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    Victoria Phillips collection, 1914-2011 Victoria Phillips (formerly Phillips Geduld), a historian and faculty member at Columbia University, specializes in Cold War history, cultural diplomacy, and international relations. The Victoria Phillips Collection includes materials assembled by the scholar during her doctoral research and other curatorial and research projects. Most of the 3,900-plus items are reproductions of newspaper articles, correspondence and financial reports, photographs, publications, interview notes and transcripts, and...
    • Contributor: Phillips, Victoria
    • Date: 1914
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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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    Nevada Folklife Archive, 1980-2017 This collection consists of photographs, recordings, and field notes documenting diverse culture, traditions, and communities in Nevada. Sponsored by the Nevada Arts Council Folklife Program, collection materials were collected by staff folklorists beginning in 1985.
    • Contributor: Vrooman, Nicholas Curchin - Luster, Michael - Frank, Russell - Barr, Christina L. - Rucks, Penny - Graham, Andrea - Owen, Blanton - Williams, Lesley - Hatch, Anne F.
    • Date: 1980
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    "MAJOR NICK ROWE: OF THE ARMY" {FROM THE ASSEMBLY ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES, U.S.M.A.} North-Vietnam, pre-1975 / Refno 0022-1-01
    • Date: 1969-07-01
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    Hmong Community Folklife and Documentation Project collection, 1981-1986 Collection of audio and video field recordings and photographs documenting the Hmong community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • Contributor: Dornfeld, Barry
    • Date: 1981
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    Louise Talma papers, 1861-1998 Louise Talma was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She was a student of Nadia Boulanger and a long-time resident of Fontainebleau and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The collection consists of music manuscripts, harmony and teaching materials, correspondence, photographs, business papers, clippings, programs, publicity materials, writings, awards and other materials related to her career and her family's history.
    • Contributor: Talma, Louise
    • Date: 1861
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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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    Jonathan Larson papers, 1978-1996 Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) was an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and performer who wrote primarily for the musical theater. The collection contains materials relating to his musicals, musical revues, club acts, films, and dance works, in particular Superbia, tick, tick...BOOM!, and RENT, his successful rock musical adaptation of La Bohème. These materials include manuscript and computer-generated music scores and sketches, lyric sheets and sketches, scripts,...
    • Contributor: Larson, Jonathan
    • Date: 1978
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    Paul Bowles Moroccan music collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, photographs, and accompanying documentation of Moroccan folk, popular, religious, and art music. The collection includes recordings Paul Bowles made in 1959 during four six-week field trips 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. Bowles captured...
    • Contributor: Bowles, Paul - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Wanklyn, Christopher
    • Date: 1957
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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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    Lester Horton Dance Theater collection, 1918-1996 The Lester Horton Dance Theater was a modern dance company and school in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. Founded by dancer and choreographer Lester Horton (1906-1953), the company served as an incubator for the careers of a generation of dancers, including Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade, Bella Lewitzky, James Mitchell, Joyce Trisler, and James Truitte. The collection documents Horton's early life and...
    • Contributor: Lester Horton Dance Theater - Horton, Lester - Eng, Frank
    • Date: 1918
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    Rae Korson papers, 1937-1982 Collection of correspondence, Library of Congress-related personnel documentation, and ephemera related to Rae Korson's tenure at the Archive of Folk Song. Correspondents include: Jan Brunvand, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Archie Green, Alta Fife, Austin Fife, Helen Hartness Flanders, Frank Gillis, Wayland Hand, Herbert Halpert, Joe Hickerson, Charles Hofmann, Charles Iler, Sandy Ives, Bruce Jackson, Maud Karpeles, George List, Judith McCulloh, Peter Nabokov, Bruno Nettl, Willard...
    • Contributor: Korson, Rae
    • Date: 1937
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    George Washington Pearcy collection, 1915-1949 : Veterans History Project (U.S.) The collection includes biographical information, civilian papers, clippings, correspondence, diaries, maps, military papers, periodicals and photographs relating to George Washington Pearcy's service in the United States Army and Army Air Forces in the United States and the Philippines prior to and during World War II, and his subsequent capture by Japanese forces.
    • Contributor: Pearcy, George Washington
    • Date: 1915
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    Agnes Helen Patterson collection Veterans History Project (U.S.) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Interview conducted for the Veterans History Project 2013. Collection includes an oral history interview, a memoir, and photographs.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Farrar, Mike - Veterans History Project (U.S.) - Patterson, Agnes Helen - American Red Cross, Greater Long Beach Chapter
    • Date: 1950
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    "HANOI'S PAWNS: THE U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR" {FROM NEWSWEEK, NOV. 30, 1970} North-Vietnam, pre-1975 / Refno 0140
    • Contributor: Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1970-11-30
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    Montana Folklife Survey collection,
    Montana folklife project | Montana folklife collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    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 - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Dockstader, Ray - Toelken, Barre - Crummett, Michael - Wasson, George B. - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Montana Arts Council
    • Date: 1979
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    Nicole Plett collection of dance research materials, 1935-2003 Nicole Plett (née Bronowski) is an American dance critic and writer on dance and art. The Nicole Plett Collection of Dance Research Materials consists primarily of photographs and negatives of Eleanor King and other dancers performing King’s choreography. It also contains notes from and portions of interviews that Plett conducted with dance artists, Plett’s publications on dance, and an assortment of clippings, programs, and...
    • Contributor: Jones, Bill T. - Harris, Rennie - Tharp, Twyla - Hay, Deborah - Childs, Lucinda - Morris, Mark - King, Eleanor - Gordon, David - Plett, Nicole
    • Date: 1935
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    Ethel Merman collection, 1908-1998 Ethel Merman (1908-1984) was an American actress and singer. She was a legendary figure in the history of the American musical theater and during her career on Broadway, in Hollywood, and on television, and was known for her belting voice and strong stage presence. The collection chiefly consists of scripts, lyric sheets, photographs, and notes from the various productions in which Merman starred, but...
    • Contributor: Champion, Gower - Merman, Ethel - Logan, Joshua - Cahn, Sammy - Sondheim, Stephen - Porter, Cole - Martin, Mary - Laurents, Arthur - Berlin, Irving - Gershwin, George
    • Date: 1908
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    Bronislava Nijinska collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection contains business papers, choreographic notes, correspondence, personal papers, photographs, posters, programs, scrapbooks, theatrical designs, and writings. There is a significant amount of material on her brother, dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, as well as companies she worked with including the Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein, Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, and the companies founded by the Marquis de Cuevas. The Choreographic Works series...
    • Contributor: Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky ... Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Pavlova, Anna - Nijinska, Bronislava - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Vertès, Marcel - Kirsta, Georg - Cuevas, George De - Jacob's Pillow - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Nijinska, Irina - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Poulenc, Francis - Diaghilev, Serge - Rubinstein, Ida
    • Date: 1740
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    Jane Dudley papers, 1909-2001 Jane Dudley was an American dancer and choreographer known early in her career for her work with the Martha Graham Company, the New Dance Group, and as a co-founder of the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio. She went on to serve as artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel before joining the faculty of the London School of Contemporary Dance. Her papers primarily consist of...
    • Contributor: Kupferman, Meyer - Dudley, Jane - Hurwitz, Tom - North, Alex - Robinson, Earl - Eisler, Hanns
    • Date: 1909
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    Amateur Hour collection, 1934-1950s The Original Amateur Hour was a popular radio talent show hosted by Edward Bowes (stagename, Major Bowes) from 1935-1952. The collection primarily consists of more than 7,000 applications from contestants who appeared on the program between 1934 and 1948. A small amount of administrative papers dating from the late 1940s and 1950s, as well as materials relating to the Mexican version of the program,...
    • Contributor: Bowes, Edward, Major - Sinatra, Frank - Sills, Beverly - Brewer, Teresa - Kaye, Stubby - Merrill, Robert - Mack, Ted - Graham, Lewis
    • Date: 1934
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    David Oppenheim papers, 1910-2004 David Oppenheim (1922-2007) was a clarinetist, educator, and producer. He served as the director of the Masterworks Division at Columbia Records, as a producer of music documentaries at CBS, and as the Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). This collection contains correspondence, photographs, programs, music, and miscellaneous documents related to Oppenheim's work as an arts administrator, record...
    • Contributor: Oppenheim, David
    • Date: 1910
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    Morris Perelmuter King collection, 1944-1949 Morris Perelmuter King served in the Marines during World War II, and was a member of The Halls of Montezuma Orchestra, a group led by bandleader Bob Crosby, made up of professional singers and musicians serving in the Marines. Other member of the group included noted band vocalist Frank Tennille (also the father of Toni Tennille, of the Captain and Tennille), and musician and...
    • Contributor: King, Morris Perelmuter
    • Date: 1944
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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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    Mary Louise Mason collection, 1951-2008 : Veterans History Project (U.S.) Interview conducted for the Veterans History Project in 2008. Collection includes clippings, correspondence, creative works, maps, periodicals, printed matter, photographic prints, and an oral history interview.
    • Contributor: Kipp, Bonnie - Mason, Mary Louise
    • Date: 1951