A number of American Folklife Center collections are available as online presentations, and we continue to add new materials and update existing collections. Digital collections generally contain photographs, audio recordings, and manuscript materials such as field notes or logs for recordings and photos. Note that in many cases the full collection is not online, and in order to access some materials-such as administrative records for projects-you would need to visit the AFC Research Center.
Digital Collections
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CollectionAfrican American Ballet in Washington, D.C.: A Legacy in Motion This collection is based on the project, Evolution of Blacks in Ballet in Washington D.C., which was supported by a 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant (CCG) and led by Emmy-nominated producer, filmmaker, and storyteller Kamilah Thurmon. The collection features oral interviews with African American, Washington, D.C.-based ballet legends Sandra Fortune-Green, Virginia Johnson, Beatrice Davis-Williams, Lynn Welters, and Kahina Haynes. In addition, video…- Contributor: Jones, Alexandra Rene - Gibson, Felicia - Davis, Kouadio - Hutchinson, Alexandra - Rosebar, Erin - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Cooper, Sylvia - Thurmon, Kamilah - Bullard, Micah ... Jones, Alexandra Rene - Gibson, Felicia - Davis, Kouadio - Hutchinson, Alexandra - Rosebar, Erin - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Cooper, Sylvia - Thurmon, Kamilah - Bullard, Micah - Williams, Stephanie Rae - Brockington, Derek - Fortune, Sandra (Fortune-Green) - Wright, David - Adelekun, Jasmine - Welters, Lynn B. - Washington, Delaney - Rego, Luis Fernando - Haynes, Kahina - Robinson, Kira - Johnson, Virginia - Welters, Raigan - Dickerson, Ariana - Davis-Williams, Beatrice
- Date: 2024
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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, from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), Alan Lomax, then "assistant in…- Date: 1941
Collection Items: View 139 Items
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CollectionAIDS Memorial Quilt Records This online collection presents digitized images of the AIDS Memorial Quilt panel maker files housed in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The panel maker files contain more than 150,000 mementos and ephemera submitted by Quilt panel makers to the NAMES Project and the National AIDS Memorial, which memorializes victims of HIV/AIDS. Conceived by Cleve Jones and friends in response to…- Contributor: Rhoad, Julie - Jones, Cleve - Names Project Foundation
- Date: 1980
Collection Items: View 5,164 Items
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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 from around the world. Lomax conducted fieldwork in the Bahamas, the Caribbean, England, France, Georgia (Republic), Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, the United States, and Wales from the 1930s-1990s.…- Contributor: Association for Cultural Equity - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1933
Collection Items: View 6,613 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. He traveled in a 1935 Plymouth sedan, toting a Presto disc recorder and a movie camera. When he returned nearly three months later, having driven thousands of miles on barely paved roads,…- Contributor: Carrière, Dolphis - Bellaire, Mose - McDonough, Patrick - Marczis, Joseph - Frazier, Lonnie - Krawezak, B. - Berky, Nandor - Grbić, Ludevit - Szabo, Andy - Jackson, Andrew ... Carrière, Dolphis - Bellaire, Mose - McDonough, Patrick - Marczis, Joseph - Frazier, Lonnie - Krawezak, B. - Berky, Nandor - Grbić, Ludevit - Szabo, Andy - Jackson, Andrew - Kubien, Rose - Palmer, Mason - Lewandowski, Ted - Tomić, Pajo - Cadeau, John - Vujanović, Stjepan - Sainović, Ilija - Romel - Lathrop, Carl - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Wells, Lester - Fredrickson, Kaisa - Wallen, Mr - Marttila - Lomax, Alan - Szilagyi, Dizso - Archive of American Folk Song - Frazier, Viola - Larson, Nils - Preda, Emil Milan - Trueblood, Asel - Floriani, Vladimir - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Carrière, Fred - Pohjala, Aina - Guzal, Frank - Marinetti, Victor - Bonner, Patrick - Maté - Maki, Emil - Nemeth, Kalman - Floriani, Margaret - Aho, Pekka - Korvenpaa, Charles - Miron, Joe - Frazier, Belle - Velin, Maria - Lewandowski, Stephan - Pittman, Sampson - Hyvönen, John - Romel, Adolph - Bangac, Petar - Bonner, Daniel - Ricksgers, Joseph - Frazier, Calvin - Similä, Gusti - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Rautanen, Vernon - Maki, Frank - Romel, Sylvester - Hirvelä, Wäin - King, Edward - Baratono, Art - Cadeau, Mathilda - McCormick, Ed - Happy Jack Woodward - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Bellaire, Exilia - Leclaire, Leilia - Basrak, Stjepan - Rajčević, Stepan - Cloud, Clarence - Hulan - Sielvankiewiez - McCarthy, Barney - Mahoski, Henry - Härkönen, Amanda - Vizina, Adelore - Allen, Perry - Dobričan, Lazar - Niewiadomska, Frances - Kruczynski, Clara - Scheffer, Peter - Green, John W. - Halinen, Selma Elona - Gallagher, Emerald - Frazier, Clara - Dragić, Todor - Warslzyk, Tony - Brideup, Louis - Olah, Julius - Floriani, Veko - Aho, Lillian - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Fredrickson, John - Larson, Steen - Juhani, Aapo - Meyers, Herman - Rudzinski, Alex - McCauley, Edward - Marinetti, John - Gallagher, Dominic - Pol, Thomas - Cadeau, Ed - Cloud, Joe - Kallio, Kalle - Ketvirtis, Charles - Larson, John - Kubesh, John G. - Lewandowski, Edwina - Romel, Ted - McBride, Bill - Viita, Frank - Erickson, Max - Norman, John - Kania, Felix - Strzelecki, Tony - Vasvary, Steve - Pope, Allan C. - Delmas, Adolphus - Graham, Bert - Trivanović, Stefan - Romel, Leo - Pischner, Helen - Thrasher, Ed - Styes, Archie
- 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 were drawn from various archives, and from the private collections of fifty collectors, including linguists, dialectologists, and folklorists. They were submitted to the Center for Applied Linguistics as part of a project…- Contributor: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) - Emerson, Lee - Center for Applied Linguistics - La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) - Christian, Donna - Marshall, Fred - Abbott, Fortis - American Folklife Center - National Endowment for the Humanities - Aspinall, Wayne N. - Mele, Joseph C. - Earhart, Amelia - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1935
Collection Items: View 506 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 and fragile field recordings captured on wax cylinders, many dating back to the late nineteenth century. The goal of the FCP (1977-1987) was to gather together thousands of such historical recordings held…Collection Items: View 26 Items
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CollectionBenjamin Luft Collection of 9-11 Oral Histories The Benjamin Luft collection of 9-11 oral histories consists of video interviews of individuals impacted by the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster, and interviewees’ photographs and manuscript materials documenting their experiences at the site. The collection primarily contains first-person narratives told by World Trade Center site disaster workers: police officers, firefighters, construction workers, demolition specialists, ironworkers, veterinarians, paramedics, and other volunteers at…- Contributor: Luft, Benjamin J.
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 45 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 Hawes, most from 1960-2001. It 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…- Contributor: Hawes, Butch - Gilkyson, Terry - Berman, Marcia - Miller, Frank - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Mohr, Larry - Odetta - Dehr, Rich
- 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 September 1978, and collected related materials from 1977 to 1981. The materials were collected for use in designing and improving National Park Service interpretive programs along the Blue Ridge Parkway.- Contributor: Shockley, Maggie - Adler, Thomas A. - American Folklife Center - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Ray, Roxie - Jabbour, Alan - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Todd, Zenna ... Shockley, Maggie - Adler, Thomas A. - American Folklife Center - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Owen, Margaret Counts - Ray, Roxie - Jabbour, Alan - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Todd, Zenna - United States. National Park Service - Bryan, Mamie - Choate, Donna - Fleischhauer, Carl - Cruise, Crystal - Marshall, Howard W. - Stanley, Lura - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Richardson, Larry - Wilson, Joe - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Mullen, Patrick B. - Eiler, Terry - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Patton, Ila - Owen, Blanton - Wolfe, Charles K.
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 2,103 Items
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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 project conducted 1978-1982 and from historic photos dating 1870-1958. Background essays provide historical and cultural context for this distinctive northern Nevada ranching community. Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- 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 recordings, still photographs of the performers, drawings of folk instruments, and written documentation from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in northern California in the 1930s.- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1997
Collection Items: View 1,247 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. Nye, who was born and raised on a canal boat, never lost his love of the "Big Ditch." After the canal closed permanently in 1913, he devoted considerable time and energy to…- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Nye, Pearl R. - Lomax, Alan - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1937
Collection Items: View 142 Items
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CollectionCelebrating CHamoru Nobenas This collection documents devotional prayer rituals based in Roman Catholicism but uniquely adapted and embraced by the Indigenous CHamoru/Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands and among diasporic CHamoru/Chamorro communities throughout the United States. With the support of a 2023 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant (CCG), as part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, a team-made up of all CHamoru…- Contributor: Quan, Philip Taitano - Vera, Román María De - American Folklife Center - Borja, Lawrence Arceo - Fejeran, Albert - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Pangelinan, Zita Diaz - Flores, Teresita Concepcion - Pangelinan, Victor Diaz - Pangelinan, Maria Diaz ... Quan, Philip Taitano - Vera, Román María De - American Folklife Center - Borja, Lawrence Arceo - Fejeran, Albert - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Pangelinan, Zita Diaz - Flores, Teresita Concepcion - Pangelinan, Victor Diaz - Pangelinan, Maria Diaz - Pangelinan, Victoria Diaz - Ramirez, Malia Toni - Bautista, Lola Quan - Perez, Marie (Cecilia Marie) - Pangelinan, Lourdes - Nauta, Rita Pangelinan - Rojas, Carmen Camacho - Leon Guerrero, Frank - Leon Guerrero, Zita Taisacan - Songsong, Brant M. - Forbes, Eric - Atalig, Lina Pangelinan
- Date: 2023
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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 traditions in more than twenty ethnic communities in Chicago, and was jointly sponsored by both organizations.- Contributor: Kubose, Minnie Somi - Chicago Ethnic Arts Project - Illinois Arts Council - American Folklife Center - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - George, Philip B. - Swenson, Greta E. - Dovydenas, Jonas - González, José Gamaliel - March, Richard ... Kubose, Minnie Somi - Chicago Ethnic Arts Project - Illinois Arts Council - American Folklife Center - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - George, Philip B. - Swenson, Greta E. - Dovydenas, Jonas - González, José Gamaliel - March, Richard - Choi, Chungmoo - Robinson, Beverly J. - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Bartis, Peter - Epstein, Shifra - Klymasz, Shirley - Mack, James - Fleischhauer, Carl - Moloney, Mick - Bradunas, Elena - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta - Mathias, Elizabeth - Lund, Jens - Libonati, Roland V. (Roland Victor) - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - Brzovich, Mato - Kalčik, Susan J. - Hellenberg, Antony
- Date: 1976
Collection Items: View 1,138 Items
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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 (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to…- Contributor: Carawan, Candie - Tillow, Kay - Lawrence, William M. - Holloway, Lucius - Robinson, Betty Garman - Newson, Moses J. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Southern Oral History Program - Sobol, Richard B. - Holloway, Eddie A. ... Carawan, Candie - Tillow, Kay - Lawrence, William M. - Holloway, Lucius - Robinson, Betty Garman - Newson, Moses J. - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Southern Oral History Program - Sobol, Richard B. - Holloway, Eddie A. - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Tuttle, Rick - Magee, Clarence - Anderson, William G. - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Russell, Bill - George, Virginia Simms - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - McDew, Charles - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Ackerman, David M. - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Griffin, Willie James - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Terry, Esther M. A. - Jarmon, Charles - Camarillo, Mateo - Avery, Annie Pearl - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Howell, Joseph T. - Stewart, Eleanor - Crosby, Emilye - Jones, James Oscar - Miller, Carolyn - Mtume, Norma - Carawan, Guy - Sullivan, Patricia - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Crosby, David L. - Dittmer, John - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Booker, Simeon - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Carlos, John - Howell, Embry - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Fuller, Linda - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Young, Carrie Lamar - Bruce, Walter - Burras, Carol Cummings - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Head, Rosie M. - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Clark, Robert George - Walker, Wyatt Tee - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Long, Worth W. - Sales, Ruby - Guster, Leesco - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Bates, Scott - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Ladner, Joyce A. - Bassett, Emmett W. - Thelwell, Michael - Paysour, Lafleur - Guyot, Lawrence - Suggs, Harold - Brown, Robert J. - Branch, Raylawni G. - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Richardson, Gloria - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Hill, Oliver W. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Sherrod, Shirley - McLaurin, Charles - Miller, Grace H. - Vivian, C. T. - Collins, Barbara Maria - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Young, Sam - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Mahone, Sam - Jones, Mary A. - Diamond, Dion T. - Ladner, Dorie - Richardson, Judy - Siler, Charles E. - Dahmer, Vernon - Caldwell, Ben R. - Cline, David P. - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Parker, Wheeler - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Dudley, John F. - Bishop, John Melville - Williams, Junius W. - Bond, Julian - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Burns, Julia Matilda - Churchville, John Elliott - Noonan, Martha P. - Saunders, William - Walker, Theresa Ann - Henderson, Juadine - Bailey, D'army - Dove, Samuel - Wright, Simeon - Funchess, Glenda - Geiger, Jack - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Sellers, Cleveland - Hicks, Charles Ray - Alexander, Roberta - Connor, Peggy Jean - Holloway, Emma Kate - Jones, Clarence B. - Varela, Maria - Broadway, Louise W. - McCarty, Michael D. - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Strickland, William - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Greenberg, Jack - Zapata, Luis - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Cox, Courtland - King, Lonnie C. - Mosnier, Joseph - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Greene, Freddie - Howard, Elbert - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Vickers, Barbara Edna - McClary, Robert - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Carter, Robert L. - Lucy, William - Branch, Taylor - Anderson, Fletcher - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Zellner, Dorothy - American Folklife Center - Smith, Jeanette - Tillow, Walter M. - Dixon, Elmer - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Cleaver, Kathleen - Arellanes, Gloria - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Sherrod, Charles - Crosby, Patricia A. - Breaux, Toni - Hopkins, Evans D. - Miller, James E. - Montes, Carlos - Jones, Jamila - Suggs, Frances L. - Lowery, Joseph E. - Robinson, Reginald - Abernathy, Ralph David - Library of Congress - Seeger, Pete - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Hutchings, Phil - McNichols, Steven - Bassett, Priscilla - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - Lawson, Jennifer - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette - Huggins, Ericka - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Brown, Harold K. - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Williams, Cecil J. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Moldovan, Alfred - Browner, Clifford - Luper, Calvin - Jenkins, Mary F. - Marshall, Cecilia - Simpson, Euvester - Dixon, Aaron - Blake, Harry - Rosenberg, John M. - Moore, E. Maynard
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 157 Items
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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 developing plans for an outdoor museum and educational center. The project was led by Howard W. Marshall for the American Folklife Center from August 18-30, 1980. Intended in part to demonstrate folklife…- Contributor: Emrich, Ron - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Howard W. - Dettmer, Elke - Natanson, Barbara Orbach - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1980
Collection Items: View 130 Items
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CollectionContinuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story is an initiative undertaken by a research team of Comanche community members and University of Oklahoma faculty to record, preserve and present the work and words of skilled artisans on the production of distinctive, hand-made objects. A focus on artistic forms, cultural functions and sociohistorical contexts lies at the heart of this documentary collection…- Contributor: Steinmeyer, Allison - Weryackwe, Rance B. - Wilson, Amanda M. - Flores, Martin M. - Endres, Bill - American Folklife Center - Wieser, Kimberly G. - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Nevaquaya, Edmond Tate - Wade, Mary Parker
- Date: 2023
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CollectionCOVID-19 American History Project COVID-19 was a global pandemic that profoundly altered life in the United States. Most tragically, more than 1.1 million people in the country died from the disease between January 2020 and August 2024. Quarantine measures enacted to slow the spread of COVID-19 changed how people lived and worked, while many social activities—including school and faith-based gatherings—moved online. Even today, the pandemic continues to shape…- Contributor: Simmons, Jessica - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Chatelain, Elise M. - American Folklife Center - Bauer, Luke - Callahan, Paulette - Parquet, Zelda - Griffin, Shaquita - Hope, Shaye - Ciereszynski, Ezra ... Simmons, Jessica - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Chatelain, Elise M. - American Folklife Center - Bauer, Luke - Callahan, Paulette - Parquet, Zelda - Griffin, Shaquita - Hope, Shaye - Ciereszynski, Ezra - Garcia, Fredy M. - Peters-Muhammad, Jamilah Yejide - Wicker, Ragan - Roy, Kiran - Micaroni, Justin - Oubre, Anita - Cane, Brodrick - Paxton, Christine - Breaux, Lionel - Davis, Sidney - Hayes, Janine - Onikosi, Kami - Kinoshita, Ashley - E.F. Cuttin
- Date: 2023
Collection Items: View 73 Items
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CollectionDiversity Plaza: Queens as Cultural Crossroads Los Herederos, a non-profit community-based organization in Queens, New York, received a 2023 Community Collections Grant (CCG) from the American Folklife Center to document Diversity Plaza, a vibrant public space in Jackson Heights, Queens, and the ethnically diverse and constantly evolving commercial and residential neighborhood that surrounds it. Undertaken through the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path! Initiative, the project features interviews with…- Contributor: Carreto, Ana - Khan, Sezan - Gautam, Neha - Baryab, Fatima - Tasnim, Sadia - Ahmed, Firooz - American Folklife Center - Ahmed, Lema - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Mukul, Nitin ... Carreto, Ana - Khan, Sezan - Gautam, Neha - Baryab, Fatima - Tasnim, Sadia - Ahmed, Firooz - American Folklife Center - Ahmed, Lema - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Mukul, Nitin - Munshi, Soniya - Sturm-Wijesinghe, Naomi - Percussia - Beglane, Edward - Ashraf, Selima - McMenamin, James - Sohel, Saiful Islam - Khan, Majar - Rahman Khan, Musfiqur - Singh, Jagpreet - Correa, Camilo - Sarathi, Adnin - Ferdous, Annie - Moe, K. - Tsultrim, Tsekyi - Khan, Deva Shoily - Saleh, Agha Muhammad - Jahan, Nilofar - Carvajal, Reynaldo - Sikder, Abdul - Park, John Y. - Begum, Dilara - Taaseen, Saadat - Moe, Dana - Haering, Mireya - Said, Marwan - Ahmed, Mitu - Bayona, Mauricio - Ahmad, Nadia Q. - Dass, Shiv - Munshi, Nirmal
- Date: 2023
Collection Items: View 63 Items
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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, in a language other than English to document the continued ethnolinguistic and cultural diversity of the United States.- Contributor: Seipel, Sandy - Baird, Scott J. - Basa, Peter - American Folklife Center - Skillman, Amy E. - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Deak, Frank - Leung, John - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - Nagy, Susan Mary ... Seipel, Sandy - Baird, Scott J. - Basa, Peter - American Folklife Center - Skillman, Amy E. - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Deak, Frank - Leung, John - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - Nagy, Susan Mary - Feintuch, Burt - McClain, Margy - Conklin, Nancy Faires - Fast, Jana - Haas, Mary-Louise - Marks, Morton - Tarhan, Lance - Fleischhauer, Carl - Topping, Brett - Davis, Lee - Bradunas, Elena - Arocho, Rudy - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCallum, Brenda - Fish, Lydia M. - Sacks, Maurie - Bell, Carole O. - Long, Lucy M. - Gates, Bob - Miller, Jefferson - Proschan, Frank - Webber, Philip E. - Cech, Barbara - Vidutis, Richard - Dwyer-Shick, Susan - Westover, Victoria
- Date: 1982
Collection Items: View 788 Items
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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 over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival…- Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Glenroy, William B. - American Folklife Center - Ricci, Glenn - Reed, Watha - Reed, Henry - Reed, Gene
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 292 Items
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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 Federal Writers' Project, and the Federal Music Project from 1937-42. This online presentation provides access to 376 sound recordings and 106 accompanying materials, including recording logs, transcripts, correspondence between Florida WPA workers…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Kennedy, Stetson - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 494 Items
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CollectionFollow the Music: Exploring Multi-Linear Legacies of House Culture In 2022, Urban Artistry, Inc. received a Community Collections Grant from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to launch Follow the Music: Exploring the Multi-Linear Legacies of House Culture. This year-long documentation initiative was designed as a national intervention to preserve and amplify the often-overlooked stories of House Music and Dance Cultures (HMDC) in Black, Brown, and LGBTQIA+ urban communities. Conducted…- Contributor: Dj Underdog - Basa, Ray - Foaad, Leigh - Paulos, Angelo Jiwa - Sugiyama, Emiko - Stewart, Wesley - Reyes, Rose - Peláez Sordo, Claudio - Vaca, José - Lazee, Ken ... Dj Underdog - Basa, Ray - Foaad, Leigh - Paulos, Angelo Jiwa - Sugiyama, Emiko - Stewart, Wesley - Reyes, Rose - Peláez Sordo, Claudio - Vaca, José - Lazee, Ken - Caballero, Dan - Feliciano, Frankie - Dj Nativesun - Dunnington, Geno - Huff, Ricki - Simon, Morgan - Croshaw, Ren (Lauren Lucia) - Parks, Charles Lee - Sarakul, Ryan - Chambers, Marlon - Blancaflor, Cynthia - Ferreira, Ami Tsunami - Parisi, Dolores Ninja - Mendoza, Rhonda - Sloan, Ronnie - Riddick, Will (William Keith) - Torrence, Kim - Haynes, Jeremiah Supaman - Joyner, Michael - Cummings, Maren - Harris, Jamal M. - Kirk, Wayne Weezy - Huggins, Kimyon - Rp Boo - Brickhouse, Junious - Scott K. - Valenzuela, Lorena - Becquette, Wyatt - Prosper, D. (Derick) - Ishida, H. K. - Johnson, Sire Dhone - Joyner, Sherri - Dj Gargamel - Kg Superstar - Urban Artistry - Grant, Arnez - Kosmik - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Nouri, Farid - Smith, Jesse - Dozier, Brandon Marcelas - Eddy, John F. - Tate, Jay Jay - De Clive-Lowe, Mark - Garcia, Leyda - Harris, Isaac Crossfire - Morris, Oji - Creation Global (Dance Group) - Kenlo Key - Lopez, Jackie - Daniels, Tre - Kumta, Prem - Malapit, Michael - Pause Eddie - Hlinková, Michaela - Liao, Leslie - Ultra Naté - Blondet, Thomas - James, Bradford - Hall, Rama Mahesh - Mendoza, Juliet E. - Dj Paul Howard - Woods, Tyrone - Boyd, Jaron - Carter Chu, Eric - Williams, Wayne - American Folklife Center - Creative Netwerk (Organization) - Belle, Jonathan - Randolph, Chris Chosen - Yarbrough, Decimus - Benedetti, Cristina - Bobb, Merlin - Twan-Twan - Guerrero, Jake - Burns, Rita Jean Kelly - Battle, Shadawn - Ferreira, Cody Coflo - Guerrero, Noah - D.J. Slugo - Garçon, Jeffery Miyake-Mugler - George-Wheeler, Hannah - Gilliam, Gbari - Lomelin, Andrea - Melendez, Miley - Neff, Adé E. - Forman, Kelli - Verdoodt, Vanessa Neva - Kell-Abrams, Maya
- Date: 1994
Collection Items: View 88 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 rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940, Juan Bautista Rael of Stanford University, a native of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, used disc recording equipment supplied by the Archive of American…- Contributor: Anaya, Nieves - Rael, Juan Bautista - Mares, Remigio - Trujillo, Amado - American Folklife Center - Cantú, José Ignacio - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Chávez, Adolfo - Romero, Alfredo - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel ... Anaya, Nieves - Rael, Juan Bautista - Mares, Remigio - Trujillo, Amado - American Folklife Center - Cantú, José Ignacio - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Chávez, Adolfo - Romero, Alfredo - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Lobato, Julián - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Chávez, Adelaido - García, Pedro - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Arellano, Narciso - Anaya, Ernestina - Arellano, Esequiel - Montoya, Luis - Medina, Esteban - Lobato, Salomé - Archuleta, Ricardo
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 227 Items
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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 West project. The purpose of the three-year field research project was to document aspects of traditional cultural expression of Italian Americans in the western United States.- Contributor: Carter, Thomas - Graham, Andrea - Frank, Russell - Light, Ken - Tavarelli, Paola - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Owen, Blanton - Wood, Myron - Notarianni, Philip F. - Taylor, David Alan ... Carter, Thomas - Graham, Andrea - Frank, Russell - Light, Ken - Tavarelli, Paola - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Owen, Blanton - Wood, Myron - Notarianni, Philip F. - Taylor, David Alan - Parks, Valerie - Siporin, Steve - Manini, Paula Marie - Williams, John Alexander - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center - DeNatale, Douglas - Lund, Jens
- Date: 1988
Collection Items: View 1,516 Items
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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 preliminary fieldwork for a proposed cooperative project with the National Park Service's Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in southern Louisiana. The collection includes audio recordings of a tour of Plaquemines…- Contributor: Hufford, Mary - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Tankersley, Tom - United States. National Park Service
- 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 in October 1942. During that period, they administered an archive that grew in scope and volume. The resultant manuscript material—correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and writings—was decades later collated into the John A.…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1907
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CollectionLao Buddhist New Year Festival in Southern Louisiana This collection documents the 2022 Louisiana Lao New Year Festival (LLNY) presented April 15-17, 2022, by Wat Thammarattanaram, a Buddhist temple and monastery in Broussard (Iberia Parish), Louisiana. With the support of a 2022 Community Collections Grant (CCG) from the American Folklife Center's Of the People: Widening the Path! initiative, a community-based research team led by project director Phanat Xanamane, videographer Bader Hamdani, historian…- Contributor: Somchit, Amy - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Hamdani, Badar - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Xanamane, Phanat - Xanamane, Kingston - Xanamane, Phouthone - Phoumylay, Palixay ... Somchit, Amy - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Hamdani, Badar - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Xanamane, Phanat - Xanamane, Kingston - Xanamane, Phouthone - Phoumylay, Palixay - Ounechith, Bouasone - Phoumylay, Fancy - Luangphone, Nithy - Pakdi, Inseng - Xanamane, Aet - Sengsouly, Khanthaly - Sengsouly, Meng - Thongdy, Kira - Haggood, Sami - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee - Xanamane, Amonelath - Xanamane, Samko - Nunez, Heddy L. - Louangsouphom, Chanthaly - Thalanh, Sith
- Date: 2022
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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 Erdrich, Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, and other featured voices.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 and Humanities, to document contemporary ethnic neighborhoods, occupations, and community life related to the history of industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts.- Contributor: Refugee Arts Group - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Rankin, Tom - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - American Folklife Center - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Lueders-Booth, John - United States. National Park Service - Bartis, Peter - Montaño, Mario ... Refugee Arts Group - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - Rankin, Tom - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - American Folklife Center - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Lueders-Booth, John - United States. National Park Service - Bartis, Peter - Montaño, Mario - Bell, Michael Edward - Fleischhauer, Carl - Taylor, David Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - University of Lowell - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Fertig, Barbara C. - DeNatale, Douglas - Norkunas, Martha K.
- 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 to research information to be used in planning an Acadian Cultural Center in Maine. Project personnel worked closely with the Archives Acadiennes, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Northeast Archives of…- Contributor: United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Howard W. - Taylor, David Alan - Whitman, David A. - Brassieur, C. Ray - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bayley, Julie - Ornstein, Lisa
- 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 field research project to document traditional folklife in Montana.- Contributor: Johnson, Paula J. - Wasson, George B. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Toelken, Barre - American Folklife Center - Montana Arts Council - Dockstader, Ray - Toelken, Miiko - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Young, Kay - McBride, Tom - Crummett, Michael - Stanton, Gary Ward
- Date: 1979
Collection Items: View 613 Items
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CollectionNeah Bay's Path to Wellness This collection documents educational workshops and reflections by teachers and elders of the Makah Indian tribe which promote and sustain spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental well-being for the community of Neah Bay, in Clallam County, Washington. Funding was provided by a 2023 Community Collections Grant from the Mellon Foundation, administered by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.- Contributor: Jimmicum, Steve - Ides, Maryjane - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Roberts, Jason Todd - Ides, Isabell - Parker, Brian Wilson - Makah Cultural and Research Center - Parker, Keely M. - McCarty, Spencer
- Date: 2023
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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 Laurie Beth Kalb, representing the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and focused on three Hispanic santeros in northern part of the state: Felix Lopez, La Mesilla; Eulogio Ortega,…- Contributor: New Mexico. Historic Preservation Division - Fleischhauer, Carl - Kalb, Laurie Beth - Pratt, Boyd C. - American Folklife Center - Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)
- 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. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee…- Contributor: Johnson, Warren G. - Spiritual Four Quartet - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Thomas, John Lee - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Richardson, Zema - Parker, Cleve - Gaines, Elwood - Gregory, Richard ... Johnson, Warren G. - Spiritual Four Quartet - Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Thomas, John Lee - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Richardson, Zema - Parker, Cleve - Gaines, Elwood - Gregory, Richard - Chastain, Will - Ellis, Charles - Turner, Monroe - Bond, James - Chestain, Sonny - Heavenly Gate Quartet - Jackson, Deacon Sam - Turner, Alma - Ford, Osa - Ezell, Buster - Holloway High School Quartet - Mathis, Allison - Turner, Oscar - Stripling, Sidney - Smith Band (Musical Group) - Ford, T. J. - Bond, Edward - Monch, Matthew - Gibson, Gus - Traveller Home Singers - Fisk University - Winrow, Anthony
- 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 social transition. To date, fieldworkers across the United States have recorded more than 1800 audio and audiovisual oral history interviews with workers in scores of trades, industries, crafts, and professions. The completed…- Contributor: Braun, Leo J. - Larrimer, George - Hilliard, Henry - American Folklife Center - Laws, Andrew L. - Montgomery, Charles R. - Harris, Timothy C. - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Corgey, Dean - Lebert, Lindberg A. ... Braun, Leo J. - Larrimer, George - Hilliard, Henry - American Folklife Center - Laws, Andrew L. - Montgomery, Charles R. - Harris, Timothy C. - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Corgey, Dean - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Rousser, C. A. - Cooney, James Patrick - Dickens, Michael W. - Mayville, Donnie D. - Quesada, José Angel - Jasper, Pat - Blume, Dana - Hensley, James J. - Olsen, Eric Carl - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Tray, James Thomas - Glass, Leonard - Ramirez, Gilda - King, Charles H. - Kersey, Bobby C. - Burkett, Joe L. - Patout, Rivers - Vest, Lou C. - Hennessey, William S. - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Postel, Adolph C. - Thompson, Robert L. - Houston Arts Alliance - Dodd, Harold L. - Gage, Charles H. - Glass, Matthew H. - Diehl, William J. - Harris, Eugene - Seeba, Patrick - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Mims, Doug - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Lindahl, Carl - Robb, Alan A. - Morrell, David C. - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Henry, Mark - Potoczniak, Anthony - Shaffer, Harold L. - Usher, Michael Gene - Bennett, Steven R. - Tellepsen, Tom - Peterson, Betsy - Halbert, David Maurice - Hausinger, William - Occupational Folklife Project - Holland, Benny - Bludworth, Richard W. - Keenan, Gordie - Aalund, Niels Anders - Patton, William Benjamin
- Date: 2010
Collection Items: View 1,269 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 entitled Omaha Indian Music: Historical Recordings from the Fletcher/La Flesche Collection), 323 songs and spoken-word segments from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, 24 spoken-word segments from an interview with an Omaha…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 875 Items
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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 southern New Jersey in the mid-1980s. The collection comprises ethnographic documentation which examines the relationship between the local culture and the surrounding environment. It contains the administrative records, planning documents, and published…- Contributor: Cervetto, Jack - Thatcher, Elaine - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - American Folklife Center - Little, Silas - Shourds, Harry V. - Samuelson, Sue - Cohen, David Steven - Hufford, Mary - Morgan, Elizabeth M. ... Cervetto, Jack - Thatcher, Elaine - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - American Folklife Center - Little, Silas - Shourds, Harry V. - Samuelson, Sue - Cohen, David Steven - Hufford, Mary - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Ridgway, Merce - Orr, Jay - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - McDonald, Dennis - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Fleischhauer, Carl - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission - Glassie, Henry - Sinton, John W. - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Lund, Jens - O'Connor, Malachi - Cartwright, Christine A. - Pinelands Cultural Society - Hunn, Eugene S. - Tweed, Stewart M. - Parsons, Gerald E. - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Vivian, V. Eugene
- 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 Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1982/00) and the Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest Collection (AFC 1997/011). The images of the quilts convey the range of contemporary quiltmaking styles in the United…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- 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 created numerous and diverse radio programs primarily relating to American history and folklore, and utilized groundbreaking recording and production techniques. In just over a year of operation, the project staff of Philip…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Radio Research Project - Liss, Joseph - Lomax, Alan - Harrell, Charles Travers - Cohen, Philip H.
- 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 Council on the Arts, and the Rhode Island Historical Society from July 15 to December 31, 1979.- Contributor: Bell, Michael Edward - Horenstein, Henry - Burns, Thomas A. - Harley, Nancy - Fleischhauer, Carl - Goldstein, Kenneth S. - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Glawson, Francis - Rhode Island Folklife Project - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bartis, Peter
- Date: 1979
Collection Items: View 979 Items
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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 primarily pocket-sized pamphlets (approximately 3" x 5") collecting the texts of vaudeville, minstrel-stage, patriotic, humorous, religious, and traditional songs presented without music. Such songsters were popular in the United States in the…- Contributor: Gordon, Robert Winslow - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 1844
Collection Items: View 722 Items
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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, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2001
Collection Items: View 267 Items
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CollectionSofrito Conversations: Bridging the North and West of Chicago This collection is based on the 2022 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Sofrito Conversations: Bridging the North and West of Chicago. Led by Chicago-based artist, curator, and arts administrator Jorge Félix, it documents contemporary food cultures and traditions predominantly on the West side of Chicago. In particular, the collection comprises 209 photographs that feature a range of neighborhood restaurants and community gatherings,…- Contributor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - American Folklife Center - Félix, Jorge
- Date: 2022
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CollectionSonidos de Houston: Documenting the City's Chicano Music Scene Sonidos de Houston: Documenting the City’s Chicano Music Scene is a research and publication initiative supported by a 2022 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant, an institutional grant program of the Mellon Foundation, NY. Over the course of a year, a documentary team recorded musical performances and conducted interviews with several generations of musicians to illustrate the deep roots and contemporary manifestations of Chicano…- Contributor: Villegas, Juan Carlos - Galván, Felipe - Pinon, Mark - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Castellanos, Vladimir - Monarcas (Musical Group) - Ramirez, Luis - Avizo (Musical Group) - Cevallos, Lawrence ... Villegas, Juan Carlos - Galván, Felipe - Pinon, Mark - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Castellanos, Vladimir - Monarcas (Musical Group) - Ramirez, Luis - Avizo (Musical Group) - Cevallos, Lawrence - Chavarria, Albert - Trevino, Juan - Fiebre (Musical Group) - Gonzalez, Rigo - Gonzalez, Julian - Grupo Fuerte (Musical Group) - Martinez, Jose M. - Garcia, Ralph - Salas, Sarge - Barragán, Larry - Borrego, Joe - Cortez, Ray - Day, Joyce C. - Espinoza, Victoriano - Maldonado, Lorie - Rodriguez, Roberto - Rodriguez, Isaac - Morris, Johnny - Gonzalez, Bobby - Aguilar, Nestor - Olivarez, Lupe - Rios, Timothy Max - Ramirez, Mike - Gutierrez, Moses - Barraza, John - Sanchez, Armando - Gaitan, Nick - Villarreal, Guillermo Memo - Quesada, José Angel
- Date: 2022
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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 Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. The eight-county area chosen for the study is in the center of the "Wiregrass" region of Georgia.- Contributor: Hamrick, Raymond C. - Jabbour, Alan - Fleischhauer, Carl - McGraw, Hugh - Adler, Thomas A. - Robinson, Beverly J. - Coelho, Dennis - Marshall, Howard W. - American Folklife Center - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Blackmarr, Syd - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Stanley, David
- Date: 1977
Collection Items: View 1,121 Items
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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 States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of…- Contributor: Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 895 Items
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CollectionSpecialty Coffee Farmers in Puerto Rico In 2022, filmmaker Russell Oliver was awarded an American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant for his project, Documenting the Stories, Agricultural Traditions, and Culture of Specialty Coffee Farmers in Puerto Rico. The resultant audiovisual collection, Specialty Coffee Farmers in Puerto Rico, documents the traditions of coffee growing and production in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, mainly through interview videos and photographs representing the…- Contributor: Roig, Tato (Roig Franceschini) - Trabada, Eduardo - Pintado, Ignacio (Pintado Garcia) - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Pagan, Raul - Muñoz, Pablo (Muñoz Zequeira) - Vidal, Marian Martinez - Pardue, Douglas M. - Rodriguez, Alejandra M. (Rodriguez Delgado) ... Roig, Tato (Roig Franceschini) - Trabada, Eduardo - Pintado, Ignacio (Pintado Garcia) - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Pagan, Raul - Muñoz, Pablo (Muñoz Zequeira) - Vidal, Marian Martinez - Pardue, Douglas M. - Rodriguez, Alejandra M. (Rodriguez Delgado) - Arroyo, Gustavo Enrique - Rodriguez, Idelfonso - Cardona, Guillermo A. - Rodriguez, Remy A. - Bengoa, Karen B. - Masini, Angela - Carrion, Keren - Albino, Angel Luis - Serrano, Fito (Serrano Pérez) - Roig, Luis (Roig Franceschini) - Beauchamp, Gabriel A. - Cruz, Ruth M. - Rodriguez, Krys - Soto Cáez, Juan Carlos - Amy, Jose Picu - Alicea, Joaquin (Alicea Torres) - Oliver, Russell G. - Suárez, Mariana (Suárez Gonzalez) - Atienza, Roberto E. - Giuliani, Joseph (Giuliani Giorgi) - Muñoz, Rafael (Muñoz Arjona) - Morales, Bernardo (Jose Bernardo)
- Date: 2022
Collection Items: View 59 Items
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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 the Big Coal River Valley of southern West Virginia, and explored the cultural dimensions of ecological crisis from 1992 to 1999. There are extensive interviews with local residents on the seasonal harvesting…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 2,017 Items
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CollectionTenth Street Historic District and The Bottom in Dallas's Oak Cliff Freedmen's Town The If Tenth Street Could Talk collection documents the history, legacy, and present-day realities of the Tenth Street Historic District in Dallas, Texas—widely recognized as the most intact Freedmen’s Town in the United States. Founded in the decades following Emancipation, the community emerged as part of a broader national pattern of Black settlements established by formerly enslaved people who acquired land, built institutions, and…- Contributor: Dunn, Rhonda - Noguera, David - Cross, Kathryn A. - Roberts-Kamaria, Ava - Walker, Benny B. - Payton, Donald - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Allen, April - Howard, Carolyn ... Dunn, Rhonda - Noguera, David - Cross, Kathryn A. - Roberts-Kamaria, Ava - Walker, Benny B. - Payton, Donald - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Allen, April - Howard, Carolyn - Jones, Jared - Wright, Damarcus - McKnight-Chavers, Ginger - Glenn, Stanley - Montgomery, Shaun (Shauntel) - Jones, Zennah - Singleton, Kate (Katherine) - Hamilton, Jalen - Sims, Lou Nell - Young, Debora - Cox, Patricia - Kelly, Jill E. - Artis, Dominique - Brunson, Jourdan A. - Moore, Tyana - Beal, Eric - Boyd, Nigel M. - Rodgers, Dolores B. - Rangel, Jennifer - Pruitt, Emanuel - Mayo, Evelyn - Boyd, Juneeta - Smith, Keith - Lewis, John L. - Plummer, Tim - Dixon, Remidy - Boyd, Cynthia - Slider Moody, Bessie - Maberry, Misty - Medrano, Rosa - Moore, Kelon - Freeman, Dwight - Cox, Peggy Fay - Redmond, Raja'nee - Thomas, Iving R. - Swann, Robert - Johnson, Larry O. - McCain, Demetria - Rudd-Ridge, Tameshia S. - Meek, Vicki - Groom, Shamarra - Peace, Heir Brandon - Biddle, Ruthie Lee - Wilkins Conrad, Sharron - Amenti, IV
- Date: 2019
Collection Items: View 62 Items
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CollectionTraditional Music and Spoken Word Card Catalog The audio recordings represented in the catalog were recorded between 1897 and 1962. The majority of these are lacquer and aluminum-based instantaneous disc recordings made between 1933 and 1950.- Date: 1897
Collection Items: View 34,217 Items
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CollectionTrinidad and Tobago J'ouvert in Brooklyn In 2023, City Lore, a New York-based non-profit, received a Community Collections Grant (CCG) from the American Folklife Center to document the celebration of J'ouvert by the Trinidadian community of Brooklyn, New York. The annual celebration, which takes place during Labor Day Carnival weekend, brings tens of thousands of Caribbean and non-Caribbean participants to the streets of Brooklyn to celebrate the music, dance, food,…- Contributor: Kawaiae'a, Raylene Ha'alelea - Solomon, Bryan - American Folklife Center - Solomon, Richard - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Keawe, Hope - Golden, Randee - Stovall, Lauren Kamalei - Lorenzo, U'ilani - Awa'a, Helen - Palya, Adam - Hayden, Sharon - Veloria, Audrey - Lupenui, Boots - Keawe, John
- Date: 2022
Collection Items: View 23 Items
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CollectionUnearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala The Community Collections Grant project entitled Unearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala aims to document generations-old “heirloom songs” of the Kohala region in the northwest portion of the island of Hawai’i. The intimate link between music and place is made evident in the documentary materials that illustrate how performers have historically drawn inspiration from the natural and cultural environment when composing their songs. The…- Contributor: Kawaiae'a, Raylene Ha'alelea - Solomon, Bryan - American Folklife Center - Solomon, Richard - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Keawe, Hope - Golden, Randee - Stovall, Lauren Kamalei - Lorenzo, U'ilani - Awa'a, Helen - Palya, Adam - Hayden, Sharon - Veloria, Audrey - Lupenui, Boots - Keawe, John
- Date: 2022
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CollectionUnited Houma Nation Culture Bearers in Coastal Communities of Louisiana “And We are Still Here”: Stories of Resilience and Sustainability from Houma Culture Bearers in Louisiana is a collecting initiative that documents the cultural history and artistic processes woven into traditional craft production in this indigenous community located in the southeastern United States. For Houma artisans, plants and trees such as palmetto, cane, white oak, long leaf pine needles, cypress and cedar are integral…- Contributor: Foret, Dena N. - Billiot, Louise A. - Sims, Kaliq Dyami - Clay, Kasha L. - Luster, Janie Verret - American Folklife Center - Pierre, Maria A. - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Fazzio, Douglas P. - Pierre, Rosemary ... Foret, Dena N. - Billiot, Louise A. - Sims, Kaliq Dyami - Clay, Kasha L. - Luster, Janie Verret - American Folklife Center - Pierre, Maria A. - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Fazzio, Douglas P. - Pierre, Rosemary - Billiot, Ivy A. - Billiot, Christopher S. - Dardar, Thomas P. - Hopkins, Morning Dove Verret - Perkins, Grayhawk - Molinere, R. J. (Roland) - Billiot, Virginia A. - Chaisson, Lora Ann - Robichaux, Ann Luster - Greer, Tammy - Parfait, Roy A. - Verret, Zoeanna Billiot - Parfait, John A. - Pierre, Curtis J. - Verdin, Monique Michelle - Verret, Kirby
- Date: 2022
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CollectionVoices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of selections from a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 533 Items
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CollectionVoices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-two interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2004
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CollectionWarp and Weft of Yap's Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia The Habele Outer Island Education Fund in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) received a 2022 Community Collections Grant (CCG) from the American Folklife Center to document traditional lavalava cloth weaving on the Ulithi Atoll. Undertaken through the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path! Initiative, the resulting collection consists of 23 oral histories documenting the knowledge and artistry of women from the Outer…- Contributor: Fichilmar, Conchita - Raigetal, Regina R. - Ubey, Maria - Tefalelmar, Florentina - Habele Outer Island Education Fund - Leragmai, Frenzita - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Lawolthau, Joanna - Ililau, Serphina M. ... Fichilmar, Conchita - Raigetal, Regina R. - Ubey, Maria - Tefalelmar, Florentina - Habele Outer Island Education Fund - Leragmai, Frenzita - American Folklife Center - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Lawolthau, Joanna - Ililau, Serphina M. - Ilamliyong, Sammy - Leraw, Rowina - Eyoeth, Maregrita - Ileragipou, Emalani - Mangelfata, Floren - Reat, Agnes - Nianugmwar, Katielyne - Yaloweg, Vreah - Ilmar, Doloris - Lahasudep, Ygnasia - Uwel, Tyra - Ilemangit, Gina - Leyangrow, Conchita - Leframor, Lorita - Tauwl, Modesta L. - Paul, Alodia - Tarongodal, Gregoria - Yalorthog, Rosita - Legap, Maria
- Date: 2022
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CollectionWoody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive) at the Library of Congress. The letters were written primarily in the early 1940s, shortly after Guthrie had moved to New York City and met the Archive's assistant in charge, Alan Lomax. In…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Archive of American Folk Song
- Date: 2001
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CollectionWorking in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting This collection presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. The documentary materials presented in this online collection explore how Paterson's industrial heritage expresses itself in Paterson: in its work sites, work processes, and…- Contributor: Levitas, Susan - Lautenberg, Frank R. - McCarl, Robert - American Folklife Center - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Taylor, David Alan - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lloyd, Timothy Charles - Pascrell, Bill - United States. National Park Service. Mid-Atlantic Regional Office - Smith, Lynda S. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Cooper, Martha
- Date: 1993
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CollectionWorld War II Rumor Project The World War II Rumor Project collection contains manuscript materials compiled by the Office of War Information (OWI). The OWI was established by an Executive order on June 13, 1942, for the purpose of achieving a coordinated governmental war information program. The information program was designed to promote an informed and intelligent understanding of the status and progress of the war effort, war policies,…- Contributor: Horowitz, Eugene - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1942
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