Field recordings and photographs made by Anne and Frank Warner documenting folk music and storytelling during trips to Illinois (1941), Massachusetts (1941), New Hampshire (1940-41), New York (1939-41, 1946, 1949-52, 1961, 1969), North Carolina (1938-41, 1944, 1951, 1959), Missouri (1941), Vermont (1940), Virginia (1940), and to some unspecified locations in the Midwest. The songs were collected from descendents of English and Scots-Irish immigrants and from African Americans, some of West Indian descent. Includes songs and stories of Frank Proffitt, Sr. and the extended Hicks family of Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Mohawk songs, chants, war cries, courting, and hunting songs were recorded from Louis Solomon at Hogansburg, St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, New York in 1940-41. Also included are a few interviews with performers, storytelling sessions, and recordings of lectures and readings performed by poet Carl Sandburg in 1950, 1951, and 1953. Fifteen black and white photographic prints taken by Frank Warner from 1938-1941 include photographs of Anne Warner making field recordings of performers in North Carolina; and photographs of Frank Proffitt, Sr., the C. K. Tillett family, John Culpeper, Roby Monroe Hicks, Buna Vista Hicks, Rebecca King Jones, Lena Bourne Fish, Mohawk Indians on the St. Regis Reservation, John Galusha, Joseph Henry Johnson, Bill Moss, and Jesse McDonald.