• 281 Music Library (Mills)
• 1 Art Library (Kohler)

• 486 Sound Recordings
• 4 Books
• 3 Videos, Slides, Films
• 1 Music Scores

• 144 Compact Discs
• 99 Vinyl Records
• 2 Cassette Tapes
• 2 DVDs

• 112 Jazz
• 44 Jazz vocals
• 42 Rhythm and blues music
• 41 Popular music
• 11 Country music
• 10 Folk music
• 10 Piano music (Blues)
• 10 Rock music
• 9 Folk songs, English
• 8 Doo-wop (Music)
• 8 Guitar music (Blues)
• 8 Trumpet music (Jazz)
• 7 Gospel music
• 7 Piano music (Jazz)
• 6 Saxophone music (Jazz)
• 5 Big band music
• 5 Prisoners' songs
• 4 African Americans
• 4 Boogie woogie (Music)
• 4 Dance orchestra music
• 4 History and criticism
• 4 Spirituals (Songs)
• 3 Harmonica music
• 3 Old-time music

• 32 James McKinty Collection
• 25 Hooker, John Lee
• 25 Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
• 22 Marshall F. Granros Collection
• 19 Muddy Waters, 1915-1983
• 14 Terry, Sonny
• 13 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 13 Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963
• 11 Hawkins, Coleman
• 11 Memphis Slim
• 10 Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958
• 10 Little Walter, 1930-1968
• 10 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
• 10 Witherspoon, Jimmy
• 9 Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976
• 8 Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
• 8 Crudup, Arthur, 1905-1974
• 8 McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996
• 8 Williamson, Sonny Boy, -1965
• 7 Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992
• 7 Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• 7 Fulson, Lowell
• 7 Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970
• 7 Knowling, Ransom
• 7 Sykes, Roosevelt

• 436 English
• 33 No linguistic content
• 16 Unknown
• 8 Undetermined
• 1 Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
• 1 Spanish

• 24 United States
• 16 Chicago
• 16 Illinois
• 10 Louisiana
• 9 Texas
• 6 New Orleans
• 4 Detroit
• 4 Michigan
• 4 New York
• 4 New York (State)
• 3 California
• 2 Great Britain
• 2 Houston
• 2 Memphis
• 2 Southern States
• 2 Tennessee
• 1 Arkansas
• 1 Chile
• 1 Denmark
• 1 Hollywood
• 1 Los Angeles
• 1 Mississippi
• 1 South Carolina

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