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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 recordings 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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    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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    Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection, 1982-1986 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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    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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    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