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    Edward L. Bernays papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, publicity material, and scrapbooks, together with memoranda, research notes, speeches, articles, drafts of books, lists, surveys, reports, printed matter, photographs, and other material documenting Bernays's career as a pioneer in the field of public relations and the development of that profession and its influence on American society. Bernays represented leading figures and organizations in the arts, finance, health, industry, philanthropy, and world and...
    • Contributor: Bernays, Doris Fleischman - Bernays, Edward L.
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    Sounds of Korea concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2014-07-23 | Sounds of Korea : traditional Korean music and dance from NYC | Homegrown 2014, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert of Korean music and dance featuring 12 performers in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on July 23, 2014 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Park, Sue Yeon - Ha, Ju-Yong - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2014
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    If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews' : Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley,
    Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley | Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-12-01 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording of a lecture delivered by Mick Moloney in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, on December 1, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. In vaudeville's heyday between 1880 and 1920, Irish and Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities, illustrated...
    • Contributor: Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    Lewis Tappan papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, notebooks, autobiographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, and other papers chiefly reflecting Tappan's activities in the antislavery movement. Documents his interest in African American education, the colonization of freedmen in Africa, the role of the Christian in the abolition movement, and religion especially Calvinist and Unitarian theology. Subjects include the annexation of Texas; efforts for the release from custody of the African...
    • Contributor: Tappan, Lewis
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    Rhoda Métraux papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, lectures, interview transcripts, writings, reports, proposals, field diaries, field notes and notebooks, questionnaires, statistical analyses, projective testing materials, artwork and drawings, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Métraux's career as an anthropologist and her professional and personal relationship with anthropologist Margaret Mead. Documents her fieldwork in Haiti, Montserrat, and in Papua New Guinea among the Iatmul of Tambunam village in the Middle...
    • Contributor: Métraux, Rhoda
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    Illuminating history, documenting the occupational culture of New York City's union electricians : Archie Green Fellows Project, 2016-2017. Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available In 2016, New York researcher and electrician Jaime Lopez, in affiliation with SUNY Empire State College's Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center of Labor Studies (HVASLS), and The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW, Local #3) in Queens, New York, received an Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center to document the occupational culture of urban IBEW electricians, who "through manufacture, installation, and maintenance...
    • Contributor: Latrace, Michael - Gibson, Shantar - Case, Corrine - Santorelli, Charles J. - Garcia, Harry (Harold) - Alvarez, Louis - Gould, Jasmine - Cline, Barrie - Lopez, Jaime - Cohen, Kenny (Kenneth) ... Latrace, Michael - Gibson, Shantar - Case, Corrine - Santorelli, Charles J. - Garcia, Harry (Harold) - Alvarez, Louis - Gould, Jasmine - Cline, Barrie - Lopez, Jaime - Cohen, Kenny (Kenneth) - Perez, Christopher M. - Arashloo, Setare S. - Cooper, Uchechi - Occupational Folklife Project - Anzalone, Joseph - Vance, Paul - Skeahan, Cornelius - Spicer, Kim - Riley, William G. - American Folklife Center - Davis, Caleen - Pullman, Scott - Incandela, Anthony - Corchado, Angel - Dixon, September - Ward, William J. - Ferguson, Stephen
    • Date: 2016
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    Edwin B. Weist diary,
    Edwin B. Weist papers | Edwin Bascome Weist papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Diary kept by Weist (1863 January 1-1864 March 4) during his Civil War service in the 20th Indiana Regiment Company A of the U.S. Army. Chronicles the regiment's encampment at Falmouth, Va., from January to April 1863 and a review of the troops in April by a "rather pale and weary" President Abraham Lincoln. Documents participation of the regiment during 1863 in campaigns in...
    • Contributor: Weist, Edwin B. (Edwin Bascome) - Bradshaw, Gordon V.