TOM DAVENPORT/DAVENPORT FILMS COLLECTION, #20025
Collection containing several hundred reels of audio tape and thousands of feet of moving
image material, as well as correspondence, field notes, production logs, photographs,
promotional material, and other documentation relating to films made by Tom Davenport.
Several of Davenport's films pertain to African-American subjects, notably Born For Hard
Luck, which looks at the life and times of medicine show performer, songster, and blues man,
"Peg Leg" Sam Jackson, and A Singing Stream, which examines the musical life and traditions
of the Landis family and their gospel singing group, The Golden Echoes.