{"value"=>"<p>This series, arranged alphabetically, mainly holds papers documenting Haufrecht's research on the music and songs of the Catskills. This research was carried out from the 1940s to the late 1970s, and assembled in the multi-volume Folk Songs of the Catskills (1982). Many of the papers in the series document that book's creation. They include correspondence with co-author Norman Cazden and the State University of New York at New Paltz (the book's publisher); images used in the book, including a photograph of Haufrecht and Cazden in the 1940s; and photographs from the Folk Festival of the Catskills, mainly from the 1970s. The correspondence with Cazden also contains a folder of \"addenda to the Collection of Catskill Folksongs\" by Cazden, Haufrecht and Norman Studer. The SUNY-New Paltz files hold papers documenting a course on music of the Catskills that Haufrecht taught at the college.</p> <p>Other Catskill-related papers in the series hold information on Camp Woodland, the annual summer camp for children in Phoenicia, New York, at which Haufrecht first gathered songs and folklore from the region; programs and other documention of various New York state folk festivals, mainly the annual Folk Festival of the Catskills; and interview transcripts of Haufrecht speaking with Grant Rogers and Grant Decker, two Catskill folk singers and storytellers. The folder on Miriam Berg, another researcher of Catskills culture, contains a report by her entitled \"Ballads Research Project,\" for which she interviewed Haufrecht.</p> <p>The remainder of the series holds Haufrecht's research notes on and transcriptions of music from various nations and cultures around the world. The regions with the most material are Haiti, Italy, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany-Austria, Great Britain and Ireland, and regions of the United States other than the Catskills.</p>"}