Myrtle B. Wilkinson accompanied fiddler Mrs. Ben Scott with her tenor banjo as they played a medley of Anglo-American tunes in Turlock, California, in 1939. The Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture houses about three thousand ethnographic field collections, many of which were made by individual folklorists, ethnomusicologists, or inspired amateurs with a particular mission or interest. In the case of the California Folk Music Project, Sidney Robertson Cowell recorded a variety of ethnic music from Northern California for the Works Progress Administration.