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    Vance Randolph collection, 1941-1972 Field recordings, photographs, and manuscripts documenting Ozark Mountains folksong, folklife, and local history from 1941 to 1972, collected by Vance Randolph.
    • Contributor: Tuttle, Mildred - Hammontree, Doney - Carlisle, Irene Jones - Campbell, Booth - McCord, May K. - Ingenthron, Charles - Read, Lessie Stringfellow - Jordan, Lon - Denoon, Jimmy - Randolph, Vance - Bilyeu, Willie
    • Date: 1941
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    Woody Guthrie manuscript collection, 1935-1950 The Woody Guthrie manuscript collection includes unpublished correspondence, most are letters from Guthrie to Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, dated 1940-1942; plus drawings; essays; song lyrics; and a songbook, "Songs of Woody Guthrie."
    • Contributor: Guthrie, Woody - Spivacke, Harold - Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1935
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    Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon collection, 1977-1991 An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, and accompanying materials that document the music and dance of Jamaican Maroons, particularly the Kromanti Dance ritual complex recorded by Kenneth M. Bilby in 1977-1979, and in 1991.
    • Contributor: Bilby, Kenneth M.
    • Date: 1977
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    Anne and Frank Warner collection, 1938-1969 Documentation of American traditional musicians and storytellers collected by Anne Warner and Frank Warner on numerous field recording trips to Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia from 1938 to 1969.
    • Contributor: Sandburg, Carl - Proffitt, Frank - Proffitt, Frank, Jr - Ives, Burl - Solomon, Louis - Warner, Frank - Hicks, Ray - Warner, Anne
    • Date: 1938
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    September 11, 2001 documentary project collection, 2001-2002 Documentation of the reactions of individuals and communities across the United States and elsewhere (Naples, Italy) to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and the crash of the hijacked plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; in audio, video, and photographs from 2001-2002.
    • Date: 2001
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    Art Rosenbaum Georgia folklore collection, 1955-1983 Copies of audio tape recordings made by Art Rosenbaum in north and coastal Georgia and South Carolina principally in the 1970s and early 1980s. These field recordings encompass many genres of acoustic folk music, including gospel, shout, blues, ballads, and some interviews with the performers, recorded in homes, churches, and festivals.
    • Contributor: Rosenbaum, Art - Finster, Howard - Jones, Bessie - Pattman, Neal - Tanner, Gordon - Bruce, W. Guy - Heaney, Joe
    • Date: 1955
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    Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey collection, 1937-1941 Correspondence, field notes, reports, recording logs, transcripts of song texts, and sound recordings of African American music traditions and folkways, collected by Robert Sonkin, primarily in Gee's Bend, Alabama, in 1941.
    • Contributor: Gaston, Alice - Sonkin, Robert - Moseley, Isom
    • Date: 1937
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    American Dialect Society collection, 1931-1937 The American Dialect Society Collection contains field recordings of samples of regional American speech recorded between 1931-1937 for the Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE) and the Dictonary of American Regional English (DARE), as well as related materials.
    • Contributor: Hill, Archibald A. - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Brooks, Sarah Ashton - Boyd, Phoebe - Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) - Ashton, Sally - Quarterman, Wallace - Grandgent, C. H. (Charles Hall) - Cooke, Alistair ... Hill, Archibald A. - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Brooks, Sarah Ashton - Boyd, Phoebe - Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) - Ashton, Sally - Quarterman, Wallace - Grandgent, C. H. (Charles Hall) - Cooke, Alistair - Quall, Susan A. - Sapir, Edward - Polite, Samuel - Chapallaz, Marguerite - Turner, Lorenzo Dow - Lowman, Guy Sumner - Bloch, Bernard - Thompson, Susanna Rebecca Wright - Hanley, Miles L.
    • Date: 1931
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    Fletcher Collins Jr. collection, 1935-1944 The Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection is the result of the Anglo-American folksong collecting activities of Fletcher Collins Jr. from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, under the auspices of the WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts and for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song.
    • Contributor: Cole, Calvin - Tate, Dan - Collins, Fletcher, Jr - Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield)
    • Date: 1935
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    Penne Laingen yellow ribbon collection, 1979-1991 Collection comprises Penne Laingen's yellow ribbon marking the year her husband Bruce Laingen was held hostage in Tehran, Iran, during the Iran hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981; plus a 1991 interview with the Laingens and related documentation.
    • Contributor: Laingen, L. Bruce - Laingen, Penne - Parsons, Gerald E.
    • Date: 1979
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    Ken Lindsay collection of Woody Guthrie correspondence, 1952-... This collection contains unpublished correspondence between Woody Guthrie, two of his wives, and British recording distributor, Ken Lindsay.
    • Contributor: Guthrie, Woody - Lindsay, Ken
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    Sergei Zhirkevich photograph collection, 1980-1998 Collection consists of 28 black-and-white photographic prints and 46 pages of diary excerpts written in the field by Sergei Zhirkevich, who documented music, dance, religious traditions (processions, Shrovetide customs) and rural life in the Pskov and Leningrad regions of Russia, the North Caucasus mountain area, Kazakhstan, and the former Baltic states between 1982 and 1998 for his book, Ot Zamogil'ia do Blagodati, From Beyond...
    • Contributor: Zhirkevich, Serge
    • Date: 1980
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    Sam Eskin collection, 1939-1969 Collection consists of manuscripts, field recordings, photographs, and ephemera documenting folk music and folk music revivals in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from 1938 to 1966; plus manuscripts and field recordings of mostly unidentified artists performing folk music in Jamaica, Cuba, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, and Thailand from 1953 to 1969 collected by Sam...
    • Contributor: Eskin, Sam
    • Date: 1939
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    Harold C. Conklin Philippine collection, 1955-1995 Audio copies of original ethnographic field recordings made by anthropologist and linguist Harold C. Conklin, primarily of music and rituals of the Ifugao of northern Luzon, Philippines from 1961-1995. Also includes copies of 24 recordings, some made by other researchers and of other Philippine groups and languages dated 1955-1977. Related manuscripts include correspondence with Conklin, recording logs, and indices to the original recordings.
    • Contributor: Conklin, Harold C.
    • Date: 1955
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    Italian Americans in the West Project collection, 1988-1993 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, graphic materials (including color slides, black-and-white negatives, and photographic prints), and moving images collected during a field research project documenting Italian American occupational, cultural, and religious traditions in several locations in the western United States. Fieldwork was conducted in Gilroy, California; San Pedro, California; Pueblo, Colorado; Carbon County, Utah; Walla Walla, Washington; and several mining and...
    • Contributor: Light, Ken - Taylor, David Alan - Frank, Russell - Williams, John Alexander - Carter, Thomas - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - Owen, Blanton - Parks, Valerie - Manini, Paula Marie ... Light, Ken - Taylor, David Alan - Frank, Russell - Williams, John Alexander - Carter, Thomas - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - Owen, Blanton - Parks, Valerie - Manini, Paula Marie - Siporin, Steve - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Lund, Jens - Notarianni, Philip F. - DeNatale, Douglas - Tavarelli, Paola
    • Date: 1988
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    Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 The collection consists of manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, artifacts, publications, and ephemera from an ethnographic field project conducted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, which documented occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey in 1994. Subjects include the textile industry, industrial architecture, machine shops, labor unions, family owned businesses, dressmaking, and ethnic restaurants. A single manufacturing firm, Watson Machine International, was the focus...
    • Contributor: McCarl, Robert - Smith, Lynda S. - Taylor, David Alan - Cooper, Martha - Lloyd, Timothy Charles - Levitas, Susan - Pascrell, Bill - Lautenberg, Frank R. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio
    • Date: 1993
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    Ray M. Lawless collection, 1952-1965 Research materials including questionnaires, some correspondence, and photographs of approximately 200 folksingers and singers of folksong (a few of them are performers of art songs and classical music) collected by Ray M. Lawless to illustrate his book, Folksingers and Folksongs in America (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960; second edition, 1965).
    • Contributor: Lawless, Ray McKinley
    • Date: 1952
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    Sara L. M. Davis collection on Tai Lüe culture, 1997-2005 Collection of ethnographic field recordings, photographs, and manuscripts documenting Tai Lüe religious rituals; oral narrative traditions; popular songs; poetry; performances for tourists; interviews with poets and singers; and some local audio and video recordings collected in Sipsongpanna (Xishuangbanna), Yunnan Province, China, by anthropologist Sara L. M. Davis from 1997 to 2005 for her dissertation, published as Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest...
    • Contributor: Davis, Sara L. M. (Sara Leila Margaret)
    • Date: 1997
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    Lands' End all-American quilt collection, 1992-1997 The collection consists of photographs of quilts and quilters, essays, entry forms, and a few fabric and needlework samples submitted in three nationwide contests in 1992, 1994, and 1996 sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands’ End, Inc. home shopping service, and Good Housekeeping magazine. Approximately 13,100 entries for the three contests came from all 50 states and the District of Columbia with...
    • Contributor: Sewell, Sonja - McAlister, Mary Alma - Gresham, Mabel - Koehler, Fran - Null, Nancy Marzilli - Thompson, Judith I. - Musick, Ruann - Simmons, Lorraine E. - Sells, Audree L. - Reisch, Lori ... Sewell, Sonja - McAlister, Mary Alma - Gresham, Mabel - Koehler, Fran - Null, Nancy Marzilli - Thompson, Judith I. - Musick, Ruann - Simmons, Lorraine E. - Sells, Audree L. - Reisch, Lori - Kimball, Annabelle - Shockley, Maggie - Hire, Dianne S. - Parks, Laura Bailey - Stewart, Joyce - Calistro, Polly - Inverso, Therese M. - Landkamer, Ginny - Kailhofer, Patricia - Sugiyama, Yuki - Gillihan, Anne - Newman, Terrie - Laceky, Carolyn - Harbison, Edna R. - Dick, Betty E. - McWilliams, Margaret C. - Finlayson, Constance - Krauss, Joanne L. - Nancarrow, Ree - Lutz, Marcia - Fraley, Ted - Averett, Linda - Butler, Barbara - Stanley, Lura - Potter, Maggie - Hughes, Margaret (Quiltmaker) - Singer, Vivian R. - Prentice, Royce H. - Jordan, Ethel Taylor - Keehr, Brenda - Metz, Pearl - Denaxas, Pat - Evans, Jane R. - Gaudynski, Diane - Styring, Patricia - Fahl, Ann - White, Norma - Dubbs, Kathleen - Tummings, Laquita - Dunn, Frances V. - Schwam, Vicki - Manzanares, Helen - Dison, Deanna D. - Cameron, Charlotte - Bolton, Pat - McCabe, Mary Jo - Gould, Patricia - Fusco, Mary Bartlett - Ziegler, Madge - Schutt, Suzanne Peery - Klipfel, Leah - Ott, Carol K. - Elmer, Susan E. - Seay, J. Alex - Wortman, Penelope - Glaze, Sally - Paul, Anna Mae - Tucker, Daren L. - Seigel, Rebekka - Brooks, Kathleen Rindal - Weber, Julia C. - Ludwig, Janet - Holihan, Jane - Kimball, Charlene - Richards, Rhonda (Rhonda L.) - McCoy, Susanne - Burrill, Jean F. - Rasso, Nancy - Fuquay, Susan - Lee, Kathy A. - Ramsey, Kathy - Bryan, Mamie - Patch, Adele - Ingersoll, Patricia - Hearst, Lavena - Hattaway, Cesarina - Perea, Ilse - Clabo, Margo J. - Olson, Noelle M. - Nicholson, Naomi - Hall, Jane - Beecroft, Anne Tisdel - Todd, Zenna - Scoggan, Pam - Kruelskie, Patricia - Bryant, Jill D. - Schell, Ann-Lillian - Smith, Karen A. (Quiltmaker) - Spencer, Jeannette E. - Miller, Dianne (Quiltmaker) - Harshbarger, Linda - Goff, Candy - Kepaa, Rita - Myers, Dorothy A. - Greenhoe-Bergh, Eliza - Morris, Ruth W. - Splitt, Martha - Anderson, Jennifer Jared - Haglund, Joan R. - Witteman, Lori - Medovic, Cathy - Shaw, Leslie B. - Bawn, Rosemary - Balunis, Evelyn F. - McNutt-Kaestner, Cindy - Rouse, Kathryn - Patton, Ila - Clarine, Barbara - Millward, Hazel I. - Smith, Sandra E. - Chase, Lori - Ballard, Debra - Wood, Sherri - Erlenborn, Dorothy C. - Elvgren, B. J. - Baggett, Gladys - Pelletier, Sophie - Benzo, Terry - McKie, Barbara Barrick - Haider, Vicky - Aruns, Jane - Gant, Alice - Hegge, Ken - Webb, Marianne P. - Sewell, Natalie - Arakaki, Nancy - Clarke, Eileen - Haywood, Dixie - Strasberg, Lois - Choate, Donna - Sierra, Lois - Fisher, Emma M. - Baugh, Catherine - Denenberg, Rita - Matthews, Pat J. - Burge, Shelly - Hague, Elizabeth A. - Berry, Irene G. - Calhoun, Frances B. - Hedin, Susan R. - Encarnación, Patricia - Allison, Mary Ann K. - Kinnear, Geri - Akana, Elizabeth A. - Zocher, Judie - Timby, Deborah Bird - Alltizer, Leona - McLennand, Sara Ann - Woodfield, Marlene Brown
    • Date: 1992
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    Mary Sheppard Burton collection, 1993-2006 The collection contains hooked rugs and documentation of the craftsmanship of rug hooking artist, Mary Sheppard Burton, of Germantown, Maryland. Her Tell Me ‘Bout Series consists of 12 rugs created between 1993 and 2005 that interpret the history of her family.
    • Contributor: Lindahl, Carl - Burton, Mary Sheppard - Austen, Theadocia Millich
    • Date: 1993
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    James Madison Carpenter collection, 1928-1987 The James Madison Carpenter Collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and graphic materials that document folk songs, ballads, sea songs, folk music, dance, and British folk drama. The materials span the years 1928-1955, with some related material generated by other scholars dated 1972 and 1987. The bulk of the material was collected between 1928-1935 by Carpenter during fieldwork in England, Scotland, and Wales;...
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Carpenter, James Madison
    • Date: 1928
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    1977 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1977 Documentation of the monthly 1977 Neptune Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs of performers of bluegrass music, country music, blues music, Andean music, Cajun music, and Missouri fiddling recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, from April through October 1977, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Council...
    • Contributor: Johnson, Paula J. - Boggs, Lindy - Reed, Ola Belle - Dockstader, Ray - Jackson, John - Fleischhauer, Carl - Politte, Joe
    • Date: 1977
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    World War II Rumor Project collection, 1942-1943 Manuscript collection created by the Office of War Information in 1942-1943. Field representatives of various federal agencies in 42 states enlisted individuals who collected rumors generated in the United States during World War II. These individuals or "correspondents" included dentists, beauty shop operators, policemen, proprietors, and librarians who had access to rumors in their communities. Reports were submitted to Dr. Eugene Horowitz at the...
    • Contributor: Horowitz, Eugene
    • Date: 1942
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    Square dance legislation collection, 1975-1995 The Square Dance Legislation Collection consists of manuscript materials (1975-1995) compiled by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, documenting the history of legislative efforts to designate the square dance as a national or state folk dance. The bulk of the materials concerns the public hearing on House Resolution 1706 held June 28,1984 before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on...
    • Contributor: Parsons, Gerald E.
    • Date: 1975
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    1978 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1978 Documentation of the monthly 1978 Neptune Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs of performances of Irish music, French-Canadian folk music and contradance, Arab music and dance, bluegrass music, zydeco music, country music, and gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1978, sponsored...
    • Contributor: McKenna, Antoinette - Townsend, Graham - McKenna, Joe - Ashby, John - White, Buck
    • Date: 1977
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    1995 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1995 Documentation of the monthly 1995 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images of performances of zydeco music, lindy hop, bluegrass music, Hungarian folk dance and music, gospel music, and Argentine tango recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress from April through September 1995, sponsored by the American...
    • Contributor: Manning, Frankie - Jocque, Beau - Lewis, Laurie
    • Date: 1995
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    Paul Bowles Moroccan music collection, 1957-1989 An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation of Moroccan folk, popular, and art music. The collection includes recordings Paul Bowles made in 1959 during a four-month field project sponsored by the Library of Congress with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as additional field recordings that he and Christopher Wanklyn made between 1960 and 1962.
    • Contributor: Bowles, Paul - Wanklyn, Christopher
    • Date: 1957
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    1979 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1979 Documentation of the monthly 1979 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs of performers of country, Irish, Cajun, gospel, and Mexican harp music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress, from May through September 1979, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
    • Contributor: O'Donnell, Eugene - Martinez, Melecio - Moloney, Mick - Stover, Don - Dickens, Hazel
    • Date: 1979
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    1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1980 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Armenian music and dance, bluegrass music, zydeco music, Ghanaian music, Afro-Cuban music, and Southeast Asian music featuring Laotian, Vietnamese, and Hmong performers recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Addy, Yacub - Sarkisian, Leo - Derderian, Leo - Stover, Don - Borrell, Roberto
    • Date: 1980
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    1981 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1981 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of bluegrass music, Piedmont blues music, Afro-Cuban music, rhythm and blues and boogie woogie music, Cambodian classical dance, and Irish music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from May through October 1981, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and...
    • Contributor: McComiskey, Billy - Piano Red - Burris, J. C. - Cephas, John - Borrell, Roberto - Moloney, Mick - Wiggins, Phil
    • Date: 1981
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    1982 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1982 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of Irish music, Ghanaian music and dance, Japanese koto music, Mexican string band music, Senegalese music, and West Virginia old-time music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through October 1982, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and...
    • Contributor: Addy, Yacub - Kouyate, Djimo - Morris, Dave (Vocalist)
    • Date: 1982
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    1983 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1983 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of blues music, Cambodian classical dance, bluegrass music, country-western music, Armenian music, cowboy songs, Piedmont country blues music and buck (step) dance, and country blues music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Holloway, Quentin - Holeman, John Dee - Sarkisian, Leo - Ohrlin, Glenn - Jackson, John - Michael, Edd - Jackson, James
    • Date: 1982
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    1984 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1984 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of bluegrass music from Ohio, blues music and African American a capella doo-wop from Washington, D.C., folk music from Bengal, India; Japanese music from Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rican cuatro and salsa music from Washington, D.C. recorded live at the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, in concerts from May through...
    • Contributor: Edwards, Archie - Molton, Flora - Lawson, Doyle - Toro, Yomo
    • Date: 1984
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    1985 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1985 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of African American Piedmont blues music; music of the Andes; bluegrass music; Scottish harp music and Gaelic songs; Omaha Indian music and dance; Spanish flamenco music and dance, and African American gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through October...
    • Contributor: Martínez, Ana - Kinnaird, Alison - Hastings, Dennis - Cephas, John - Primrose, Christine - Wiggins, Phil
    • Date: 1985
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    1986 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1986 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and color slides documenting the performance of bluegrass music, blues music, Armenian music, Senegalese music and dance, Irish music, country music, gospel music, Chinese traditional music and modern compositions, Caribbean music, and Polish music and dance celebrating the Harvest Festival from several regions in Poland. Most concerts were recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas...
    • Contributor: Yeh, Chen-Feng - Crary, Dan - Williams-Jones, Pearl - Brzostowski, Tom - Jackson, James - Tang, Liangshan - Jackson, John - Hickman, John - Berline, Byron - Pan, Huizhu - Sarkisian, Leo - Kouyate, Djimo - Liang, David Mingyue
    • Date: 1986
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    1987 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1987 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and slides documenting performances of bluegrass music; music and dance from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Afghan and Iranian traditional music; steel band music; gospel music; and Pan-Andean music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1987, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the...
    • Contributor: Arif, Mohammed (Musician) - Johnson, Mattie - Macisaac, Dave - Holland, Jerry - Shabtaie, Rahmatollah - Chiasson-Cormier, Hilda
    • Date: 1987
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    1988 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1988 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of old-time music from the Cumberland Plateau, Irish folk music and dance, bluegrass music, Piedmont blues music, Vietnamese music, mariachi music, and gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. Concerts were sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National...
    • Contributor: Harney, Liam - Nguyễn, Đình Nghĩa - Lewis, Laurie - Gore, Linda - Moloney, Mick - Egan, Séamus - Cephas, John - Wiggins, Phil
    • Date: 1988
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    1989 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1989 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of French-Canadian music and dance, Polish-style polka, old-time bluegrass music, Bengali music, bluegrass music, vallenato-style Colombian music, and gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Hooven, Greg - Blazonczyk, Eddie - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) - Legault, Normand
    • Date: 1989
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    1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1990 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of bluegrass music, klezmer music, Hungarian folk dance and music, Piedmont blues music, gospel music, and Afro-Cuban music and dance recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Sapoznik, Henry - Jabbour, Alan - Cephas, John - Wiggins, Phil - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
    • Date: 1990
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    1991 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1991 The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Peking Opera, Swiss folk music, Bluegrass music, Bulgarian folk music, Javanese gamelan music and dance, and gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Supartha, I Gst. Agung Ngurah - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
    • Date: 1991
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    1992 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1992 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Puerto Rican folk music; Tennesse old-time music; folk music from Veracruz, Mexico; dances of the Tewa Indians from the Santa Clara Pueblo; Irish folk dance and music; gospel music; and bluegrass music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April...
    • Contributor: Long, Donna - Jamison, Phil - Wick, Regan - Harte, Frank - Blizard, Ralph - Mulvihill, Brendan - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) - Lilly, Everett
    • Date: 1992
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    1993 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1993 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of North Indian Bengali music; Jamaican music; African American gospel quartets and choral music; Irish folk dance and music; bluegrass music; African American hand dancing; and Andean music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1993.
    • Contributor: Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn - Friedland, Lee Ellen - Moloney, Mick
    • Date: 1993
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    1994 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1994 Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Tibetan sacred music and dance; Tamburitza music from the Balkan Peninsula; Iroquois music; African American rhythm and blues quartet singing; gospel brass band music; bluegrass music; and Cuban mambo music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September...
    • Contributor: Crowe, Josh - Cachao - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) - McLaughlin, David
    • Date: 1994
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    Maine Acadian cultural survey collection, 1991 Collection consists of sound and video recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, printed materials, correspondence, field notes, and administrative files documenting folklife--including architecture, music, dance, storytelling, material culture, and occupational culture--in the Upper Saint John River Valley on the Maine and New Brunswick border.
    • Contributor: Taylor, David Alan - Bayley, Julie - Whitman, David A. - Ornstein, Lisa - Marshall, Howard W. - Brassieur, C. Ray
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    Voices of Civil Rights Project collection, 2003-2006 Collection consists of oral history interviews, sound and video recordings, photographs and manuscript materials documenting memories of the 20th century civil rights movements in the United States, collected by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) from 2003 to 2004 in 48 cities in the South, Midwest and western United States.
    • Contributor: Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy ... Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy - Hackney, Lucy D. - Sellers, Cleveland - Hill, Oliver W. - Brownmiller, Susan - Reid, Vernon - Norton, Eleanor Holmes - Carlos, John - Briggs, Jimmie - Lee, Helen Shores - McKinstry, Carolyn Maull - Kirk, Ron - Zabel, William D. - Charles, Michael Ray - Wilkins, Roger W. - Wilson, Diane - Krol, Debra Utacia - Rowles, Billy E. - Wilder, Lawrence Douglas - Forman, James - Bonilla, Rubén - Romilly, Constancia - Reavis, Dick J. - Horowitz, Rachelle - Steger, Michelle - Harjo, Suzan Shown - Halpern, Rosario Salgado - Oldham, Charles R. - Thompson, Larry Dean - Iverem, Esther - Adams, Victoria Gray - Tafel, Richard - Dinkins, David N. - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Jones, Doug (G. Douglas) - Lyons, Kenneth O. - Tisdale, Alice - Smith, Vern E. - Jarrett, Vernon - Sloan, Lester - Seay, Norman R. - Swann-Daniels, Carol - Spellman-Diaz, Toyin - Booth, Heather - Rivers, Eugene - Wilson, Edwin O. - Lee, Sammy - Beerman, Leonard I. - Lewis, John - Lowery, Joseph E. - Shores, Barbara - Holland, Endesha Ida Mae - McWhorter, Diane - Neubauer, Rita - Patoski, Joe Nick - Sims, Bernice Banks - Mapp, Marilyn - Braxton, Annye H. - Kwoh, Stewart - Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson) - Wolf, Bonny - Little Joe (Vocalist) - King, B. B. - Doty, Juanita Sims - West, W. Richard - Pierce, Ponchitta Anne - Branch, Raylawni G. - Bowley, Andy - Beal, Gerald K. - Tisdale, Charles - Kyles, Samuel Billy - Baxley, Bill (William Joseph) - Fountain, Clarence - Davis, L. Clifford - Rosenfeld, Megan - Lewis, Dan - Frank, Barney - Fleming, Karl - Poussaint, Alvin F. - Hayes, Shirley G. - Harrington, Penny - Murray, Tawanda - Lout, Mike (James M.) - Dickinson, James Luther - Kellogg, Alex - Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene) - Collins, Wendell - Whitehouse, Liz - Mease, Quentin R. - Moses, Robert Parris - Gutiérrez, José Angel - Lum, Lydia - Rosenzweig, Hannah - Williams, Juan - Smith, Jerome M. - Garcia, Isabel (Isabel G.) - Bourne, St. Clair - Uyeshima, Erin Emiko - Wunrow, Jeffrey D. - Hite, Nancy - Epps, Jesse - Fife, John M. (John Macmillan) - Lawson, James M. - Graves, Curtis - Kochiyama, Yuri - Miller, Tom - Sutton, Goodloe - Latimer, Leah Y. - Goodman, Carolyn - Landrieu, Moon - Gields, Clarence - Mashariki, Job - Andrade, Juan - Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne - Yamamoto, Joyce C. - Pride, Carlton
    • Date: 2003
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    Captain Pearl R. Nye collection, 1937-1944 The collection is comprised of field recordings made in Akron, Ohio, by John A. Lomax (on June 27-28, 1937), and Alan Lomax and Elizabeth Lomax (on November 3, 1937), of songs performed by Pearl R. Nye related to life on the Ohio and Erie Canal, plus photographs of canal life (some hand-decorated by Nye), and correspondence between Nye and Harold Spivacke of the Library...
    • Contributor: Nye, Pearl R. - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
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    Agnes Bellinger Tlingit collection, 1985 Collection comprises two videocassettes and a pamphlet on traditional music, dance, and other customs of the Tlingit nation of southeast Alaska.
    • Contributor: Bellinger, Agnes
    • Date: 1985
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    National Visionary Leadership Project interviews and conferen... The National Visionary Leadership Project Interviews and Conference Collection consists primarily of master recordings of interviews by the National Visionary Leadership Project with significant figures in 20th century African American history. In addition, the collection includes transcripts (both printed and electronic) of a portion of the interviews, edited versions of the interviews and print and digital photographs.
    • Contributor: Cosby, Camille O. (Camille Olivia) - Poussaint, Renee
    • Date: 1997
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    Civil Rights History Project collection, 2010-2016 Collection of 145 filmed oral history interviews of 175 participants in the United States civil rights movement and their family members.
    • Contributor: Stewart, Eleanor - McDew, Charles - Hopkins, Evans D. - Magee, Clarence - Simpson, Euvester - Jones, Mary A. - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Young, Sam - Tillow, Walter M. - Vivian, C. T. ... Stewart, Eleanor - McDew, Charles - Hopkins, Evans D. - Magee, Clarence - Simpson, Euvester - Jones, Mary A. - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Young, Sam - Tillow, Walter M. - Vivian, C. T. - Mahone, Sam - Parker, Wheeler - Hill, Oliver W. - Anderson, Fletcher - Tillow, Kay - Dove, Samuel - Henderson, Juadine - Carlos, John - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Funchess, Glenda - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Crosby, Emilye - Williams, Junius W. - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Jarmon, Charles - Tuttle, Rick - McCarty, Michael D. - Montes, Carlos - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Moldovan, Alfred - Arellanes, Gloria - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Browner, Clifford - Suggs, Harold - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Miller, Carolyn - Zellner, Dorothy - Burras, Carol Cummings - Sobol, Richard B. - Abernathy, Ralph David - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Holloway, Eddie A. - Zapata, Luis - McLaurin, Charles - Howell, Embry - Anderson, William G. - Saunders, William - Carter, Robert L. - Varela, Maria - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Richardson, Gloria - Crosby, Patricia A. - Bailey, D'army - Suggs, Frances L. - Cox, Courtland - Ackerman, David M. - Greene, Freddie - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Smith, Jeanette - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Bassett, Emmett W. - Lucy, William - Hicks, Charles Ray - Young, Carrie Lamar - Dittmer, John - Carawan, Guy - Caldwell, Ben R. - Robinson, Reginald - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Dahmer, Vernon, Jr - Jones, James Oscar - Jones, Clarence B. - Newson, Moses J. - Sales, Ruby - Greenberg, Jack - Lowery, Joseph E. - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Guyot, Lawrence - Head, Rosie M. - Alexander, Roberta - Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus) - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Huggins, Ericka - Dixon, Elmer - Churchville, John Elliott - Cline, David P. - Siler, Charles E. - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Sherrod, Charles - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Broadway, Louise W. - George, Virginia Simms - Luper, Calvin - Holloway, Lucius - Branch, Raylawni G. - Crosby, David L. - Cleaver, Kathleen - Hutchings, Phil - Marshall, Cecilia - Burns, Julia Matilda - Brown, Robert J. - Griffin, Willie James - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Noonan, Martha P. - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Dudley, John F. - King, Lonnie C. - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - McNichols, Steven - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Bassett, Priscilla - Russell, Bill - Seeger, Pete - Thelwell, Michael - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Lawrence, William M. - Howell, Joseph T. - McClary, Robert - Fuller, Linda - Walker, Theresa Ann - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Ladner, Dorie - Bates, Scott - Bruce, Walter - Blake, Harry - Bond, Julian - Miller, Grace H. - Long, Worth W. - Carawan, Candie - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Mtume, Norma - Paysour, Lafleur - Williams, Cecil J. - Diamond, Dion T. - Mosnier, Joseph - Robinson, Betty Garman - Lawson, Jennifer - Guster, Leesco - Moore, E. Maynard - Ladner, Joyce A. - Miller, James E. - Branch, Taylor - Terry, Esther M. A. - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Sellers, Cleveland - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Strickland, William - Jenkins, Mary F. - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Richardson, Judy - Connor, Peggy Jean - Rosenberg, John M. - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Wright, Simeon - Collins, Barbara Maria - Sherrod, Shirley - Booker, Simeon - Sullivan, Patricia - Howard, Elbert - Bishop, John Melville - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Jones, Jamila - Geiger, Jack - Vickers, Barbara Edna - Breaux, Toni - Camarillo, Mateo - Clark, Robert George - Brown, Harold K. - Avery, Annie Pearl - Holloway, Emma Kate - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Dixon, Aaron
    • Date: 2010
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    Eloise Hubbard Linscott collection, circa 1815, 1929-2002 Eloise Hubbard Linscott’s collection of research materials for her book, Folk Songs of Old New England (1939) and other folk music research through about 1955. The collection includes correspondence; music transcriptions; sound recordings of folk music, lectures, and radio broadcasts; photographs of Linscott's informants; documentation of events and trips within New England; plus some materials from her estate, dated circa 1815-2002.
    • Contributor: Sherrard, William J. - Reed, Elizabeth Foster - Grover, Carrie B. - Linscott, Eloise Hubbard - Bayard, Samuel Preston
    • Date: 1815
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    Tom Raymond collection Collection of photographs taken by Tom Raymond documenting storytellers and audiences at the annual National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, Tennessee, from circa 1984 to 2003. Most are 35 mm color slides and negatives. The collection documents the major storytellers and performers at the festival with more than 1,500 photographs of storyteller Ray Hicks taken at the festival over the years and at his home in...
    • Contributor: Raymond, Tom
    • Date: 1984
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    Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project collection, 20... The Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project collection includes manuscripts (letters, sermons, orations, church programs, etc.), audio and video recordings, photographs, and other graphic materials created by the public in response to the 2009 election and inauguration of President Barack Obama and collected by the American Folklife Center. Includes submissions from over 300 individuals, religious and secular organizations, from 39 states and the District...
    • Date: 2008
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    W. Dean Edwards collection, 1946-2002 The collection includes manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, and videotapes documenting the activities of a traditional American square and contra dance group, the Fun Finders, from Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1946 to 2002. Fun Finders was organized as an exhibition square-dance group by W. Dean Edwards, who directed the group from the 1940s through the 1980s with his wife Peggy Edwards. Sound and videorecordings of...
    • Contributor: Edwards, Peg - Edwards, W. Dean
    • Date: 1946
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    Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta col... The collection consists of a portion of the materials generated by a joint field project -- the Coahoma County, Mississippi, field project, 1941-1942 -- undertaken by Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, and Fisk University faculty members including Charles S. Johnson, John Wesley Work, and Lewis Wade Jones. Field recordings were made of...
    • Contributor: Mangham, S. L. - Johnson, Charles Spurgeon - Jones, Lewis Wade - Hemphill, Sid - Muddy Waters - Edwards, Honeyboy - Johnson, George - Lomax, Alan - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - House, Son - Sturz, Elizabeth Lyttleton
    • Date: 1941
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    Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection, 1977-1981 The collection consists of sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, manuscripts, sheet music, printed ephemera, artifacts, administrative records, and ethnographers' field notes related to the 1978 Blue Ridge Parkway Project field survey, conducted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, in cooperation with the National Park Service, in and around an area of the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Virginia and North Carolina border....
    • Contributor: Mullen, Patrick B. - Bryan, Mamie - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Richardson, Larry (Banjoist) - Wolfe, Charles K. - Owen, Blanton - Todd, Zenna - Marshall, Howard W. - Owen, Margaret Counts ... Mullen, Patrick B. - Bryan, Mamie - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Richardson, Larry (Banjoist) - Wolfe, Charles K. - Owen, Blanton - Todd, Zenna - Marshall, Howard W. - Owen, Margaret Counts - Wilson, Joe - Shockley, Maggie - Jabbour, Alan - Choate, Donna - Eiler, Terry - Fleischhauer, Carl - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Adler, Thomas A. - Patton, Ila - Ray, Roxie - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Cruise, Crystal - Stanley, Lura
    • Date: 1977
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    South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982 Collection of documentary materials resulting from an ethnographic field research project conducted by the American Folklife Center in eight counties of south central Georgia, and at Mt. Zion, Georgia, in July and August 1977 in cooperation with the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Topics of research were hymn singing, vernacular architecture, foodways, jokes, and stories from the region. Includes documentation of...
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - McGraw, Hugh - Adler, Thomas A. - Stanley, David - Robinson, Beverly J. - Marshall, Howard W. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Blackmarr, Syd - Coelho, Dennis - Hamrick, Raymond C.
    • Date: 1977
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    A. James Delahoussaye collection of Atchafalaya River Basin r... Collection of field recordings of interviews with Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana, residents about their lives, traditions, and folkways, recorded from 1974-2010, as well as approximately 645 digital images documenting the same traditions. Interviews were conducted by Alphe James (Jim) Delahoussaye. Digital images were created by his colleague, Darlene Soulé, of many of the same informants. Topics include fresh water fishing and shrimping, other animals...
    • Contributor: Delahoussaye, A. James - Soulé, Darlene
    • Date: 1974
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    Paula Morin collection : Honest horses, wild horses in the Gr... Collection of photographic documentation of wild horse herds in the Nevada Great Basin made by Paula Morin during her work for the Nevada Arts Council, 1999-2001. The photographs were exhibited by the Nevada Arts Council in an exhibiton titled, "Honest Horses: A Portrait of the Mustang in Nevada's Great Basin." The collection includes 21 prints described by the artist as giclee prints made from...
    • Contributor: Morin, Paula
    • Date: 1999
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    John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax papers, 1907-1969 Collection of correspondence, research notes, transcripts, sheet music, manuscript music transcriptions, song texts, song books, maps, and administrative documents dating primarily from the tenure of John A. Lomax and his son Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress, from 1932-1942, but with a few items dating to the 1960s. Correspondents include various staff at the Library of Congress, in...
    • Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
    • Date: 1907
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    Montana Folklife Survey collection, 1979 Collection of field recordings of interviews with Montanans in various occupations including ranching, sheep herding, blacksmithing, stone cutting, saddle making, and mining; various folk and traditional music occasions including fiddle and mandolin music in Forsyth; fiddle and accordion music performed in Broadus; the Montana Old-Time Fiddlers Association in Polson; Irish music, songs, and dance music on concertina and accordion in Butte; a Serbian wedding...
    • Contributor: McBride, Tom - Johnson, Paula J. - Young, Kay - Stanton, Gary Ward - Toelken, Miiko - Dockstader, Ray - Toelken, Barre - Crummett, Michael - Wasson, George B. - Fleischhauer, Carl
    • Date: 1979
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    Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, 1976-1981 The collection consists of sound recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, videorecordings, publications, ephemera, administrative files, and field notes produced and collected during the 1977 Chicago Ethnic Arts Project field survey from 1976-1981; but primarily during fieldwork conducted by fourteen folklorists directed by the American Folklife Center in 1977. The final project report presented to the Illinois Arts Council summarized the current conditions and folk arts...
    • Contributor: Swenson, Greta E. - Moloney, Mick - Robinson, Beverly J. - Mathias, Elizabeth - Epstein, Shifra - González, José Gamaliel - Kalčik, Susan J. - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Fleischhauer, Carl - Mack, James ... Swenson, Greta E. - Moloney, Mick - Robinson, Beverly J. - Mathias, Elizabeth - Epstein, Shifra - González, José Gamaliel - Kalčik, Susan J. - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Fleischhauer, Carl - Mack, James - Dovydenas, Jonas - Brzovich, Mato - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Choi, Chungmoo - Bradunas, Elena - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta - Bartis, Peter - Hellenberg, Antony - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - George, Philip B. - March, Richard - Libonati, Roland V. (Roland Victor) - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Klymasz, Shirley - Lund, Jens
    • Date: 1976
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    Aaron Ziegelman Foundation collection Collection of audio and video recordings of oral histories with family members of people who lived in Luboml, Poland (now in Ukraine) between World War I and World War II conducted from 1994-2000, with transcripts of these interviews; original photographs; photographs copied from the personal archives of these family members and from other archives; original passports, immigration papers, letters (including letters of the Eiger...
    • Contributor: Ziegelman, Aaron
    • Date: 1931
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    Lowell Folklife Project collection, 1987-1988 This year-long study conducted by the American Folklife Center yielded an ethnographic collection consisting of 196 hours of sound recordings covering a wide range of subjects and activities, including oral history interviews, religious services, musical events, parades and religious processions, ethnic festivals, ethnic restaurants, and neighborhood tours. An additional 23 hours of sound recordings of musical events and oral history interviews were copied from...
    • Contributor: Rankin, Tom - Taylor, David Alan - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Lueders-Booth, John - Bell, Michael Edward - Bartis, Peter - Norkunas, Martha K. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Fertig, Barbara C. - Montaño, Mario - DeNatale, Douglas
    • Date: 1987
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    Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo collection, 1937-1943 An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, photographs, and accompanying materials that document religious and secular music, dance, and ritual in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and also the state of São Paulo. Fieldwork was conducted in northeastern Brazil in 1937-1938, some audio recordings were accessioned in 1950. The collection includes correspondence between Harold Spivacke, then chief of...
    • Contributor: Spivacke, Harold - Alvarenga, Oneyda
    • Date: 1937
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    Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project colle... The collection consists of field notes, interviews, curriculum materials, sound recordings, photographs, and one videorecording resulting from a survey conducted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress in 1982 which documented 23 ethnic schools in the United States. Fieldwork was conducted at various locations including: Armenian school in Watertown, Massachusetts; Cambodian school in Houston, Texas; Chinese school in San Antonio, Texas; Czech school...
    • Contributor: Long, Lucy M. - Proschan, Frank - Deak, Frank - Marks, Morton - Bradunas, Elena - Davis, Lee (Anthropologist) - Leung, John - Skillman, Amy E. - McCallum, Brenda - Arocho, Rudy ... Long, Lucy M. - Proschan, Frank - Deak, Frank - Marks, Morton - Bradunas, Elena - Davis, Lee (Anthropologist) - Leung, John - Skillman, Amy E. - McCallum, Brenda - Arocho, Rudy - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Gates, Bob - Fleischhauer, Carl - Vidutis, Richard - Basa, Peter - Fast, Jana - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - McClain, Margy - Fish, Lydia M. - Baird, Scott J. - Webber, Philip E. - Dwyer-Shick, Susan - Bell, Carole O. - Tarhan, Lance - Seipel, Sandy - Topping, Brett - Feintuch, Burt - Westover, Victoria - Sacks, Maurie - Conklin, Nancy Faires - Miller, Jefferson - Haas, Mary-Louise - Nagy, Susan Mary - Cech, Barbara
    • Date: 1982
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    Nevada Arts Council "Honest Horses" exhibition collection, 19... Collection of field recordings of interviews and administrative files generated by and curated by Paula Morin and the Nevada Arts Council for an exhibition titled "Honest Horses: a portrait of the mustang in the Great Basin," circa 2002, and later as a traveling exhibition. Morin photographed wild horses in the Great Basin and interviewed Nevada residents and others about the complex issues regarding wild...
    • Contributor: Mathis, Dave - Liu, Irwin K. M. - Nachlinger, Janet L. (Janet Lynn) - Graham, Andrea - Shrake, Richard - Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie) - Grandin, Temple - Vavra, Martin - Abbey, Bob - Mitchell, Waddie - Budiansky, Stephen - Mattise, Samuel N. - Morin, Paula
    • Date: 1999
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    Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz collection, 1885-2010 An ethnographic field collection of manuscript materials, graphic images, sound recordings, and moving images that document, for the most part, Romanian folk dance and music as well as costume, ritual, and customs. Music arrangements, choreographic diagrams, photographs, and programs document activities of the state dance companies, the Ciocîrlia and Perinitza Ensembles. Oral history interviews with the donor recorded in 1995 complement the materials. Manuscript...
    • Contributor: Popescu-Judetz, Eugenia - Forner, Michelle - Popescu-Judetz, Gheorghe
    • Date: 1885
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    Abraham A. Schwadron "Chad Gadya" collection, 1973-1985 Collection consists of Abraham Schwadron's correspondence (1975-1985), manuscript materials, published and unpublished music transcriptions of the songs, field recordings, and other materials from his research on "Chad Gadya" ("One Kid"), a Jewish song associated with Passover. It contains recordings and transcriptions of more than 160 versions of "Chad Gadya" and related songs from around the world. Some notes from and about Schwadron's informants include...
    • Contributor: Schwadron, Abraham A.
    • Date: 1973
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    W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection, 1936-1991 The California Folk Music Project of the California Work Projects Administration (WPA) was conceived and directed by Sidney Robertson Cowell and co-sponsored by the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Music Division, Library of Congress from 1938 to 1940. Additional support was provided by the New Music Society of California and the Society of California Pioneers. The resulting collection of...
    • Contributor: Dedo, Tony - Daniels, Joe (Musician) - Robinson, Leighton - Oriet, Frenchy - Bell, Sam (Folksinger) - Coffin, Ada Pearl - De Soto, Jessie - Macphee, John - Gaidos, Mary - Aslanian, Jack ... Dedo, Tony - Daniels, Joe (Musician) - Robinson, Leighton - Oriet, Frenchy - Bell, Sam (Folksinger) - Coffin, Ada Pearl - De Soto, Jessie - Macphee, John - Gaidos, Mary - Aslanian, Jack - Russo, Joseph W. - Einarsson, Thordur - Sanfilippo, Francisco - Benonys, Sigridur - Goshtigian, Hartop - Gould, Hattie Scott - Ortega, Jacinta - Popoff, Mrs - Petersen, Fina - Schetinin, William T. - Haroutunian, Bedros - Hobrecht, Bertrand - Etcheverry, Frances - Avila, Albert - McDonald, Mary A. - Franco, Louise - Lindsay, Junior - Drasky, Mary - McKenzie, Leighton - McCready, Spencer - Lozada, Cruz - Brown, Hilda Duarte - Baboyan, Reuben J. - Reha, Julia - Garcia, Johnnie - Selleck, John N. - Cunha, Frank - Stone, John E. - Rodriguez, Elinor - Franks, Mr - Denoon, R. R. - Erro, Antoinette - Salonen, Mary - Jones, Leonard W. - Blackburn, Sam - Meade, Virginia - Powell, Charles (Guitarist) - Garcia, Maria (Singer) - Franco, Clifford - Olafson, John - Rice, Ben - Coffin, Byron H. - Handon, Joseph H. - Brady, Hubert - Loscutoff, William S. - Lindsay, Bennie - Pico, Virginia - Susoeff, J. P. - Susoeff, J. P., Mrs - Ruthling, Pablo - Barr, Alex - Sebree, Walter - Gomez, Julio (Musician) - Shatinian, T. - Lemos, Manuel - Nilssen, Alf - Acosta, Rosalie - Takakjian, Mesrob - Brangone, Louis - Bedrosian, Joe - Flores, Olive - Earnson, Flora - Shapazian, Vartan S. - Hall, J. L. - Botica, John - McCready, John A. - Macinnes, Charlotte - Nimerfroh, Rosa - Etcheverry, Matias - Ford, Arthur J. - Espinosa, Lottie - Flores, Joaquim - Dormody, Anita - Ford, Bogue - Goshtigian, Mary - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Morgan, Aaron - Sigurasson, Oddrun - Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist - Bardarson, Sigurd - Jelenfy, Mr - Walker, Robert W. - Bardarson, Leo - Avila, Alice Lemos - Shapazian, Siranoosh - Jelenfy, Elizabeth - Pitts, Ben - Lucido, Sal - Sanford, Herbert Hudson - Figueroa, Ben - Koljonen, Celia - Mendes, Alberto (Musician) - Fetesoff, William S. - Nimerfroh, Mr - Koljonen, C. A. - Macinnes, Donald - Bateman, John (Photographer) - Kratlian, Archie - Madariaga, Mrs - Bardarson, Otto - Soininen, John - Ponce, Leon - Myers, Evarista - Olmeda, Mario - Pavon, Ed - Fulton, Charles (Pianist) - Rasmussen, Charles (Judge) - Popoff, Mr - Waters, Ozzie (Water Witcher) - Ford, Elizabeth W. - Sanoff, J. D. - Medeiros, Antonio - Day, William T. - Ralph, Walter Ross - Sarakoff, A. P. - Bakalian, Jack - Harp, Walter - Kendall, Raymond - De Soto, Tomas - Ford, Warde H. - Coffin, Byron, Jr - Wilkinson, Myrtle B. - Ford, Pat - Silva, Elzira - Mann, Thomas B. - Cunningham, John (Singer) - Boro, Peter - Hart, Harmon - Cunha, John - Graham, George Vinton - Asmussen, Ella - Cook, Charles (Fiddler) - Silveira, Mary - Macphee, Mary - Calderón, Aurora
    • Date: 1936
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    Isabel Gordon Carter collection, 1921-1942 Collection of correspondence, notes, and photographs related to Isabel Gordon Carter's research and publications on Appalachian ballads and folktales, and customs from 1921 to 1942.
    • Contributor: Carter, Isabel Gordon
    • Date: 1921
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    Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979 American Folklife Center field project which documented ethnic, regional, and occupational traditions of Rhode Island, especially ethnic arts (African American, French-Canadian, Greek, Irish, Jamaican, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Italian, Lithuanian, Narragansett, and others), maritime activities, material culture, and local history. Documentation was created by fieldworkers Peter Bartis, Michael E. Bell, Thomas A. Burns, Carl Fleischhauer, Henry Horenstein, Geraldine Niva Johnson, and Kenneth S. Goldstein, project...
    • Contributor: Bell, Michael Edward - Harley, Nancy - Burns, Thomas A. - Bartis, Peter - Horenstein, Henry - Glawson, Francis - Goldstein, Kenneth S. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Johnson, Geraldine Niva
    • Date: 1979
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    Eleanor Dickinson collection, 1901-2004 This collection of video recordings, sound recordings, manuscripts, photographs, graphic materials, and artifacts documents Protestant religious revival meetings of various denominations in the southern Appalachian region, primarily in Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Georgia. The collection includes interviews with church leaders and members of congregations, and documentation of religious services, healing services, revivals, hymn singing, sermons, snake handling, and other religious rites and...
    • Contributor: Dickinson, Eleanor - Finster, Howard
    • Date: 1968
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    Lou Gordon collection, 1953-2006 Manuscript materials, including programs, newspaper clippings, handbills, programs, small posters, and black-and-white photographs, documenting Swapping Song Fair, a folk music production company and concert series founded in New York City in 1955 by Lou Gordon and Paddy Clancy, which produced a Musical Tribute to Woody Guthrie in 1956, and Folk Song '59. The collection documents musical and other events in the folk music revival...
    • Contributor: Gordon, Lou - Pickow, George
    • Date: 1953
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    Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000 Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, and films mainly of her work with the Usarufa and numerous other people in Papua New Guinea, but culture groups from other places are also represented, including Vanuatu, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands New Zealand, Kenya, Zaire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon, Senegal,...
    • Contributor: Tracey, Hugh - Chenoweth, Vida - Bee, Darlene Laverne
    • Date: 1940
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    Jean Ritchie and George Pickow collection, 1923-2015 Multiformat materials that document the careers of folksinger and folklorist Jean Ritchie, and her husband, photographer and filmmaker George Pickow, from the 1940s to 2000.
    • Contributor: Pickow, George - Ritchie, Jean
    • Date: 1923
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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories intervie... 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 though 2016.
    • Contributor: Musgrave, Karen S. - Herman, Bernard L. - Pritchard, Gayle A.
    • Date: 1999
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    George Korson collection, 1913-1975 Collection of professional papers, field recordings of interviews and songs, a film, and photographs documenting the career and folklife fieldwork of George Korson. George Korson conducted fieldwork in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania and also in Pennsylvania Dutch Country in eastern counties of Pennsylvania. The film dated October 12, 1964 is George Korson (with Charlie McCarthy) interviewed by Franklin D. Coslett. The collection...
    • Contributor: Gillespie, Angus K. - Korson, George Gershon
    • Date: 1880
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    Rylʹsʹkyĭ Institute Ukrainian cylinder collection, 1908-1930s This collection of approximately 400 folk songs, folk music, and oral traditions includes sound recorded by Ukrainian ethnologists on wax cylinders in the Ukraine between 1908 and the early 1930s. In a joint project, 212 of approximately 300-400 cylinders in the collection of the Instytut mystet︠s︡tvoznavstva, folʹkloru ta etnohrafiï im. M.T. Rylʹsʹkoho (Rylʹsʹkyĭ Institute) were copied and preserved on audio tape from 1992-1995 at...
    • Date: 1908
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    Bess Lomax Hawes collection, 1894-2009 Papers and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax Hawes, most from 1960-2001. Includes work produced by Hawes in her work as a professor at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California, and as head of the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program in Washington, DC. The collection...
    • Contributor: Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawes, Butch
    • Date: 1890
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    Omaha Indian interviews collection, 1999 Manuscript, sound recordings, and graphic materials collected by Alan Jabbour and Laurel McIntyre during four visits in 1999 to Macy, Nebraska, in an effort to identify sound recordings and photographic images from the American Folklife Center's Omaha Indian collections. Hethu’shka song translations and contextual information were gathered in recorded interviews with Omaha tribe members Rufus White, Elmer Blackbird, and Morgan Lovejoy.
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Blackbird, Elmer - Hastings, Dennis - White, Rufus - Lovejoy, Morgan - McIntyre, Laurel
    • Date: 1999
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    Curtis Cook Zuni Pueblo storytelling collection Collection of field recordings, photographs, and notes by linguist Curtis Cook, who learned the Zuni language and documented the stories of elderly Zuni speakers while undertaking a translation of the Bible into the Zuni language during the 1960s and 1970s. Sound recordings (1964-1967) include narratives told by Zuni storytellers Longkeena Nash and Tom Ideque and others; recordings of children reading high school reports in...
    • Contributor: Cook, Curtis D.
    • Date: 1964
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    Izzy Young collection, 1942-2016 Collection of manuscripts, including correspondence, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, artwork, and ephemera; photographic prints; and audio recordings comprising the archive of Israel (Izzy) Goodman Young, who was proprietor of the Folklore Center, New York, N.Y. (beginning in 1957), and then, beginning in 1973, of the Folklore Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden. The collection documents the late 1950s and 1960s folk music revival, and Izzy Young's contribution...
    • Contributor: Siebel, Paul - West, Hedy - Lloyd, A. L. (Albert Lancaster) - Kupferberg, Tuli - Bromberg, David - Winston, Winnie - Seeger, Mike - Young, Izzy - Paley, Tom - Cotten, Elizabeth - Ritchie, Jean - Oppenheimer, Joel - Gahr, David
    • Date: 1942
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    Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo collection on Latin American fo... Collected publications pertaining to Latin American folklore and musical traditions from the library of Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, Brazilian folklorist and musicologist.
    • Contributor: Azevedo, Luiz Heitor Corrêa De
    • Date: 1904
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    Roxane Connick Carlisle collection, 1963-1984 Collection of field recordings, photographs, video recordings, a film, and manuscripts created by Roxane Connick Carlisle primarily in Darfur Province and other locations in the Sudan region, which now includes South Sudan, from 1963-1968. The collection also includes photographs of musicians, musical instruments, markets, gardens, buildings, weddings, and wildlife taken in Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda from 1963-1968. Includes field recordings of music of...
    • Contributor: Carlisle, Roxane Connick - Kābilī, ʻabd Al-Karīm
    • Date: 1963
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    Caffè Lena collection, 1960-2013 Collection of more than 500 audio recordings, plus digital audio files, video recordings, film, photographs, papers, and ephemera documenting the history of the Caffè Lena coffeehouse, a folk music club and theater in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Lena Spencer and Bill Spencer in 1960. The collection includes a large number of live concert performance recordings by folk musicians and singer-songwriters, as well...
    • Contributor: Rogers, Gamble - Paton, Sandy - West, Hedy - Tabor, June - Book Binder, Roy - Block, Rory - Van Ronk, Dave - Estes, Sleepy John - Muir, Ann Mayo - Traum, Artie ... Rogers, Gamble - Paton, Sandy - West, Hedy - Tabor, June - Book Binder, Roy - Block, Rory - Van Ronk, Dave - Estes, Sleepy John - Muir, Ann Mayo - Traum, Artie - Rucker, Sparky - Macarthur, Margaret - Ritchie, Jean - Guthrie, Arlo - Mangsen, Cindy - Franke, Bob - Sky, Patrick - McLean, Don - Paxton, Tom - Broudy, Saul - Gillette, Steve - Petric, Faith - Clements, Vassar - Lavin, Christine - Alper, Joe - Rogers, Garnet - Vanaver, Bill - Carawan, Guy - Geremia, Paul - Ringer, Jim - Bromberg, David - Paton, Caroline - Pettis, Pierce - Seeger, Pete - Walker, Jerry Jeff - Hills, Anne - Sciaky, Carla - Spencer, Lena - Seeger, Mike - Sorrels, Rosalie - Arem, Jocelyn - Phillips, Utah - McGarrigle, Kate - Amram, David - Traum, Happy - McCaslin, Mary - Armstrong, Frankie - Cooney, Michael B. - Wakefield, Frank - McGarrigle, Anna - Van Zandt, Townes - Bok, Gordon - Staines, Bill - McCutcheon, John - Brown, Greg - Redpath, Jean
    • Date: 1960
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    Earl Crabb collection, circa 1960-2015 Collection of photographs, audio recordings, ephemera, flyers, and programs which document the east and west coast folk and rock music scenes during the 1960s and 1970s including the Sky River Rock Festival, the Indian Neck Folk Festival, and various concerts. Photographs represent Earl Crabb's documentation of music events and his studio work. Earl Crabb photographed weight-lifting, fashion, album and magazine covers, circus performers, theater...
    • Contributor: Marash, Megan - Frandsen, Erik - Cooder, Ry - Bradley, Hank (Fiddler) - Danaher, Thomas J. - Marash, Dave - Campbell, Joseph - Crabb, Earl
    • Date: 1953
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    Indian Neck Folk Festival collection Collection of audio recordings of folk festival concerts, workshops, and informal events, produced at various locations in Connecticut and Pennsylvania by the Indian Neck Folk Festival from about 1961-2015. The collection also includes papers, photographs, videocassettes, posters, and digital files.
    • Contributor: Rosenbaum, Art - Wallace, Andy - O'Donnell, Eugene - Hickerson, Kathryn W. - Schneyer, Helen - Jackson, John - Van Ronk, Dave - Moloney, Mick - Macarthur, Margaret - Staines, Bill ... Rosenbaum, Art - Wallace, Andy - O'Donnell, Eugene - Hickerson, Kathryn W. - Schneyer, Helen - Jackson, John - Van Ronk, Dave - Moloney, Mick - Macarthur, Margaret - Staines, Bill - Broudy, Saul - McClatchy, Debby - Blaustein, Richard - Dylan, Bob - Beers, Evelyne - Haslam, Cliff - Beers, Bob - Hickerson, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles) - Eberhart, Jon - Tuft, Harry M. - Hartman-Berrier, Jay - Peirce, Maggi Kerr - Seeger, Mike - McCoury, Del - Bok, Gordon - Paley, Tom - Goss, Linda - McCutcheon, John - Davis, Gary - Berkeley, Roy
    • Date: 1961
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    Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian collection, circa 1961-1988 Documentation of fieldwork conducted by Bruce Jackson in prisons in Indiana, Missouri, and Texas; recordings at concerts and festivals including the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965, 1967-1968; interviews conducted at various events including Resurrection City, 1968; interviews with and performances by various blues artists, folk artists, and others including poets and literary figures, 1961-1980s; production footage for film documentaries on various topics by Bruce Jackson...
    • Contributor: Jackson, Bruce - Christian, Diane
    • Date: 1961
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    Tom Hoskins collection, 1963-1967 Collection of field recordings, studio recordings, and dubs and production masters of performances by blues guitarist Mississippi John Hurt, from the time of Hurt's initial meeting with Tom Hoskins, at Hurt's home in Avalon, Mississippi in March 1963 through various sessions and events from 1963-1965. The collection resulted from Tom Hoskins' relationship with Mississippi John Hurt over the next few years and includes Hoskins'...
    • Contributor: Hickerson, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles) - Hurt, Mississippi John - Seeger, Pete - Hoskins, Tom - Mizell, Frank - Boggs, Dock - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
    • Date: 1963
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    Peggy V. Beck collection, 1985-1987 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, as well as documentation of other New Mexican midwinter rituals. Included are sound recordings of interviews, rehearsals, and performances; field notes, photographs, drawings, and videocassettes; plus exhibition catalogs and exhibit scripts. The...
    • Contributor: Beck, Peggy V.
    • Date: 1985
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    Connie Regan-Blake collection, 1974-2014 Papers and audiovisual materials comprising the professional archive of storyteller Connie Regan-Blake created and produced during her career from the 1960s to 2014. Includes video and audio interviews of Connie Regan-Blake; recordings of her performances and those of other storytellers at folk festivals, storytelling festivals, and media events and television programs. Regan-Blake performed at the National Storytelling Festival beginning in the 1970s and for...
    • Contributor: Regan-Blake, Connie - Freeman, Barbara - Raymond, Tom
    • Date: 1970
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    Sol Biderman collection, 1954-2004 Brazilian chapbooks, xilogravuras woodblock illustrations and woodblocks, sound recordings and additional research material on the subject of Brazilian literatura de cordel collected by Sol Biderman. The collection also includes a play, poems, and other writings by Biderman along with his collection of Chicano corridos and poems.
    • Contributor: Barros, João Antonio De - Faria, Guilherme De - Biderman, Sol - Niquel, Inocêncio Da Costa - Leite, José Costa
    • Date: 1958
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    Duncan Emrich manuscript collection, 1933-1977 Correspondence, research materials, book contracts, and typescripts for several of author and folklorist Duncan Emrich's published and unpublished books and articles on American folklore. There are some personal papers, including Emrich's college transcripts; course materials from classes that Emrich taught at the University of Maryland; and documents pertaining to Emrich's service with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, and the...
    • Contributor: Seeger, Charles - Emrich, Duncan
    • Date: 1933
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    Brooklyn Rediscovery Folklife Study Project collection, 1980-... Fieldwork for the Brooklyn Rediscovery Folklife Study Project undertaken and coordinated by Sheldon Posen and Maxine Miska, 1980-1983. The project surveyed and recorded traditions in Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance (BECA) documenting ethnic foodways, neighborhood events, private celebrations, street life and play, store fronts, music, folk theater, religious events, urban sports and pastimes. Ethnic groups include African...
    • Contributor: Cooper, Martha - Miska, Maxine - Sciorra, Joseph - Posen, I. Sheldon
    • Date: 1980
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    Judith Lynne Hanna collection, 1963-2009 Field research collection of silent film, sound recordings, color slides, and manuscripts documenting African dance and events in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya recorded in 1963 by Judith Lynne Hanna and William John Hanna. 12 rolls of black-and-white film were shot in Ibadan and Umuahia Province, Nigeria; 28 rolls of black-and-white and color film were shot in Kenya, which includes footage of the Kenyan independence...
    • Contributor: Hanna, Judith Lynne - Hanna, William John
    • Date: 1963
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    Willard Rhodes papers, 1938-1979 Field notebooks, correspondence, publications, and photographs, related to Willard Rhodes' field expeditions to Native American communities between 1938 and 1952 on behalf of the Library of Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The notebooks contain Rhodes' field notes, transcriptions, translations, and some musical notation, relating to audio recordings of Native American songs. Correspondence (1948-1979) relates primarily to the ten albums of Native American...
    • Contributor: Lange, Juel E. - Rhodes, Willard
    • Date: 1938
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    Dance Theater of Nepal collection, 1996-2010 Audiovisual, photographic, and manuscript documentation of classical and folk dance events and other activities sponsored by the Dance Theater of Nepal.
    • Contributor: Handlin, Sherry Onna - Kapoor, Raj
    • Date: 1996
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    Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta wycinanki Polish papercutting coll... Collection of 127 wycinanki, Polish paper cuts, created by Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta (Magdalena Gilinski) and other artists including Krystyna Lis and Malwina Lis, Grazyna Gladka, Maria Brzozowska-Kosinska, Henryka Lus, Stanislawa Kosiorkowa, Czeslawa Kaczynska, Apolonia Nowak, M. Dzik, Janina Strycharska-Wanrykowicz, Bieguszewska, Grzegora Justyna, Staniskawa Bulsin, Stanislawa Nowakoloska, Stanislawa Niespusin, Prusaczek Stanislawa and unidentified artists, from 1964-2005, and undated. The wycinanki in this collection highlight the papercutting...
    • Contributor: Gilinsky, Magdalena
    • Date: 1964
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    Henry Sapoznik collection, circa 1920-1960 Collection of Yiddish radio broadcasts on transcription discs and audio tape; plus sheet music, manuscripts and photographs documenting Yiddish culture, theater, and music, primarily in the New York City area, but also including documentation from other parts of the United States, from the 1920s to circa 1960, collected by Henry Sapoznik. Manuscripts include correspondence, manuscript music, photocopies, and other material.
    • Contributor: Sapoznik, Henry
    • Date: 1920
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    Maggie Holtzberg collection, 1972-2002 The Maggie Holtzberg collection documents, through interviews and photographs, the occupational folklife and craft of hot metal typesetters, compositors, and printers. Holtzberg interviewed skilled craftsmen and women who experienced the disruptive technology and transition in the printing industry from mechanical typesetting, "hot metal," to computer-aided photocomposition or "cold type." She interviewed retired printers residing at the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and...
    • Contributor: Rosenberg, Jan - Holtzberg, Maggie
    • Date: 1972