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    Lester H. Cummings Collection
    • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Marine Corps
    • Service Unit/Ship: Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division; 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division; Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego
    • Location of Service: Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Da Nang, Vietnam; Camp Pendleton, California; San Diego, California; Okinawa, Japan
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/76519
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 01:16:17.0
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    Indiana
    Dance music : One-step     Columbia A2297. Matrix/Take: 77087/3.
    • Contributor: Hanley, James F. - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
    • Date: 1917-05-31
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    Walter E. Bradley Collection
    • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 173rd Airborne
    • Location of Service: United States; Vietnam; Congo
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/23561
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    Sanskrit poet and scholar Rama Kant Shukla reads from his works Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Dr. Shukla reads the following selections from his works: Savasvata-sangama (p. 331), Arvacinasamskrtam (serial, issue 12, no. 1, p. 1-8), Bhati me bharatam (p. 1-108).
    • Contributor: Archive of World Literature on Tape (Library of Congress) - South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress) - Śukla, Ramākānta
    • Date: 2000
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    Walter D. Hall Collection
    • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953; World War, 1939-1945; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Navy
    • Service Unit/Ship: USS Baltimore (CA 68); USS Fall River (CA 131); US Naval Academy; USS Cockrill (DE 398); USS PCE-882 (Patrol Craft Escort); Amphibious Group Three (PHIBGRU); USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD 833); USS Picking (DD 685); Staff, Pacific Fleet; USS Toledo (CA 133)
    • Location of Service: Tonkin Gulf; South China Sea; Hawaii; Pacific Ocean; Guam (Mariana Islands); San Francisco, California; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Kwajalein Island (Marshall Islands); Japan; Annapolis, Maryland; Korea; Monterey, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/111235
    • Resource: Transcript
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    John F. Basile Collection
    • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: C Troop, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment
    • Location of Service: An Khe and Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/74214
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:31:57.0
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    Marvin Bittick Collection
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    Don't throw me down Victor 18811. Matrix/Take: B-25559/2.
    • Contributor: Gorodetzer, Meyer - Von Tilzer, Albert - Kaufman, Irving - Witzmann, John - Bourdon, Rosario - Brown, Lew - Pasternack, Josef
    • Date: 1921-09-14
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    Un peu d' amour—melodie
    A little love, a little kiss     Columbia A1448. Matrix/Take: 39093/1.
    • Contributor: Prince's Orchestra - Silésu, Lao
    • Date: 1913-11-12
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    Damon Walker, Luthier. Durham, North Carolina. Damon Walker, a “luthier” or string instrument maker in Durham, North Carolina, talks about his work making and fixing double or ‘upright’ basses with folklorists Katy Clune and Julia Gartell as part of their Occupational Folklife Project “Fixing, Mending, Making New: North Carolina’s Repair Professionals.” Mr. Walker – or “Dr. Bass” as he is widely known in the business – explains how his love…
    • Contributor: Damon Walker - Nancy Groce
    • Date: 2024-02-08
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    Dave Andrew Lee Collection
    • War or Conflict: Persian Gulf War, 1991
    • Branch of Service: Marine Corps
    • Service Unit/Ship: Marine Air Traffic Control Squadron 28
    • Location of Service: Persian Gulf
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/48790
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:34:33.0
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    Spanish love
    Folies Bergere     Columbia A1031. Matrix/Take: 19396/3.
    • Contributor: Snyder, Ted - Berlin, Irving - Bryan, Vincent - Sarto, Andrea
    • Date: 1911-06-07
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    Maya Tsotsil poet Andrés López Díaz reading from his work Mr. López describes his experience as a Maya Tsotsil poet and reads from his work.
    • Contributor: López Díaz, Andrés - Palabra Archive (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    Neil Farnham Collection
    • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953; World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Boat Battalion, 369th Engineers Amphibious Support Regiment; Headquarters Company, 434th Engineer Construction Battalion; Engineering School; 4th Engineering Special Brigade; 369th Engineer Boat Shore Regiment
    • Location of Service: New Guinea; Luzon (Philippines); Japan; Oregon; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Caravel, Florida; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts; Camp Stoneman, California; Fort Warden, Washington; Pusan, Korea
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/83706
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    Immanuel Jarvis interview conducted by Leigh Campoamor, 2023-04-06 Immanuel Jarvis and his wife, Valarie Tina Jarvis, own Jireh Family Farms, a 4.3-acre urban farm in Durham, North Carolina, where they raise and sell pastured chicken for meat and eggs, as well as vegetables and other meat animals. In the interview, New York City-born Immanuel Jarvis describes the confluence of factors that led them to start a small-scale farm, which include his own…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Campoamor, Leigh - Jarvis, Immanuel
    • Date: 2023

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    David Goldberg Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 846th Engineer, 89th Infantry Division
    • Location of Service: European Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/14641
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:06:40.0
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    Sam Jones, Jr. Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 55th Ordinance Ammunition Company
    • Location of Service: Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Manila, Philippines
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/86477
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    Catalan poet Marià Manent reading from his work Mr. Manent reads fourteen poems from his collected volumes: La collita en la boira, L'aire daurat, L'ombra i altres poemes, and Cinc cançons.
    • Contributor: Manent, Marià - Palabra Archive (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1951
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    Merle Ford Sibley Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: Company D, 263rd Infantry Regiment; Battery A, 943rd Field Artillery Battalion, Michigan National Guard
    • Location of Service: North Africa; Europe; United States
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/41628
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:29:47.0
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    Clyde Laubach Hester Collection
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    Marlene Ann Bozeman Collection
    • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    • Branch of Service: Air Force
    • Service Unit/Ship: 3709th Medical Corps
    • Location of Service: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas; Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/13004
    • Resource: Audio, Audio Interview, 00:08:01.0
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    La casquette du Pere Bugeaud
    La mist' en laire | Frere Jacques | En passant par la Lorraine     Victor 72166. Matrix/Take: B-21982/4.
    • Contributor: Bourdon, Rosario - Gauthier, Eva
    • Date: 1918-06-21
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    Louise Erdrich reads and discusses Advice to Myself on August 11, 2020.
    Advice to Myself     Louise Erdrich reads and discusses her poem "Advice to Myself" on August 11, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Erdrich is the owner of Birchbark Books, a novelist, a poet, and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.
    • Contributor: Erdrich, Louise - Library of Congress. Poetry and Literature Center
    • Date: 2020-01-01
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    DeWain Richard Raasch Collection
    • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: 45th Division, 279th, 3rd Battalion I Company
    • Location of Service: Japan; Korea
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/10493
    • Resource: Audio, Interview / Recording, 00:28:44.0
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    Charles J. Lillis Collection
    • War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Service Unit/Ship: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division; 14th Artillery
    • Location of Service: United States; European Theater
    • Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/1914
    • Resource: Audio with Transcript, Interview / Recording, 00:40:10.0