 slides removed and placed in Series III (slides of Bob Dylan drawing in Izzy Young's notebook). Diverse Studies binder includes academic articles about ethnomusicology and folk music and indentity. Also includes correspondence.
Includes clippings about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English, Swedish, and Hebrew.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish.
Includes clippings and articles about Bob Dylan written in English and Swedish. Dylan Tom 2207? Misc. binder includes correspondence filed by topic/correspondent, which Izzy Young designated. Topics include 1960s folk revival and Bob Dylan. Includes "two sheets out of an old lined notebook," from Dec. 28, 1968.
Includes Izzy Young's handwritten journal pages with notes about concerts he was organizing, contact names and information, and Young's general notes about the music and performers. Includes a 1994 note from Izzy Young on the first page of binder about finding these pages in his mother's basement. Film - TV, sonnet, Downing, osv binder includes correspondence, including from Jim Downing regarding a documentary film, and correspondence to and from Pete and Toshi Seeger.
Includes original fliers and programs for concerts organized by the Folklore Center and the Friends of Old Time Music, including with Oscar Brand, Tom Paley, Barry Kormfeld, Reverand Gary Davis, Jack Elliot, Clarence Ashley, Big Joe Williams, Victoria Spivey, Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Hobart Smith, Doc Watson, Joseph Spence, Lou Killen, and Mike Seeger.
Includes Izzy Young's
Includes correspondence with Steve Garabedian, Richard Reuss, and Joe
Hickerson. Includes a 1939 song book from the collection of Lawrence
Gellert,
Correspondence and articles. Includes article on Guthrie in
Primarily includes correspondence about Lead Belly, Alan Lomax, and copyright issues. Correspondents include Dick Weissman and Sean Killeen of Lead Belly Society.
LC Folk Archive Finding Aids and Reference Aids from 1983-1990. Lomax binder includes correspondence and articles critiquing Alan Lomax's work.
Includes correspondence, Lead Belly sheet music, and other writings about Alan Lomax and Lead Belly.
Includes articles, writings, and typed journal entries by Izzy Young. Includes articles from Promenade magazine by the American Square Dance Group. Also includes articles, writings about Izzy. Removed photograph from 1957 opening of Folklore Center and placed in Graphic Images series.
Includes email correspondence, Folk Roots articles, articles/writings about folk musicians, and materials about calling square dances and contra dances.
Includes clippings about folk music and fliers for concerts. Miscellaneous revival materials: notebooks, letters, press cuttings binder includes a typed conversation between Izzy Young and Phil Ochs, articles about folk musicians (Dave Van Ronk, John Fahey) and about the Washington Square Park protest.
Printed email correspondence. Includes correspondence with Suze Rotolo and Ann Charters. My journal binder includes Izzy Young's typed journal entries, 1960-1962.
Izzy Young's typed journal entries. NY UPPL press mm, invitations, konsertar mm binder includes email correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera in Swedish.
Printed email correspondence and a couple of handwritten correspondence. Includes correspondence with Elijah Wald, John Szwed, and Rani Singh.
Printed email correspondence and a couple of handwritten correspondence. Includes correspondence with Suze Rotolo. Also includes article about Izzy Young written in Hebrew.
Includes correspondence.
Includes articles about Phil Ochs, as well Och's song lyrics and a typed interview with Izzy Young and Ochs.
Includes business cards, as well as correspondence. Correspondents include Marc Silber, Joe Hickerson, Dick Weissman, and Kate Rinzler.
Photos removed and placed into Series III. Includes an article about Izzy Young in Swedish, correspondence (including a letter from Oscar Brand), other ephemera, and writings by Young (including interviews with Bob Dylan).
Includes clippings and articles about poets in English and Swedish. Significant portion are about Allen Ginsberg. Poetry II Izzy binder includes printed poems, fliers, and an article about Izzy Young in Swedish.
Includes printouts of correspondence, fliers, newspaper articles, and press releases.
Clippings and articles about musicians and music promoters (mostly in English).
Clippings and articles about musicians and music promoters (mostly in Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (mostly in Swedish). Includes clippings from article about Izzy Young.
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in Swedish).
Clippings and articles about music, dance, and related topics (in Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (mostly in English).
Clippings and articles about music, dance, and related topics (in Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in Swedish). Includes article about Izzy Young.
Clippings and articles about music, dance, and related topics (in English and Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in English and Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in English and Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in English and Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in Swedish).
Clippings and articles about musicians and related topics (in English and Swedish).
Articles about folk music and musicians, including articles about Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie.
Typed interview transcript with Izzy Young and Richard Reuss.
Includes "Folk Scene Diary Summer 1965" by Richard Reuss, interview with Izzy Young and Herb Dexter, writeup about Bear Family record set, and two articles by Ronald Cohen and Dave Samuelson.
Printed email correspondence in Swedish and English about the Right of Return (Israel). Right of Return; Ryan, Pinko, Gahr; Rani, Cath, Sarah binder includes correspondence with Rani Singh, Earle Pinko, Andy Schwartz, and others.
Articles about Pete Seeger. Pete Seeger and Izzy binder includes correspondence and postcards between Izzy Young and Pete Seeger.
Articles and clippings about Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. One photograph of Seeger removed and placed in Series III.
Primarily includes correspondence between Izzy Young and Pete Seeger. Includes postcards from Pete Seeger. Also includes letters to Harold Leventhal. One photograph of Seeger removed and placed in Series III.
Includes correspondence between Izzy Young and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Izzy Young and Greil Marcus.
Statements for Izzy Young and Folklore Centrum from Salomon Smith Barney. South Africa copyright, Paul Simon, Wimoweh binder includes correspondence with Pete Seeger, Mark Moss, and articles about Seeger's recording of "Wimoweh" and Paul Simon's recording of Graceland.
Written on binder spine: Svenska folkets Musik? Om Izzy Youngs arbete I sverige. Includes articles (in Swedish) about folk music in Sweden. Suze binder includes printed email correspondence between Izzy Young and Suze Rotolo.
Includes correspondence about Jan Semneby's article about Izzy Young in the Telegraph. Also includes typed Bob Dylan interview with Izzy Young from 1961. Unclassified articles, journals binder includes writings by and about Izzy Young. Includes retyped journal entry from 1962. Also includes correspondence.
Report from UNESCO-WIPO World Forum on the Protection of Folklore from April 8-10, 1997. Note from Izzy Young to Mark Moss written on cover page. Israel G. Young Folklore Center correspondence as found in the Richard Reuss folklore archives at Indiana University, May 1991 binder includes printed correspondence between Izzy Young and correspondents, such as Pete and Toshi Seeger, Barbara Dane, Margot Mayo, Archie Green, Guy Carawan, and Manny Greenhill.
Business cards, publishing agreements, Folklore Center fliers and advertisements, writings, and correspondence.
Clippings and articles primarily about Bob Dylan and the release of his albums (in English).
Clippings and articles primarily about Bob Dylan (in English and Swedish), and about musicians and related topics. Includes articles about Izzy Young.
Invoices from the Folklore Centrum (in Swedish).
Printed email correspondence with correspondents, including Rani Singh, Nathan and Robert Salsburg, Todd Harvey, and Elijah Wald. Photographs were removed from binder and placed in Series III.
Clippings and articles primarily about Bob Dylan (in English and Swedish). Clippings, correspondence, and writings by Izzy Young. Includes 1958 quote by Young from the Village Voice. Includes article about Young in Swedish.
Letters between Izzy Young and history professor Ronald D. Cohen.
Letters between Izzy Young and his parents, Pola and Philip Young. Includes a letter from Philip Young to Moses Asch, 1965.
Letters from Izzy Young's daughter.
Includes correspondence with Ralph Rinzler, Theodore Bikel, Dick Waterman, and Mark Moss.
Includes correspondence regarding
Includes correspondence with Ronald Cohen, Peter K. Siegel, Richard Reuss, and others.
Includes correspondence with Rani Singh, Lou Gottlieb, and Lou Killen.
Includes correspondence with Deborah Sperberg, and other personal correspondence.
Includes correspondence (primarily printed emails) with Jeff Rosen, Suze Rotolo, and others.
Includes correspondence with Irwin Silber, Ron Cohen, and Charles Seeger.
Includes correspondence with Harold Leventhal, Richard Reuss, and Pat Sky.
Includes correspondence with Pete and Toshi Seeger, John Cohen, Scott Barretta, and others.
Includes correspondence with Rani Singh, Ida Cohen, and others.
Includes correspondence with Rani Singh, Ida Cohen, and others.
Includes correspondence with Ronald Cohen, Lucy Neville, Jerome Epstein, and others.
Includes correspondence with Benjamin Filene, Guy Logsdon, and Annabel Faraday.
Includes correspondence with JoAnne Reuss, Dave Van Ronk, and Marc Silber.
Includes correspondence with Pete and Toshi Seeger, Ralph and Kate Rinzler, and Laura Tennen.
Includes correspondence with Scott Barretta, Ron Cohen, and Suze Rotolo.
Includes correspondence with Lou Gottlieb, Sis and Gordon Friesen, and Scott Barretta.
Includes postcards.
Includes folk and folklore programs, newsletters, announcements, and concert fliers. Includes items of note for the Folklore Center.
Includes a 1959 insert from
Includes folk music newsletters and magazines. Includes Folklore Center catalogs, newsletters, fliers, and programs for concerts and poetry readings.
Includes Harold Leventhal announcements,
Includes issues of
Includes 2016 Nobel Prize program, letter from the Newport Folk Foundation, folk music festival and camp programs, pages from scrapbooks, and correspondence.
Programs for Folklore Center poetry readings.
"The Journal of the People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle."
Includes "Folklore Center Presents" concert fliers, Friends of Old Time Music flier, Sunset Park flier, Harold Leventhal Presents concert flier, and fliers for many folk concerts and festivals.
Includes "Folklore Center Presents" concert fliers and fliers for other folk concerts and festivals.
Includes "Folklore Center Presents" poetry reading fliers, 1962 flier for a Hedy West concert, and Reverend Gary Davis, Bob Dylan concert fliers.
Drawing by Per Rosenberg.
Magazines about Bob Dylan from the Folklore Centrum collection.
Three issues of Zimmerman Blues, a magazine about Bob Dylan, from the Folklore Centrum collection.
Program for "Folklore Center Presents Bob Dylan in his first New York Concert," at Carnegie Chapter Hall. Includes biography of Dylan and description of Folklore Center. Also includes an inscription from Izzy Young from October 2015 to the Library of Congress.
Issues of
Note from Izzy Young that first preliminary sketch of Folklore Center logo was from 1959 scrapbook.
Book of Bob Dylan song lyrics from the Folklore Centrum collection. Note from Izzy Young on front cover: "made in Sweden. A very good illegal collection, including 'poems.'"
Diploma from the Board of Education of the City of New York.
Includes programs for klezmer concerts, camps, and festivals.
Folklore Center patent from the United States Patent Office.
Three issues of Swedish Music magazines.
Programs for poetry readings at the Folklore Center.
Correspondence with Izzy Young, and two poems.
Includes programs, catalogs, newsletters, concert fliers, and announcements.
Includes articles and clippings about folk musicians, festivals, various musical styles, the release of musical recordings, Izzy Young, and Civil Rights activism.
Articles in Swedish, French, and English.
Includes folk music articles, clippings, and press releases. Includes articles about Izzy Young. Articles in Swedish, English, and Hebrew.
Includes Izzy Young journal entries, writings, and poems, as well as some writings and poems by others.
Includes typed journal entries (including from 1961 discussing Bob Dylan), the transcript of an interview with Young, "Jews in Folk Music" essay, and sheet music to song about Young wrote about his daughter, Philomene.
Includes poem from the opening of the Folklore Center, drafts of articles, and entries from Young's notebooks and journals.
Includes typed journal entries, scrapbook entries, and transcribed interviews.
Interview trascriptions. "First raw copy of Moe Asch interview with Israel Young, June 25, 1970. The interview as typed is partially edited, leaving out that which obviously would be left out of the final interview in type."
Includes influential poems and songs, including a 1957 poem didacatory on the Opening of the Folklore Center, and poems by Langston Hughes and Allen Ginsberg. Includes poems by Izzy Young.
Izzy Young's expired passport books.
Izzy Young's expired passport books.
Izzy Young's daughter's vaccination form in Swedish.
Includes recordings of concerts promoted by Izzy Young, concerts at the Folklore Center and other venues, and radio programs. Digitization is complete for some of the sound recordings.
Documentation found with open reel tape boxes. Includes information on sound recording contents, song titles, and dates. Organized by "sr" number, which corresponds to sound recording numbering system.
Documentation found with open reel tape boxes and cassettes. Includes information on sound recording contents, song titles, and dates. Organized by "sr" number, which correspondends to sound recording numbering system.
Written on original tape box: "Folk 4. Folk 70."
Includes John Ashbury, Sam Abrams, Ted Berrigan, Jerome Rothenberg, and David Antin.
Written on original tape box: "Hermaphrodite."
Includes Sea shanties, "Bold reginal," "The two magicians," "John Barley Corn," "The husband man and the serving man," and "Watercress-o."
Written on original tape box: "Recorded Wednesday night, April 9, 1969, at Washington Square Methodist Church."
Written on original tape box: "On the British scene radio show interview."
Written on original tape box: "Tape 1, Part 1."
Written on original tape box: "Latin America."
Written on original tape box: "Recorded by Mike Asch."
Content list in Swedish in Accompanying documentation for sound recordings folder.
Written on original tape box: "King's Hotel, Jerusalem."
Written on original tape box: "Music to make Catherine strong by."
Hedy West at the Folklore Center.
Contents and performer list located in box 117, folder 7.
Performers include Paul Levine, Lee Kotick, Bob Fire, Nancy Lane, Danny Kagen, and Danny Kohn. Song list and performer credits listed on tape box.
Includes performances by Danny Hamburg Group, Howling Wolf, and Jimmie Joe.
"Memphis crowd sorrel. Izzy can be heard recorded for radio show. Part 2 of 4."
"Izzy Young folk show. Blues show, nothing live, TLL Records." From reel: "Church RMT Marathon."
Obray Ramsey and Byard Ray at the home of Israel Young.
Part 3 of 3.
Katy lectures, up to Coda.
Tape 1 (Kenny, Andy, John). Iron Mountain String Band.
Tracks include "Chicken on a raft," "The barley straw," "The long Peggin' Awl," "Knight William" and "The shepherd's daughter," "Banks of Clandy," "Brisk young widow," "The bawks of the vile," "A dieu maer" (American hymn from Sacred Harp), "Oh dear oh."
Copy, tape #1.
#10. WRVR.
Tape II.
Instrumental/religious song (Joe, Mark Jakobson), "Donovan's Josie," Janine Pommy Vega poetry, Bob Melanky?. Part 3 of 4.
Cafe Sahbra. #1 violinist, background music. Note from Mike Seeger in Accompanying documentation for sound recordings: "I agree to allow WKCR-radio to broadcast the concert recorded at the Folklore Center on Dec. 12, 1966. WKCR will edit this tape as to content or for technical reasons." Note from AFC engineer: "There is a very strong 120Hz hum that runs throughout the tape."
Set II.
Reel 4 of 4.
Tape II. Song 1, "Pretty Betty...," "The lady gay," "12 days of...," "Brightest and best," "Amazing grace."
Reel 2 of 2. "Watercress-o," "The innocent hare" (wow and flutter, no good), "Lyke wake dirge," "The prentice boy," "Wondrous love," "Byker hill," "Daddy fox" (mono both channels).
Eric Davidson, banjo; Caleb Finch, fiddle; Peggy Haine, guitar. Tracks include "Train on the island," "Poor Ellen Smith," "Old Jimmy Sutton," "Little Maggie," "Lord Thomas and fair Ellender," "Mississippi sawyers," "Sourwood mountain."
British songs.
July 1-5, Bakers Union.
Folk I, 10/17/1970; Theo Bikel, Izzy Young; Radio Ad, 1962: Ron Cliff, Swedish Walter Armsby, Goat Horn Cow Horn, Marc Silber.
1. New poem, just written. 2. Discussion of last lines of poems.
Description in Swedish.
Words and music by Debbie Heilner, Aaron Kramer, and Irwin Heilner. See tape box image for song list.
Two dates written on tape box: November 27, 1967 and April 7, 1968.
Includes photographic prints, negatives, and contact sheets of Izzy Young and the Folklore Center and Folklore Centrum, as well as photographs of and with prominent folk musicians. Includes photographs taken by David Gahr.
Includes photographic prints by David Gahr of Izzy Young and the Folklore Center, Izzy Young with prominent folk musicians, and other documentation of the NYC folk music scene. Includes a photograph of Izzy's father(?) working at his bagel bakery, circa 1950, and a photo of Young with daughter, Philomene Grandin. Includes photos of Pete Seeger, Pentangle, the Fugs, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Richie Havens, Mike Seeger, and Judy Collins.
Includes photographic prints of Izzy Young, (Swedish?) musicians, and Pete and Mike Seeger. Several of the photos include content on the backs about photographer or subject.
Mostly includes photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum. Includes several with daughter, Philomene Grandin.
Photographic prints mostly by Ulf Engstrom of Izzy Young organizing a concert.
Includes photographic prints of Izzy Young and the Folklore Center and Folklore Centrum. Also includes photographs by David Gahr of Izzy Young with musicians and family members.
Two unidentified photographs (one is likely with a young Izzy Young).
Includes negatives of Bob Dylan drawing, contact sheets from 1971, and photographic prints from the Folklore Center, Washington Square Park, and the Folklore Centrum. Includes portaits of Izzy Young.
Includes photograph by Ann Charters (with inscription on back) of Izzy Young with Sam Charters, Memphis Willie B., Furry Lewis, and Gus Canon. Photographs by David Gahr of the Folklore Center, Izzy Young, and folk musicians (including Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger). Also includes photographs of Izzy Young's brother and mother.
Includes photographs of musicians, artists, and friends and family.
Includes images of Izzy Young and folk musicians.
Photograph includes writing from Izzy Young identifying the musicians in the photograph, who include Jean Ritchie, Carolyn Hester, and Happy Traum.
Includes photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum, and other photographs of Young and friends in Sweden. Includes photographs of Young with Nathan Salsburg.
Includes photographs of Izzy Young, John Cohen, and others at an event related to the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington. Also includes photographs taken around the city.
Photographs that were removed from binder in box 101. Includes photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum, and other photographs of Young and friends in Sweden. Also includes photographs of Young and John Cohen in a conference panel.
Includes photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum, and other photographs of Young and friends in Sweden. Includes photograph of Young with his mother. Also includes one photograph of Young in New York City at the former site of the Folklore Center.
Black-and-white and color photographs are separated. Includes images of Izzy Young, folk musicians, and the Folklore Centrum.
Black-and-white photographic prints of Izzy Young working at the Folklore Centrum.
Black-and-white photographs of Izzy Young at a square dance, as well as portraits.
Black-and-white photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum, Pete Seeger, and square dancing.
Color photographs of Izzy Young and the Folklore Centrum. Includes photographs of Young with musician friends, including Patti Smith.
Optical media is unprocessed, and titles are derived from writing on containers and labels.
Audio from film about Pete Seeger.
Part 1 and 2.
Disc 1 of 2, hi-res (TIFs); photos by Beth Mann (EMP).
Disc 2 of 2, hi-res (TIFs); photos by Beth Mann (EMP).
Disc 1 of 1, low-res (JPEGs); photos by Beth Mann (EMP).
DNR, 1 of 2
DNR, 2 of 2
Part 1 (EMP Seattle 2004)
From [Les] Blank Archives.
Part 1 of 2 (BBSimmow Producer).
Part 2 of 2 (BBSimmow Producer).
Part 2 of 2 (BBSimmow Producer).
Likely a copy of the published 1973 album.
Includes artwork by artist and filmmaker, Harry Smith.
Framed original piece.
Original artwork on cardboard by Smith.
Listing of publications included in the Izzy Young collection.
Publications from Izzy Young's personal collection, and from the Folklore Center and Folklore Centrum's collections.
Edited by Moses Asch and Irwin Silber.
Samuel Charters. Inscribed message to Izzy Young by Charters.
S. Foster Damon. Includes Izzy Young's handwritten notes.
Frank Hoffman. Inscribed message from author to Izzy Young.
Miriam H. Kirkell and Irma K. Schaffnit. Includes handwritten notes and stamp from Folklore Centrum and People's Songs, Inc.
Brian D. Kramer
Compiled and edited by Pete Seeger. New York, N.Y.: Ludlow Music, Inc., 1963. Includes inscription by Izzy Young from 2013.
Cecil Sharp and Herbert C. Macilwaine. (parts 1-3 in general collection)
Finding aid for Margot Mayo collection. American Square Dance Group.
Charley Thomas.
Petitioner Israel G. Young against Newbold Morris, Commissioner of Parks of the City of New York.
Henry Wassen.
Gene Hubert.
Jerry Haag.
Inger Toreld.