"The folklorist Alan Lomax's collection, which had been housed at Hunter College, has been acquired by the Library of Congress, thanks to a contribution from an anonymous donor, according to an announcement to be made today by James Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Lomax's collection contains more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion-picture film, 2,450 videotapes, 2,000 books and journals, hundreds of photographs and negatives, and several databases for portions of the archive, as well as more than 120 linear feet of manuscript materials, including correspondence, field notes, research files, program scripts, indexes and book and article manuscripts. It will become part of the library's American Folklife Center. Lomax, the first to record Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters and Leadbelly, was in charge of the library's Archive of American Folk Song until 1942, when he left to pursue his musical anthropology in the United States and abroad. His collection had been in several large rooms at Hunter College, overseen by the Association for Cultural Equity, which he founded in 1985 to research, preserve and disseminate world folk performances. Now directed by his daughter, Anna Lomax Wood, the association plans to make his audio and video recordings available to libraries,"(Elizabeth Olson, "Folk Music:: The Alan Lomax Collection", ''New York Times'', March 24, 2004. )〕