Welsh Folklore Material

The Welsh folklore material includes more than thirty reels of material collected in the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, in the late 1960s, as well as an oral history of coal mining disputes in South Wales.

The Welsh Colony in Patagonia

Hollis title: The Welsh colony in Patagonia [field recordings]
URL: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011288126/catalog
Series: Celtic Dept. audio collection at Harvard Library (acquisition #1607)
Format: Originally recorded on reel-to-reel audio tape; now digitized and streamed
Reels: 11
Contents: Material collected in Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina
Collector: David C. K. McClelland and Paul David Lagomarsino

Patagonian Project I

Hollis title: Patagonian Project I
URL: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011289193/catalog
Series: Celtic Dept. audio collection at Harvard Library (acquisition #1946))
Format: Recorded on reel-to-reel audio tape, now digitized and streaming
Number of reels: 8
Contents: Folk music and poetry recorded from various informants in Welsh colony of Patagonia, Argentina
Collector: David C. K. McClelland and Paul David Lagomarsino

Patagonian Project II

Hollis title: Patagonian Project II
URL: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011289320/catalog
Series: Celtic Dept. audio collection at Harvard Library (acquisition #1946)
Format: Originally recorded on reel-to-reel audio tape; now digitized and streamed
Number of reels: 15
Contents: Materials collected in the Welsh colony of Patagonia in July and August 1968
Collector: David C. K. McClelland and Paul David Lagomarsino (?); Ivor Roberts (?

Oral History of Coal Mining

Hollis title: Oral history of coal mining disputes in South Wales [field work collection]
URL: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011289406/catalog
Series: Celtic Dept. audio collection at Harvard Library (acquisition #1949)
Format: Originally recorded on reel-to-reel audio tape; now digitized and streamed
Number of reels: 7
Contents: Personal interviews with a number of Welsh informants, including Ben Davis, William Reed and Dr Lewis