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    David Allen Magnani Collection
    • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Air Force
    • Service Unit/Ship: 464th Troop Carrier Group
    • Location of Service: Vietnam
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/44662
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:13:04.0
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    Dusty Elkinton interview conducted by Ellen Kendrick and Samuel Kendrick, 2021-03-07 Dusty Elkinton of Nevada, Missouri, discusses how he came to be an agricultural pilot; his previous careers as a rodeo rider and fencing company owner; how he trained to become a pilot; the daily routines, requirements and challenges of his job; and his life outside of planes.
    • Contributor: Kendrick, Sam - Occupational Folklife Project - Kendrick, Ellen F. - Elkinton, Dusty
    • Date: 2021
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    I'm going down this road feelin' bad
    Goin' down that road feelin' bad | I ain't gonna be treated this a-way
    "Variants of this song have been sung for seventy years on westering high roads in America. Since 1933 it has become the song of the migrant families who were tractored out of Texas, dusted out of Oklahoma and flooded out of Arkansas." Dust jacket notes: "Learned from Kaintucks in Wisconsin." Warde Ford, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on…
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Ford, Ward H.
    • Date: 1938-01-01
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    Stewart McDonnell Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 28th Division, 112th Regiment, G Company, Weapons Platoon
    • Location of Service: Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Washington; Fort McClellan, Alabama; Givet, France; Germany
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/3724
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    The small town gal
    Fifty miles from Boston
    Victor 60052. Matrix/Take: B-10272/1.
    • Contributor: Cohan, George M.
    • Date: 1911-05-04
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    Answer Columbia A1678. Matrix/Take: 39708/2.
    • Contributor: Miller, Reed - Robyn, Alfred G.
    • Date: 1914-12-19
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    Herman Eugene Crane Collection
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    Russel Jones Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 463rd Parachute Artillery, 101st Airborne
    • Location of Service: North Africa; European Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/716
    • Resource: Audio, Audio Interview, 00:23:52.0
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    Concerti Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The 3rd work is a double rhapsody for violin and orchestra. In the 1st work: Robert Aitken, flute ; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor. In the 2nd work: Judy Loman, harp ; Toronto Symphony ; Andrew Davis, conductor. In the 3rd work: Jacques Israelievitch, violin ; Toronto Symphony ; Günther Herbig, conductor. Recorded The Orpheum, Vancouver. Recorded Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Compact…
    • Contributor: Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Israelievitch, Jacques - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - Akiyama, Kazuyoshi - Loman, Judy - Davis, Andrew - Herbig, Gunther - Aitken, Robert - Schafer, R. Murray
    • Date: 1992
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    Devil's dream
    Satan's vision
    John Selleck, violin. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Camino, California on October 2, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John Selleck performing Anglo-American music on the fiddle on October 2, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Camino, California.
    • Contributor: Selleck, John N. - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939-01-01
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    These truths : a history of the United States Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill…
    • Contributor: Lepore, Jill - Recorded Books, Inc
    • Date: 2018
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    Roy Lee Powell Collection
    • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953; World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Service Unit/Ship: USS White Marsh (LSD 8); USS Frank Knox (DD 742); USS Leonard F. Mason (DD 852)
    • Location of Service: San Diego, California; Pacific Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/96839
    • Resource: Audio with Transcript, Interview / Recording, 00:50:20.0
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    Nahua poet Irma Xóchitl Cuauhtémoc Xicoténcatl reading from her work Ms. Cauhtémoc Xicoténcatl reads from her bilingual poetry.
    • Contributor: Palabra Archive (Library of Congress) - Cuauhtémoc Xicoténcatl, Irma Xóchitl - Palabra Indigenous Voices Project
    • Date: 2023
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    Kenneth Albert Perko Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Location of Service: New Guinea; Philippines; Australia
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/3810
    • Resource: Audio, Audio Interview, 00:49:51.8
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    Patrick V. Kelly Collection
    • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: Company E, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division; Company K, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
    • Location of Service: Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Korea; Fort Custer, Michigan
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/33991
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 01:32:57.0
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    Alice, where art thou? Columbia A3818. Matrix/Take: 80751/2.
    • Contributor: Guernsey, Wellington - Ponselle, Carmela - Ascher, Joseph
    • Date: 1922-12-28
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    Edward Lukaszek Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Service Unit/Ship: USS LST-914 (Landing Ship Tank)
    • Location of Service: Africa; France; Italy; Japan; Philippines; Pacific Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/93511
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:37:31.3
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    Joseph G. Newby Collection
    • War or Conflict: Cold War
    • Branch of Service: Air Force
    • Service Unit/Ship: 97th Bomb Wing, Air Training Command, NATO
    • Location of Service: Blytheville, Arkansas; Wichita Falls, Texas; Turkey
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/46934
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:10:46.0
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    Morning, noon and night in Vienna overture
    Andante amoroso | Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien. Ouverture | Part 1
    Victor 35543. Matrix/Take: C-17309/1.
    • Contributor: Rogers, Walter B. - Roberts, Charles J. - Suppé, Franz Von - Victor Concert Orchestra
    • Date: 1916-03-15
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    Norbert Craven Wild Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army Air Forces/Corps
    • Service Unit/Ship: 313th Bomb Wing, 9th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force
    • Location of Service: Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Panama City, Florida; Greensboro, North Carolina; McCook, Nebraska; Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands)
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/63977
    • Resource: Audio with Transcript, Interview / Recording, 01:09:09.0
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    Bold Jack Donahue
    • Contributor: Davis, O. C. "Cotton" - Sonkin, Robert - Todd, Charles L.
    • Date: 1941-08-10
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    Alexander Hanusey Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: X Corps
    • Location of Service: Fort Sill, Oklahoma; England; France; Holland, Belgium; European Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/56897
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 01:00:57.0
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    Under arms march
    Unterm Gewehr Marsch | Sous armes marche
    Columbia 3551. Matrix/Take: 3551/2.
    • Contributor: Prince's Military Band - Hayes, F. Clifton
    • Date: 1907-01-31
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    Richard Coles Collection
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    Eh quoi, toujours seule
    Faust. Prenez mon bras | Quartet from Garden scene, Part II | Faust
    Victor 10004. Matrix/Take: C-8547/1.
    • Contributor: Lejeune-Gilibert, Gabrielle - Farrar, Geraldine - Gounod, Charles - Caruso, Enrico - Rogers, Walter B. - Journet, Marcel
    • Date: 1910-01-12