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Coal River Folklife Project collection

LC Control No.:	2004659956
Type of Material:	Archival Manuscript Material (Collection)
Main Title:	Coal River Folklife Project collection, 1992-2000 / American Folklife Center.
Related Names:	Hufford, Mary, 1952- » More like this Eiler, Lyntha Scott. » More like this Eiler, Terry. » More like this American Folklife Center. » More like this Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) » More like this Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program. » More like this
Related Titles:	Tending the commons: folklife and landscape in southern West Virginia.
Description:	26 linear feet (61 boxes) manuscripts:: 313 folders. sound recordings:: 239 sound cassettes : analog. sound recordings:: 53 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital. graphic images :: 13,647 photographs : slides, negatives, photographic prints, contact sheets, col., b&w ; various sizes. moving images:: 5 videocassettes (Hi-8) : col., sd. 13 computer disks.
Access Advisory:	Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Summary:	The Coal River Folklife Project is an ethnographic field project documenting traditional customs and land use in the mountains of southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley from 1992 to 1999. Collection materials include manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, videorecordings and related research materials gathered by project team members, directed by Mary Hufford of the American Folklife Center. There are extensive interviews with local residents on the seasonal harvesting of natural resources--ginseng, ramps, berries, nuts, fish, and game--and on occupations, including coal mining and timbering; and on the effects of large scale industries such as logging and mountaintop removal mining on local communities. Cultural and religious community events were a focus of the project, including storytelling, community dinners and foodways, baptisms, and cemetery customs. In addition to photographs taken by fieldworkers, the collection contains a large number of documentary photographs by Lyntha Scott Eiler and Terry Eiler.
Cite as:	Coal River Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1999/008), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Additional Formats:	A portion of the collection is available as "Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Subjects:	Land use, Rural--West Virginia. » More like this Folklore--West Virginia. » More like this Forest management--Social aspects--West Virginia. » More like this Mountaintop removal mining--West Virginia. » More like this Coal mines and mining--West Virginia. » More like this Folklore--Appalachian Region. » More like this Big Coal River Valley (W. Va.)--Social life and customs. » More like this West Virginia--Social life and customs. » More like this Appalachian Region--Social life and customs. » More like this West Virginia--Religious life and customs. » More like this Field recordings--West Virginia. » More like this
Form/Genre:	Interviews. » More like this Ethnography. » More like this Manuscripts. » More like this Sound recordings. » More like this Videocassettes. » More like this Photographs. » More like this
Local Shelving No.:	AFC 1999/008
Geographic Area Code:	n-us-wv n-usa
Repository:	DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Links:	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000003