File consists of correspondence from Pete and Toshi Seeger, news clippings and collected texts. Materials include, but are not limited to: undated photograph and negative of Almanac Brothers, undated blank card with photograph of Pete Seeger on front, undated Christmas card of Seeger family, note with decorated paper from Toshi, and archival copy of envelope from Toshi and Peter Seeger in New York to Rinzler in New Jersey; undated copy of letter from Pete Seeger to "Hawes's", undated copy of letter from Pete Seeger, undated copy of magazine article, undated advertising sheets for Film Images, copy of 1965 [?] article "Why Folk Music?" by Peter Seeger; copy of 1967 letter to "Bess and Butch and all"; 1967 copy of letter from Ben Botkin in New York to Pete Seeger with National Folk Festival Affiliates sheet, all forwarded to Rinzler with note; 1967 joint letter from Peter and Toshi Seegerin New York to Rinzler; copy of 1967 letter to Toshi and Pete Seeger; 1969 Pete Seeger biographical material to Harold Leventhal in New York City; copy of 1970 newspaper clipping; archival copy of 1979 newspaper clipping; 1980 letter and draft from Pete Seeger to "Ferry Sloopers in Albany, Indiana, and other places"; archival copy of 1980 newspaper clipping; copies of 1981 letters from Rinzler in DC to Bob Allen in Pennsylvania and Toshi Seeger; archival copy of 1982 newspaper clipping; 1987 letter from Pete Seeger in New York to Rinzler; stagebill from Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Carnegie Hall.
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Collection Citation:
Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
