The Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College houses an archive of New England folk song and folklife materials. Begun in 1930 by Helen Hartness Flanders of Springfield, Vermont, it was given to Middlebury College in 1941.
Housed in Special Collections in the Main Library the Flanders Collection consists of field recordings on cylinder, disc and tape of traditional song and dance music recorded in all the New England States between 1930 and 1966. Other materials in the collection includes photographs, manuscripts, letters, broadsides, books and journals.