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Treasures in the Archives

Published April 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM PDT
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Sidney Robertson with the recording machine at the California Folk Music Project office in Berkeley, c. 1939
WPA / Library of Congress
Sidney Robertson with the recording machine at the California Folk Music Project office in Berkeley, c. 1939

Today, one woman's government-funded quest to document the folk music of California in the 1930s…And a family discovers a long-lost recording of their relative hiding in the collection. Then we meet the poet of the International Hotel.

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