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Online Collections and Presentation (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)Poll();  The Library of Congress >> Research Centers   A - Z Index | Find in American Folklife Center Pages All Library of Congress Pages home >> collections & research services >> online collections Online Collections and Presentations The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. We create our own online presentations on various topics and the American Memory project provides additional online access to selected collections. Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips. To use the featured collections in their entirety, please visit our Collections & Research Services page for information about doing research in our Reading Room. American Folklife Center Online Presentations  Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots A snapshot of America's diverse culture, this presentation includes photographs, sound recordings, videos, newspaper clippings, and more from communities in all 50 states, the trusts, territories, and the District of Columbia. The project was initiated by members of Congress commemorating the Library's Bicentennial.  Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project Told through oral history interviews, memoirs, diaries, and correspondence, these heartfelt accounts make us laugh, cry and remember. These stories are not a formal history of war, but a treasure trove of individual feelings and personal recollections.  Mary Sheppard Burton Collection A set of twelve beautiful hooked rugs made by Maryland artist Mary Sheppard Burton from the Tell Me ’Bout series—each relating a personal narrative about the Burton family. The carpets, which are as large as 45" by 69", may be viewed as complete images (in two sizes) or interactively using the "zoom" view. Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 Samples of wax cylinder recordings of folksongs collected by the first head of the Archive of Folk Culture, Robert Winslow Gordon. This presentation of recordings, photographs, and notes from the 1978 LP was made in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Archive of Folk Culture. Alan Lomax Collection A presentation of selected photographs, sound recordings, manuscripts, and biographical material. In March 2004, the American Folklife Center acquired the Alan Lomax Collection, which comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of sixty years. The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition Wearing and otherwise displaying ribbons of various colors to remember loved ones or to identify a particular cause is a contemporary custom with roots in both popular culture and folk tradition. These origins are explored in two articles by the late Gerald E. Parsons Jr., folklorist and reference librarian at the American Folklife Center.  Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows The origins and traditions of Halloween are explored in an article by folklorist Jack Santino. A selected bibliography on Halloweenand related topics compiled by American Folklife Center staff is also included.  Event Archives: Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia American Folklife Center past events with content such as photographs, resource guides, webcasts, flyers, essays, collection guides, and other materials. American Memory Online Collections  After the Day of Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 A presentation of approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from over two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States.  Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 Documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The material was collected as part of the Paradise Valley Folklife Project conducted by American Folklife Center from 1978-1982.  California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties Thirty-five hours of sound recordings, photographs, and drawings collected during a New Deal project aimed at documenting the European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and Spanish-language folk music of Northern California in the 1930's.  Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal This collection captures the culture and music of the men, women, and children who worked and lived along the Ohio and Erie Canal. Included are 75 songs, sung by Nye, along with transcribed lyrics, photographs, and personal letters Nye sent to the Library from 1937 to 1944.  Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection 184 Traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia that evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Recorded from 1966-1967, when Reed was over eighty years old, many of the tunes passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century.  Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 376 sound recordings that document African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures in Florida. Recorded by Robert Cook, Herbert Halpert, Zora Neale Hurston, and others in conjunction with the Florida Federal Writers' Project, the Florida Music Project, and the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects Administration  Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection Selections of sound recordings and manuscript material collected by Juan Bautista Rael, a pioneer Hispano folklorist. The material he collected documents the religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado including alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance tunes.  "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 Approximately one hundred sound recordings and related written documents collected by John Wesley Work III, Willis Laurence James, and Lewis Jones during trips to Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. The recordings include selections from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.  Omaha Indian Music Photographs and sound recordings featuring the traditional Omaha music from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress, and the wax cylinder recordings of Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher made 1895-1897.  Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 410 photographs and 181 sound recordings provide a glimpse into America's diverse quilting traditions. Selected from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project and the "All American Quilt Contest" sponsored by Lands' End and Good Housekeeping.  September 11, 2001 Documentary Project Almost 200 audio and video interviews, drawings, photographs, and narratives that capture the heartfelt 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, sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed through the material.  Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other material that documents a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. John and Ruby Lomax traveled from Port Aransas, Texas to Washington, DC documenting folk singers and folksongs across a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles.  Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia The American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documents the traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. Functioning as a de facto commons, the mountains have supported a way of life that for many generations has entailed hunting, gathering, and subsistence gardening, as well as coal mining and timbering.  Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories Almost seven hours of recorded interviews that took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.  Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd & Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 363 sound recordings and accompanying photographs document the life, work, music, and cultural traditions of residents in the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California from 1940 to 1941.  Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 A collection of letters that highlights the correspondence between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center). The material provides a unique perspective on Woody Guthrie's past, his art, his life in New York City, and his feelings about WWII.  Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting 470 excerpts from original sound recordings and 3,882 photographs that document the occupational culture of Paterson, New Jersey in 1994. Selected from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project conducted by the American Folklife Center, the collection explores how the industrial heritage of the city expresses itself in its work sites, work processes, and memories of workers.  Back toTop home >> collections & research services >> online collections A - Z Index | Find in American Folklife Center Pages All Library of Congress Pages The Library of Congress >> Research Centers October 2, 2008 Contact Us: Ask a Librarian |
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