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    Manuscript/Mixed Material
    The bombing of Pearl Harbor Catalog Record Only "World War II reached nearly every corner of teh globe, from North Africa's scorching deserts to Russia's frozen tundra. Discover the devastating aresenal of weapons used by the warring nations. Learn how the war affected frontline soldiers, women at home, and national leaders. Explore the critical battles that turned the tide of the war. Follow a history of scientific advances that culminated in the...
    • Contributor: Vermilyea, Peter C. - Edwards, Sue Bradford
    • Date: 2016
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    Emigration convention between Japan and Hawaii Catalog Record Only "Signed at Tokio on the 28th of the 1st month, the 19th year of Meiji (28th January 1886). Ratifications exchanged at Honolulu on the 6th of the 3rd month, the 19th year of Meiji (6th March 1886)." A draft, in typescript, unsigned. Final leaf includes the names of Inouye Kaoru and R.W. Irwin, for their signatures. In a folder with: Middleton, J., active 1883....
    • Contributor: Irwin, Robert Walker - Kaoru, Inoue - Rare Manuscript Collection (Law Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1886
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    Martial law in Hawaii December 7, 1941 - April 4, 1943 Title from PDF of cover (Military legal resources, viewed on Oct. 30, 2009). Typescript.
    • Contributor: Judge Advocate General's School (United States. Army) - Green, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry)
    • Date: 1946
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    In search of a viable distribution system for Hawaii's medical marijuana program Catalog Record Only "Report No. 4, 2004." "Assisted by Brooke Evans." Includes bibliographic references.
    • Contributor: Pan, Peter G. - Hawaii. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau
    • Date: 2004
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    Hālau o nā Maolipua, Hawaiian mele hula concert collection,
    Hawaiian mele hula | Homegrown 2003, the music of America | Homegrown 2003 concert series | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-05-21 Catalog Record Only     Consists of photographs and videorecordings taken during the concert, plus 2 publicity photographs of the group, program flyers and publicity materials. Hālau o nā Maolipua is a hālau hula (hula school) founded in 1976 by Alicia K. Keawekane Smith, a fourth generation hula master, or kumu. They perform traditional mele ʻoli (chants) and mele hula (chants accompanied by dance) through which the oral history,...
    • Contributor: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Hālau O Nā Maolipua - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2003
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    Gary Haleamau concert and interview collection,
    Gary Haleamau in concert | Gary Haleamau : traditional Hawaiian music from Las Vegas | Gary Haleamau and his band : | Homegrown 2008, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2008-08-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Gary Haleamau and his band on August 20, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The performance includes Hawaiian visual interpretation of some of the songs using signs and hula dance. Gary Haleamau, who is Portuguese American, discusses...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Snetselaar, Rebecca - Haleamau, Gary - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    Vida Chenoweth collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection of papers and audiovisual materials representing the life work of ethnomusicologist Vida Chenoweth. Comprises 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,...
    • Contributor: Tracey, Hugh - Festival of Pacific Arts - Chenoweth, Vida - Bee, Darlene Laverne
    • Date: 1940
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    National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) collection Catalog Record Only Collection of concert and workshop recordings of events at the National Folk Festivals, sponsored by the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA), formerly the National Folk Festival Association founded in 1934, featuring performances of ballads, blues, bluegrass, contra dance music, country music, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, folk music, gospel music, hymns, old-time music, singer songwriters, steel band music, storytelling, Western swing, and more;...
    • Contributor: Highwoods String Band - Cephas & Wiggins - Boyer, Horace Clarence - Baker, Etta - Rockin' Dopsie - Gutiérrez, José (Gutiérrez Ramón) - O'Sullivan, Jerry - Ellis, Wilbert - No Speed Limit (Musical Group) - Daugherty, Junior ... Highwoods String Band - Cephas & Wiggins - Boyer, Horace Clarence - Baker, Etta - Rockin' Dopsie - Gutiérrez, José (Gutiérrez Ramón) - O'Sullivan, Jerry - Ellis, Wilbert - No Speed Limit (Musical Group) - Daugherty, Junior - Morrison, Harold - Dry Branch Fire Squad - Wine, Melvin - Livesay Quartet - Cellicion Family Singers - Martin, Reed - O'Hare, Kieran - Lamond, Mary Jane - Howard, Clint - Lawson, Doyle - Bellar, Johnny - Ohrlin, Glenn - Collins, Cal - Little, Jeff T. - National Folk Festival (U.S.) - Locke, Kevin - Oinkari Basque Dancers (Boise, Idaho) - Barnes, Lucy - Stanky, John - Holmes Brothers - Yuri Yunakov Ensemble - Too Much Fun (Musical Group) - Best, Carroll - Daigrepont, Bruce - Quebe Sisters Band - Ecos De Borinquen (Musical Group) - Knott, Sarah Gertrude - Badgett Sisters - Green Fields of America (Musical Group) - Roy, Gilles - Kimbrough, James - Armstrong Twins - Watson, Doc - Wang, Yuqin - Lúnasa (Musical Group) - Sheehy, Daniel - Fantasmas Del Valle (Musical Group) - Sapoznik, Henry - Flint Nation Singers - Appalachian Trail (Musical Group) - Barachois (Musical Group) - Cana Ramblers (Musical Group) - Lynch, Claire - Front Porch String Band - Stepping Ambassadors - Ayala, Pedro - Doyle, John - Houserockers (Musical Group : Hezekiah Early) - Flippen, Benton - Bergey, Barry - Chavis, Boozoo - Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Hanafin-Cooley Branch - Springfield Exit (Musical Group) - Wilson, Joe - Griffith, James S. - D. R. (Dalton Roberts) - Henderson, Wayne - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) - Mulvihill, Brendan - Frank, Keith - Lost Bayou Ramblers - Damessae, Seleshe - Robinson, Lavaughn - Slyde, Jimmy - Duskin, Big Joe - Hagopian, Richard A. - Sun Rhythm Section - Cephas, John - Martinez, Roberto - Wallin, Doug - Blazonczyk, Eddie - East, Ernest - Ardoin, Chris - Double Clutchin' (Musical Group) - Mouton, Walter - Kouyate, Djimo - Stanley, Ralph - Fraley, J. P. - Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra - Sproat, Clyde Halemaʻumaʻu - Mariachi Los Camperos De Nati Cano - Louisiana Aces (Musical Group) - Roan Mountain Hilltoppers - Laprelle, Elizabeth - Casserino, Matteo - Scott Playboys - Ganga (Musical Group) - Tremendos Cuatro Espadas (Musical Group) - Pleasants, Dick - Mitchell, Fleeta - Ellis, Tony - Back Step Band - Git-Hoan (Dance Troupe) - Riley, Steve - Next Generation (Choral Group) - Sizemore, Whit - Townsend, Henry - Holloway, Quentin - Jiménez, Santiago - Bluegrass Mountaineers - Wallace, Andy - Galbraith, Art - Doucet, Michael - James King Band - Mighty Sparrow - Van Arsdale, Paul - Sredzienski, Gary - Cage, Bob - Paulin, Ernest - Williams, Warner - St. Pierre, Simon - Olin, Julia - Gaffney, Brian - McCoury, Del - Carroll, Liz - Cormier, Joseph - Robinson, Debbie - White, Buck - Mitchell, Nathaniel - Menard, D. L. - Ti-Coca - Holeman, John Dee - Reyes De Albuquerque (Musical Group) - Butler, Henry - Bruce, Vin - Shelor, Sammy - Boys of the Lough - Hooven, Greg - Connolly, Séamus - Jackson, John - Trowbridge, Kenneth - Delafose, John - Ta Pethia - Pine Ridge Boys - Kirchen, Bill - Zydeco Cha-Chas (Musical Group) - Moloney, Mick - Danú (Musical Group) - Marshall, Brian - Hayes, Martin - Courville, Sady - Baker, Kenny - Shady Mountain Ramblers - Mamou Playboys - Douglas, Jerry - Savoy, Marc - Paisley, Danny - Ivers, Eileen - Chatuye (Musical Group) - Wanga-Nègès (Musical Group) - Bright, Fletcher - Williams, Claude - Sutphin, Kirk - Cruz, Lorenzo - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones - Smokey Valley Boys - Walser, Don - McIntyre, Chuna - Beginish (Musical Group) - Lohman, Jon - Barnes, Brady - Inca Son (Musical Group) - Ball, Marcia - Delafose, Geno - Karl and the Country Dutchmen - Vishtèn (Musical Group) - Viesca, Juan - Pleneros De LA-21 (Musical Group) - Beausoleil (Musical Group) - Chaksam-Pa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company - Cahill, Dennis - McCann, Gordon - McKenna, Antoinette - Spitzer, Nicholas R. - Cooney, Michael B. - Blue Highway (Musical Group) - Toups, Wayne - McGee, Dennis - Dahlin, Paul - Marimba Chiapas - Filé (Musical Group) - Dickey, Lotus - Marimba Continental (Musical Group) - Cuesta, Iván - Valley Ramblers (Musical Group) - Labeef, Sleepy - Pierson, Leroy Jodie - Tanner, Gordon - Pure Texas Band - Soileau Zydeco Band - Roheim, Anund - Quimby, Frankie - Walden, Charlie - Mariachi Jalisco - Red Clay Ramblers - Fraley, Annadeene - Pregoneros Del Puerto - Watson, Dale - Whitetop Mountain Band - Egan, Séamus - Wylie & the Wild West (Musical Group) - American Indian Music and Dance Troupe - Smoking Bluegrass (Musical Group) - Harmonia (Musical Group) - Solas (Musical Group) - Grcevich, Jerry - Nashville Bluegrass Band - Raghavan, Jothi - Doyle, Danny - Mainer, Wade - Eller Brothers - Keane, Sean - Cormier, J. P. (John Paul) - Johnson Mountain Boys - Harley Allen-Mike Lilly Band - Zydecajun (Musical Group) - Mangan, Patrick - Pennington, Eddie - Lynn Morris Band - Grupo Fantasma - Doucet, David - Pearson, Barry Lee - Quicksilver (Musical Group) - National Council for the Traditional Arts - Haleamau, Karin - Derrane, Joe - Bass, Fontella - Eunice Playboys (Musical Group) - Cherish the Ladies (Musical Group) - Hinton, Algia Mae - Tipton, Carl - Br549 (Musical Group) - Birmingham Sunlights (Musical Group) - Ford, Brownie - Whitstein Brothers - Vent Du Nord (Musical Group) - Blind Boys of Alabama - Dervish (Musical Group) - Krauss, Alison - Brave Old World (Musical Group) - Burris, J. C. - Union Station (Musical Group) - Paschall Brothers - Kaapana, Ledward - French Rockin' Boogie (Musical Group) - Vinagre, Ana Bela - Lang, Julian - Four Eagle Gospel Singers - Magic Slim - Ross, (Isaiah) - Macmaster, Natalie - Cano, Nati - Saldivar, Mingo - Thompson, Hayden - Ross County Farmers - Ross, Gayle - Nguyẽ̂n, Thuyé̂t Phong - Quimby, Doug - Severe, Duff
    • Date: 1971
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    Unukupukupu concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2012-06-26 | Unukupukupu Halau Hula | Unukupukupu, Hālau Hula of Hawaii Community College, Hilo, Hawaii | Homegrown 2012, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on June 26, 2012 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The concert featured traditional dances and songs, rooted in the sacred `Aiha`a Pele (Ritual dance of volcanic phenomena) performed by members of Unukupukupu, meaning "Shrine of ferns [rooted in fresh lava]," the Hālau...
    • Contributor: Tangarō, Taupōuri - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hawaii Community College
    • Date: 2012
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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
    Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only     This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...
    • Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
    • Date: 1999
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    Voices from the canefields : folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-09-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Franklin Odo discussed his research for his book, Voices from the canefields: folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i (Oxford University Press, 2013) as a featured presenter in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series on September 20, 2013, sponsored by the American Folklife Center. He describes how Japanese workers on Hawai'i's plantations created their own songs, in form akin to their traditional tanka or...
    • Contributor: Odo, Franklin - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2013
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    Bess Lomax Hawes collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Papers and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax Hawes, most from 1960-2001. Includes work produced by Hawes when she was 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, D.C. The collection...
    • Contributor: National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawes, Butch
    • Date: 1894
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    Helen Heffron Roberts papers, Catalog Record Only Field notebooks, musical notation, manuscripts, lecture notes, correspondence and photographs related to Helen Heffron Roberts' collection of Native American and Polynesian songs and language. The papers include transcriptions, musical notations, and translations which correlate with wax cylinder and disc audio recordings made by Roberts, recordings made by other field workers, as well as to unrecorded material.
    • Contributor: Federal Cylinder Project (U.S.) - Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron)
    • Date: 1907
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    Ledward Kaapana : Master Slack Key Guitar Player from Hawaii,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-07-05 | Ledward Kaapana: Hawaiian Music | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on July 5, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Ledward "Led" Kaapana is a master of the two leading string instruments in Hawaii: the Hawaiian ukulele and ki ho'alu, the slack key guitar, a fingerstyle guitar art...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Smithsonian Folklife Festival - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Kaapana, Ledward - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    Na mele paniolo: songs of Hawaiian cowboys field collection. Catalog Record Only Field recordings of Hawaiian songs; mele; traditional and contemporary mele hula songs of Kipukai Ranch, Kaua'i, and Parker Ranch, Big Island; slack-key guitar music and other recordings made by Lynn J. Martin, Folk Arts Coordinator, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Ricardo D. Trimillos on equipment loaned by the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress. Various instrumental accompaniment...
    • Contributor: Trimillos, Ricardo D. - Martin, Lynn J. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1986
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    Ledward Kaapana oral history, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available John Fenn interviewed Ledward Kaapana about his upbringing, his musical family, as well as the slack-key style of guitar playing. Kaapana demonstrated the musical style during the interview. Ledward "Led" Kaapana is a master of the two leading string instruments in Hawaii: the Hawaiian ukulele and ki ho'alu, the slack key guitar, a fingerstyle guitar art form that originated in Hawaii. This talent, combined...
    • Contributor: Fenn, John - Kaapana, Ledward - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Unearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala : Community Collections Grant Project, 2022-2023 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available This collection documents previously unrecorded or “heirloom songs” of the Kohala region of the Big island of Hawai'i. Local musicians worked with members of the community who have been in Kohala for several generations to document a shared cultural legacy of original compositions held within families that chronicle ways of life that inform the care for land and communities. In addition to video recordings...
    • Contributor: Keawe, John - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - American Folklife Center - Lupenui, Boots
    • Date: 2022
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    Clark E. Morse correspondence,
    Clark E. Morse papers Catalog Record Only     ALS (1858 March; Hilo, Hawaii) from Morse to his brother while on a whaling voyage. Possibly on the voyage (1856-1860) to the North Pacific of the whale ship Reindeer of New Bedford, Mass., Edward R. Ashley, master. Topics include recruiting at Hilo for "the North"; whales taken and sent home on the Dartmouth of New Bedford, Nathan B. Heath, master; a cruise to the...
    • Contributor: Morse, Clark E.
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    John W. Leonard correspondence,
    John W. Leonard papers Catalog Record Only     ALS (1856 July 4; Japan Sea) written by Leonard, probably as master of the ship Lydia of Fairhaven, Mass., on a voyage to the North Pacific, to his wife Sylvia in New Bedford, Mass. Notes that one whale has been taken with hopes for more success in the Okhotsk Sea. Also mentions the catch of the ship Fabius out of New Bedford. Includes ALS...
    • Contributor: Leonard, John W.
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    Anonymous whaling document, Catalog Record Only Fragmentary document consisting of a letter written from Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1853; two pages of verse, "Going to California"; and a page of journal entries (1853 July 18-25). Names several whaling ships, speaks of sailing for the Okhotsk Sea or Arctic Ocean, and mentions individuals including Clothier Pierce.
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    Milton Kessler papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, notebooks, writings of Kessler and others, teaching materials, family papers, photographs, and other papers relating to Kessler's work as a poet, co-editor with John Logan of Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Graphics, and professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, N.Y., and other institutions in Hawaii and Israel, especially the Universiṭat Ḥefah and Universiṭat ha-Negev. Documents his relationships with...
    • Contributor: Kessler, Milton
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    Patsy T. Mink papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notes, interviews, questionnaires, legislative files, testimony, casework, law practice client files, court documents, statements, press releases, appointment books, scheduling files, travel itineraries, campaign files, card files, biographical material, student papers, family papers, scrapbooks, news clippings, printed matter, awards and honors, political ephemera, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Mink's service in the U.S. House of Representatives. Documents Mink's...
    • Contributor: Mink, Patsy T.
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    Clara Barrus and John Burroughs papers,
    Clara Barrus papers | John Burroughs papers Catalog Record Only     Correspondence, writings, estate papers, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers pertaining to the works and travels of Barrus and Burroughs and to the administration of their estates. Subjects include conservation, family matters, John Burroughs Memorial Association, lectures, philosophy, poetry, politics, publishing, and travels including a trip to Hawaii. Correspondents include Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Clyde Fisher, Clara Bryant Ford, Hamlin Garland, William Temple Hornaday,...
    • Contributor: Burroughs, John - Barrus, Clara
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    Walter Sullivan papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, lecture files, writings, reviews, wire service reports, notes, book files, alphabetical files, research files, maps, prints, photographs, digital files, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Sullivan's career as a journalist for the New York Times. Documents his years as a correspondent in China and Antarctica as well as his work as a science writer and editor. Subjects include Alaska, expeditions to Antarctica,...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Walter
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    Claude Charles Bloch papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, journal (1934) kept by Bloch as judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy, subject file, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to Bloch's activities as commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet (1938-1940) and commandant of the 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor (1940-1942). Correspondents include Charles A. Edison, James Forrestal, Ernest L. Jahncke, Hiram Johnson, Frank Knox, William D. Leahy, Chester W. Nimitz, David...
    • Contributor: Bloch, Claude Charles