By Harry Rice
Title: Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline Collection
Predominant Dates:1994-2014
Extent: 129.0 Boxes (General)
Arrangement:
The collection has been arranged in the following series:
Series 1 through 38: audio recordings. Series 39 through 77: project records, photographs, biographical material, and video recordings
Series 1: [information restricted]
Series 2: Walker Calhoun Audio Recordings
Series 3: Calvert County Marine Museum Audio Recordings
Series 4: Calvert County Tobacco Audio Recordings
Series 5: Concord Library Audio Recordings
Series 6: Hampshire County, West Virginia Audio Recordings
Series 7: Currence Hammonds Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 8: Holmes County, Ohio Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 9: Pendleton County, West Virginia Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 10: Pleasant Grove, North Carolina Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 11: Railroading In the Alleghenies Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 12: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 13: Seneca Rocks Discovery Center Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 14: Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 15: Steamboat Era Museum Oral Audio Recordings
Series 16: Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 17: Southern Maryland Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 18: Underground Railroad Audio Recordings
Series 19: Tucker County, West Virginia Flood Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 20: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District Audio Recordings
Series 21: Wheeling, West Virginia Spoken History Project Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 22: Western Massachusetts Rural Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 23: Wisconsin Folklife Audio Recordings
Series 24: BBC-TV Wales Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 25: Blair Mountain March 2011 Audio Recordings
Series 26: Gas Rush Audio Recordings Listen Online
Series 27: Whipple Company Store Audio Recordings
Series 28: Appalachian Volunteers
Series 29: Go Tell It On the Mountain: Cross Cultural Workshop Audio Recordings
Series 30: Forest Service – Southern Arts Federation Audio Recordings Listen On Line
Series 31: Grundy, Virginia Floods Audio Recordings
Series 32: Listening For A Change Audio Recordings
Series 33: Miscellaneous Audio Recordings Listen To Selected Recordings Online
Series 34: Appalachia General Audio Recordings
Series 35: Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection Audio Recordings
Series 36: Fern Rollyson Collection Audio Recordings
Series 37: Ireland Audio Recordings
Series 38: Reel-To-Reel Audio Tape Listen To Selected Recordings Online
Documentation Projects Records, Photographs and Biographical Material
Series 39: [information restricted]
Series 40: Walker Calhoun
Series 41: Calvert County Marine Museum
Series 42: Calvert County Tobacco
Series 43: Concord, Massachusetts Free Public Library
Series 44: Hampshire County, West Virginia
Series 45: Currence Hammonds
Series 46: Holmes County, Ohio
Series 47: Pendleton County, West Virginia
Series 48: Pleasant Grove, North Carolina Community Listening Project
Series 49: Railroading In the Alleghenies Listening Project
Series 50: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Series 51: Seneca Rocks Discovery Center Recording Project
Series 52: Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike Audio History Project
Series 53: Steamboat Era Museum Oral History Project
Series 54: Stonewall Jackson Dam Removal
Series 55: Southern Maryland Folklife Project
Series 56: Underground Railroad
Series 57: Tucker County, West Virginia Flood
Series 58: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District
Series 59: Wheeling, West Virginia National Heritage Area Spoken History Project
Series 60: Western Massachusetts Rural Folklife Project
Series 61: Wisconsin Folklife Project
Series 62: BBC-TV Wales
Series 63: Blair Mountain March 2011
Series 64: Forest Service – Southern Arts Federation
Series 65: Gas Rush
Series 66: Go Tell It On the Mountain: Cross Cultural Workshop
Series 67: Grundy, Virginia Floods
Series 68: Whipple Company Store
Series 69: Listening For A Change
Series 70: Subject Files
Series 71: Interview Releases and Logs
Series 72: Michael and Carrie Kline Biographical
Series 73: Photographs
Series 74: Oversize Newspapers
Series 75: Video Recordings
Series 76: Photographs On Compact Discs
Series 77: Kline – Nobel Family Audio Recordings
Date Acquired: 04/28/2015
Subjects: Calhoun, Walker., Fayette County (W. Va.), Floods -- West Virginia., Gilmer County (W. Va.), Hammonds, Currence., Hampshire County (W. Va.), Hydraulic fracturing., Lewis County (W. Va.), Maryland -- Calvert County., Maryland -- Charles County., Maryland -- St. Mary's County., Massachusetts -- Concord (Town)., Massachusetts -- Lowell (Town)., Middle Peninsula (Va.), North Carolina -- Alamance County., Northern Neck (Va.), Occaneechi Indians., Ohio -- Holmes County., Ohio County (W. Va.), Pendleton County (W. Va.), Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County., Pochahontas County (W. Va.), Randolph County (W. Va.), Ritchie County (W. Va.), Smithsonian Folklife Festival., Tucker County (W. Va.), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers., Underground Railroad -- Ohio., Upshur County (W. Va.), Virginia -- Buchanan County., Wheeling (W. Va.), Wood County (W. Va.)
These are records of West Virginia folklorists and musicians Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline. Their work is mainly in the form of folklife and oral history documentation of social issues, communities, events, and people.
The collection consists mainly of interview and music performance audio recordings, photographs and interview transcripts related to their extensive work in West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Digital preservation of the recordings in Series 9, 12, 13, 14, 21 and selected ones in Series 33 and 38 was made possible by a Recordings-At-Risk grant from the Council On Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The CLIR grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Calhoun, Walker.
Fayette County (W. Va.)
Floods -- West Virginia.
Gilmer County (W. Va.)
Hammonds, Currence.
Hampshire County (W. Va.)
Hydraulic fracturing.
Lewis County (W. Va.)
Maryland -- Calvert County.
Maryland -- Charles County.
Maryland -- St. Mary's County.
Massachusetts -- Concord (Town).
Massachusetts -- Lowell (Town).
Middle Peninsula (Va.)
North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Northern Neck (Va.)
Occaneechi Indians.
Ohio -- Holmes County.
Ohio County (W. Va.)
Pendleton County (W. Va.)
Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County.
Pochahontas County (W. Va.)
Randolph County (W. Va.)
Ritchie County (W. Va.)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Tucker County (W. Va.)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Underground Railroad -- Ohio.
Upshur County (W. Va.)
Virginia -- Buchanan County.
Wheeling (W. Va.)
Wood County (W. Va.)
Repository: Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions: The collection can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College. Some portions of the collection are restricted from research use. Those materials are marked in the inventory.
Use Restrictions:
The Donors retain all copyrights and intellectual property rights pertaining to the Materials for a period not to exceed 30 years. The donors grant to the College permission to use the materials for research or non-commercial purposes. Any commercial use must have the permission of the donors. On or before January 1, 2047, all copyrights and intellectual property rights pertaining to the materials will transfer to the college as an integral part of this gift.
This collection includes materials that were created as “work for hire” and copyright for those materials may be held by other entities.
Copies made for commercial broadcast or publication require the permission of the donor until January 1, 2047. After that time, they will require the permission of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives.
In addition, Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline worked to validate and dignify the voices of those they documented. The spoken testimonials from southern mountain people historically have little overlap with most written accounts about them by missionaries, sociologists, regional planners and feature writers, whose stereotyping and assumptions often work against progressive human development in the region. In contrast, the material in this collection is meant to be used to affirm the diverse experiences of all who are documented within it.
Utilization of the materials from the Collection require careful consideration and respect towards all the people whose voices and images may be used. Commercial users must make a good faith effort to contact the interviewee for permission to use their recorded voices and images before including them in any production or written materials.
The Guide to the Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline Collection by Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, is made available for public use under Creative Commons license CC0 1.0: Universal Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0). No rights reserved.
Technical Access Note: Most, but not all of the audio materials have listening copies. Please contact Special Collections in advance to ascertain if a listening copy already exists.
Acquisition Source: Donated by Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline
Acquisition Method: Deed of gift, signed 3/17/17.
Processing Information: Processed by Harry Rice
Other Note: Collection number: BCA 0258
Currence Hammonds; Interviewed by Michael Kline; Disc 1 of 1; 7/2/79
Maggie's House 7-31-80
Maggie's House with Gerry, 3-2-81
Currence, Jean, Minnie Hammonds; Disc 1 of 1; 3/25/81
Smith and Sherman Hammons 1981 part 1 Disc 1 of 1
Smith and Sherman Hammons 1981 part 2
Verl Hammons at Huttonsville Home During Currence's Illness; Interviewed by Michael Kline and Gerry Milnes; 3/30/84; Disc 1 of 1
Maggie Hammons Huntersville, WV; Found paper in cassette case: Hung the banjo, on the wall Old Lady Told me it would talk It hung there till all was gone still played the old jawbone; and I walk jawbones "Talk along and I talk jawbones" and sing a song; 7/19/84; 30 minutes
Sherman and Maggie Hammons, Stillwell, 5-29-85 recorded by M. Kline part 1
Sherman and Maggie Hammons, Stillwell, 5-29-85 recorded by M. Kline part 2
Sherman and Maggie Hammons, Stillwell, 5-29-85 recorded by M. Kline part 3
Maggie and Sherman Hammons; Disc 1 of 1; 12/24/85
Visit with Sherman and Maggie Hammons 1-20-87 part 1
Visit with Sherman and Maggie Hammons 1-20-87 part 2
Visit with Sherman and Maggie Hammons 1-20-87 part 3
Sherman Hammons or Maggie; Recorded by Michael Kline; 7/28/87; Disc 1 of 1
Maggie Hammons
Hammons Family; Burl, Dewey, Maggie, Church Scott, Calif. People; Disc 1 of 2
Hammons Family; Burl, Dewey, Maggie, Church Scott, Calf. People Disc 2 of 2
Scott, Burl Hammons and people from Montana part 1
Scott, Burl Hammons and people from Montana part 2
Maggie and Burl Hammons
Sherman, Burl, and Maggie Hammons with Chuck and Scott (no last names) - 3 tracks, Maggie sings fragment of "Hills of Mexico" on Track 3 part 2
Sherman, Burl, and Maggie Hammons with Chuck and Scott (no last names) - 3 tracks, Maggie sings fragment of "Hills of Mexico" on Track 3. Part 3
Sherman Hammons Banjo, Singing; disc 1 of 1
Hammons Family Music Dub of Louis Chappell Collection; TRK 1: Eden Hammons, Fiddle; TRK 2: Currence and Minnie Hammonds, 3 songs more Eden tunes
Hammons Family Music, dub of Louis Chappell Collection, trk 1 Eden Hammons, fiddle, trk 2 Currence and Minnie Hammonds, 3 songs, more Eden tunes part 1
Maggie Hammons
Sherman Hammons "takes"; BBC- Wales Documentary on WV Music, Play It For the Trees"
Smith and Sherman Hammons and Emma Triplett; Disc 1 of 1; 10/5/82
