Brooks Read Brer Rabbit Collection,

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Manuscript Collections Brooks Read Brer Rabbit Collection, Finding Aid

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Brooks Read Brer Rabbit Collection, 1950-1991 (bulk: 1950-1959). Ca. 29 linear feet. Approximately 500 reel to reel audio recordings, scripts, phonographs, correspondence, and subject files of Brooks Read, Baton Rouge storyteller, journalist, and political observer. Materials relate to Read's recorded productions of his original Brer Rabbit stories, as well as a few select Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4476.

Manuscript Topic

Baton Rouge

Literature

Performing Arts

African Americans

Record Type

Manuscript Collections

Year

1950

Page URL: https://lib.lsu.edu/special/manuscripts/guides/brooks-read-brer-rabbit-collection

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