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

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

• 197 Compact Discs
• 102 Vinyl Records
• 2 Cassette Tapes
• 2 DVDs

• 135 Jazz
• 57 Jazz vocals
• 49 Popular music
• 45 Rhythm and blues music
• 13 Piano music (Blues)
• 12 Folk music
• 12 Guitar music (Blues)
• 11 Country music
• 11 Folk songs, English
• 10 Piano music (Jazz)
• 9 Rock music
• 8 Big band music
• 8 Doo-wop (Music)
• 8 Trumpet music (Jazz)
• 7 Gospel music
• 7 Saxophone music (Jazz)
• 5 Dance orchestra music
• 5 Prisoners' songs
• 5 Saxophone with jazz ensemble
• 5 Spirituals (Songs)
• 4 African Americans
• 4 Boogie woogie (Music)
• 4 Harmonica music (Blues)
• 4 Piano music (Boogie woogie)

• 32 James McKinty Collection
• 28 Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
• 26 Hooker, John Lee
• 22 Marshall F. Granros Collection
• 22 Muddy Waters, 1915-1983
• 17 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 16 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
• 16 Terry, Sonny
• 16 Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963
• 13 McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996
• 13 Memphis Slim
• 12 Hawkins, Coleman
• 11 Little Walter, 1930-1968
• 11 Witherspoon, Jimmy
• 10 Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
• 10 Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958
• 10 Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• 10 Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976
• 10 Turner, Joe, 1911-1985
• 9 Williamson, Sonny Boy, -1965
• 8 Crudup, Arthur, 1905-1974
• 8 Walker, T-Bone, 1910-1975
• 7 Basie, Count, 1904-1984
• 7 Coltrane, John, 1926-1967
• 7 Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992

• 492 English
• 38 No linguistic content
• 20 Unknown
• 8 Undetermined
• 1 Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
• 1 Spanish

• 28 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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