T-Bone Slim Corpus, source

T-Bone Slim -korpus, lähdemateriaali

Shortname: tboneslim-src

Metadata: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022111621

Rightholder: University of Helsinki

License: CC BY
The complete license is available at http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022111623

A copy of the license is included in LICENSE.txt. The license details
may be subject to change, so before downloading the resource, please
refer to the latest version of the license at the above link.


ABOUT THE CORPUS:
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The T-Bone Slim corpus consists of columns, poems and manuscripts by the
Finnish-American writer T-Bone Slim (Matti V. Huhta, 1882-1942), published
in newspapers, as well as the pamphlet "Starving Amidst Too Much" (1923).
The total number of texts is around 1500-2000, with the number of words in
individual texts varying between 500 and 2000. The database also includes
publication details and other background information on the texts in tabular form.

T-Bone Slim published his texts in the labour movement's newspapers of the IWW
(Industrial Workers of the World). Original texts in English were published in
the following magazines:
- Industrial Worker 1921–1942
- Solidarity 1921
- Truth 1921–1923
- Industrial Solidarity 1921–1932
- Industrial Pioneer 1925–1926; 1929
- One Big Union Monthly 1938 (1920?)

Finnish translations or texts originally written in Finnish were published in
the following journals:
- Amerikan Sanomat 1903 (nimellä Mathew Houghton)
- Industrialisti 1921
- Tie Vapauteen 1923

The material comes from the following libraries and archives: the University
of Michigan, Labadie Collection; Newberry Library, Minnesota Historical Society,
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub; Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University;
Westmoreland family archives.

The collection is part of the Kone Foundation funded project "T-Bone Slim and
the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America" (2022-2023).

Project homepage: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/tboneslim


PACKAGE CONTENT:
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- Raw_texts: contains the raw texts sorted by the year in separate sub-folders

- Scans: contains the originals of the published texts in PDF format,
  sorted in separate sub-folders by the year and type of the data
  
- Microsoft Word document "T-Bone_Slim_Corpus_Transcripts": contains
  the texts in paraphrased form

- Microsoft Excel document "T-Bone_Slim_Database": contains all database
  files and other data. The data is structured by year and type of data.
  In addition, on their own tabs you can find:
  1) a list of the T-Bone Slim related data that are located but for which
  there are no originals or transcripts
  2) a summary of the contents of the database

- "TBS_Database_and_Corpus_Documentation_and_User_Guide": contains
  documentation on the compilation of the package and user guides (e.g.
  explanation of the file naming system)



For further information, please contact fin-clarin@helsinki.fi .