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• California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
  A multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting Northern California communities.

• Dorothea Dix Lawrence Collection
  Correspondence and other material related to the American opera singer and recitalist.

• Eusebia Hunkins Collection
  Papers of the 20th-century American composer.

• Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
  Traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia, recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour.

• Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1927-1942
  Folksongs and folktales from many cultures throughout Florida.

• Folk-Songs: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection
  Recordings of American folksongs collected by Robert Winslow Gordon in the 1920s and early 1930s.

• Fort Valley State College Folk Festivals, 1938-1943
  Sound recordings of blues and gospel songs from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College.

• Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
  Religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado in 1940.

• Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-century Ohio
  Music reflecting 19th-century middle-American culture.

• Lauro Ayestarán Collection
  Extensive collection of music of Uruguayan composers of all genres.

• Omaha Indian Music
  Traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s.

• Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection
  Papers of the noted ethnographer and wife of composer Henry Cowell.

• The Alan Lomax Collection
  The unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of sixty years.

• The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
  An ethnographic field collection which includes nearly 700 sound recordings documenting a three-month trip through the southern United States.

• The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition
  History and commentary on the tradition of wearing and displaying ribbons to remember loved ones far away.

• The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project
  Working papers of the WPA Federal Music Project.

• Todd/Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
  Everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941 through sound recordings, photographs, and other materials.

• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song
  Correspondence from the 1940s between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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