digitizing the moses and frances asch collection @ the smithsonian.
Great news for folk music historians and cultural historians in general. According to Cecelia Peterson of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, the Smithsonian Institution has received a Save America’s Treasures grant to digitize the Moses and Frances Asch Collection.
Moses Asch and Folkways Records Booth at a Convention, early 1950s. Photograph: David Jackson.
Links:
- Cecelia Peterson, Moses Asch in the 21st Century: A Digitization Project is Born.