Series 1: Paper Materials, 1880-2024, n.d.
Subseries 1.1: Career Information and Professional Activities, 1965-2019, n.d.
Box 1:
Folder 1: “Appalachia Sounding,” 1974-1977
Folder 2: Appalachian Folks, 1974, n.d.
Folder 3: “The Ballad Novels” Programs – Betty Smith and Sharyn McCrumb, 1994-2004, n.d.
Folder 4: Book Fairs, 1998-2003
Folder 5: Career Overview, n.d.
Folder 6: Certificates and Awards, 1965-2018
Folder 7: Council on Appalachian Women, 1979-1980
Folder 8: June Appal Recordings, 1977-1983, n.d.
Folder 9: Letters of Appreciation, 1971-2006, n.d.
Folder 10: Liner Notes, 1975-1977, n.d.
Folder 11: Media, 1965-1976, n.d.
Folder 12: Media, 1977-1980
Folder 13: Media, 1981-2019
Folder 14: North Carolina Humanities Council Speakers’ Bureau, 2004-2012, n.d.
Box 2:
Folder 1: Oral History Interviews, 1994-2007
Folder 2: Promotional Materials, 1978-1986, n.d.
Folder 3: Reviews, 1972-2001, n.d.
Folder 4: Scotland/ BBC Scotland, 1984-2008
Subseries 1.2: Performances and Teaching, 1894-2021, n.d.
Sub-subseries 1.2.1: Concerts, 1969-2016, n.d.
Folder 5: Arts and Folklore Organizations, 1977-1984, n.d.
Folder 6: College Concerts, A-N, 1969-2016, n.d.
Folder 7: College Concerts, O-Y, 1974-2007, n.d.
Folder 8: Conference Talks and Performances, 1976-2008, n.d.
Folder 9: Miscellaneous Concerts, n.d.-1980
Box 3:
Folder 1: Miscellaneous Concerts, 1981-1989
Folder 2: Miscellaneous Concerts, 1990-2013
Sub-subseries 1.2.2: Festivals, 1964-2017, n.d.
Folder 3: Appalachian Festival, Cincinnati, 1977-1994
Folder 4: Traditional Music Celebration – Berea College, 1974-2011, n.d.
Folder 5: Byard Ray Folk Festival, 1977-1987, n.d.
Folder 6: Fiddler’s Grove Festival, 1971-1987, n.d.
Folder 7: Lunsford Festival, n.d.-1983
Folder 8: Lunsford Festival, 1984-1999
Folder 9: Lunsford Festival, 2000-2017
Box 4:
Folder 1: Miscellaneous Festivals, A-F, 1972-2017, n.d.
Folder 2: Miscellaneous Festivals, G-M, 1978-2005, n.d.
Folder 3: Miscellaneous Festivals, N-W, 1965-2002
Folder 4: Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1964-1977
Folder 5: Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1978-1987
Folder 6: Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1988-1997
Folder 7: Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1998-2003
Folder 8: Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 2004-2017
Folder 9: Shindig-on-the-Green, 1974-2014, n.d.
Box 5:
Sub-subseries 1.2.3: College and University Engagement, 1974-2016, n.d.
Folder 1: Berea College – Correspondence, Workshops, Conferences, 1974-1999
Folder 2: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1979-1989, n.d.
Folder 3: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1990-2012
Folder 4: Emory University – Folk Music Course, 1983-1984
Folder 5: Hindman Settlement School, 1980-2003
Folder 6: Mars Hill College – Correspondence, Workshops, Courses, Elder Hostel, 1975-2005
Folder 7: Mars Hill College – “Factors Influencing a Family’s Transmission of their Musical Heritage,” NEH Grant Application, 1980
Folder 8: Mars Hill College – Honorary Doctorate, 2008
Folder 9: Mars Hill College – Miscellaneous, 1974-2007
Folder 10: Mars Hill College – Southern Appalachian Archives and Ramsey Center, 2003-2016
Box 6:
Sub-subseries 1.2.4: Instructional Materials, 1894-2015, n.d.
Folder 1: Ballads Workshop 1, 1894-2001, n.d.
Folder 2: Ballads Workshop 2, 1969-2015, n.d.
Folder 3: Dulcimer Classes, 1975-2012, n.d.
Folder 4: Dulcimer Instruction Materials, 1983-2009, n.d.
Folder 5: “Introduction to Appalachian Music,” 1965-2015, n.d.
Folder 6: Song Lists, n.d.
Box 7:
Sub-subseries 1.2.5: Children and Music, 1972-2001, n.d.
Folder 1: Children’s Songs, n.d.
Folder 2: Early Childhood Education, n.d.
Folder 3: Folk Music in Classroom, n.d.
Folder 4: Jane Macon Middle School Residency, 1982
Folder 5: Music and Children, n.d.
Folder 6: School Workshops and Programs, 1972-2001, n.d.
Sub-subseries 1.2.6: Performance and Program Notes, 1975-2003, n.d.
Folder 7: Class Materials, Games/ Play Parties, Dance, School Program Notes, 1978-1995, n.d.
Folder 8: Miscellaneous Notes and Program Notes, 1975-2013, n.d.
Box 8:
Sub-subseries 1.2.7: Music and Musicians, 1962-2021, n.d.
Folder 1: Appalachian Music, 1989-2012, n.d.
Folder 2: Ballad Materials, 1962-2000, n.d.
Folder 3: Ballad of Mary Phagan, 1973-1982, n.d.
Folder 4: Dulcimer Music 1, n.d.
Folder 5: Dulcimer Music 2, n.d.
Folder 6: Religious Music, 1977-2009, n.d.
Folder 7: Shape Note Singing, 1994-2017, n.d.
Folder 8: Song Lyrics, 1974-2021, n.d.
Folder 9: Women in Traditional Music, 1978-2007, n.d.
Folder 10: James and Lessie York Songs, 1975, n.d.
Box 9:
Folder 1: Dulcimer – People and History, 1982-2009, n.d.
Folder 2: Music and Musicians, (A-G), 1963-2017, n.d.
Folder 3: Music and Musicians, (H-P), 1964-2017, n.d.
Folder 4: Music and Musicians, (Q-W), 1967-2018, n.d.
Box 10:
Subseries 1.3: Writings, 1970-2024, n.d.
Sub-subseries 1.3.1: General Writings, 1974-2021, n.d.
Folder 1: Writings – Articles, 1977-2008, n.d.
Folder 2: Writings – Miscellaneous, 1991-2012, n.d.
Folder 3: Writings – Poems, 1975-1980, n.d.
Folder 4: Writings – Songs, 1974-1975, n.d.
Folder 5: Writings – You Don’t Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer, 2020-2021, n.d.
Folder 6: Smith, William D. (Bill) – Writings, 2009-2010, n.d.
Folder 7: Smith, William R. (Bill) – Songs, 2009-2014, n.d.
Sub-subseries 1.3.2: Jane Hicks Gentry Book, 1983-2020, n.d.
Folder 8: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Artwork, 1997, n.d.
Folder 9: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – John Forbes – Correspondence, 1983-1996, n.d.
Folder 10: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Correspondence Scrapbook – University Press of Kentucky, 1996-1999
Folder 11: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – North Carolina Society of Historians Award, 1998-1999
Box 11:
Folder 1: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Permissions, 1987-1996
Folder 2: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Photographs, n.d.
Folder 3: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Promotion, 1998-2004, n.d.
Folder 4: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Proof – Folder 1, 1997
Folder 5: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Proof – Folder 2, 1997
Folder 6: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Reviews, 1998-2020
Folder 7: Jane Hicks Gentry (Book) – Song Transcriptions – John Forbes, n.d.
Box 12:
Sub-subseries 1.3.3: Other Writings about Jane Hicks Gentry, 1985-2024, n.d.
Folder 1: Appalachian Studies Association Conference Paper, 1987-1989
Folder 2: Balladry Historical Marker, 1985-2012, n.d.
Folder 3: Berea College Symposium: “A Singer Among Singers,” 1996, n.d.
Folder 4: Encyclopedia of Appalachian entry – “Gentry, Jane Hicks and Maud Gentry Long,” 1999, n.d.
Folder 5: Miscellaneous Writings about Gentry Family (Betty Smith), 2010-2011, n.d.
Folder 6: “A Mountain Riddle” – Correspondence, 1995-2022
Folder 7: “A Mountain Riddle” – Promotion, Performances, Awards, 1999-2009, n.d.
Folder 8: “A Mountain Riddle” – School Performances, 1998-2000, n.d.
Folder 9: “A Mountain Riddle” – Scripts, 2024, n.d.
Folder 10: North Carolina Women’s History Symposium, 1989-1990
Folder 11: Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, 1985-1986
Box 13:
Sub-subseries 1.3.4: Betty N. Smith Books, 1970-2020
Children’s Music Workshop, The Singing Program, Level A, 1994
Children’s Music Workshop, Music Literacy Readiness, Level B, 1991
Teacher’s Guide to the Open Court Kindergarten Music Program K, 1970
Let’s Sing This-A-Way: Open Court Kindergarten Music Program, 1970
Children’s Music Workshop ABC Songbook, 1988
Folk School Songbook, Compiled and Annotated by Betty Nance Smith and Douglas Day, 1991
The Folk School Songbook, Edited by Bob Dalsemer (Updated from the original Folk School Songbook, Compiled and Annotated by Betty Nance Smith and Douglas Day), 2009
Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers (2 copies), 1998
You Don’t Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer (first proof), 2020
Box 14:
Subseries 1.4: Research Materials, 1880-2023, n.d.
Folder 1: Appalachian Literature, 1969-2018, n.d.
Folder 2: Appalachian Music Bibliographies, 1973-1992, n.d.
Folder 3: Bacheller, Irving – Articles, 1915-1994, n.d.
Folder 4: Black Mountain/ Swannanoa, 2009-2016
Folder 5: Campbell, Olive Dame – Song Collection, 1916, n.d.
Folder 6: Carter, Isabel Gordon (Jack Tales, Riddles), 1925-1993, n.d.
Folder 7: Census – 1880 – Madison and Watauga
Folder 8: Clyde, Mary Kestler, 1990, n.d.
Folder 9: Dorland Bell, 1993-1994, n.d.
Folder 10: Dotterer, Peggy, 1987-1993
Folder 11: Douglas, Jane Long – “My Sunnybank,” 2014
Folder 12: Genealogy – Gentry, Jane Hicks, 1997, n.d.
Folder 13: Genealogy – Harmon Family, n.d.
Folder 14: Genealogy – Hicks Family, 1985, n.d.
Folder 15: Gentry, Jane – Research, 1924-2002, n.d.
Box 15:
Folder 1: Gentry, Jane – Songs, 1916-1917, n.d.
Folder 2: Gentry, Jane – Tales, 1924-1925, n.d.
Folder 3: Gentry, Jane – Weaving, n.d.
Folder 4: Gentry, Jane and Maud Long – Songs, n.d.
Folder 5: Gentry, Jane and Maud Long – Tales, n.d.
Folder 6: Gentry, Jasper Newton – Ancestors and Descendants (by Jimmy Eugene Lewis), 2004
Folder 7: Gentry Family, 1922-2009
Folder 8: Gentry Family – Photographs and Images, 1922-1992, n.d.
Folder 9: Graves, Father Andrew V., 1972-2006, n.d.
Folder 10: Harmon, Adam – Mathias Harmon – Jennie Wiley – Mary Draper Ingles, 1910-1973, n.d.
Folder 11: Henry, Mellinger, 1933, n.d.
Folder 12: Hicks, William Ransom (Doc) – Family, 1898-1992, n.d.
Folder 13: Hicks Family and Harmon Family, 1914-2012, n.d.
Folder 14: Higgins, Lizzie, n.d.
Folder 15: Hot Springs, 1882-2009
Folder 16: Jack Tales, n.d.
Box 16:
Folder 1: Kilbourne, Maud, 1975-2023, n.d.
Folder 2: Long, Maud Gentry, 1920-1999, n.d.
Folder 3: Long, Maud – Library of Congress Collection, 1946-1988, n.d.
Folder 4: Long, Maud – Library of Congress Song Manuscripts, 1944-1989, n.d.
Folder 5: Long, Maud – Songs, n.d.
Folder 6: Long, Maud – Tales, 1947, n.d.
Folder 7: Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1971-1996, n.d.
Folder 8: Madison County, 1968-2017, n.d.
Box 17:
Folder 1: Raine, James Watt, 1916-1923, n.d.
Folder 2: Ray, Byard – Rilla Ray – Obray Ramsey, 1969-2009, n.d.
Folder 3: Reece, Byron Herbert and Bettie Sellers, 1982-2004, n.d.
Folder 4: Richardson, Ethel Park, 1927-1942, n.d.
Folder 5: Roberts, Mary Patton “Pat,” 1994, n.d.
Folder 6: Sharp, Cecil, 1916-2002
Folder 7: Sharp, Cecil – Appalachian Music, 1921-2018
Folder 8: Sharp, Cecil – Manuscripts, n.d.
Folder 9: Sharp, Cecil – Manuscripts – Hot Springs Singers, 1916
Folder 10: Sharp, Cecil – Olive Dame Campbell Correspondence, 1915-1989, n.d.
Folder 11: Shelton Family / Sheltons of Shelton Laurel, 1979-2000. n.d.
Box 18:
Folder 1: Smith, Dr. C. Alphonso, 1916-1990, n.d.
Folder 2: Sunnybank Inn, Hot Springs, North Carolina, 2003, n.d.
Folder 3: Sunnybank Registers, 1939-1972, n.d.
Folder 4: Watauga County, 1969-1984, n.d.
Folder 5: Western North Carolina, 1969-1990, n.d.
Folder 6: Williams, Cratis, 1975-2014, n.d.
Folder 7: Yrjana, Nola Jane Gentry, 1967-1993, n.d.
Subseries 1.5: Correspondence, 1964-2022, n.d.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1964-1979
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1980-1989
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1990-1995
Box 19:
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1996-1999
Folder 2: Correspondence, 2000-2017
Folder 3: Correspondence, n.d.
Folder 4: Correspondence – Armstrong, Jeannette, 1980-1997, n.d.
Folder 5: Correspondence – Davies, Phyllis, 1985-2006, n.d.
Folder 6: Correspondence – Douglas, Jane and Daron Douglas, 1987-1996, n.d.
Folder 7: Correspondence – Ellis, Grace, 2015-2016
Folder 8: Correspondence – Folk Legacy Records, 1972-1989, n.d.
Folder 9: Correspondence – Gentry Grandchildren, 1987-2005, n.d.
Folder 10: Correspondence – Jones, Loyal, 1987-2016, n.d.
Folder 11: Correspondence – Kelley, Saundra, 2008, n.d.
Box 20:
Folder 1: Correspondence – Leach, Ila, 1987-2005
Folder 2: Correspondence – McCrumb, Sharyn, 1990-2021, n.d.
Folder 3: Correspondence – Miscellaneous, 1989-2022, n.d.
Folder 4: Correspondence – Open Court Publishing, 1970-1999, n.d.
Folder 5: Correspondence Related to Research, 1988-1994
Folder 6: Correspondence – “Special Letters,” Folder 1, 1972-2010, n.d.
Folder 7: Correspondence – “Special Letters,” Folder 2, 1976-2009
Folder 8: Correspondence – Susan Trump Music, 1997-2004
Subseries 1.6: Photographs, n.d.
Folder 9: Photographs, n.d.
Subseries 1.7: Oversized Items, 1972-2003, n.d.
Photograph of J.P. Fraley by Rob Amberg, 1975
Photograph of Tommy Hunter by Rob Amberg, 1975
Photograph of Byard Ray by Rob Amberg, 1975
Photograph of Liz Smathers-Shaw by Rob Amberg, 1974
Albert Hash, Virginia
Bluff Mountain Music Festival posters
Byard Ray Folk Festival, August 20, 1977 poster (2 copies)
Byard Ray Folk Festival, June 23, 1979 poster
Byard Ray Folk Festival, August 21, 1982 poster
“Mountain Music Festival Brings ‘Folks’ Together,” Mars Hill College Hilltop, October 20, 1972
Celebration of Traditional Music, Berea, October 25-28 poster
Appalachian State University Mountain Dulcimer Concerts (19th anniversary) poster
Appalachian State University Mountain Dulcimer Concerts (20th anniversary) poster
Spring Guest Artist Poster with Betty Smith Performance
3rd Annual Dock Boggs Memorial Festival poster
Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s Minstrel of the Appalachians and Mountain Music Holiday (5th festival), October 14th poster
38th Annual Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival poster
Appalachian Festival, Morris Harvey College, April 13-16 brochure
Mountain Dulcimer Concerts, Western Carolina University, poster
40th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival brochure
45th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival poster
47th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival poster
76th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival poster
Series 2: Scrapbooks, 1953-2003, n.d.
Box 21: Scrapbook I, 1963-1997
Box 22: Correspondence Scrapbook, 1975-1995, n.d.
Box 23: Green “Music, Etc.” Scrapbook, 1953-1997, n.d. and Purple Scrapbook, 1973-1998, n.d.
Box 24: Red “Music” Scrapbook, 1972, n.d. and Floral “Gentry Pictures” Scrapbook, n.d.
Box 25: Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers Scrapbook, 1988-2003, n.d.
Series 3: Audio Recordings, 1957-2017, n.d.
Subseries 3.1: Audiocassettes, 1973-1998, n.d.
Box 26
Box 27
Box 28
Box 29
Box 30
Subseries 3.2: CDs and DVDs, 1976-2017, n.d.
Box 31
Box 32
Subseries 3.3: LPs, 1957-1990, n.d.
Box 33
Box 34
Box 35
Series 4: Objects, 1968-2005, n.d.
Box 36: Awards and Framed Photographs, 1968-2005, n.d.
41st Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1968 – Best Ballad Singer
44th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1971 – Champion Female Ballad Singer
45th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1972 – Dulcimer Champion
1974 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival – Ballad Champion
1975 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival – Ballad Champion
1975 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival – Old Time Band Champions
75th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival 2002 Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award
Bascom Lamar Lunsford Minstrel of the Appalachia Winner, 1971
Mecklenburg Old Time Fiddlers Convention, Single Performer, 1972
The Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award for Significant Contributions in Music, 1982
The “Minstrel of Appalachia” Award – 2005
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Special Award (2 of these)
North Carolina Society of Historians 2000 Historian of the Year Award West
Mecklenburg Old Time Fiddlers Convention, 1973 ribbon – First Runner Up
37th Annual Old Fiddler’s Convention, 1972 ribbon – Second Prize, Folk Song
2000 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Performer ribbon
Box 37: Weavings, n.d.