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    Zionaires concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2008-07-24 | Zionaires : | African American gospel music from Maryland and Delaware | Homegrown 2008, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by the Zionaires on July 24, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The group performs African American gospel music with vocal harmonies and a full band. Since the founding of the group in 1954, they have focused their...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Zionaires (Musical Group) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    Dance Battle with Urban Artistry, emceed by Junious Brickhouse,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-02-22 | Dance Battle with Urban Artistry | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on February 22, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. This concert presented a series of dance battles, set to the beats of DJ Baronhawk Poitier, with Junious Brickhouse as the event's emcee. Dance battles are a common...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Shippen Family Papers The papers of the Shippen family, a wealthy and powerful group of Philadelphians connected by blood and marriage who reached the height of their influence in the mid-eighteenth century, span the years 1671-1936, but date mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collection consists of 6,500 items (15,666 images) digitized from 15 reels of previously produced microfilm.
    • Contributor: Shippen, Edward - Shippen, Thomas Lee - Shippen, Alice Lee - Nicholson, Rebecca Lloyd - Nicholson, Joseph - Livingston, Anne Home Shippen - Nicholson, Joseph Hopper - Shippen, William

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    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line concert and symposium,
    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line | American Folklife Center concert, 2015-09-09 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2015-09-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In celebration of the legacy of the pioneering old-time musician Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), Reed's son Dave Reed, her nephew Hugh J. Campbell, and members of the acclaimed bluegrass band Danny Paisley and Southern Grass performed bluegrass and gospel songs in the Coolidge Auditorium on September 9, 2015. A symposium program, chaired by Betsy Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center on Sept. 10 included Clifford...
    • Contributor: Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael ... Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael - Riale, Frances Mann - Ledbetter, Steven Lance - Reed, David Arthur - Lundy, T. J. - Paisley, Danny - Peterson, Betsy - Turner, Jessica Anderson - Campbell, Hugh Jones - National Council for the Traditional Arts
    • Date: 2015
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    Pinelands Folklife Project The Pinelands Folklife Project collection represents the culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey in the mid-1980s. The collection comprises ethnographic documentation which examines the relationship between the local culture and the surrounding environment. It contains the administrative records, planning documents, and published...
    • Contributor: Thatcher, Elaine - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Orr, Jay - Sinton, John W. - Parsons, Gerald E. - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - Tweed, Stewart M. - Ridgway, Merce - Little, Silas ... Thatcher, Elaine - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Orr, Jay - Sinton, John W. - Parsons, Gerald E. - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - Tweed, Stewart M. - Ridgway, Merce - Little, Silas - Pinelands Cultural Society - Cervetto, Jack - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Cartwright, Christine A. - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Cohen, David Steven - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Vivian, V. Eugene - McDonald, Dennis - Samuelson, Sue - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Glassie, Henry - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Shourds, Harry V. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - O'Connor, Malachi - Hunn, Eugene S. - Lund, Jens - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Hufford, Mary - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission
    • Date: 1983

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    Olmsted Associates Records The digitized portion of the Olmsted Associates Records consist of approximately 149,000 items (366,518 images), scanned from 532 reels of microfilm reproducing the two largest series in the collection, the Letterbooks, 1884-1899, and Job Files, 1863-1971, which document the work of the Brookline, Massachusetts, landscape architectural firm and its widespread projects and commissions undertaken for private and public clients in the United States and...
    • Contributor: Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot - Olmsted Associates - F.L. Olmsted and Company - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) - F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted Brothers - Olmsted, John Charles - Olmsted, Frederick Law

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    Billy McComiskey with family and friends, Irish traditional music and dance from Maryland,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2016-06-28 | Homegrown 2016, the music of America | Billy McComiskey Family Band Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on June 28, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Billy McComiskey is one of the nation's leading players of Irish traditional music. He has won the All-Ireland championship on the button accordion, and is a veteran of...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - McComiskey, Billy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Bretholz, Myron - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    The Royal Harmonizers concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2015-03-18 | The Royal Harmonizers | Homegrown 2015, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on March 18, 2015 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Royal Harmonizers, from various locations in Montgomery County, Maryland, perform a concert of gospel music and spirituals in four-part harmony, a cappella and with electric guitar accompaniment.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Royal Harmonizers - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    Montgomery C. Meigs Papers The papers of army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892) consist of 11,000 items (42,508 images), most of which were digitized from 51 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1799 to 1971, with the bulk concentrated in the period 1849 to 1892, the collection is composed mainly of correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, military papers, family papers, scrapbooks, drawings, maps,...
    • Contributor: Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham) - Meigs, Montgomery

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    Marimba Linda Xelajú concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2010-09-15 | Marimba Linda Xelaju | Marimba Linda Xelaju : Guatemalan marimba music from Maryland | Homegrown 2010, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Digital sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs documenting a concert performed by Marimba Linda Xelajú in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 15, 2010 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Marimba Linda Xelajú is a family group from Maryland who form a small marimba orchestra (Marimba Grande, with drums and electric bass) performing Guatemalan music.
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Marimba Linda Xelajú (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2010
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    Blair Family Papers The papers of the Blair family, a prominent nineteenth-century political family, consist of 19,100 items (48,166 images) most of which were digitized from 49 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1744-1968, with the bulk dating from 1829 to 1892, the collection contains correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, writings, legal files, financial records, military records, biographical and genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, and...
    • Contributor: Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Gist - Blair, Francis Preston - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston) - Blair, Woodbury - Clapp, Charles Q. - Stevens, Samuel - Woodbury, Levi

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    Blair family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, writings, legal files, financial records, military records, biographical and genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of Blair family members. Family correspondents include many members of the immediate Blair family as well as extended relations such as Mary Elizabeth Woodbury Blair, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Virginia L. Woodbury Fox, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Samuel Phillips Lee, Minna Blair Richey, and...
    • Contributor: Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Gist - Blair, Francis Preston - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston) - Blair, Woodbury - Clapp, Charles Q. - Stevens, Samuel - Woodbury, Levi
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    Kalanidhi Dance : traditional Kuchipudi dance from Maryland,
    Kalanidhi Dance collection, 2013 August 14 | Homegrown 2013, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2013-08-14 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a dance concert, Kalanidhi dance: traditional Kuchipudi dance from Maryland, held in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on August 14, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Kuchipudi, one of India's seven main classical dance styles, combines fast rhythms with fluid movements, creating a blend of control and abandon,...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Kalanidhi Dance - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Nehru, Anuradha
    • Date: 2013
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    George Brinton McClellan Papers The papers of U.S. Army officer and governor of New Jersey George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) consist of 33,000 items (59,477 images), most of which were digitized from 82 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1783-1898, with the bulk dating from 1850 to 1885, the collection contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, diaries, writings, notes, military papers, McClellan family papers, scrapbooks, printed copies of speeches,...
    • Contributor: McClellan, Mary Ellen Marcy - McClellan, George B. (George Brinton) - Minter, Joseph F.

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    Donald Benham Civil War Collection The Donald Benham Civil War Collection consists of 300 items (576 images) in one container, and spans the years 1806 to 1916, with the bulk dating from 1850 to 1870. The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, military orders and records, speeches, and miscellaneous items comprising Civil War material amassed by collector Donald Benham.
    • Contributor: Benham, Donald

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    James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers The papers of James Buchanan (1791-1868), representative and senator of Pennsylvania, secretary of state, and fifteenth president of the United States, and those of his niece and White House hostess Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903) contain approximately 1,600 items dating from 1825 to 1887. James Buchanan’s papers include correspondence, notes, drafts of remarks, commissions, land patents and other papers relating chiefly to Buchanan’s career in...
    • Contributor: Buchanan, James - Johnston, Harriet Lane

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    Olmsted Associates records, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, journals, reports, plans and specifications, blueprints, diagrams, nursery orders, deeds, contractual arrangements, financial records, personnel records, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and other records constituting the business files of the firm and documenting its history and growth. The records trace the firm's work in the District of Columbia, including the U.S. Capitol and White House grounds; with the park systems of Baltimore,...
    • Contributor: Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot - Olmsted Associates - F.L. Olmsted and Company - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) - F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm) - Olmsted Brothers - Olmsted, John Charles - Olmsted, Frederick Law
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    Pinelands Folklife Project collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The Pinelands Folklife Project collection represents the culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions of the inhabitants in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey in the mid-1980s. The collection comprises ethnographic documentation which examines the relationship between the local culture and the surrounding environment. The collection contains the administrative records,...
    • Contributor: Thatcher, Elaine - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Orr, Jay - Sinton, John W. - Parsons, Gerald E. - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - Tweed, Stewart M. - Ridgway, Merce - Little, Silas ... Thatcher, Elaine - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Orr, Jay - Sinton, John W. - Parsons, Gerald E. - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - Tweed, Stewart M. - Ridgway, Merce - Little, Silas - Pinelands Cultural Society - Cervetto, Jack - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Cartwright, Christine A. - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Cohen, David Steven - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Vivian, V. Eugene - McDonald, Dennis - Samuelson, Sue - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Glassie, Henry - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Shourds, Harry V. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - O'Connor, Malachi - Hunn, Eugene S. - Lund, Jens - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Hufford, Mary - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission
    • Date: 1983
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    Lewis H. Machen Family Papers The Gresham family material in the Lewis H. Machen Family Papers consists of seven diaries kept by Georgia teenager LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847-1865) during the Civil War, and approximately 550 items of correspondence, primarily letters exchanged by members his family's inner circle. Among the principal figures represented, all from Macon, Georgia, are John Jones Gresham, an attorney, judge, and plantation owner; his wife Mary...
    • Contributor: Machen, James P. - Machen, Arthur Webster - Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry) - Machen, Minnie Gresham - Machen, Emmeline - Gresham, Leroy Wiley - Machen, Caroline Webster
    • Date: 1860

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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records,
    NAACP records Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, constitutions, bylaws, charters, speeches, testimony, writings, reports, scripts, policy statements, notes, legal case files, resolutions, legislation, questionnaires, surveys, lists, annual convention files, itineraries, contracts, proposals, publicity files, financial records, biographical material, subject files, publications, manuals, handbooks, printed matter, songs, awards, certificates, directories, daily mail sheets, certificates, awards, flags, photographs, maps, and other records. Material in digital format includes databases, software, radio...
    • Contributor: Gilbert Jonas Company - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Washington Bureau - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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    John Carvel Arnold Papers The papers of laborer and Union soldier John Carvel Arnold (1833-1865) consist of 190 items (533 images) in one container and span the years 1856-1937, with the bulk dating from 1864 to 1874. The collection principally contains correspondence of Arnold with his wife, Mary Ann Arnold, during his Civil War service with Company I, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, relating chiefly to his...
    • Contributor: Arnold, John Carvel

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    Singing and Praying Bands concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2012-08-23 | Singing and Praying Bands of Delaware and Maryland : a sacred service from the African American Methodist prayer meetings and camp meetings of the mid-Atlantic Tidewater | Homegrown 2012, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on August 23, 2012 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The ministry of the Singing and Praying Bands takes place in host churches, often at a camp meeting after an evening preaching service is over. Members line out a hymn, pray a prayer,...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Singing and Praying Bands of Delaware and Maryland - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2012
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    Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers,
    Wilbur and Orville Wright papers | Wilbur Wright papers | Orville Wright papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Correspondence, diaries, minutes, notebooks, writings, reports, business and legal papers, genealogical material, printed matter, patents, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to the invention of the airplane and the development of aviation. Documents the lives and work of the Wright brothers who designed, built, and piloted the first machine to achieve powered, sustained flight in 1903 and the first practical airplane in 1905....
    • Contributor: Wright, Milton - Wright, Wilbur - Wright, Orville - McFarland, Marvin Wilks - Wright Cycle Company - United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Wright and Wright