[78-L] "Buccaneer" lacquers..info please?

[Michael Shoshani]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:46 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
> I have 10 lacquers with flaking labels (discs are fine, thank you) of material recorded in Haiti, Havana and Nassau, all with "Collection of Laura C. Bolton" around the upper circumference, "Buccaneer" hand written across each label, "1936" for date, and non-sequential numbers like 38A backed with 52. Dances, calypso numbers (I think) like "Miss Tidy, Lend Me Your Pigeon" etc..what exactly is the source for these?

Buccaneer? Sounds like a pirate outfit to me. 

Are you sure it's not Laura C. BoUlton? She was an ethnomusicologist,
which would fit neatly with the material you have.

Wackypackia has a small page on her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Boulton