Digital Collections
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CollectionAfter the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,…- Date: 1941
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection includes ethnographic field documentation, materials from Lomax’s various projects, and cross-cultural research created and collected by Alan Lomax and others on traditional song, music, dance, and body movement…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Association for Cultural Equity - American Folklife Center - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 6,612 Items
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CollectionAlan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings In 1938 the Library of Congress dispatched the pioneering folklorist and song collector Alan Lomax—already a seasoned field worker at age 23—to conduct a folk song survey of the Great Lakes region.…- Contributor: Romel, Adolph - Lewandowski, Edwina - Hulan - Lomax, Alan - Kubesh, John G. - Leclaire, Leilia - McBride, Bill - Aho, Pekka - Warslzyk, Tony - Frazier, Calvin ... Romel, Adolph - Lewandowski, Edwina - Hulan - Lomax, Alan - Kubesh, John G. - Leclaire, Leilia - McBride, Bill - Aho, Pekka - Warslzyk, Tony - Frazier, Calvin - Sielvankiewiez - Brideup, Louis - McDonough, Patrick - Wallen, Mr - Marinetti, John - Larson, Steen - Vasvary, Steve - Korvenpaa, Charles - Romel, Ted - Szabo, Andy - Marczis, Joseph - Kallio, Kalle - Erickson, Max - Vizina, Adelore - Frazier, Clara - Marttila - Fredrickson, John - Trueblood, Asel - Grbić, Ludevit - Pischner, Helen - Halinen, Selma Elona - Bellaire, Exilia - Cadeau, John - Miron, Joe - Carrière, Dolphis - Lewandowski, Ted - Floriani, Veko - Nemeth, Kalman - Pohjala, Aina - Kruczynski, Clara - Frazier, Viola - Bangac, Petar - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Similä, Gusti - Fredrickson, Kaisa - Frazier, Belle - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Green, John W. - Hirvelä, Wäin - Happy Jack Woodward - Vujanović, Stjepan - Guzal, Frank - Cloud, Joe - Kania, Felix - Kubien, Rose - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Lathrop, Carl - Juhani, Aapo - Gallagher, Emerald - Romel, Sylvester - Krawezak, B. - Maki, Frank - Cadeau, Mathilda - Härkönen, Amanda - Maté - Romel - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Ketvirtis, Charles - Cloud, Clarence - Ricksgers, Joseph - Trivanović, Stefan - Preda, Emil Milan - Olah, Julius - Dobričan, Lazar - Bellaire, Mose - Norman, John - Scheffer, Peter - Delmas, Adolphus - Aho, Lillian - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Dragić, Todor - Floriani, Vladimir - Sainović, Ilija - Thrasher, Ed - Frazier, Lonnie - Viita, Frank - Gallagher, Dominic - Pittman, Sampson - Carrière, Fred - Basrak, Stjepan - Szilagyi, Dizso - Allen, Perry - Bonner, Daniel - Larson, Nils - Pol, Thomas - Strzelecki, Tony - Maki, Emil - Palmer, Mason - Bonner, Patrick - Archive of American Folk Song - Pope, Allan C. - Marinetti, Victor - King, Edward - Rajčević, Stepan - McCarthy, Barney - McCormick, Ed - Larson, John - Styes, Archie - Floriani, Margaret - Baratono, Art - Meyers, Herman - Hyvönen, John - Romel, Leo - Rudzinski, Alex - Cadeau, Ed - Mahoski, Henry - Wells, Lester - Jackson, Andrew - McCauley, Edward - Rautanen, Vernon - Niewiadomska, Frances - Velin, Maria - Graham, Bert - Tomić, Pajo - Berky, Nandor - Lewandowski, Stephan
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 1,270 Items
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CollectionAmerican English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. The recordings include speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. They…- Contributor: Mele, Joseph C. - Earhart, Amelia - Aspinall, Wayne N. - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Fred - La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) - Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) - Abbott, Fortis - Center for Applied Linguistics - Christian, Donna - National Endowment for the Humanities - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Emerson, Lee
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 506 Items
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CollectionAmerican Folklife Center Web Archive The American Folklife Center Archive, established in the Library of Congress Music Division in 1928 as the Archive of American Folk Song, is now one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials…Collection Items: View 23 Items
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CollectionAncestral Voices Among the very first activities of the American Folklife Center (AFC) -- created in 1976 -- was the Federal Cylinder Project (FCP), a large-scale initiative to preserve and provide access to historic…Collection Items: View 26 Items
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CollectionBess Lomax Hawes Collection The Bess Lomax Hawes collection is comprised of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax…- Contributor: Hawes, Butch - Odetta - Hawes, Bess Lomax - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Berman, Marcia - Dehr, Rich - Gilkyson, Terry - Miller, Frank - Mohr, Larry
- Date: 1894
Collection Items: View 365 Items
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CollectionBlue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project was conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork in August and…- Contributor: Jarrell, Tommy - Bryan, Mamie - American Folklife Center - Wolfe, Charles K. - United States. National Park Service - Ray, Roxie - Richardson, Larry - Choate, Donna - Patton, Ila - Wilson, Joe ... Jarrell, Tommy - Bryan, Mamie - American Folklife Center - Wolfe, Charles K. - United States. National Park Service - Ray, Roxie - Richardson, Larry - Choate, Donna - Patton, Ila - Wilson, Joe - Shockley, Maggie - Mullen, Patrick B. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Cruise, Crystal - Todd, Zenna - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Stanley, Lura - Jabbour, Alan - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Marshall, Howard W. - Adler, Thomas A. - Eiler, Terry - Owen, Blanton
- Date: 1977
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CollectionBuckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 Includes 41 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings, motion pictures produced from 1945 to 1965 by Leslie Stewart (owner of the Ninety-Six Ranch), 2,400 still photographs drawn from the Center's ethnographic field…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 2,441 Items
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CollectionCalifornia Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell This online presentation, California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in 12 languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. It includes sound…- Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1997
Collection Items: View 1,246 Items
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CollectionCaptain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal captures the culture and music of the men, women, and children who worked and lived along the Ohio and Erie Canal.…- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - American Folklife Center - Nye, Pearl R. - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1937
Collection Items: View 141 Items
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CollectionChicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection The Chicago Ethnic Arts Project survey was conducted in 1977 by the American Folklife Center at the request of the Illinois Arts Council to assess and document the status of ethnic art…- Contributor: Bradunas, Elena - American Folklife Center - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - Moloney, Mick - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Kalčik, Susan J. - Lund, Jens - Choi, Chungmoo - Robinson, Beverly J. - Fleischhauer, Carl ... Bradunas, Elena - American Folklife Center - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - Moloney, Mick - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Kalčik, Susan J. - Lund, Jens - Choi, Chungmoo - Robinson, Beverly J. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Illinois Arts Council - George, Philip B. - Klymasz, Shirley - Epstein, Shifra - Swenson, Greta E. - Libonati, Roland V. (Roland Victor) - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta - Mathias, Elizabeth - Chicago Ethnic Arts Project - March, Richard - Mack, James - Brzovich, Mato - Dovydenas, Jonas - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Hellenberg, Antony - González, José Gamaliel - Bartis, Peter
- Date: 1976
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CollectionCivil Rights History Project On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Greenberg, Jack - Funchess, Glenda - Ladner, Dorie - Paysour, Lafleur - Hill, Oliver W. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Dudley, John F. - Dittmer, John - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Bruce, Walter ... Greenberg, Jack - Funchess, Glenda - Ladner, Dorie - Paysour, Lafleur - Hill, Oliver W. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Dudley, John F. - Dittmer, John - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Bruce, Walter - Collins, Barbara Maria - Bailey, D'army - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Avery, Annie Pearl - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Sherrod, Shirley - Broadway, Louise W. - Sullivan, Patricia - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Jones, James Oscar - Greene, Freddie - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Stewart, Eleanor - Howard, Elbert - Booker, Simeon - Suggs, Frances L. - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Carlos, John - Hopkins, Evans D. - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Marshall, Cecilia - Sherrod, Charles - Luper, Calvin - Tillow, Walter M. - Crosby, Patricia A. - Bishop, John Melville - Young, Sam - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Tuttle, Rick - Dove, Samuel - Miller, James E. - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Varela, Maria - Blake, Harry - Head, Rosie M. - Lucy, William - Bassett, Priscilla - Wright, Simeon - Cline, David P. - Guster, Leesco - McLaurin, Charles - Thelwell, Michael - Brown, Robert J. - Jones, Mary A. - Smith, Jeanette - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - King, Lonnie C. - Mosnier, Joseph - McClary, Robert - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Jenkins, Mary F. - Montes, Carlos - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Walker, Theresa Ann - Camarillo, Mateo - Sobol, Richard B. - Miller, Grace H. - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Miller, Carolyn - Noonan, Martha P. - Henderson, Juadine - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - Lawson, Jennifer - Caldwell, Ben R. - Williams, Cecil J. - Holloway, Emma Kate - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Vivian, C. T. - Cleaver, Kathleen - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Young, Carrie Lamar - Sales, Ruby - Jones, Jamila - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Geiger, Jack - Bond, Julian - Tillow, Kay - Robinson, Reginald - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Ackerman, David M. - Mtume, Norma - McDew, Charles - American Folklife Center - Russell, Bill - Connor, Peggy Jean - Branch, Raylawni G. - Huggins, Ericka - Richardson, Judy - Saunders, William - Library of Congress - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Howell, Joseph T. - McNichols, Steven - Moore, E. Maynard - Anderson, Fletcher - Anderson, William G. - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Cox, Courtland - Burras, Carol Cummings - Vickers, Barbara Edna - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Newson, Moses J. - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Hicks, Charles Ray - Zapata, Luis - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lowery, Joseph E. - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Holloway, Eddie A. - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Bates, Scott - Alexander, Roberta - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Griffin, Willie James - Ladner, Joyce A. - Seeger, Pete - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Carawan, Candie - Carawan, Guy - Siler, Charles E. - Williams, Junius W. - Zellner, Dorothy - Robinson, Betty Garman - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Parker, Wheeler - George, Virginia Simms - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Dixon, Elmer - Hutchings, Phil - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Arellanes, Gloria - Howell, Embry - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Bassett, Emmett W. - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Browner, Clifford - Sellers, Cleveland - Terry, Esther M. A. - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Holloway, Lucius - Branch, Taylor - Rosenberg, John M. - Suggs, Harold - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Jones, Clarence B. - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Crosby, Emilye - Dixon, Aaron - Churchville, John Elliott - Lawrence, William M. - Abernathy, Ralph David - Guyot, Lawrence - Mahone, Sam - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Diamond, Dion T. - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Fuller, Linda - Jarmon, Charles - Magee, Clarence - Richardson, Gloria - Long, Worth W. - McCarty, Michael D. - Clark, Robert George - Crosby, David L. - Simpson, Euvester - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Carter, Robert L. - Southern Oral History Program - Burns, Julia Matilda - Strickland, William - Moldovan, Alfred - Dahmer, Vernon - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Breaux, Toni - Brown, Harold K.
- Date: 2010
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CollectionColorado Folklife Project Collection The Colorado Folklife Project was sponsored by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, working with John D. Farr, representative of the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide Foundation, Frisco, Colorado, to assist in…- Contributor: Marshall, Howard W. - American Folklife Center - Dettmer, Elke - Natanson, Barbara Orbach - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Emrich, Ron
- Date: 1980
Collection Items: View 130 Items
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CollectionCOVID-19 American History Project COVID-19 was a global pandemic that altered many aspects of American life. From January 2020 to August 2024, over 1,100,000 Americans died from the disease. Quarantine measures, enacted to avoid the spread…- Contributor: Callahan, Paulette - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - American Folklife Center - Garcia, Fredy M. - Griffin, Shaquita - Kinoshita, Ashley - Cane, Brodrick - Chatelain, Elise M. - Hayes, Janine - E.F. Cuttin ... Callahan, Paulette - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - American Folklife Center - Garcia, Fredy M. - Griffin, Shaquita - Kinoshita, Ashley - Cane, Brodrick - Chatelain, Elise M. - Hayes, Janine - E.F. Cuttin - Micaroni, Justin - Hope, Shaye - Davis, Sidney - Parquet, Zelda - Onikosi, Kami - Breaux, Lionel - Simmons, Jessica - Roy, Kiran - Oubre, Anita - Peters-Muhammad, Jamilah Yejide - Bauer, Luke - Wicker, Ragan - Paxton, Christine - Ciereszynski, Ezra
- Date: 2023
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CollectionEthnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project The Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project was conducted in 1982 by the American Folklife Center to survey selected religious and secular ethnic community-based schools conducted, at least in part,…- Contributor: Bradunas, Elena - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - American Folklife Center - Sacks, Maurie - Westover, Victoria - Leung, John - Haas, Mary-Louise - Marks, Morton - Deak, Frank - Long, Lucy M. ... Bradunas, Elena - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - American Folklife Center - Sacks, Maurie - Westover, Victoria - Leung, John - Haas, Mary-Louise - Marks, Morton - Deak, Frank - Long, Lucy M. - Fish, Lydia M. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Baird, Scott J. - Bell, Carole O. - Skillman, Amy E. - McClain, Margy - Basa, Peter - Seipel, Sandy - Fast, Jana - Conklin, Nancy Faires - Miller, Jefferson - McCallum, Brenda - Gates, Bob - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Nagy, Susan Mary - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - Davis, Lee - Vidutis, Richard - Cech, Barbara - Arocho, Rudy - Topping, Brett - Feintuch, Burt - Tarhan, Lance - Webber, Philip E. - Proschan, Frank - Dwyer-Shick, Susan
- Date: 1982
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CollectionFiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Reed, Watha - Glenroy, William B. - Reed, Henry - Ricci, Glenn - Jabbour, Alan - Reed, Gene
- Date: 2000
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CollectionFlorida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections combines sound recordings and manuscript materials from four discrete archival collections made by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers from the Joint Committee on Folk Arts, the…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Kennedy, Stetson
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 Items
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CollectionHispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of…- Contributor: Archuleta, Ricardo - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Montoya, Luis - American Folklife Center - Rael, Juan Bautista - Anaya, Nieves - Trujillo, Amado - Chávez, Adelaido - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Anaya, Ernestina ... Archuleta, Ricardo - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Montoya, Luis - American Folklife Center - Rael, Juan Bautista - Anaya, Nieves - Trujillo, Amado - Chávez, Adelaido - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Anaya, Ernestina - Mares, Remigio - Medina, Esteban - Lobato, Julián - Arellano, Narciso - García, Pedro - Arellano, Esequiel - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Romero, Alfredo - Chávez, Adolfo - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Lobato, Salomé - Cantú, José Ignacio
- Date: 1940
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CollectionItalian Americans in the West Project The Italian Americans in the West Project collection contains the sound recordings, photographs, video recordings, fieldnotes, publications, ephemera, and accompanying manuscript materials associated with the American Folklife Center's Italian Americans in the…- Contributor: Notarianni, Philip F. - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Siporin, Steve - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - DeNatale, Douglas - Tavarelli, Paola - Owen, Blanton - American Folklife Center - Frank, Russell ... Notarianni, Philip F. - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Siporin, Steve - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - DeNatale, Douglas - Tavarelli, Paola - Owen, Blanton - American Folklife Center - Frank, Russell - Carter, Thomas - Taylor, David Alan - Manini, Paula Marie - Parks, Valerie - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Williams, John Alexander - Lund, Jens - Light, Ken
- Date: 1988
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CollectionJean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Collection The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve collection consists of interviews and photographs by Mary Hufford and Tom Tankersley in December 1985 for the American Folklife Center, comprising part of the…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Hufford, Mary - United States. National Park Service - Tankersley, Tom - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1985
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CollectionJohn A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers John A. Lomax, Sr., and his son Alan Lomax became stewards of a nascent Archive of American Folk-Song in September 1933. Their tenure lasted until Alan separated from the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Library of Congress. Music Division - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1907
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
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CollectionLiving Nations, Living Words This collection—part of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” signature project—contains audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets reading and discussing an original poem. Listen to Joy Harjo, Louise…Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionLowell Folklife Project Collection The Lowell Folklife Project was conducted in 1987-1988 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, with support from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Refugee Arts Group - United States. National Park Service - Rankin, Tom - DeNatale, Douglas - Fleischhauer, Carl - Norkunas, Martha K. - University of Lowell - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Lueders-Booth, John ... American Folklife Center - Refugee Arts Group - United States. National Park Service - Rankin, Tom - DeNatale, Douglas - Fleischhauer, Carl - Norkunas, Martha K. - University of Lowell - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Lueders-Booth, John - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Fertig, Barbara C. - Bell, Michael Edward - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - Taylor, David Alan - Montaño, Mario - Bartis, Peter - Wachs, Eleanor F.
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 1,140 Items
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CollectionMaine Acadian Cultural Survey Collection The Maine Acadian Cultural Survey was an eight-week study conducted in 1991 as a joint project of the American Folklife Center and the North Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service…- Contributor: United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office - Marshall, Howard W. - Bayley, Julie - Ornstein, Lisa - Brassieur, C. Ray - Whitman, David A. - American Folklife Center - Taylor, David Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1991
Collection Items: View 270 Items
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CollectionMontana Folklife Survey Collection The Montana Folklife Survey was conducted in the summer of 1979 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, in cooperation with the Montana Arts Council. The survey was a…- Contributor: Young, Kay - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Wasson, George B. - McBride, Tom - American Folklife Center - Toelken, Barre - Fleischhauer, Carl - Montana Arts Council - Dockstader, Ray - Crummett, Michael - Johnson, Paula J. - Stanton, Gary Ward - Toelken, Miiko
- Date: 1979
Collection Items: View 613 Items
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CollectionNew Mexico Folklife Project Collection The New Mexico Folklife Project was conducted by Carl Fleischhauer of the American Folklife Center, in the summers of 1984 and 1985. In 1984, the effort supported the work of the folklorist…- Contributor: Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) - American Folklife Center - Pratt, Boyd C. - Fleischhauer, Carl - New Mexico. Historic Preservation Division - Kalb, Laurie Beth
- Date: 1984
Collection Items: View 112 Items
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CollectionNow What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.…- Contributor: Fisk University - Bond, James - Ellis, Charles - Ford, Osa - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Bond, Edward - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Monch, Matthew - Richardson, Zema - Turner, Monroe ... Fisk University - Bond, James - Ellis, Charles - Ford, Osa - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Bond, Edward - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Monch, Matthew - Richardson, Zema - Turner, Monroe - Jackson, Deacon Sam - Chestain, Sonny - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Stripling, Sidney - Mathis, Allison - Thomas, John Lee - Heavenly Gate Quartet - Holloway High School Quartet - Traveller Home Singers - Turner, Alma - Johnson, Warren G. - Gregory, Richard - Gibson, Gus - Gaines, Elwood - Spiritual Four Quartet - Chastain, Will - Ezell, Buster - Parker, Cleve - Winrow, Anthony - Turner, Oscar - Ford, T. J. - Smith Band (Musical Group)
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 181 Items
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CollectionOccupational Folklife Project The Occupational Folklife Project (OFP) began in 2010 as a multi-year project by the American Folklife Center (AFC) to document the culture of contemporary American workers during an era of economic and…- Contributor: Lebert, Lindberg A. - Peterson, Betsy - Holland, Benny - American Folklife Center - Houston Arts Alliance - Robb, Alan A. - Henry, Mark - Halbert, David Maurice - Hennessey, William S. - Rousser, C. A. ... Lebert, Lindberg A. - Peterson, Betsy - Holland, Benny - American Folklife Center - Houston Arts Alliance - Robb, Alan A. - Henry, Mark - Halbert, David Maurice - Hennessey, William S. - Rousser, C. A. - Diehl, William J. - Potoczniak, Anthony - Burkett, Joe L. - Vest, Lou C. - Braun, Leo J. - Bludworth, Richard W. - Harris, Eugene - Kersey, Bobby C. - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Occupational Folklife Project - Bennett, Steven R. - Glass, Matthew H. - Lindahl, Carl - Patton, William Benjamin - Seeba, Patrick - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Jasper, Pat - Mims, Doug - Glass, Leonard - Mayville, Donnie D. - Patout, Rivers - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Dodd, Harold L. - Quesada, José Angel - Hilliard, Henry - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Keenan, Gordie - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Blume, Dana - Hausinger, William - Morrell, David C. - Tray, James Thomas - Aalund, Niels Anders - Harris, Timothy C. - Laws, Andrew L. - Corgey, Dean - Usher, Michael Gene - Montgomery, Charles R. - Shaffer, Harold L. - Gage, Charles H. - Postel, Adolph C. - Thompson, Robert L. - King, Charles H. - Cooney, James Patrick - Hensley, James J. - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Olsen, Eric Carl - Larrimer, George - Tellepsen, Tom - Dickens, Michael W. - Ramirez, Gilda
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 1,219 Items
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CollectionOmaha Indian Music Presented here are selections from the American Folklife Center's collections documenting Omaha music traditions. The sound recordings include 44 wax cylinder recordings made in the 1890s (first published on a 1985 LP…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
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CollectionPinelands Folklife Project The Pinelands Folklife Project collection represents the culmination of a three-year effort to identify and record the cultural traditions in and around the Pinelands National Reserve in the Pine Barrens region of…- Contributor: Cartwright, Christine A. - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Orr, Jay - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Lund, Jens - Fleischhauer, Carl - Cervetto, Jack ... Cartwright, Christine A. - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Orr, Jay - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Lund, Jens - Fleischhauer, Carl - Cervetto, Jack - Ridgway, Merce - Cohen, David Steven - Tweed, Stewart M. - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Shourds, Harry V. - Sinton, John W. - Glassie, Henry - O'Connor, Malachi - Parsons, Gerald E. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Pinelands Cultural Society - Thatcher, Elaine - Little, Silas - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission - Samuelson, Sue - Hufford, Mary - Hunn, Eugene S. - Vivian, V. Eugene - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - McDonald, Dennis - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.)
- Date: 1983
Collection Items: View 1,325 Items
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CollectionQuilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 Contains 181 segments from recorded interviews with quiltmakers and 410 graphic images (prints, positive transparencies, and negatives) from two collections in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress: the Blue…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 605 Items
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CollectionRadio Research Project Manuscript Collection The January 1941 launch of the Radio Research Project marked the Library’s initial foray into broadcast media. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and supported by Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, the project…- Contributor: Liss, Joseph - Library of Congress. Radio Research Project - Lomax, Alan - Cohen, Philip H. - Harrell, Charles Travers
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 168 Items
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CollectionRhode Island Folklife Project Collection The Rhode Island Folklife Project collection resulted from a field survey project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, conducted in cooperation with the Rhode Island Heritage Commission, the Rhode Island…- Contributor: Bell, Michael Edward - Harley, Nancy - Burns, Thomas A. - Horenstein, Henry - Glawson, Francis - American Folklife Center - Fleischhauer, Carl - Goldstein, Kenneth S. - Rhode Island Folklife Project - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bartis, Peter - Johnson, Geraldine Niva
- Date: 1979
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CollectionRobert Winslow Gordon Songsters The Robert Winslow Gordon songster collection contains approximately 700 American songsters dating from 1844-1886, collected by Gordon. The word “songster” has been used for a wide variety of songbooks, but these are…- Contributor: Gordon, Robert Winslow - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1844
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CollectionSeptember 11, 2001, Documentary Project Flight Attendant. Photo by David A. Taylor, September 2001. September 11, 2001, Documentary Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project captures the reactions, eyewitness accounts,…- Contributor: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2001
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CollectionSouth-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection resulted from an ethnographic field project conducted in the summer of 1977 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment…- Contributor: Marshall, Howard W. - McGraw, Hugh - Robinson, Beverly J. - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - American Folklife Center - Blackmarr, Syd - Coelho, Dennis - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Hamrick, Raymond C. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Stanley, David - Jabbour, Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Adler, Thomas A.
- Date: 1977
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CollectionSouthern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip This recording trip is an ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United…- Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1934
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CollectionTending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia This collection presents 718 excerpts of sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project Collection. The project documented traditional uses of the mountains in…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
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