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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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: Names Project Foundation - Jones, Cleve - Rhoad, Julie
- Date: 1986
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: Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - American Folklife Center - Association for Cultural Equity
- 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. 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: Rautanen, Vernon - Ketvirtis, Charles - Aho, Lillian - Warslzyk, Tony - Szilagyi, Dizso - Lewandowski, Edwina - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Thrasher, Ed - Kruczynski, Clara - Maki, Frank ... Rautanen, Vernon - Ketvirtis, Charles - Aho, Lillian - Warslzyk, Tony - Szilagyi, Dizso - Lewandowski, Edwina - Gaza, V. Sipoo - Thrasher, Ed - Kruczynski, Clara - Maki, Frank - Delmas, Adolphus - Trueblood, Asel - Basrak, Stjepan - Leclaire, Leilia - Green, John W. - Kania, Felix - Romel, Sylvester - Lewandowski, Stephanie - Romel, Ted - Hirvelä, Wäin - Larson, Steen - Vizina, Adelore - Miron, Joe - Romel, Adolph - Tomić, Pajo - Fredrickson, Kaisa - Dobričan, Lazar - Aho, Pekka - Juhani, Aapo - Larson, Nils - Kubien, Rose - Strzelecki, Tony - Niewiadomska, Frances - McCormick, Ed - Maki, Emil - Archive of American Folk Song - Erickson, Max - Fredrickson, John - Cadeau, Mathilda - Gallagher, Dominic - Sielvankiewiez - Trivanović, Stefan - Guzal, Frank - Berky, Nandor - Marinetti, John - Rudzinski, Alex - Lomax, Alan - Romel, Leo - Wallen, Mr - Grbić, Ludevit - Hyvönen, John - Viita, Frank - McBride, Bill - Kubesh, John G. - Rajčević, Stepan - Nemeth, Kalman - Bellaire, Exilia - Bangac, Petar - Lewandowski, Stephan - King, Edward - Frazier, Lonnie - Similä, Gusti - Forster, Yalmer Eino - Wells, Lester - Pohjala, Aina - O'Donnell, Mike J. - Hulan - Allen, Perry - Cloud, Joe - Halinen, Selma Elona - Maté - Ricksgers, Joseph - Pischner, Helen - Kallio, Kalle - Vasvary, Steve - McCauley, Edward - Floriani, Margaret - Gallagher, Andrew E. - Szabo, Andy - Cloud, Clarence - Dragić, Todor - Larson, John - Mahoski, Henry - Pope, Allan C. - Styes, Archie - Gallagher, Emerald - Floriani, Veko - McCarthy, Barney - Frazier, Clara - Frazier, Viola - Happy Jack Woodward - Palmer, Mason - Pol, Thomas - Krawezak, B. - Velin, Maria - Baratono, Art - Carrière, Dolphis - Olah, Julius - Frazier, Belle - Sainović, Ilija - Lewandowski, Ted - Bellaire, Mose - Härkönen, Amanda - Carrière, Fred - Jackson, Andrew - Marinetti, Victor - Bonner, Patrick - Graham, Bert - Scheffer, Peter - Romel - Marttila - Pittman, Sampson - Lathrop, Carl - Marczis, Joseph - McDonough, Patrick - Frazier, Calvin - Meyers, Herman - Brideup, Louis - Bonner, Daniel - Cadeau, Ed - Korvenpaa, Charles - Preda, Emil Milan - Vujanović, Stjepan - Floriani, Vladimir - Norman, John - Cadeau, John
- 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: Marshall, Fred - Emerson, Lee - National Endowment for the Humanities - Mele, Joseph C. - La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) - Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) - Earhart, Amelia - American Folklife Center - Christian, Donna - Aspinall, Wayne N. - Abbott, Fortis - Center for Applied Linguistics - 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: Miller, Frank - Hawes, Butch - Dehr, Rich - Berman, Marcia - Mohr, Larry - Gilkyson, Terry - Odetta - National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Bess Lomax
- 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: Richardson, Larry - Severt, Carrie - Choate, Donna - Owen, Margaret Counts - Patton, Ila - Fleischhauer, Carl - Wolfe, Charles K. - Bryan, Mamie - Cruise, Crystal - American Folklife Center ... Richardson, Larry - Severt, Carrie - Choate, Donna - Owen, Margaret Counts - Patton, Ila - Fleischhauer, Carl - Wolfe, Charles K. - Bryan, Mamie - Cruise, Crystal - American Folklife Center - Eiler, Terry - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Jabbour, Alan - Todd, Zenna - Jarrell, Tommy - Shockley, Maggie - Marshall, Howard W. - Owen, Blanton - Ray, Roxie - Wilson, Joe - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - United States. National Park Service - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Adler, Thomas A. - Stanley, Lura - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Mullen, Patrick B.
- 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 - American Folklife Center - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
- 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. 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 - Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Nye, Pearl R. - Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - 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 traditions in more than twenty ethnic communities in Chicago, and was jointly sponsored by both organizations.- Contributor: Mack, James - Lund, Jens - Swenson, Greta E. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Hellenberg, Antony - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Dovydenas, Jonas - Bartis, Peter - González, José Gamaliel - American Folklife Center ... Mack, James - Lund, Jens - Swenson, Greta E. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Hellenberg, Antony - Kubose, Minnie Somi - Dovydenas, Jonas - Bartis, Peter - González, José Gamaliel - American Folklife Center - Illinois Arts Council - Chicago Ethnic Arts Project - Klymasz, Robert Bogdan - Moloney, Mick - Bradunas, Elena - Epstein, Shifra - Mathias, Elizabeth - Brzovich, Mato - Trbuhovic-Grasa, Gordana - Robinson, Beverly J. - George, Philip B. - March, Richard - Kalčik, Susan J. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Klymasz, Shirley - Choi, Chungmoo - Libonati, Roland V. (Roland Victor) - Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta
- 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: Jones, James Oscar - Siler, Charles E. - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Huggins, Ericka - Avery, Annie Pearl - Cleaver, Kathleen - Mahone, Sam - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Moore, E. Maynard - Newson, Moses J. ... Jones, James Oscar - Siler, Charles E. - National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) - Huggins, Ericka - Avery, Annie Pearl - Cleaver, Kathleen - Mahone, Sam - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper - Moore, E. Maynard - Newson, Moses J. - Carter, Robert L. - Walker, Wyatt Tee - Anderson, Cynthia Baker - Robinson, Reginald - Ladner, Dorie - Hicks, Valeria Payton - McKinney, Samuel Berry - Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah - Jenkins, Willie Elliot - McNichols, Steven - Howard, Elbert - Brown, Amos C. (Amos Cleophilus) - Cox, Courtland - Tillow, Kay - Funchess, Glenda - Guster, Leesco - Richardson, Gloria - Richardson, Judy - Jones, Mary A. - Luper, Calvin - Walker, Theresa Ann - Miller, James E. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Abernathy, Ralph David - Williams, Junius W. - Broadway, Louise W. - Walter, Mildred Pitts - Ackerman, David M. - Diamond, Dion T. - Holloway, Lucius - Hicks, Charles Ray - Clark, Robert George - Jackson, Gertrude Newsome - Montes, Carlos - Mulholland, Joan Trumpauer - Jones, Jamila - Lowery, Joseph E. - Greenberg, Jack - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Howell, Embry - McClary, Robert - Hamilton, Audrey Nell - Bassett, Priscilla - Terry, Esther M. A. - Henderson, Juadine - Miller, Grace H. - Vivian, C. T. - Hopkins, Evans D. - Carawan, Guy - Mtume, Norma - Anderson, William G. - Parker, Wheeler - Breaux, Toni - Brown, Harold K. - McDew, Charles - Finney, Ernest A., (Ernest Adolphus) - Zellner, Dorothy - Sullivan, Patricia - Howell, Joseph T. - Cline, David P. - Dixon, Aaron - Abernathy, Juandalynn R. - Bates, Scott - Leventhal, Willy S. (Willy Siegel) - Holloway, Eddie A. - Blake, Harry - Smith, Jeanette - Taylor, Kieran Walsh - Carawan, Candie - Bailey, D'army - Tillow, Walter M. - Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley) - Zapata, Luis - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Wright, Simeon - Churchville, John Elliott - Marshall, Cecilia - Derby, Doris Adelaide - Dove, Samuel - Jarmon, Charles - McLaurin, Charles - Jenkins, Timothy Lionel - Saunders, William - Brown, Robert J. - Robinson, Betty Garman - Arellanes, Gloria - McCarty, Michael D. - George, Virginia Simms - Conway, Purcell Maurice - Williams, Cecil J. - Young, Carrie Lamar - Dahmer, Vernon - Reece, Dwandalyn R. - Strickland, William - Lucy, William - Caldwell, Ben R. - American Folklife Center - Bennett, Geraldine Crawford - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Sherrod, Shirley - Patton, Gwendolyn M. - Camarillo, Mateo - Lawrence, William M. - Sobol, Anne Buxton - Sales, Ruby - Carlos, John - Miller, Carolyn - Anderson, Fletcher - Crosby, Emilye - Crosby, David L. - Greene, Freddie - Fuller, Linda - Sellers, Cleveland - Hayling, Robert Bagner - Booker, Simeon - Vickers, Barbara Edna - Holloway, Emma Kate - Geiger, Jack - Hutchings, Phil - Guyot, Lawrence - Collins, Barbara Maria - Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James) - Dittmer, John - Dudley, John F. - Bruce, Walter - Lawson, Jennifer - Duncan, Gwendolyn Annette - Branch, Raylawni G. - Suggs, Frances L. - Library of Congress - Rosenberg, John M. - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Thelwell, Michael - Moldovan, Alfred - Mosnier, Joseph - Tuttle, Rick - Hrabowski, Freeman A. - Varela, Maria - Paysour, Lafleur - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza - Bond, Julian - Hicks, Darryl Robertson - Bassett, Emmett W. - Ladner, Joyce A. - Griffin, Willie James - Sobol, Richard B. - Crosby, Patricia A. - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Bishop, John Melville - King, Lonnie C. - Young, Sam - Seeger, Pete - Alexander, Roberta - Suggs, Harold - Cotton, Dorothy F. - Head, Rosie M. - Gaither, Thomas Walter - Russell, Bill - Magee, Clarence - Sherrod, Charles - Stewart, Eleanor - Long, Worth W. - Southern Oral History Program - Jenkins, Mary F. - Abernathy, Donzaleigh - Connor, Peggy Jean - Simpson, Euvester - Ulmer, Joeann Anderson - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker - Jones, Clarence B. - McCullar, Johnnie Ruth - Burras, Carol Cummings - Browner, Clifford - Dixon, Elmer - Hill, Oliver W. - Adams-Johnson, Frankye - Burns, Julia Matilda - Todd, Lisa Anderson - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Ackerman, Satoko Ito - Branch, Taylor - Noonan, Martha P. - Grinnell, Gloria Claudette
- 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: Natanson, Barbara Orbach - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Dettmer, Elke - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Howard W. - 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 of COVID-19, altered the way Americans worked and lived. Many social activities—including school and faith-based gatherings—moved online. Even at this writing, COVID-19 continues to impact many Americans’ everyday experiences.- Contributor: Callahan, Paulette - Onikosi, Kami - Wicker, Ragan - Oubre, Anita - Garcia, Fredy M. - Peters-Muhammad, Jamilah Yejide - Chatelain, Elise M. - Paxton, Christine - American Folklife Center - Bauer, Luke ... Callahan, Paulette - Onikosi, Kami - Wicker, Ragan - Oubre, Anita - Garcia, Fredy M. - Peters-Muhammad, Jamilah Yejide - Chatelain, Elise M. - Paxton, Christine - American Folklife Center - Bauer, Luke - Kinoshita, Ashley - Roy, Kiran - Breaux, Lionel - Hayes, Janine - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Cane, Brodrick - Griffin, Shaquita - Parquet, Zelda - Ciereszynski, Ezra - Davis, Sidney - Simmons, Jessica - E.F. Cuttin - Hope, Shaye - Micaroni, Justin
- Date: 2023
Collection Items: View 73 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: Nagy, Susan Mary - McCallum, Brenda - Fleischhauer, Carl - Dwyer-Shick, Susan - Cech, Barbara - Marks, Morton - Davis, Lee - Sacks, Maurie - Arocho, Rudy - Webber, Philip E. ... Nagy, Susan Mary - McCallum, Brenda - Fleischhauer, Carl - Dwyer-Shick, Susan - Cech, Barbara - Marks, Morton - Davis, Lee - Sacks, Maurie - Arocho, Rudy - Webber, Philip E. - Baird, Scott J. - Leung, John - American Folklife Center - Bromberg, Joann Berlin - Gates, Bob - Vidutis, Richard - Penti, Marsha Elizabeth - Topping, Brett - Deak, Frank - Tarhan, Lance - Fish, Lydia M. - Seipel, Sandy - Miller, Jefferson - Bradunas, Elena - Fast, Jana - Proschan, Frank - Skillman, Amy E. - Haas, Mary-Louise - Kloberdanz, Timothy J. - Feintuch, Burt - Bell, Carole O. - McClain, Margy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Long, Lucy M. - Basa, Peter - Conklin, Nancy Faires - 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: Reed, Henry - Ricci, Glenn - American Folklife Center - Reed, Watha - Glenroy, William B. - 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 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: Kennedy, Stetson - American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- 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 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 - Lobato, Julián - Montoya, Luis - Archuleta, Ricardo - Medina, Esteban - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Cantú, José Ignacio - American Folklife Center - Romero, Alfredo - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel ... Anaya, Nieves - Lobato, Julián - Montoya, Luis - Archuleta, Ricardo - Medina, Esteban - Espinosa, Rosabel L. - Cantú, José Ignacio - American Folklife Center - Romero, Alfredo - Martínez Y Lavadi, Samuel - Lobato, Salomé - Arellano, Narciso - Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Rael, Juan Bautista - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Trujillo, Amado - Chávez, Adelaido - García, Pedro - Lamadrid, Enrique R. - Chávez, Adolfo - Arellano, Esequiel - Anaya, Ernestina - Mares, Remigio
- Date: 1940
Collection Items: View 226 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: Light, Ken - DeNatale, Douglas - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Williams, John Alexander - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Wood, Myron - American Folklife Center - Taylor, David Alan - Owen, Blanton - Lund, Jens ... Light, Ken - DeNatale, Douglas - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Williams, John Alexander - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Wood, Myron - American Folklife Center - Taylor, David Alan - Owen, Blanton - Lund, Jens - Parks, Valerie - Siporin, Steve - Tavarelli, Paola - Graham, Andrea - Frank, Russell - Notarianni, Philip F. - Carter, Thomas - Manini, Paula Marie
- 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: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - United States. National Park Service - American Folklife Center - Tankersley, Tom - Hufford, Mary
- Date: 1985
Collection Items: View 39 Items
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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: Lomax, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - Library of Congress. Music Division - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1907
Collection Items: View 415 Items
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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: Ounechith, Bouasone - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Louangsouphom, Chanthaly - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - Haggood, Sami - Thongdy, Kira - Phoumylay, Fancy - Xanamane, Amonelath - American Folklife Center ... Ounechith, Bouasone - Phoumylay, Khamsone - Louangsouphom, Chanthaly - Khambounleuang, Oubonlath Alee - Malathong, Vetsouvanh Ning - Haggood, Sami - Thongdy, Kira - Phoumylay, Fancy - Xanamane, Amonelath - American Folklife Center - Phoumylay, Palixay - Thalanh, Sith - Sengsouly, Meng - Pakdi, Inseng - Hamdani, Badar - Nunez, Heddy L. - Xanamane, Samko - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Somchit, Amy - Luangphone, Nithy - Xanamane, Kingston - Sengsouly, Khanthaly - Xanamane, Aet - Xanamane, Phouthone - Xanamane, Phanat
- Date: 2022
Collection Items: View 32 Items
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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: Norkunas, Martha K. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Refugee Arts Group - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Bartis, Peter - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - American Folklife Center - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - Lueders-Booth, John - Rankin, Tom ... Norkunas, Martha K. - Fleischhauer, Carl - Refugee Arts Group - Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.) - Bartis, Peter - Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities - American Folklife Center - Lowell National Historical Park (Lowell, Mass.) - Lueders-Booth, John - Rankin, Tom - DeNatale, Douglas - University of Lowell - Montaño, Mario - Taylor, David Alan - Wachs, Eleanor F. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Fertig, Barbara C. - United States. National Park Service - Bell, Michael Edward
- 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: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Ornstein, Lisa - Marshall, Howard W. - Taylor, David Alan - American Folklife Center - Bayley, Julie - Brassieur, C. Ray - Whitman, David A. - United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office
- 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: McBride, Tom - Toelken, Barre - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Young, Kay - American Folklife Center - Johnson, Paula J. - Dockstader, Ray - Crummett, Michael - Fleischhauer, Carl - Stanton, Gary Ward - Montana Arts Council - Toelken, Miiko - Wasson, George B.
- Date: 1979
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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: American Folklife Center - Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.) - Fleischhauer, Carl - Pratt, Boyd C. - Kalb, Laurie Beth - New Mexico. Historic Preservation Division
- Date: 1984
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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: Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Ford, Osa - Traveller Home Singers - Johnson, Warren G. - Heavenly Gate Quartet - Ellis, Charles - Fisk University - Gaines, Elwood - Monch, Matthew - Ezell, Buster ... Work, John W. (John Wesley) - Ford, Osa - Traveller Home Singers - Johnson, Warren G. - Heavenly Gate Quartet - Ellis, Charles - Fisk University - Gaines, Elwood - Monch, Matthew - Ezell, Buster - Turner, Monroe - Bond, James - Winrow, Anthony - Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Peach County, Ga.). Choir - Gibson, Gus - Gregory, Richard - Chestain, Sonny - Bond, Edward - Mathis, Allison - Turner, Alma - Thomas, John Lee - Chastain, Will - Stripling, Sidney - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Ford, T. J. - Richardson, Zema - Parker, Cleve - Smith Band (Musical Group) - Jackson, Deacon Sam - Turner, Oscar - Spiritual Four Quartet - Holloway High School Quartet
- Date: 1938
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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: Hensley, James J. - Dodd, Harold L. - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Tray, James Thomas - Mayville, Donnie D. - Glass, Leonard - Morrell, David C. - Gage, Charles H. - Bennett, Steven R. - Harris, Eugene ... Hensley, James J. - Dodd, Harold L. - Lightsey, Thomas N. - Tray, James Thomas - Mayville, Donnie D. - Glass, Leonard - Morrell, David C. - Gage, Charles H. - Bennett, Steven R. - Harris, Eugene - Olsen, Eric Carl - Robb, Alan A. - Paysse, Charlie Lou - Harris, Timothy C. - Montgomery, Charles R. - Hilliard, Henry - Jasper, Pat - Martinez, Gilbert B. - Thibodeaux, Terry James - Lebert, Lindberg A. - Cooney, James Patrick - Houston Arts Alliance - Larrimer, George - Seeba, Patrick - American Folklife Center - Mims, Doug - Aalund, Niels Anders - Laws, Andrew L. - Lindahl, Carl - Potoczniak, Anthony - Dickens, Michael W. - Bludworth, Richard W. - Corgey, Dean - King, Charles H. - Shaffer, Harold L. - Henry, Mark - Vest, Lou C. - Braun, Leo J. - Usher, Michael Gene - Burkett, Joe L. - Peterson, Betsy - Keenan, Gordie - Glass, Matthew H. - Tellepsen, Tom - Halbert, David Maurice - Ramirez, Gilda - Patout, Rivers - Thompson, Robert L. - Occupational Folklife Project - Postel, Adolph C. - Fitzgerald, Clyde - Kersey, Bobby C. - Patton, William Benjamin - Quesada, José Angel - Hausinger, William - Hilliard, Townsend W. - Hennessey, William S. - Holland, Benny - Rousser, C. A. - Blume, Dana - Diehl, William J.
- Date: 2010
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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
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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: Pinelands Cultural Society - Orr, Jay - Cervetto, Jack - Cartwright, Christine A. - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Parsons, Gerald E. - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Hunn, Eugene S. - Lund, Jens - Fleischhauer, Carl ... Pinelands Cultural Society - Orr, Jay - Cervetto, Jack - Cartwright, Christine A. - O'Connor, Bonnie Blair - Parsons, Gerald E. - Rubinstein, Nora J. (Nora Jane) - Hunn, Eugene S. - Lund, Jens - Fleischhauer, Carl - Pinelands Folklife Project (N.J.) - Tweed, Stewart M. - Pinehawkers (Musical Group) - Cohen, David Steven - Little, Silas - Ridgway, Merce - Sinton, John W. - American Folklife Center - Morgan, Elizabeth M. - Czarnecki, Joseph P. - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio - Vivian, V. Eugene - Ridgway, Arlene Martin - McDonald, Dennis - O'Connor, Malachi - Thatcher, Elaine - Shourds, Harry V. - New Jersey. Pinelands Commission - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Glassie, Henry - Hufford, Mary - Moonsammy, Rita Zorn - Samuelson, Sue
- Date: 1983
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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
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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: Cohen, Philip H. - Library of Congress. Radio Research Project - Liss, Joseph - Lomax, Alan - Harrell, Charles Travers
- Date: 1940
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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: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Goldstein, Kenneth S. - Bartis, Peter - Burns, Thomas A. - Horenstein, Henry - Rhode Island Folklife Project - American Folklife Center - Harley, Nancy - Fleischhauer, Carl - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Glawson, Francis - Bell, Michael Edward
- 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 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: Archive of American Folk Song - Gordon, Robert Winslow
- 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, 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: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2001
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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 - Espinoza, Victoriano - Fiebre (Musical Group) - Ramirez, Mike - Gonzalez, Bobby - Rodriguez, Isaac - Rios, Timothy Max - Chavarria, Albert - Day, Joyce C. - Barragán, Larry ... Villegas, Juan Carlos - Espinoza, Victoriano - Fiebre (Musical Group) - Ramirez, Mike - Gonzalez, Bobby - Rodriguez, Isaac - Rios, Timothy Max - Chavarria, Albert - Day, Joyce C. - Barragán, Larry - Cevallos, Lawrence - Morris, Johnny - Rodriguez, Roberto - Pinon, Mark - American Folklife Center - Castellanos, Vladimir - Grupo Fuerte (Musical Group) - Avizo (Musical Group) - Aguilar, Nestor - Gaitan, Nick - Gonzalez, Rigo - Cortez, Ray - Gonzalez, Julian - Barraza, John - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Borrego, Joe - Maldonado, Lorie - Martinez, Jose M. - Villarreal, Guillermo Memo - Garcia, Ralph - Olivarez, Lupe - Trevino, Juan - Galván, Felipe - Gutierrez, Moses - Monarcas (Musical Group) - Salas, Sarge - Ramirez, Luis - Sanchez, Armando - 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: Stanley, David - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - McGraw, Hugh - Marshall, Howard W. - American Folklife Center - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Coelho, Dennis - Adler, Thomas A. - Hamrick, Raymond C. - Blackmarr, Syd - Fleischhauer, Carl - Robinson, Beverly J. - Jabbour, Alan
- 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 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, Alan - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
- Date: 1934
Collection Items: View 895 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
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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
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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: Golden, Randee - Lupenui, Boots - Awa'a, Helen - Keawe, Hope - Lorenzo, U'ilani - Keawe, John - Veloria, Audrey - Stovall, Lauren Kamalei - Solomon, Richard - Solomon, Bryan - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - American Folklife Center - Palya, Adam - Hayden, Sharon - Kawaiae'a, Raylene Ha'alelea
- 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
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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: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- 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: Reat, Agnes - Eyoeth, Maregrita - Tarongodal, Gregoria - Habele Outer Island Education Fund - Yalorthog, Rosita - Ilemangit, Gina - Ilamliyong, Sammy - American Folklife Center - Leraw, Rowina - Lawolthau, Joanna ... Reat, Agnes - Eyoeth, Maregrita - Tarongodal, Gregoria - Habele Outer Island Education Fund - Yalorthog, Rosita - Ilemangit, Gina - Ilamliyong, Sammy - American Folklife Center - Leraw, Rowina - Lawolthau, Joanna - Tefalelmar, Florentina - Leragmai, Frenzita - Ubey, Maria - Nianugmwar, Katielyne - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Fichilmar, Conchita - Raigetal, Regina R. - Leframor, Lorita - Legap, Maria - Uwel, Tyra - Mangelfata, Floren - Yaloweg, Vreah - Ileragipou, Emalani - Leyangrow, Conchita - Tauwl, Modesta L. - Paul, Alodia - Ililau, Serphina M. - Ilmar, Doloris - Lahasudep, Ygnasia
- 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: Archive of American Folk Song - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- 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: Lloyd, Timothy Charles - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCarl, Robert - United States. National Park Service. Mid-Atlantic Regional Office - Smith, Lynda S. - American Folklife Center - Taylor, David Alan - Lautenberg, Frank R. - Cooper, Martha - Levitas, Susan - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Pascrell, Bill - Carroll, Thomas Deblasio
- Date: 1993
Collection Items: View 4,388 Items
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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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