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    John Donald Robb collection.
    J. D. Robb collection of folk music recordings Catalog Record Only
    Collection of field recordings of more than 2500 items, principally Hispanic American music and American Indian music from the southwestern United States, with some recordings of fiddle tunes, cowboy songs, and other popular music. Also includes music from Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Recorded by John Donald Robb and others at many locations in New Mexico and elsewhere, 1942-1979. Hispanic...
    • Contributor: University of New Mexico - Robb, J. D. (John Donald) - Westendorf, Lynette
    • Date: 1942
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    Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers concert collection,
    Navajo music and dance from Arizona and New Mexico in celebration of Native American heritage month | Homegrown 2005, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2005-11-16 Catalog Record Only
    Collection of sound and video recordings of a concert featuring the Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers, a group founded in 1993 by Shawn Price. Most of the dancers are students at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Conversation with two eleven year old Native American males, New Mexico (Transcript)
    • Contributor: Unidentified - Christian, Donna - Wolfram, Walt
    • Date: 1977

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    Gibson-Getty-McClure families papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, military papers, and other material relating to various members of these allied families from Cumberland County, Pa. Gibson family papers pertain chiefly to the Revolutionary War service of George Gibson (1747-1791). Papers of George W. Getty document his Civil War service with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, various Indian campaigns, and the Fitz-John Porter court-martial. Papers of Charles...
    • Contributor: McClure, Charles - Getty, George W.
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    William Holmes Walker papers, Catalog Record Only Memoir, diary, notebook, and scrapbook reflecting the history of the Mormon Church and Walker's life as an early Mormon convert and patriarch of the Mormon Church. In his memoir, Walker describes his years in Joseph Smith's household in the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Ill.; Walker's journey to South Africa and his missionary service there; the Mormon emigration from Nauvoo, Ill., to Salt Lake City,...
    • Contributor: Walker, William Holmes
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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
    Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only
    This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...
    • Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
    • Date: 1999
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    Nakotah LaRance, Native American hoop dancing,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2016-05-18 | Native American Hoop Dancing | Homegrown 2016, 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 May 18, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. This performance was also an event celebrating the American Folklife Center's 40th anniversary at the Library of Congress. Nakotah LaRance (Hopi/Tewa/Assiniboine) of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Larance, Nakotah - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Larance, Steve
    • Date: 2016
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    John Dougall Metcalfe papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, journals, writings, notes, orders and other military records, travel and subject files, family papers, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Metcalfe's career in the U.S. Navy, particularly during World War II. Consists largely of letters from Metcalfe to his family, especially to his wife, Jean Violet Metcalfe, detailing his assignments and his activities while on leave. Documents Metcalfe's training in electronics and...
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, John Dougall
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    Conversation with 11 year old Native American female, New Mexico (Transcript)
    • Contributor: Unidentified - Christian, Donna - Wolfram, Walt
    • Date: 1977

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    Wayne W. Williams collection on playing bones. Catalog Record Only Collection of recordings, photographs, clippings, and correspondence documenting Wayne W. "Red" Williams' performances "playing sticks" or bones. Includes an audio recording of his solo performance and a performance in concert accompanying bluegrass music on November 19, 1984. Also includes a color videocassette recording of Williams "playing sticks" on December 6,1984. Williams, of Hobbs, New Mexico, was inspired to learn the bones by seeing a...
    • Contributor: Williams, Wayne W.
    • Date: 1984
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    Biblioteca Nacional de México collection. Catalog Record Only Consists of selections from legajos 1-10 of documents for the history of New Mexico and the Southwest, catalog of douments relating to Texas, a relation Nicolás La Flora, Obras manuscritas numbers 2-29-7, 14-2-39, 14-2-60, 15-1-10, 2-13-6, 10-379, and a memorial of Joaquín de Vedoya.
    • Contributor: Biblioteca Nacional De México
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    Keith Morrison Little collection Veterans History Project (U.S.) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The collection contains an interview with Keith M. Little about his Marine Corps service during World War II in the Pacific Theater as a Navajo code talker and a documentary entitled The Face Behind the File: American Indian Veteran in which Little is featured.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Little, Keith Morrison - United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Central Office - Ramsey, Ann - Veterans History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2004
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    Conversation with 43 year old Native American female, New Mexico (Transcript)
    • Contributor: Unidentified - Christian, Donna - Wolfram, Walt
    • Date: 1977

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    Zuni Indian mission records, Catalog Record Only Three volumes containing a history and lists (from 1776) of births, deaths, and marriages at the Spanish mission to the Zuni Indians located in what is now New Mexico.
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    Helen Heffron Roberts papers, Catalog Record Only Field notebooks, musical notation, manuscripts, lecture notes, correspondence and photographs related to Helen Heffron Roberts' collection of Native American and Polynesian songs and language. The papers include transcriptions, musical notations, and translations which correlate with wax cylinder and disc audio recordings made by Roberts, recordings made by other field workers, as well as to unrecorded material.
    • Contributor: Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron)
    • Date: 1907
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    Peggy V. Beck collection,
    Peggy V. Beck collection on New Mexican midwinter masquerades | Oremos, oremos: New Mexican midwinter masquerades Catalog Record Only
    This collection comprises research materials created and compiled by Peggy V. Beck for the exhibition "Oremos, Oremos: New Mexican Midwinter Masquerades," at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico in 1987. Included are sound recordings of interviews, rehearsals, and performances; field notes, photographs, drawings, and videocassettes; plus exhibition catalogs and exhibit scripts. The focus of the exhibition is midwinter celebrations and plays, including...
    • Contributor: Millicent Rogers Museum - Beck, Peggy V.
    • Date: 1985
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    Gist family papers, Catalog Record Only Includes letters (1776-1778) of John McClure and William Sterett to Mordecai Gist relating to the Revolution in Maryland; letters (1847-1853) of W. W. H. Gist while serving in the Mexican War in New Mexico and while in California; and letters from various family members who served in the 6th Maryland Infantry and the 17th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War relating to action in...
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    Darwin Weaver papers, Catalog Record Only Diary of trip on a government train from Austin, Tex., to Fort Craig, N.M., and from Geldon, N.M., to San Antonio, Tex.
    • Contributor: Weaver, Darwin
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    National Book Festival 2001 : American Folklife Center Storytelling Pavilion,
    National Book Festival 2001, Storytelling Pavilion | American Folklife Center concert, 2001-09-08 Catalog Record Only
    Collection of planning documents, correspondence, contracts, programs, publicity, and video documentation of events at the Storytelling Pavilion, National Book Festival, held on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on September 8, 2001. The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress planned and produced the performances and events held at the Storytelling Pavilion. Documents include publicity materials from performers, including six color photographic...
    • Contributor: Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison ... Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison - New Arcadia Puppet Troupe - Daise, Natalie - Daise, Ronald - Pan Masters Steel Orchestra - American Folklife Center - Adams, Sheila Kay
    • Date: 2001
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    Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers concert collection,
    Title from program flyer: Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers | Title from program flyer: Music and dance from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico | Title from program flyer: Homegrown 2002, the music of America | Homegrown 2002 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2002-11-13 Catalog Record Only
    Collection consists of sound and video recordings and black-and-white photographs of the performance of traditional music and dance from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico at the Library of Congress on November 13, 2002; plus 2 color photographic prints of the group in ceremonial dress. Fernando Cellicion, director of the group, performs flute music based in his own tradition and borrowed from other tribal groups including...
    • Contributor: Cellicion, Fernando - National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2002
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    Conversation with 34 year old Native American male, New Mexico (Transcript)
    • Contributor: Thomas, Timothy - Christian, Donna - Wolfram, Walt
    • Date: 1977-12-09

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    Lone Piñon : Acoustic Conjunto from New Mexico concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-08-01 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America | Lone Piñon Concert 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 August 1, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Lone Piñon is an acoustic conjunto band from Northern New Mexico whose music celebrates the diversity and integrity of their region's cultural roots. Using violins, accordion, quinta huapangera,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lone Piñon (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2018
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    Rodgers family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, journals, accounts, notebooks, military records, financial papers, biographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to John Rodgers's naval service and to family affairs. Documents Rodgers's command of the naval squadron in the Mediteranean Sea during the Tripolitan War and again in 1826-1827, his command of the New York Naval Shipyard and of the flotilla enforcing the...
    • Contributor: Macomb, Nannie - Macomb, Alexander - Rodgers, Minerva Denison - Rodgers, John - Macomb, Ann Minerva Rodgers - Macomb, Christina