Similar Resources

Archival Sources Online (with a “northwoods” bias!)

Collections that Include Sound Recordings
Folksongs of Another America (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan)
Wisconsin Folksong Collection
Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the 30s
John Quincy Wolf Collection (Ozarks)
Max Hunter Collection (Ozarks)
W is for the Woods (Adirondacks, NY)
Vermont Folklife Center
Maine Song and Story Sampler
Field Recordings of Angelo Dornan (New Brunswick)
MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia)
Singers and Songs of County Clare (Ireland)
Irish Traditional Music Archive
Tobar an Dualchais (Scotland)
Whalsay’s Heritage of Song (Shetland Islands)

Archives of Early Commercial Recordings
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

Primarily Text-Only Collections
Mudcat
Songs of The Newfoundland Outports at GEST
The Full English

Broadsides, Sheet Music and Other Published Sources
Internet Archive
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project (Boston)
Levy Sheet Music Collection
UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive
Historic American Sheet Music – Duke
Irish Sheet Music Archives
Broadside Ballads Online from the Bodleian Libraries (England)

Bibliographies, Indexes
Traditional Ballad Index