Finding Aids
Whenever possible, AFC staff create finding aids for collections using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard. These guides provide comprehensive overviews of unique Library resources. Progressively detailed descriptions of a collection's component parts summarize the overall scope of the content, convey details about the individuals and organizations involved, and list box and folder headings. Special service conditions are noted, including terms under which the collection may be accessed or copied. Links are provided to digitized content, when available.
A
- American Dialect Society Collection (a.k.a. The Hanley Collection; The Hanley Discs) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 230.107KB / 39 pages]
- American Folk Blues Festival Photograph Collection, 1962-1965 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 103.895KB / 8 pages]
- Luiz Heitor Corre^a de Azevedo collection on Latin American folklore [View Finding aid] [PDF : 199.529KB / 21 pages]
B
- Brenda Beck collection from Tamil Nadu, India, 1964-1977 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 347.756KB / 51 pages]
- Peggy V. Beck collection, 1985-1987 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140.920KB / 12 pages]
- Agnes Bellinger Tlingit Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 112.361KB / 6 pages]
- Sol Biderman collection, 1954-2004 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 166.022KB / 17 pages]
- Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 125.254KB / 8 pages]
- Connie Regan-Blake collection, 1974-2014 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 260.404KB / 40 pages]
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 126.062KB / 9 pages]
- Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136.577KB / 10 pages]
- David Bromberg collection, circa 1962-2013 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 149.984KB / 23 pages]
- Brooklyn Rediscovery Folklife Study Project collection, 1980-1983 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 148.354KB / 15 pages]
- Mary Sheppard Burton Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.463KB / 7 pages]
C
- Caffè Lena collection, 1960-2013 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 342.863KB / 69 pages]
- Roxane Connick Carlisle collection, 1963-1983 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 710.318KB / 154 pages]
- James Madison Carpenter Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 270.444KB / 64 pages]
- Isabel Gordon Carter collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.995KB / 8 pages]
- Center for Traditional Music and Dance collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 943.791KB / 220 pages]
- Vida Chenoweth collection, circa 1940-2000 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 605.618KB / 185 pages]
- Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, 1976-1981 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1308.055KB / 285 pages]
- Civil Rights History Project collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 618.190KB / 122 pages]
- Diana Cohen Hopi Religion Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 85.875KB / 4 pages]
- John Cohen collection, 1953-2011 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 763.486KB / 192 pages]
- Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 112.260KB / 12 pages]
- Harold C. Conklin Philippine Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 110.039KB / 9 pages]
- Michael Cooney poster collection, circa 1960s-1982 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 135.576KB / 11 pages]
- Cooperative Recreation Service collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 258.618KB / 28 pages]
- Earl Crabb collection, circa 1960-1990s [View Finding aid] [PDF : 143.338KB / 13 pages]
- Curtis Cook Zuni Pueblo storytelling collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 239.060KB / 26 pages]
D
- Barbara Dane collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 173.960KB / 22 pages]
- Tlingit songs and texts collected by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, 1960-1997 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 339.312KB / 64 pages]
- Gwilym Davies Appalachian and Adirondack Mountains collection, 1997-1998 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 116.532KB / 12 pages]
- Sara L. M. Davis Collection on Tai Lüe Culture [View Finding aid] [PDF : 158.562KB / 16 pages]
- A. James Delahoussaye collection of Atchafalaya River Basin recordings [View Finding aid] [PDF : 255.304KB / 62 pages]
- Frances Densmore papers, 1883-1957 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 185.688KB / 21 pages]
- Eleanor Dickinson Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 224.273KB / 38 pages]
- John Dildine and Ginny Dildine papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 150.733KB / 14 pages]
- John and Ginny Dildine collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 394.382KB / 97 pages]
- Discoteca Puìblica Municipal de SaÞo Paulo collection, 1937-1943 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136.973KB / 8 pages]
E
- W. Dean Edwards collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 160.374KB / 18 pages]
- Duncan Emrich Autograph Album Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 125.085KB / 8 pages]
- Duncan Emrich manuscript collection, 1933-1977 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 182.173KB / 22 pages]
- Sam Eskin Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 271.935KB / 38 pages]
- Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection, 1982-1986 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 210.076KB / 27 pages]
F
- Library of Congress and Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection, 1941-1943 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 297.435KB / 54 pages]
- Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling Video Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140.657KB / 14 pages]
G
- Goathland, North Yorkshire, sword dance photograph collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 111.104KB / 5 pages]
- Lou Gordon collection, 1953-2006 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 131.154KB / 9 pages]
- Robert S. Gottlieb recordings of North Indian tabla, 1956-1972 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 192.164KB / 9 pages]
- Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.585KB / 8 pages]
- Woody Guthrie Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) recordings [View Finding aid] [PDF : 101.334KB / 7 pages]
H
- Judith Lynne Hanna collection, 1963-2009 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 131.984KB / 11 pages]
- Bess Lomax Hawes collection, 1894-2009 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 263.669KB / 37 pages]
- Hongyi He Chinese papercuts collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 126.585KB / 8 pages]
- Felipe Hinojosa collection of interviews with Latino Mennonites [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.146KB / 7 pages]
- Maggie Holtzberg collection, 1972-2002 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 159.251KB / 13 pages]
- Tom Hoskins collection, 1963-1967 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 237.467KB / 39 pages]
I
- Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 449.852KB / 73 pages]
- Indian Neck Folk Festival collection, 1961-2015 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 255.206KB / 60 pages]
- Italian-Americans in the West Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 151.047KB / 16 pages]
J
- Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian collection, circa 1961-1988 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1100.240KB / 244 pages]
K
- Sarah Gertrude Knott papers, 1934-2003 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 245.979KB / 29 pages]
- George Korson collection, 1917-1975 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 428.551KB / 94 pages]
- Rae Korson papers, 1937-1982 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 115.288KB / 10 pages]
L
- Penne Laingen Yellow Ribbon Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.945KB / 8 pages]
- Linda LaMacchia collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 237.908KB / 36 pages]
- Lands' End All-American Quilt Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 199.077KB / 38 pages]
- Ray M. Lawless Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 141.158KB / 14 pages]
- Ken Lindsay Collection of Woody Guthrie Correspondence [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.878KB / 8 pages]
- Eloise Hubbard Linscott Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 980.771KB / 240 pages]
- Susan Caperna Lloyd collection, 1975-2020 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 599.850KB / 117 pages]
- John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 449.921KB / 121 pages]
- Lowell Folklife Project collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 192.295KB / 30 pages]
- Benjamin Luft collection of 9-11 firstresponders' oral histories [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1267.643KB / 279 pages]
M
- Maine Acadian Cultural Survey Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 493.906KB / 91 pages]
- Mana: Beyond Belief documentary film collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 261.511KB / 46 pages]
- Joel Martin Halpern collection, 1950-2010 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 248.430KB / 31 pages]
- Joseph C. Mele collection of dialect recordings from the University of South Alabam [View Finding aid] [PDF : 208.950KB / 36 pages]
- Men's Lives Documentation Project Interviews [View Finding aid] [PDF : 151.767KB / 18 pages]
- Montana Folklife Survey collection, 1979 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 112.394KB / 7 pages]
- Christopher Moore collection of Indian Neck Folk Festival and other recordings, 1958-1982 (bulk 1964-1972) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 206.125KB / 34 pages]
- Paula Morin collection : Honest horses, wild horses in the Great Basin,1999-2001 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 120.175KB / 8 pages]
N
- National Council for the Traditional Arts collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 358.851KB / 100 pages]
- National Visionary Leadership Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 965.657KB / 202 pages]
- Dance Theater of Nepal collection, 1996-2010 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 161.787KB / 15 pages]
- 1977 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 115.604KB / 7 pages]
- 1978 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 119.745KB / 8 pages]
- 1979 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 116.467KB / 7 pages]
- 1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136.601KB / 9 pages]
- 1981 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 120.065KB / 7 pages]
- 1982 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118.907KB / 8 pages]
- 1983 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.165KB / 9 pages]
- 1984 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 117.381KB / 7 pages]
- 1985 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.844KB / 9 pages]
- 1986 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.536KB / 8 pages]
- 1987 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 133.957KB / 8 pages]
- 1988 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138.394KB / 9 pages]
- 1989 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140.398KB / 9 pages]
- 1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138.201KB / 8 pages]
- 1991 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138.648KB / 9 pages]
- 1992 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 142.767KB / 9 pages]
- 1993 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 139.077KB / 9 pages]
- 1994 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 200.708KB / 9 pages]
- 1995 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140.950KB / 9 pages]
- Nevada Folklife Archive, 1986-1990 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 681.724KB / 175 pages]
- Nevada Arts Council Honest Horses exhibition collection, 1999-2003 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 126.238KB / 15 pages]
- New Mexico Folklife Project collection, 1984-1985/collected by Carl Fleischhauer and Laurie Beth Kalb [View Finding aid] [PDF : 146.792KB / 17 pages]
- Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 135.244KB / 11 pages]
O
- Omaha Indian interviews collection, 1999 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 166.500KB / 18 pages]
- Omaha Powwow Project collection, 1983-1986 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 218.603KB / 41 pages]
P
- Alejandro Paz Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 132.200KB / 13 pages]
- Linda Pershing Ribbon around the Pentagon collection, 1984-2018 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 198.116KB / 26 pages]
- Pinelands Folklife Project collection, 1983-1991 / collected by the American Folklife Center [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1449.815KB / 321 pages]
- Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz collection, 1885-2010 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 161.951KB / 16 pages]
Q
- Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews Collection, 1999-2016 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1720.448KB / 418 pages]
R
- Juan B. Rael Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 171.057KB / 12 pages]
- Vance Randolph Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 205.193KB / 27 pages]
- Tom Raymond Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 187.226KB / 27 pages]
- Rhode Island Folklife Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 111.919KB / 9 pages]
- Willard Rhodes papers, 1938-1979 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 131.664KB / 9 pages]
- Milo and Odette Rigaud Haiti recordings, 1944-1985 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 196.225KB / 26 pages]
- Jean Ritchie and George Pickow collection, 1923-2015 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 807.709KB / 196 pages]
- Art Rosenbaum Georgia Folklore Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 117.612KB / 7 pages]
- Ryl's'ki Institute Ukrainian Cylinder Collection, 1908-1930s [View Finding aid] [PDF : 304.919KB / 59 pages]
S
- Henry Sapoznik collection, circa 1920-1960 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 190.365KB / 20 pages]
- Abraham A. Schwadron Chad Gadya collection, 1973-1985 / collected by Abraham A. Schwadron [View Finding aid] [PDF : 178.489KB / 8 pages]
- Joseph Sciorra collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 307.386KB / 59 pages]
- Charlie Seemann collection of photographs of vaqueros and gauchos, 1985-1986 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 168.098KB / 22 pages]
- September 11, 2001, Documentary Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 161.425KB / 16 pages]
- Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.741KB / 8 pages]
- South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.090KB / 8 pages]
- Square Dance Legislation Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.003KB / 7 pages]
- Markham Starr collection, 2010-2019 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 933.612KB / 218 pages]
- Nancy Sweezy collection, 1915-2009 (bulk 1968-2007) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 316.334KB / 47 pages]
T
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- Voices of Civil Rights Project collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 609.634KB / 146 pages]
W
- W.P.A. California Folk Music Project Collection, 1938-1940 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 241.895KB / 24 pages]
- Anne and Frank Warner Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 150.039KB / 21 pages]
- Pete Welding collection, 1960-1980 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1734.935KB / 518 pages]
- Working in Paterson Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 178.247KB / 19 pages]
- World War II Rumor Project Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129.672KB / 12 pages]
- Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta Wycinanki Polish Papercutting collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 144.898KB / 15 pages]
X
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- Jun-ichi Yamada Collection of Bluegrass Recordings [View Finding aid] [PDF : 123.400KB / 9 pages]
- Don Yoder collection of wire recordings [View Finding aid] [PDF : 127.999KB / 9 pages]
- Don Yoder Collection of Tape Recordings [View Finding aid] [PDF : 377.699KB / 79 pages]
- Izzy Young collection, 1942-2015 [View Finding aid] [PDF : 219.559KB / 32 pages]
Z
- Sergei Zhirkevich Photograph Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 182.131KB / 7 pages]
- Aaron Ziegelman Foundation collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 478.191KB / 110 pages]