This collection consists of approximately 2,100 postcards, cabinet cards, "cartes-de-visite" and other albumen prints featuring musicians with their instruments from around the world, as well as Country and Western, Cajun, and Folk sound recording research files amassed by ethnographic 78 rpm disc and photograph collector Benno Häupl.

5.55 linear feet (10 document boxes, 1 half-size document box, 1 flat box)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

The collection is open for research.