Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material
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Collection1992 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1992 | American Folklife Center concert, 1992 Catalog Record Only Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Puerto Rican folk music; Tennesse old-time music; folk music from Veracruz, Mexico; dances of the Tewa Indians from the Santa Clara Pueblo; Irish folk dance and music; gospel music; and bluegrass music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April...- Contributor: Clear Creek Crossin' (Musical Group) - Long, Donna - Jamison, Phil - Wick, Regan - Harte, Frank - Blizard, Ralph - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Pregoneros Del Puerto - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - New Southern Ramblers ... Clear Creek Crossin' (Musical Group) - Long, Donna - Jamison, Phil - Wick, Regan - Harte, Frank - Blizard, Ralph - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Pregoneros Del Puerto - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - New Southern Ramblers - Mulvihill, Brendan - American Folklife Center - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) - Edwin Colón Zayas Y Su Taller Campesino (Musical Group) - Angels of Faith (Musical Group) - Lilly, Everett
- Date: 1992
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CollectionQuilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...- Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
- Date: 1999
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Collection1993 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1993 | American Folklife Center concert, 1993 Catalog Record Only Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of North Indian Bengali music; Jamaican music; African American gospel quartets and choral music; Irish folk dance and music; bluegrass music; African American hand dancing; and Andean music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1993, sponsored by...- Contributor: Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn ... Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Philadelphia Ambassadors Chorale and Ensemble - Ollantay (Musical Group) - Friedland, Lee Ellen - Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1993
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CollectionJosé Ignacio Rodríguez papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence; legal records; notes, drafts, and other literary papers; newspaper clippings; and other papers relating to Rodriguez's career as an author and lawyer. Documents his work involving Latin American claims commissions and governments and his writings on Latin American history. Includes material pertaining to claims against the governments of Cuba and the Dominican Republic; cases before various Spanish and American Claims commissions, the French...
- Contributor: Real Sociedad Económica De Amigos Del País (Cuba) - Mestre, José Manuel - Junta (New York, N.Y.) - Rodríguez, José Ignacio
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CollectionAmbrose W. Thompson papers, Catalog Record Only Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, printed matter, drawings, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Thompson's business interests in canals, land speculation, railroads, and steamships. Records of the Chiriqui Improvement Company pertain to its efforts to establish a colony of freedmen from the District of Columbia in Chiriqui Province, Panama, as well as to develop...
- Contributor: Thompson, Ambrose W.
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CollectionTops Trompos bilingual program,
Tops Trompos bilingual program by Salvadoran members of the Washington Youth Center and El Centro de Arte | Tops/Trompos demonstration | American Folklife Center lecture, 1984-11-25 Catalog Record Only Collection of documentation from a bilingual workshop and demonstration of top spinning and playing by young people from the Washington Youth Center and El Centro de Arte, Washington, D.C. featuring top spinning, storytelling, and "rapping" (trompos, cuentos, y "caliche"), presented by Olivia Cadaval, director of El Centro de Arte, and Horacio Quintanilla, sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The event was held in the...- Contributor: American Folklife Center - Cadaval, Olivia
- Date: 1984
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CollectionE.G. Squier papers,
Ephraim George Squier papers Catalog Record Only Correspondence, business records, diplomatic records, articles, lectures, and other writings, reference and bibliographic notes, drawings, maps, scrapbooks of clippings, and other papers relating to Squier's diplomatic career as U.S. chargé d'affairs in Central America (1849-1858), U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-1865), and Honduran consul general in New York, N.Y. (1863-1873). Includes material pertaining to the Honduran legation in Washington, D.C. (chiefly 1860-1863) and particularly to...- Contributor: Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George)
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CollectionPeter Force papers and collection,
Peter Force papers | Peter Force collection Catalog Record Only Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives pertaining to political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America. Peter Force's personal papers document his career as a partner in the printing firm, Davis & Force, Washington, D.C.; editor of the John Quincy Adams administration newspaper, the National Journal; compiler; and collector. Also documents his service...- Contributor: Force, William Q. (William Quereau) - Force, Peter
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CollectionJames Forman papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. Documents his work as founder and president of the Unemployed Poverty Action Council, Legal Defense, Education, and Research Fund; and journalist and founder...
- Contributor: Forman, James - National Black Economic Development Conference
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CollectionWilliam LePre Houston family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, financial records, academic papers, printed material, and other papers chiefly of William LePre Houston, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, and his son and law partner, Charles Hamilton Houston. Documents William's work as attorney for the Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association and other African American labor organizations, his activism as a Republican, and his position as grandmaster of the Grand United Order of...
- Contributor: Houston, William Lepre - Houston, Charles Hamilton
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CollectionExchange and Gift Division series, Library of Congress archives,
Library of Congress archives, Exchange and Gift Division series Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, reports, lists, card index, printed matter, and other records documenting the collection development activities of the Exchange and Gift Division and of predecessor units such as the Order Division. Series 1 on microfilm includes correspondence, memoranda, card files, and lists. The card index consists of card files documenting the names of donors and depositors with some cards providing additional information such as...- Contributor: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Order Division
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CollectionCourtney Letts de Espil papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, writings, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly concerning Letts de Espil's years (1933-1943) in Washington, D.C., as wife of Felipe A. Espil, Argentine ambassador to the U.S. Diary entries concern social affairs in Washington and include references to many prominent individuals of the New Deal era such as Adolf Augustus and Beatrice Bishop Berle, Antoinette and Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell and Frances...
- Contributor: Letts De Espil, Courtney
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLos Tres Reyes
American Folklife Center concert, 2012-09-13 | Los Tres Reyes: Mexican trío romántico from Texas | Homegrown 2012, the music of America Video recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 13, 2012 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Los Tres Reyes (The Three Kings), based in San Antonio, Texas, are known as "the last of the great trios." They epitomize the trio sound popular since the 1940s and continue to make...- Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) - Cárdenas, Bebo - Puente, Raúl - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Tres Reyes (Musical Group) - Puente, Gilberto - Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2012
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CollectionLaw Library records series, Library of Congress archives,
Library of Congress archives, Law Library records series Catalog Record Only Correspondence, bibliographies, a guest book, printed matter, photographs, and other records documenting the operations of the Library of Congress Law Library; and desk papers of law librarian John T. Vance consisting of correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, and other papers documenting his service in the Law Library from 1924 to 1943. Includes correspondence relating to efforts to establish a collection of works in the Law...- Contributor: Library of Congress. Law Library - Vance, John Thomas - Library of Congress
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CollectionMiles-Cameron families correspondence,
Nelson Appleton Miles papers | Miles-Cameron families papers | Miles family papers | Cameron family papers Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence addressed to Elizabeth Cameron, J.D. Cameron, Nelson Appleton Miles, and Sherman Miles relating primarily to personal affairs and to social life in Washington, D.C. Includes letters from many prominent individuals in national and international diplomatic, military, and political circles during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Correspondents of the Cameron, Miles, and allied Sherman families include Simon Cameron, Yulee Noble Miles,...- Contributor: Miles, Nelson Appleton