Odds and Ends

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 20, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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>> From: Dennis R. Preston [mailto:preston at MSU.EDU]
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>> Didn't nobody asked me what I'd like to see digitized, but
>> I'd say the basic recordings of US dialects should have
>> priority. The famously unavailable tapes of LANCS, for
>> example, and all the very useful DARE tapes, etc... . Some of
>> this is apparently underway, but we need an even more urgent
>> effort to digitize (and make available) this basic record.
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> Sure, you were asked.  I was throwing the question to everyone, just
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> of curiosity as to what folks think would be fertile ground.
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> My own (layperson's) interests lie with the printed stuff, which is why
> I was suggesting the materials that I did.
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> I suppose Barry would like to have a big stack of menus digitized and
> searchable.
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> Other areas that might yield useful citations would include:
> ethnic magazines (Jet, etc.)
> pulp crime mags (and beyond the pulp era through the 1950's)
> Western mags
> Penny Dreadfuls and dime novels of the late 1800's
> Church bulletins (are they comparatively recent?)

It depends on what the meaning of "recent" is. They certainly go back
to the '40's in both Catholic [mother] and Protestant [father]
churches. To paraphrase Richard Pryor, "Is 'at fah nuff back fuh yo
ass?"

-Wilson Gray

> Fan club magazines/newsletters
> Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter
> movie fan mags back to the 1930's
> Teen mags (Tiger Beat, 16, etc.)
> union local newsletters and national publications
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> Any other suggestions?
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>>> What would I like to see digitized?
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>>> If forced to choose, I'd like diaries (if restricted to one).  Add
>>> local newspapers (a la newspaperarchive.com) (if I may
>> choose a second).
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>>>
>>> David
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>>> barnhart at highlands.com
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