Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

The Archive of Folk Culture holds approximately 2,500 collections consisting of over 100,000 sound recordings and 3 million items. At this time only a small portion of them have catalog records and finding aids. Finding aids listed as print only can be requested by contacting the Folklife Reading Room.

There are two types of Finding Aids for researching collections:

• Individual Collections
  • Listed alphabetically by the title of the collection.
• Collections Organized by Topic
  • Listed alphabetically by Topic

[Note: Because the online versions for many of these finding aids were prepared for the early Internet, diacritics may be omitted. Updated versions will be added as they become available.]