List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

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Collections are listed alphabetically by the primary name in the collection title.

Collections L-Q

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Title: Maria LaVigna / "Native American Heritage on Wax" Anthology
Description: Selected recordings from the Federal Cylinder Project. Includes music from the Apache,
Blackfoot, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Comanche, Dakota, Fox, Gabrielino, Hopi, Karok, Keres,
Kickapoo, Konomihu, Luiseno, Mescalero, Navajo, Nez Perce, Omaha, Oto,
Passamaquoddy, Pawnee, [?], Sauk, Serrano, Shawnee, Sioux, Tachi Yokuts, Tewa, Tiwa,
Tlingit, and Winnebago tribes. Includes oration and peyote, love, corn, gambling, mourning,
flute, Ghost Dance, and Sun Dance songs. Recorded between 1890 and 1941 by various
collectors.
Inclusive Years: 1890-1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22068-22070

Title: Dennis Ladd / Hawaiian LP Discography Collection
Description: The discography indexes over 400 LP albums with a primarily Hawaiian focus.
Inclusive Years: Beginning of LP era-1988
AFC Number: AFC 1996/077
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Penne Laingen Yellow Ribbon Collection
Description: Original yellow ribbon that spirited the practice of displaying yellow ribbons in remembrance
of hostages or military personnel in action during war. Ribbon was first displayed on a tree
by Penne Laingen in 1980, when her husband was taken hostage in Iran. Also includes
Gerald Parsons interview with Laingen on the origin and meaning of the practice. Photos
taken of the interview.
AFC Number: AFC 1991/017
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Frederick W. Lane / A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Articles Dealing with
Ballads and Folk Songs, Published in Four United States Folklore Journals Between
1937-1954
Description: Dissertation: Catholic University of America
Inclusive Years: 1937-1954; 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: John Langenegger, Arthur Miller / Recordings in Wilmington, Delaware [Radio Research
Project]
Description: Recordings made by Arthur Miller and John Langenegger for the Radio Research Project of
the Library of Congress and the United States Public Health Service in North Carolina in the
fall of 1941. The materials and truck were paid for by the above agencies.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6386-6397

Title: General Edwin Lansdale Songs of the Vietnam War
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of "In the Midst of War," scripted by Gen. Edward G. Lansdale and
narrated by Hank Miller, incorporating forty-one songs about the Vietnam War and related
topics sung by Steve Addiss, Pham Duy, Hershel Gober, and others. Recorded at the home
of General Lansdale, Saigon, Vietnam, January 1967. The collection includes
three-eighths linear inch of articles, correspondence, logs, notes, and transcriptions.
Songs in English and Vietnamese.
Inclusive Years: 1967
Duration: 1 hr. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17483; 18882

Title: General Edwin Lansdale / Vietnam War Songs
Description: Six 10-inch tapes of one-hundred-sixty songs about the Vietnam War, sung by American
military personnel, including Jim Bullington, the Cosmos Tabernacle Choir, Dolf Droge, Bill
Ellis, Hershel Gober, Dick Jonas, the Merrymen of 173rd AHC, Barry Sadler, Bill Stubbs,
and the United States Air Force (USAF) Band and Singing Sergeants. Recorded primarily
in Thailand, Vietnam, and Virginia by Gen. Edward G. Lansdale, 1962-72. Also included
are some commercial recordings and recordings from tapes and discs sent to Lansdale by
friends and colleagues. The tapes are edited and narrated by Hank Miller. The collection
includes one-half linear inch of articles, logs, notes, and transcriptions. Includes the
" Cosmos Club Bar Choir" recorded at the Virginia homes of Joe Baker and General
Lansdale.
Inclusive Years: 1962-1972
Duration: 12 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18977-18982

Title: Jeanne E. LaPierre / "Lives in Patchwork" Videotape
Description: This documentary covers activities of the Granville (Massachusetts) Quilt and Needlework
Guild. It also profiles individual members. The video contains an interview with Suzanne
Flynt, the curator of the Memorial Hall Quilt Collection in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Emphasis on preserving the craft of quiltmaking.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/027
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Victoria Larimore & Michael Taylor Amish Collection
Description: Eighty-nine 5-inch tapes of children's songs, interviews of Amish and formerly Amish
people, New Order Amish songs, Old Order Amish hymns, and various sounds of Amish
life. Recorded in Ohio by Victoria Larimore and Michael Taylor, September 1983 July 1984.
The collection includes fifty-two pages of correspondence and notes. Material recorded for
Larimore & Taylor 16mm documentary film entitled _The Amish: Not to be Modern_.
Includes 17 hours of interviews with members of the Old and New Order Amish
communities in Ohio, 3 hours of Amish music (hymns, children's songs), and 10 hours of
various "wild sounds of Amish life."
Inclusive Years: 1983-1984
Duration: 30 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1987/014
AFS Number: AFS 24370-24458

Title: Grey Larsen, Malcolm Dalglish / "Traditional Ethnic Music and the Elderly Project"
Description: Six 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs played and sung by Guy Blakeman (fiddle),
Wally Bollinger (banjo), "Pigmeat" Jarrett (piano), Phil McGing (melodeon), Vince Sawma
(oud), and The Liberty Cornet Band. Recorded in the Cincinnati area by Malcolm Dalglish
and Grey Larsen for the "Traditional Music and the Elderly Project," 1978. Portions of the
collection have been published on June Appal LP 36142 _Snow on the Roof, Fire in the
Furnace_ (1979). The collection includes one linear inch of articles, logs, and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 10 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 21951-21956

Title: Eric Larson / Otto Martin Larson Collection
Description: One audiocassette containing 23 ragtime and other versions of 7 piano pieces played by
Otto Martin Larson (1895-1961), of Hammond, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; and Detroit,
Michigan. Two pieces are his original compositions: "Old Kentucky," and "Sarabelle and
Johnny." The other titles are: "Golden Days," "It Had to Be You," "Kiss Me Again,"
" Liebestraum," and "You and I." Larson initially played in silent movie theaters, and later
played in theaters and night clubs. The collection includes twenty-five pages of
biographical information, song lyrics, and program notes.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1944
Duration: 16 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1998/004
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Kenneth Larson / Songs of Eastern Idaho
Description: Graduate Paper: University of Utah
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Maria LaVigna and David P. McAllester / Interview with Helen Heffron Roberts
Description: Oral history interview with Helen Heffron Roberts, ethnomusicologist. Interview conducted
by Maria LaVigna and David P. McAllester in Hamden, Connecticut, December 5, 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19894-19899

Title: The Ray M. Lawless Collection
Description: Manuscripts and photographs collected by Ray M. Lawless in order to publish the book
_Folksingers and Folksongs in America_ (1960). The manuscripts include correspondence
between Lawless and folksingers or their agents, questionnaires, programs, newspaper
clippings, magazine write-ups, biographies, promotional materials, and photographic prints
or portraits and other subjects, with some negatives.
Inclusive Years: 195?-1960
AFC Number: AFC 1970/003
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/lawless.html

Title: A.F.R. Lawrence / Prof. John Powell "Folk Music of South" Radio Broadcast Collection
Description: "Folk Music of the South no. 3," radio program of Virginia ballads and fiddle tunes directed
and narrated by Prof. John Powell, broadcast March 7, 1934, at WRVA, Richmond, Virginia,
over NBC Red Network.
Inclusive Years: 1934
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13050

Title: A.F.R. Lawrence / Radio Programs
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of songs and stories sung and spoken at a meeting of the West Virginia
Folklore Society at Fairmont State College, Fairmont, West Virginia. Duplicated from discs
of the radio program "Campus Highlights" donated by A. F. R. Lawrence. The collection
includes two pages of notes.
Duration: 25 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17444-17445

Title: Anne Lawrence / On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the U.M.W.A. in Central
Appalachia 1920-35 Collection
Description: An oral history transcription of the United Mine Workers of America in Central Appalachia,
1920-35. The project was done under the auspices of the National Endowment for the
Humanities' Youthgrants program.
Inclusive Years: 1920-1935
AFC Number: AFC 1975/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Don Laycock Duplication Project
Description: Two 10-inch tapes containing bawdy Australian folksongs sung by Don Laycock with
comments and interviews. Recorded in Unionville, Indiana, by Joseph C. Hickerson, July 7,
1962. The collection includes a photocopy of the tape box and a seven-page song list.
Inclusive Years: 1962
Duration: 2 hrs., 10 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17023-17024

Title: Gary Le Gallant Collection of "Sugar in the Gourd" Television Programs
Description: One DVD containing four television programs from the series "Sugar in the Gourd,"
produced at station WMUL in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1978. Featured performers
include Franklin George, Joe Dobbs and other Dobbs family members, Sally Sublette,
Kelton Roten, Mack Samples, and Larry Hall. Title of program: Sugar in the gourd : music from the mountains / WMUL-TV, Huntington, West Virginia.; producer, Larry R. Hall.Contents: Franklin George interviewed by Joe Dobbs -- Dobbs Brothers and Sally Sublette, with Mary Faith Rhoads -- Sally Sublette interview and performance with Dennis Dobbs -- Kelton Roten interview and fiddle performance.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 2005/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: MacEdward Leach / Folk Music of Newfoundland
Description: Folk music of Newfoundland. Recorded by Professor MacEdward Leach of the University of
Pennsylvania, 1951.
Inclusive Years: 1951
Duration: >10 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13160-13164

Title: MacEdward Leach / Newfoundland
Description: Gaelic and other folklore and songs recorded by MacEdward Leach in Newfoundland,
July-October 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10064-10073

Title: Leadbelly Radio Audition Collection
Description: One 16-inch disc of an "audition" by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, narrated by Woody
Guthrie, for NBC Radio, in New York. Recorded June 19, 1940. The collection includes one
datasheet. The seven songs on the disc are "I ain't goin' down," "I went up on de mountain,"
"Whoa back," "Worried blues," "Good morning blues," "You can't leave me, Charlie," and
" Boll weevil."
Inclusive Years: 1940
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1991/018
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Bill Lear Demonstration Record
Description: Bill Lear sings his country compositions with guitar. Recorded originally on 33 1/3 rpm
demonstration disc in Memphis, Tennessee prior to July 1977.
Inclusive Years: pre-1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19342

Title: Lebanon [Connecticut] Elementary School Folksong Project
Description: Folksongs collected in Lebanon, Connecticut as a class project of the CREST program,
Lebanon Elementary School, May 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19515

Title: Lebanon (Ohio) Correctional Institute / "Expressions from Within"
Description: Video and sound recordings of a program titled "Expressions from Within," created and
performed by prisoners at the Lebanon (Ohio) Correctional Institute, June 18, 1989.
Produced by Jessie Wensler.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1989/027
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Hector Lee / Stories About J. Gordon Kimball Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of stories about J. Golden Kimball, Mormon preacher, spoken and recorded
in Chico, California, by Hector Lee, ca. 1951. The collection includes six pages of
correspondence, listening notes, and other administrative papers.
Duration: 30 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10490

Title: Hector Lee / Utah Folk Songs
Description: Five 10-inch discs of fifteen songs sung by Erastus H. Peterson, Noah E. Stowe, and Susie
Theobald. Recorded in Fillmore and Manti, Utah, by Hector Lee, 1940s. The collection
includes one-fourth linear inch of correspondence and a one-page song list.
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8972-8976

Title: "The Legacy Endures" Collection
Description: Documentation of the event and exhibition at the National Museum of American History
called "Honkers and Quackers: Waterfowling and Waterfowl Conservation" (events on Sept.
10, 1988). Participants include George Reiger, Erlene Snow, Chesser, etc. Subjects:
duck-calling, decoy-carving, duck stamps, Ducks Unlimited.
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1988/031
AFS Number:

Title: Leif -Alpsjö / Music and Dance from Uppland Province, Sweden
Description: Videotape documenting the noontime program of Oct. 26, 1992, held in the Mumford Room,
Madison Building, Library of Congress. Leif Alpsjö, from the province of Uppland, Sweden,
is best known for his teaching of the nyckelharpa (most often translated as "key fiddle"), but
also plays fiddle and traditional wind instruments such as spildpipa and n„verlur. Alpsjö
was assisted by members of the Nordic Dancers of Washington DC.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1992/010
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Mary Leister / "Grandmother's Old Arm Chair" Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of the ballad "Grandmother's Old Arm Chair" sung twice by Mary
Leister, taught to her by her grandfather in Indiana, with introduction and commentary.
Recorded by Leister in her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, June 1984 and January
1985. The collection includes twenty-four pages of an album cover, correspondence,
description, and musical and textual transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1984-1985
Duration: 13 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24118-24119

Title: George Kenneth Leivers / Structure and Function of an Old-Time Fiddlers' Association
Description: Thesis: California State, Chico
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: J.B. Lenoir Playing "Mississippi Road"
Description: J. B. Lenoir playing "Mississippi Road" with guitar. Dubbed from CBS Germany Master tape.
Recorded in Chicago in 1965.
Inclusive Years: 1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18879

Title: Julius Lester and Worth Long / Two-Part Black Gospel Singing
Description: Two part singing of Black gospel music by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Willingham of Moncure,
North Carolina. Recorded by Julius Lester and Worth Long in March 1966.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18970

Title: The Library of Congress / Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection
Description: This collection consists of audio recordings, manuscript materials and moving images
which are the products of a 2-year field study conducted by the Library of Congress and Fisk
University during the summers of 1941-42. Field research was done in Coahoma County,
Mississippi, and contains examples of secular and religious music, sermons, children's
games, jokes, folktales, interviewss, and dances. Among the manuscript materials are
song lists, correspondence, disc jackets, and research notes. Recordings include blues
songs, field hollers, ballads, game songs, gospels and spirituals as well as spoken
materials such as interviews, sermons, speeches, jokes, lying contests, and folktales. The
Mississippi records were made in connection with the socio-musical survey undertaken by
the Library of Congress and Fisk University. The Virginia records were made for the
purpose of public pressings, and contain the songs of the Ward Family, Mrs. Gladden, and
the Ball Family. See notebook for list.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1941/002
AFS Number: AFS 4757-4781; 6109; 6604-6673
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/fisk.html

Title: Thurlow Lieurance Memorial Project
Description: One 3/4-inch videocassette entitled "Thurlow Lieurance and Indian Music" of seven
American Indian songs performed by various musicians and four melodies played on flute
by Betty Hensley, based on recordings made at various locations by Thurlow Lieruance,
1911-26. Written and produced by Carol Holan, with Fred Hurst, television director, for The
Thurlow Lieurance Memorial in Wichita, Kansas, August 1979. The video includes
documentation of American Indian hoop dancing, a narrative, paintings, and photographs,
and is accompanied by two pages of correspondance and notes.
Duration: 29 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1980/011
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Songs Written by Abraham Lincoln Performed by the U.S. Army Chorus
Description: "The Adam and Eve Wedding Song," composed by Abraham Lincoln, research by Capt. F.
M. Van Natter, arranged by John Alden Finckel, sung by the United States Army Chorus.
Recorded 1958.
Inclusive Years: 1958
Duration: 3 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12344-12345

Title: Carl Lindahl Collection of Tales and Narratives
Description: Collection of 26 tales and narrative clusters collected by Carl Lindahl, 1932-2002, including
a Jack tale from Daron Douglas; 3 tales from Glen Muncy Anderson (2001); 11 marchen
and related tales from Jane Muncy Fugate, Hyden, Kentucky, and Melbourne, Florida (2001);
2 family legends from Lee Winniford, Cumby, Texas, and Houston, Texas (2002); a
marchen tale from Barry Jean Ancelet (1982); a marchen tale from Mary Caroline Spurlock
Ancelet (1982); and 7 tales from Alfred Anderson (1932)
Inclusive Years: 1932-2002
AFC Number: AFC 2003/001
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Rev. Alexander Linn / "Our Florida Indians" Slide Show Collection
Description: 48 slides and a tape-recorded lecture by Rev. Alexander Linn (1881-1975) regarding
Seminole Indians of Florida in the period between 1925 and 1945. Rev. Linn, of
Englewood, Florida, regularly visited Seminole family camps during that period. In 1971, he
compiled the slide-lecture and recorded the tape regarding his experiences. Also
enclosed are 36 additional slides that were not part of the slide-lecture, and a copy of his
Inclusive Years: 1925-1945
AFC Number: AFC 1983/016
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Eloise Hubbard Linscott Collection
Description: Consists of materials that document New England folksongs, including singing games,
ballads, sea songs, Native American songs, lumberjack songs, etc. Also included are
radio performances, both music and spoken word. The collection includes recordings,
photographic images, drawings, publications, correspondence, fieldnotes, song lyrics,
transcribed music, magazine and newspaper clippings, etc. Initially, Linscott gathered
materials for a book (Folk Songs of Old New England, published in 1939). Fieldwork and
activities that led to the book’s publication, and Linscott’s subsequent work, are reflected in
the contents and nature of the collection." Selected collection materials digitized.

11 wax cylinder recordings from ca. 1938 are extant in the collection, documenting New
England folksong. All but one have cylinder slips.

The field recordings from Linscott's field trip in November and December, 1941, were made
in various parts of New England, using Library equipment, discs, and travelling funds. List
and partial texts, field notes.
Inclusive Years: c.1929-1978
AFC Number: AFC 1942/002
AFS Number: AFS 6046-6076 (for discs; see note); AFS 22171-AFS 22174 (for cylinders)

Title: Jill Inman Linzee / Performance Variation in the Sean-Nos Singing of Joe Heaney
Description: Thesis: University of Washington
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Juan Liscano Collection of Cuban and Venezuelan Folk Music
Description: Three 16-inch discs of Cuban and Venezuelan instrumentals and songs recorded by Juan
Liscano before 1950. The Cuban examples consist of claves, drums, male chorus, rhythm
stick, and solo male vocalist. The collection includes eight pages of descriptions and
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9907-9909

Title: Literatura de Cordel Brazilian Chapbook Collection
Description: Brazilian Chapbooks from circa 1930 to the present. This is an open collection. The Library
of Congress Rio de Janeiro Field Office sends a yearly shipment of approximately 300
Inclusive Years: 1950-present
AFC Number: AFC 1970/002
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: Sept. 2004 - Collection Guide in progress

Title: Lithuanian-American Parish Newsletter Manuscript Collection
Description: One hundred and six issues of Musu Zingsniai: Savaitines Lietuviu Zinios (Our Steps:
Weekly Lithuanian News) (1981-84), and one issue of Biuletenis: Dievo Motinos Nuolatin s
Pagalbos Parapija (Bulletin: Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help) (October 16, 1983), both
published by a Lithuanian parish in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection includes one page of
correspondence. Contains an incomplete set of the newsletters (1981-1984: vol. 4, no.
26-36, 38-41; vol. 5, no. 1-25, 27-36; vol. 6, no. 1-17, 19-27, 29-35; vol. 7, no. 1-2, 4, 6-22,
24-25, and 28) and a vol. 10, no. 42, October 16, 1983 of Biuletenis: Dievo Motinos
Nuolatines Pagalbos Parapija.
Inclusive Years: 1981-1984
AFC Number: AFC 1985/019
AFS Number: N/A

Title: _Littell's Living Age_, 1844-1846, Manuscript Collection
Description: Articles about British, Scottish, and Irish music, songs, ballads, and poetry.
Inclusive Years: 1844-1846
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Robert Litzenberg Recording Project
Description: Three 7-inch tapes of a discussion about railbird hunting, upland bird hunting, and
waterfowling on the Upper Chesapeake, 1924-present, spoken by Robert Litzenberg.
Recorded in Elkton, Maryland, by Gerald E. Parsons, September 18, 1981. The collection
includes three color slides and eight pages of transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1924-1981
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22155-22157

Title: Thurlow Liuerance / American Indian Recordings
Description: One ten-inch tape of Apache, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros Ventre, Sioux, and Taos music
recorded originally on cylinders in Montana and other locations, by Thurlow Lieurance, ca.
1911-12. These are preservation copies of originals which are in the
Smithsonian-Densmore Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) collection of the Archive.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17995

Title: "Living Lore: The Legacy of Benjamin A. Botkin" Symposium Collection
Description: Symposium sponsored by the American Folklife Center and other divisions of the Library of
Congress titled "Living Lore: The Legacy of Benjamin A. Botkin." November 15, 2001.
Performers and speakers include Roger Welsch, Jerry Hirsch, Stephen Wade, Julia Olin,
Joe Wilson, Joseph C. Hickerson, Alan Jabbour, Jerome Rosenthal, United House of
Prayer Band, Henry Sapoznik, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger.
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/029
AFS Number: N/A

Title: A.L. Lloyd / Songs of the Durham Miners
Description: Songs of the Durham Miners. Recorded at Birtley, County Durham, England, by A. L. Lloyd,
August 19, 1963.
Inclusive Years: 1963
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13471

Title: Jim Lloyd / BBC "Folk on 2" Radio Broadcast Collection
Description: Jim Lloyd, producer and presenter of the British Broadcasting Company's radio program
" Folk on 2" has donated four audiocassettes and one recordable CD of several of his recent
folk music broadcasts. The material consists of a recording of his 25th anniversary
program (broadcast on April 5, 1995), which documents the English folk music scene of the
early 1970's, an interview with Peggy Seeger (broadcast on February 14, 1996), that covers
the evolution of her career from the beginning of the folk music revival up to the early 1990s,
and recordings and interviews from the 1996 Folk Alliance Conference in Washington, D.C.
(broadcast on March 6, 1996). The Folk Alliance material features an interview with
Joseph Hickerson, who gives a brief history of the Library of Congress Folk Archive and
Folklife Center and describes collections that would be of special interest to listeners in
Great Britain. Other featured performers include: The Barra McNeils, Barry Dransfield, Bob
Johnson, Peter Knight, Christine Kydd, and Martin Wyndham-Read.
Inclusive Years: 1970s-1990s (film made 1995-96)
AFC Number: AFC 1996/031
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Local Legacies Collection
Description: Four hundred and five linear feet (approximately 90,000 manuscript pages, 475 sound
recordings, 13,270 graphic materials, 335 electronic media, and 75 artifacts) of
documentation of local festivals, fairs, parades, and other community-based events from
each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories and trusts. The Local
Legacies Collection was donated through the efforts of individuals, organizations, and
institutions asked to participate by members of Congress. This project was part of the
Library of Congress Bicentennial celebration in the year 2000.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/001
AFS Number: N/A
Collection Link: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/roots/

Title: Kevin Locke / Lakota Dancer and Flute Player Concert
Description: Concert sponsored by the Library of Congress Music Division and American Folklife Center
of Kevin Locke (Tokeya Inajin), Lakota dancer and flute player. Recorded at the Library of
Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Feb. 27, 2001.
Inclusive Years: 2001
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 2001/028
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Guy Logsdon / Riley Neal Tapes, Part I
Description: Songs and narrative by an Arizona cowboy, Riley Neal, recorded by Guy Logsdon, August
1968.
Inclusive Years: 1968
AFC Number: AFC 1973/012
AFS Number: AFS 15593-15594

Title: Guy Logsdon / "Traditional Cowboy Songs" CD
Description: CD of Guy Logsdon singing an array of cowboy songs. Biographical information in the
notes. Laws (_Native American Balladry_) numbers applied to titles, where relevant.
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Guy Logsdon / Riley Neal Collection, Part 2
Description: Songs performed by Arizona cowboy, Riley Neal, recorded by Guy Logsdon in August 1970,
Payson, Arizona.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: AFC 1973/001, Part 2
AFS Number: AFS 26820-26824

Title: Alan Lomax / White House Folk Concert
Description: Records of the rehearsal for the White house folk song concert given in the spring of 1940.
Recorded by Alan Lomax.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6096-6099; 6106

Title: Alan Lomax / Mariana Schaupp Collection
Description: Twelve discs containing twenty-four songs sung by Mrs. Mariana Schaupp of Nebraska,
then living in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, recorded at the Library of Congress in 1941 by Alan Lomax.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6077-6088

Title: Alan Lomax / French-Canadian Folksongs
Description: Four discs of French-Canadian folksongs recorded in Station CKAC, Montreal, Canada, by
Alan Lomax. The collection includes a three-page log.
AFC Number: AFC 1941/021
AFS Number: AFS 4423-4426

Title: Kay Dealey and Alan Lomax / Jennie Devlin Collection
Description: Recordings of singing by Jenny Devlin in Gloucester, New Jersey, June, 1938. Recorded by
Alan Lomax through the courtesy of Kay Dealy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1772-1777

Title: Alan Lomax Tennessee Recordings
Description: Recordings made on August 20, 1942 at the home of L. L. McDowell, by Alan Lomax in
Smithville, Tennessee.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6674-6677

Title: Alan Lomax / Emory Stroop
Description: Recordings of a string band: 2 fiddles, 5-string banjo, guitar, from Winchester, Virginia.
Recorded in Winchester and Washington by Alan Lomax, October, 1940. No list.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4412I-4419

Title: Alan Lomax / Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection
Description: Thirteen 12-inch discs of songs sung by Captain Pearl R. Nye. Recorded in Akron, Ohio, by
Alan and Elizabeth Lomax, November 3, 1937. The collection shares with AFS 1001-1009
five linear inches of correspondence, notes, and textual transcriptions; seven photos; and
one reel of microfilm [MUSIC-12] containing photos and transcriptions. Portions of this
collection, and of AFS 1001-1009, have been published by the Library of Congress on
recording number AFS L51, _The Ballad Hunter: John A. Lomax: Parts V & VI_.
Inclusive Years: 1937
Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1937/002
AFS Number: AFS 1603-1615

Title: Alan Lomax / CBS Radio Series Collection
Description: Four 16-inch discs of the CBS American School of the air rehearsal, 1945. Includes: Tom
Scott, folksongs.
Inclusive Years: 1945
AFC Number: AFC 1939/002 [part of]
AFS Number: AFS 14028-14031

Title: Alan Lomax Ohio and Indiana Collection
Description: Seventy-nine 12-inch discs of songs and stories performed and spoken by various people
throughout Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Recorded by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax, March
26-April 16, 1938. The collection includes one and one-eighth linear inches of fieldnotes,
newspaper articles, notation, and transcription (portions of this collection are stored
separately in the manuscripts bay). Recordings made through the courtesy of the Indiana
Folklore Society, WPA Writer's Project, and Ohio Valley Folk Festival. AFS 1763-1767
contain German material, including Amish hymns.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1689-1767

Title: Alan and Elizabeth Lomax Kentucky Collection
Description: Two hundred twenty-eight 12-inch discs of songs and instrumentals recorded in eastern
Kentucky by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax, September and October 1937.
Inclusive Years: 1937
Duration: 32 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1937/001
AFS Number: AFS 1374-1601
Database: Onsite access only

Title: Alan Lomax / Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter Recordings
Description: Recordings of Sanders Terry (Durham, North Carolina), Brownie McGhee (Tennessee), and
Huddie Ledbetter (Louisiana), made at the Library of Congress in the Recording Laboratory,
May 1942.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6502-6503

Title: Alan Lomax / Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings
Description: Two hundred forty-nine 12-inch discs of instrumentals, songs, and stories recorded in
Michigan and Wisconsin by Alan Lomax, August 10-November 1, 1938. The collection
includes one-half linear inch of cards, correspondence, lists, and notes. AFS
2348-2349A1 contains German material.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: AFC 1939/007
AFS Number: AFS 2238-2486

Title: Alan Lomax / Aunt Molly Jackson Recordings
Description: Fifty-four 12-inch discs of songs and stories sung and spoken by Aunt Molly Jackson of
Clay County, Kentucky. Recorded in New York City by Alan Lomax, May 1939.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: AFC 1939/012 [part 1]
AFS Number: AFS 2534-2588

Title: John Becker and Alan Lomax / Recordings of Negro Longshoremen from the Ball
Steamship Company
Description: Singing by 5 (?) Negro longshoremen from the Ball Steamship Company, Tampa, Florida,
recorded in the studios of WDAE, Tampa, Florida, by John Becker and Alan Lomax.
Record made for Office of War Information (OWI) in connection with CBS program,
Trans-Atlantic Call. Received from OWI in January 1944. List.
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: AFC 1944/013
AFS Number: AFS 7092

Title: Alan Lomax / Myra E. Hull Collection
Description: Six 10-inch discs of fifteen songs sung by Myra E. Hull of Lawrence, Kansas. Recorded in
Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congres (Coolidge Auditorium), by Alan Lomax, July 15,
1937.
Inclusive Years: 1937
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1871-1876

Title: Alan Lomax / CBS Radio Series Collection
Description: Folk music programs on CBS American School of the Air, 1939-1942.
Inclusive Years: 1939-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1939/002 [part of]
AFS Number: AFS 13488-13501

Title: Alan Lomax Virginia Recordings
Description: Records made on August 28th and 29th, 1942 by Alan Lomax in Saltville, Virginia. List.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6723-6729

Title: Alan Lomax / Blaine Stubblefield Singing "The Golden Vanity"
Description: "The Golden Vanity" sung by Blaine Stubblefield. Recorded at the Library of Congress in the
Recording Laboratory by Alan Lomax.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6310

Title: Alan Lomax / "Cantometrics" Collection
Description: Instruction for Alan Lomax's book, _Cantometrics: A Handbook and Training Method_
(Berkeley: Extension Media Center, University of California, 1976; ML3798.L65). Contains
excerpts from field and commercial recordings of a variety of singing styles, with and
without instrumental accompaniment, recorded throughout the world by various collectors,
and which are used to illustrate the ways aspects of song performances are handled in
different cultures. Specific documentation can be found in Chapter 4 and Appendix 3 of the
Inclusive Years: 1976 publication date
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22430-22439

Title: Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings
Description: Five 12-inch discs of songs recorded in Marrowbone, Kentucky, by George Pullen Jackson
and Alan Lomax, August 1942. Includes performances by Addina Palmore Wilson and
dulcimer bow tunes played by Effie Wilson.
Inclusive Years: 1942
Duration: One hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6718A2-6722

Title: Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Collection
Description: Fifteen 10-inch discs of songs sung by Jim Garland, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gelder, Aunt Molly
Jackson, and Sarah Ogan. Recorded in New York City by Alan Lomax, November 13, 1937.
Inclusive Years: 1937
Duration: 1hr. 30 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1939-1950A2; 1951-1953

Title: Alan Lomax / Los Tres Rancheros Collection
Description: One 12-inch disc of songs sung by Los Tres Rancheros (Alberto Rosas, Novelle
Primarosa, and Hector Gonzales) of Mexico City. Recorded by Alan Lomax in Coolidge
Auditorium at the Library of Congress, 1937.
Inclusive Years: 1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1059

Title: Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger / Bog Trotters Recordings
Description: Recorded by Peter Seeger and Alan Lomax in Galax and Roanoke, Virginia, from the
members of the Bog Trotters band. Jan. 7 -9, 1939.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3762-3768

Title: Alan Lomax and Jerome Wiesner / Hobart Ricker Recordings
Description: Recordings of Hobart Ricker playing the 5-string banjo. Alan Lomax and Jerome Wiesner,
recordists. Recorded in the Archive of American Folk-Song, July 1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3903-3904

Title: Alan Lomax 1938 Library of Congress Sessions Collection
Description: Twenty-two 12-inch discs of songs performed by Barbara Bell, Ernest Bourne, W.C. Handy,
Alan Lomax, Bess Brown Lomax, the Resettlement Administration Singers, the
Rindlisbacher Lumberjack Group, Earl Robinson, the Skyline Farm Singers, and Blaine
Stubblefield. Recorded primarily in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress, by Alan
Lomax, 1937-38. The collection includes eight pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1616-1637

Title: Alan Lomax / Louisa Butler Lullaby Collection
Description: One cassette of a lullaby with commentary sung and spoken by Louisa Butler of Detroit,
Michigan. The commentary includes an explanation of how Butler learned the lullaby from
her aunt, Grace Evans of Waynesville, Ohio. Recorded by Alan Lomax, February 27, 1978.
The collection includes three pages of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 7 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22608

Title: Alan Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Expedition Collection
Description: Music and spoken word recordings made in Florida and the Bahamas by Alan Lomax, Zora
Neale Hurston, and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle. Hurston did not travel to the Bahamas.
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: AFC 1935/001
AFS Number: AFS 309-535
Database: Onsite access only

Title: Alan Lomax / CBS Radio Series Collection
Description: The Alan Lomax CBS Radio Series Collection consists of recordings and manuscript
materials connected with his participation in the "CBS School of the Air," which was
broadcast from 1939-41. Progams were aired weekly and were based on themes such as
work songs, railroad songs, whaling ballads, game songs, and play-party songs. Among
featured performers were: The Bogtrotters, The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Woody
Guthrie, Burl Ives, Aunt Molly Jackson, Huddie (Leadbelly) Leadbetter, Alan Lomax, Pete
Seeger, and Joshua (Josh) White. Much of the collection's correspondence is from
listeners requesting that particular songs be sung during the show. Many songs submitted
by listeners were later sung on the show either by Lomax or by the listeners who submitted
them. Keyword: American School of the Air manuscripts
Inclusive Years: 1939-1941
AFC Number: AFC 1939/002
AFS Number: AFS 4491-I-4524; AFS 13488-13501

Title: Alan Lomax / Woody Guthrie Recordings
Description: Songs and stories by Woody Guthrie recorded in the Radio Studio of Department of Interior
by Nev. Rumble, March 1940. Alan Lomax, interlocutor. [See also Almanac Singers , AFS
6100-5.]
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3407-3423

Title: The Jelly Roll Morton Collection
Description: Interviews and musical performances of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton recorded by Alan
Lomax at the Library of Congress, 1938. Morton recounts his experiences, both in New
Orleans and on the road, as a popular musician of the early twentieth century.
Inclusive Years: 1938-1939
Duration: 8 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1938/001
AFS Number: AFS 1638-1688; 2487-2489

Title: Alan Lomax / Aunt Molly Jackson Recordings
Description: Seven 12-inch discs of songs and stories sung and spoken by Aunt Molly Jackson of Clay
County, Kentucky. Recorded in New York City by Alan Lomax, May 1939. Continuation of
2534-2588.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: AFC 1939/012 [part 2]
AFS Number: AFS 3335-3341

Title: Alan Lomax / Robert MacGimsey Recordings
Description: One disc of Negro spirituals sung by Robert Hunter MacGimsey, originally of Pineville,
Louisiana. Recorded at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, by Alan Lomax and John
Langenegger, January 1941. The collection includes a one-page log.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: AFC 1941/026
AFS Number: AFS 4427

Title: Alan Lomax and George Pullen Jackson / Sacred Harp Music of the Southern Mountains
Description: Recorded in August 1942 by Alan Lomax in collaboration with George Pullen Jackson for
the purpose of recording the Sacred Harp or "White Spiritual" music of the Southern
Mountains, List. Keyword: Alabama
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6691-6718A1

Title: John A. Lomax Texas Recordings
Description: Records of cowboy songs and stories and other materials, made by John A. Lomax in
various parts of Texas in the spring and early summer of 1942. List.
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 5645-5685; 6506-6520

Title: John Avery Lomax Ballad Hunter Collection
Description: Manuscripts, radio scripts, and sound recordings for the "Ballad Hunter" radio series (1941),
book (1947), and record series (1958). The radio series was developed and narrated by
John A. Lomax and produced by the Library as part of the larger Radio Research Project.
The radio series was later published as a set of 5 12" LPs by the Library. The book,
_Adventures of a Ballad Hunter_, is autobiographical, including accounts of John Lomax's
childhood memories, his fieldwork experiences in the South, and his impressions of people
with whom he became acquainted during his work; it also includes songs and tunes that
he recorded.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1958
AFC Number: AFC 1941/003
AFS Number: TBA

Title: John A. Lomax Southwest Collection, 1936
Description: One hundred twenty-seven discs of recordings made by John A. Lomax primarily in Austin,
Crystal City, Dallas, Luling, Pleasonton, San Angelo, San Antonio, Spur, and
Throckmorton, Texas. Other recordings include Parchman and Vicksburg, Mississippi;
Richmond and Whitetop, Virginia; Taylor, Louisiana; and Blowing Rock, North Carolina,
1936. See item-level card catalog for song and performer list.
Inclusive Years: 1935-1936
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 536-662

Title: John Lomax State Farm Virginia, 1936 Collection
Description: Seven discs recorded in the summer of 1936 at State Farm, Virginia. One disc (AFS 748)
includes recordings of a Baptist church in Goochland, Virginia. Portions of these
recordings appear in AFS 663-743 and AFS 829-953.
Inclusive Years: 1936
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 744-750

Title: John A. Lomax Southern States Collection Part 2, 1936
Description: Eighty-one discs of recordings made by John A. Lomax in Parchman, Mississippi; Austin,
Fort Spunky, San Antonio, Spur, Throckmorton, Texas; Belle Glade, Gainesville, Raiford,
Florida; Boykin, Columbia, South Carolina; Washington, DC; Zionsville, North Carolina; and
Culpeper, State Farm, Richmond, Virginia.
Inclusive Years: 1936
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 663-743

Title: John Lomax Southern States Collection, 1934-35
Description: Two hundred eighty-six 12-in discs of songs and instrumentals recorded mostly in southern
states by John A. and Alan Lomax, 1933-35.
Inclusive Years: 1934-1935
AFC Number: AFC 1935/002
AFS Number: AFS 1-286

Title: John A. Lomax Southern States Collection, Part 3
Description: Forty-nine discs of recordings by John A. Lomax in the the southern states, primarily North
Carolina, South Carolina (Murrells Inlet), Texas, Vrginia (State Farm), and Arkansas.
Inclusive Years: 1936-1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 829-953

Title: John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Description: One hundred forty-seven discs recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax in various southern
states between April and June 1939. Genres include ballads, blues, children's songs,
cowboy songs, dance music, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, Mexican corridos,
play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, work songs. See also AFS 3551 - 3557.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: AFC 1939/001
AFS Number: AFS 2589-2728
Collection Link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

Title: John A. Lomax / General Records Recordings
Description: Records made by John A. Lomax in South, 1939, on materials furnished by General
Records. General Records was to release this material, but upon deciding the records
were not commerical acoustically, they presented the records to the Archive.
Inclusive Years: 1939
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3796-3806

Title: John A. Lomax / Cowboy Songs of New Mexico
Description: Cowboy songs sung by New Mexican cowboys; recorded in Washington, D.C. by John A.
Lomax, January, 1940. No list.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4420

Title: John A. Lomax, Jr. Song Repertoire Collection
Description: The collection consists of 34 pages of songs musically transcribed by Hally Wood and 219
pages of textual transcription with Lomax's annotations. Included is one 90-minute
audiocassette of forty-eight songs with commentary spoken and sung by John A. Lomax, Jr.
The cassette is identified as: Side A--John Lomax, Jr., "Drunken Desperado" thru "Molly
Malone." Side B--"My Gal's A Hullaballoo."
AFC Number: AFC 1983/010
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Lucy Margaret Long / Stanley Hicks, Appalachian Dulcimer Player: Individual Creativity and
Community Tradition
Description: Thesis: University of Maryland
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Larry Long Recording Project
Description: One 7-inch tape of three narratives and three songs composed by Larry Long about a 1978
Midwest farm strike, spoken and sung with guitar by Larry Long of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Interview by Paula Johnson and Nathan W. Pearson. Recorded at the Library of Congress
by Nathan W. Pearson, February 9, 1978. The collection includes one photograph and three
textual transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1978
Duration: 26 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19397

Title: Larry Long / "Truck Driver's Life" Video Collection
Description: The video entitled "Hauling Freight, No Fences: A Truck Driver's Life" portrays the life of
Gerald Johanneck, a truck driver from southwest Minnesota, as told by Johanneck to
children of Wabasso, Minnesota. Also included is a performance of "Hauling Freight, No
Fences," composed by Long and performed by Long and the children of Wabasso.
Recorded at Salmagundi Studio in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1995. Produced by Larry Long
and Barry Kimm.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/069
AFS Number: N/A

Title: L. G. Van Loon / Old Folk Tales in Albany Dutch
Description: Nine 10-inch discs of tales from the Hudson River and Mohawk Valley areas of New York
spoken in Albany Dutch. Recorded by L.G. Van Loon sometime before November 1943. The
collection includes a one-page recording log.
Duration: 1 hr. 18 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1944/012
AFS Number: AFS 7083-7091

Title: Kenneth W. Louis / The History and Aesthetics of the Gospel Choir
Description: Demonstration and lecture on African American sacred music traditions presented by
Kenneth W. Louis and a gospel choir from the University of the District of Columbia and
titled "The History and Aesthetics of the Gospel Choir," February 17, 1995.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/042
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Louisville Jug Music
Description: Jug band music recorded by four white businessmen and one black jug player, Willie
Black, Jr. Recorded in Louisville, Kentucky at the home of W. E. Lyons Brown, Sr., in 1955.
Inclusive Years: 1955
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19419

Title: Lowell Folklife Project Collection
Description: Field project in Lowell, Massachusetts, examining the city's ethnic history and the history of
their occupational lore, done in cooperation with the Lowell Historic Preservation
Commission and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. The field data
were used as the basis for the Center's "Report to the Lowell Historic Preservation
Commission." The collection contains audio logs, transcripts of sound recordings,
Black-and-white photograph logs, color slide logs, data from the Lowell Neighborhood Map
Project, as well as fieldnotes, reports, publications and ephemera. Key Subjects: Library
of Congress Subject Headings include: acculturation; Cambodian Americans; community
life; community organization; community centers; community development, urban; ethnic
architecture; ethnic arts; ethnic attitudes; ethnic neighborhoods; ethnic relations; ethnic
festivals; festivals; fishing; folk music; folklife; food habits; French Americans; Greek
Americans; group identity; immigration; Irish Americans; Laotian Americans; Lowell
(Mass.); Lowell - ethnic relations; manners and customs; marriage customs and rights;
neighborhood; oral history; oral tradition; Polish Americans; Portuguese Americans;
processions; Puerto-Rican Americans; recreation; religious life; rites and ceremonies;
textile industry; urban folklore; urban renewal; Vietnamese Americans. Other subjects not
found in LCSH include: belief and behavior systems; domestic and formal religous
expression; expressive traditions; family life; neighborhood orientation.
Inclusive Years: 1987-1988
AFC Number: AFC 1987/042
AFS Number: AFS 26388-26738
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/lowell.html

Title: Peter Lowry / Trix Records Project
Description: Copies of field and studio recordings made between 1969-1979 of traditional blues singers.
Recorded by Pete Lowry (with help in 1969 of Bruce Bastin) in connection with the LP
publications of Trix Records of Rosendale, New York.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1979
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19980-20092

Title: Keith Ludden / Kansas Folk Music and Oral History Collection
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of oral histories, songs, and stories recorded at various locations in
Kansas by Keith Ludden, June-August 1980, for the Kansas Folklife Project at the
University for Man under the direction of Julie Coates. The collection includes thirty-nine
pages of correspondence, lists, and tape logs. Recorded on a Nagra III recorder loaned by
the American Folklife Center, June-August 1980. Interviews, music, narratives, oral
histories, and stories by various informants; includes blues, Croatian, gospel, mariachi,
old-time, and Tamburitzen groups, as well as solo performances on chord organ, fiddle,
guitar, hammered dulcimer, harmonica, and musical saw.
Inclusive Years: 1980
Duration: 10 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22573-22577

Title: Victor Thomas Lukas / The Traditionally Oriented Urban Folk Musician: Revitalistic
Aspects of a Subculture
Description: Thesis: University of Illinois
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Fred Lukoff Onondaga wire recordings
Description: Thirteen wires of Onondaga ceremonies, dances, songs, stories, texts, and Oneida hymns
and other songs recorded by Fred Lukoff, July-August 1948. Donated by the American
Philosophical Society. The collection includes six pages of lists. Includes welfare and
Buffalo dances, condolence ceremonies; also Oneida songs and hymns. Some recordings
might have been done in 1950. Speakers and singers include Mrs. J. Shinnacock, Miss
George, George and Peter Wheelock, Jesse Lyons, and Eli Thomas Homer.
Inclusive Years: 1948, 1950
Duration: 8 hrs. 30 mins.
AFC Number: AFC 1970/007
AFS Number: AFS 14345-14357

Title: Ben Gray Lumpkin / International Folk Music Council Songfest Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of informal recordings of various participants in the International Folk Music
Council Conference, including Sam Eskin, singing and speaking. Recorded in
Bloomington, Indiana, by Ben Gray Lumpkin, July 17-21, 1950. The collection includes ten
pages of correspondence, logs, and a photocopy of the conference schedule.
Inclusive Years: 1950
Duration: 30 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22193

Title: Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
Description: Recordings deposited with a year restriction March 21, 1938. Duplicated from the
Hibbit-Greet Columbia Collection by Charles Seeger in 1937.
Inclusive Years: pre-1937
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 1778-1841

Title: Bascom Lamar Lunsford / "Rambling Introductory" Manuscript Collection
Description: Unpublished manuscript by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, dated January 19, 1934. It describes
his song collecting activities and the specific circumstances in which he collected various
songs. The document also includes comments on the Asheville Folk Festival (later named
the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival) which he managed in Asheville, North Carolina.
Lunsford describes the document as a "rambling introductory" and it is intended as an
introduction to a publication which would have included 3000 song texts he collected.
Inclusive Years: pre-1934
AFC Number: AFC 1996/071
AFS Number: N/A

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Title: Margaret MacArthur Duplication Project
Description: Five 10-inch tapes of games, poems, rhymes, and songs recorded primarily in southern
Vermont by Margaret MacArthur, 1961-68. The collection includes one-half linear inch of
content lists, poems or rhymes, notes, recording logs, and textual transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1961-1968
AFC Number: AFC 1972/004
AFS Number: AFS 14631-14635

Title: Allen MacCabe Interview and Song Manuscript Collection
Description: Interview with Allen MacCabe (1906-1983) concerning his early life in Nova Scotia, hoboing
during the Depression, serving in the Army Air Corps, and operating a soft drink bottling
plant. Documentation includes 230 typescript pages of songs, poems, and recitations
collected by Mr. McCabe throughout his lifetime. Recorded by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. and
Margaret B. Parsons in Sarasota, Florida, April 21 and 23, 1983.
Inclusive Years: 1983
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22201-22207

Title: Anne MacKay / Vassar Songs Collection
Description: The collection consists of two audiocassettes and forty-eight pages of manuscripts
documenting Vassar College class "Parties" or musical shows and songs sung in dorms
from 1945 to 1949. Also included in the manuscript are ten pages of songs from the
collector, Anne MacKay's childhood. The manuscript consist of copies of photographs,
textual transcriptions and one melodic transcription.
Inclusive Years: 1945-1949
AFC Number: AFC 1997/023
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Jeanne Mackey & Mary Trevor / "Songs of Struggle and Celebration" Collection
Description: One cassette recording with an accompanying booklet, containing songs by Jeanne Mackey
and Mary Trevor, two Washington DC singer-guitarists who began playing together in June
1975. Songs: "Call to Battle," "Ones who've gone before us," and "Don't Shoot the Shadow"
(Dorie Ellzey); "Private Property" (Randy Craig & Judy Abrahms); "Joanne Little"
(Mackey/Trevor); "Truck Driving Woman" and "Sunrise" (Si Kahn); "Long Time Friends" (Cathy
Winter); "One Morning in May" [traditional ]; "Talking Neuter Gender Blues" and "I wasn't
surprised" (Kristin Lems). Text-modified version of Dylan's "Lay, Lady, Lay." Keywords:
Feminist, protest.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: AFC 1975/003
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Cyrus MacMillan / The Folk Songs of Canada
Description: Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, 1909. Microfilm Number: 97/1118
Inclusive Years: 1909
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Mark Mahto Recording of Mandan Indians' Tribal Songs
Description: One 16-inch disc of five Mandan tribal songs from Elbowoods, North Dakota. Recorded at
the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., by Mark Mahto, ca. 1948.) [recording possibly
done Jan. 17, 1947]
Inclusive Years: 1947-1948
Duration: 13 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8945

Title: Maine Acadian Cultural Survey
Description: Consists of audio- and video-recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications,
ephemera, and accompanying documentation related to the American Folklife Center's
1991 Maine Acadian Cultural Survey. In cooperation with the North Atlantic Regional Office
of the National Park Service, the Center conducted an eight-week field research project to
document folklife in the Upper Saint John River Valley. The project yielded a collection of
8.5 linear feet of materials.
AFC Number: AFC 1991/029
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/map.html

Title: Wade Mainer Recordings
Description: Recorded at WWNC, Asheville, North Carolina, 1941, Wade Mainer and the Sons of the
Mountaineers.
Inclusive Years: 1941
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 4490

Title: Captain Richard Maitland / Sea shanties
Description: Nineteen 12-inch discs of thirty-six sea shanties sung by Captain Richard Maitland.
Recorded at Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York City, by Alan Lomax, May 1939.
The collection includes one-eighth linear inch of correspondence and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1939
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1939/011
AFS Number: AFS 2515-2533

Title: D.W.F. "Frank" Maloy / Southern Georgia Fiddling
Description: Southern Georgia fiddling, recorded by D.W.F. "Frank" Maloy and others. Includes Maloy and
others on fiddle.
Duration: 37 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1973/016
AFS Number: AFS 15606

Title: Merritt F. Malvern / Ole Smoke Seneca Singers
Description: One 7-inch tape of thirteen religious songs sung by the Ole Smoke Seneca Singers.
Recorded at the Native American Bible Church, Tonawanda Reservation, Basom, New
York, by Merritt F. Malvern, September 22, 1974. The collection includes three pages of
correspondence and song lists.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 43 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17484

Title: Jack Manischewitz Duplication Project
Description: Six 10-inch tapes of Yiddish, international, and urban children's folksongs recorded in
Cincinnati; Denver; New York City; Pittsburgh; West Orange, New Jersey; and elsewhere by
Jack Manischewitz, 1957-61. The collection includes thirty-two pages of notes. See also
AFC 1996/080 -- recordings by Manischewitz of Harry Rudman and Rachel Marshak.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1961
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18053-18058

Title: Jack Manischewitz / Rachel Marshak and Harry Rudman collection
Description: 1 audiocassette containing songs by and conversation with Harry Rudman (originally from
the Ukraine) and Rachel Marshak (originally from Minsk, Russia). Recorded at their
retirement residence, Ring House in Rockville, Maryland, on June 17, 1995 by Jack
Manischewitz. Songs in Yiddish, English, Russian, and Ukrainian. This cassette is an
addition to a collection of songs performed largely by Jewish-American immigrants from
Eastern Europe donated by Manischewitz in 1976. See also AFS 18,053 - 18,058.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/080
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Maple Sugar Performance at the Library of Congress
Description: Canadian instrumental and vocal folk music from the British, French, and Irish traditions
performed by "Maple Sugar": Donny and Gina Gilchrest (step dancers), Glenn Paul (piano),
James Gordon (banjo & vocal), Dorothy Hogan (guitar & vocal), and Graham Townsend
(fiddle). Recorded in concert at the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza, Washington, D.C.,
May 11, 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19281-19282

Title: G. Allen Marburger / Pennsylvania Dutch and English Folk Music and Folklore
Description: Pennsylvania Dutch and English language ballads, spirituals, fife, and fiddle music;
witchcraft discussed and illustrated by Sam Bayard, Albert F. Buffington and Walter Boyer.
Recorded at Penn State University Radio Station WDFM ca. 1948 and in 1974.
Inclusive Years: c.1948, 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17503-17506

Title: Howard W. Marshall / Old-Time Fiddle Recordings
Description: One 10-inch tape of 14 old-time fiddlers recorded in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, by
Jake Hughes prior to 1965 and accompanied by 5-string banjo, guitar, etc. Cleo Persinger
(Columbia, Missouri), Uncle Dick Hutchison (Jay, Oklahoma), Frosty -- (Booneville, Iowa),
Cyril Stinnett (Oregon, Missouri), Casey Jones (Ottumwa, Iowa), Ed Davis (Kansas City),
Henry Wells (Fayette, Missouri), Dwight Lamb (Ottawa, Iowa), Byron Berline (Caldwell,
Kansas), Long John Jernigan (Kansas City), Kirk and Ernest Brandenberger (Keokuk, Iowa),
Pete McMahan (Harrisburg, Missouri), Lyman Enloe (Raytown).
Inclusive Years: pre-1965
Duration: 1.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19341

Title: Jim Marshall / "A Night with S.H. Maples" Collection
Description: The Reverend Sebron H. Maples delivers a humorous address at the South Hills Baptist
Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Recorded on the South Hills Baptist Church lawn by the
Radio and Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention on October 2, 1967,
and copied by Sebron H. Maples' grand-nephew, Jim Marshall, on December 26, 1979.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20259

Title: Martenitsas (March souvenirs) from Bulgaria
Description: A sample martenitsa, a red-and-white thread, in a card containing best wishes for the
coming of Spring, traditionally sent around March 1. Also a 3-page description of the
" March souvenir" custom and its derivation.
Inclusive Years: 1957
AFC Number: AFC 1957/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Bill Martin Song Manuscript Collection
Description: Words to 2,515 popular and traditional songs that comprise the personal repertory of the
donor, Bill Martin, of Birmingham, Alabama. Includes song title index.
Inclusive Years: 1934-1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/043
AFS Number:

Title: Maryland Folklife Festival 1977
Description: Maryland Folklife Festival 1977, with fieldwork. Music, lore, and traditional crafts from
Western Maryland.
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19434-19444

Title: John Alden Mason Tepehuan & Yaqui wire recordings
Description: Five wires of Yaqui, Northern Tepehuan, and Southern Tepehuan music and spoken
material recorded by John Alden Mason in the states of Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico,
1948-54.
Inclusive Years: 1948-1954
AFC Number: AFC 1970/009
AFS Number: AFS 14374-14378

Title: Gail V.S. Matthews / "Cutting a Dido" Manuscript Collection
Description: _Cutting a Dido: A Dancer's's Eye View of Mountain Dance in Haywood County, North
Carolina_. Unpublished Master of Arts thesis, Folklore Program, Indiana University, 1983
(copyright 1987). Subjects: Dance, Appalachian Culture, Oral History, Square Dance,
Clogging, Buckdance, North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1983
AFC Number: AFC 1986/014
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Miriam Maxwell Family Oral History
Description: Copy of ten tapes in the personal collection of Miriam Maxwell, compiled during the 1960s,
mostly in California. Includes young people singing and talking about Civil Rights, War in
Vietnam, Peace Corps experience in Ghana, an interview with Prince Modupa and Maxwell's
collection of family folklore and oral history, especially: reminiscences of domestic service
in Edwardian England, homesteading in British Columbia, and a repertory of sentimental
and humorous songs and stories from South Dakota.
Inclusive Years: 1960s
Duration: < 11 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18964-18969

Title: Margot Mayo Collection
Description: One hundred and ninety 10-inch and 12-inch discs, one 5-inch tape, and eight 7-inch tapes
of radio programs and home recordings from the 1930s and 1950s recorded in New York
City by members of the American Square Dance Group; songs and instrumentals played on
banjo and fiddle, recorded in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee by Margot Mayo and
others, 1946-47. The collection includes three-quarters linear inch of a concordance, logs,
notes, a magazine article, and photographs.
Inclusive Years: 1930s-1950s
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17770-17968

Title: David McAllester / Navajo Ceremony
Description: Songs and prayers of a Navajo ceremony, performed by Dine Tsusi. Recorded by Prof.
David P. McAllester in Arizona, 1958. Keywords: American Indians - Navajo
Inclusive Years: 1958
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12321-12331

Title: David McAllester Navajo Recordings Collection
Description: Songs and prayers of the Blessingway and Protection Rite of the Navajo Indians, sung by
Frank Mitchell. Recorded by Professor David P. McAllester at Chinle, Arizona, December
1957.
Inclusive Years: 1957
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12081-12086

Title: W.L. McAtee / Esoteric Pamphlets and Articles Collection
Description: Ten pamphlets on a variety of topics: Indiana dialects, bawdy poetry by women poets,
" codpieces", "cundumana" [condoms?], etc.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: AFC 1954/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Anthony McCann / Beyond the Commons: The Expanision of the Irish Music Rights
Organisation, The Elimination of Uncertainty, and the Politics of Enclosure
Description: Dissertation: University of Limerick
Inclusive Years: 2002
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Catherine McClellan / Yukon Indians
Description: Alaskan folk music in the Yukon area. Cathherine McClellan. Recorded 1950-1951. No list.
Keywords: Indian, American - Alaska Indian, American - Yukon
Inclusive Years: 1950-1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10498

Title: Julie McCullough / Gerald E. Parsons Interview Collection
Description: Recordings of interviews with Gerald Parsons regarding the first ten years of the Folklore
Society of Greater Washington.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1995/026
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Lawrence E. McCullough / Rose in the Heather: Traditional Irish Music in its American
Cultural Milieu
Description: M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1975. Microfilm Number: 97/1119
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Dan McCurry / Forest Service Song Collection
Description: 352 photocopied sheets of various songs, poems, and humor related to forestry, ranger work
and mountain life in the United States. This collection is divided into 5 sections. The
first section consists of a text of P.S. Lovejoy's "Ranger's Song," here titled "The Lucky
Ranger." It is a parody of "Frankie and Johnny." The second section contains poems and
songs of Shirley and G.F. Allen and C.B. Clark, Jr. The third section includes Forest
Service newsletters, a shorter version of P.S. Lovejoy's "Ranger Song" (ca. early 1920s),
other verses with little annotation, some seemingly unrelated correspondences from the
late 1970s and early 1980s, and two stories / memoirs by Mick Clumper: 1) _The
Smokechasers Summer_, and 2) _Lookout's Life_. The fourth section is an annotated copy
of _Forest Fire and Other Verse_ (Portland, Oregon), collected and edited by John D.
Guthrie. The fifth section is an annotated copy of _Forest Service Rhymes and Other
Verse_ by Ernest W. Smith.
Inclusive Years: c.1920s-1980s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/017
AFS Number: N/A

Title: John McCutcheon Duplication Project
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of instrumentals, songs, and stories recorded in Kentucky, North
Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee by John McCutcheon, 1975-76. The collection includes
fifty-one pages of notes. Includes: a) Hymns, sentimental songs and dance tunes on
hammered dulcimer by J. R. "Peanut" Cantrell (McMinnville, Tennessee); b) Hymns,
religious songs and secular ballads by Cas Wallin (Marshall, North Carolina); c) Lap
dulcimer playing by I. D. Stamper (Kentucky); d) Irish-American dance tunes on melodeon
by Michael J. Kennedy (Cincinnati, Ohio). Also shaped-note singing by the Old Harp
Singing Convention (Wears Valley, Tennessee) using the "New Harp of Columbia"
anthology-recorded by Nancy LeBrun WUOT, Knoxville, Tennessee.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19130-19132

Title: Raven McDavid / Regional Dialect Collection, Part 1
Description: Interviews, lectures and conferences by Raven McDavid, recorded ca. 1954-1981; 22 tapes
of the University of Leeds English Dialect Survey.
Inclusive Years: 1954-1981
AFC Number: AFC 1984/012 - Part 1
AFS Number:

Title: Ralph McFaddon / Blackfoot Indian Songs
Description: One 7-inch tape of thirty-seven Blackfeet Indian songs sung by Clarence Whitegrass, Rose
Walters, and others. Recorded on wire in Browning, Montana, by Ralph McFadden, ca.
1950. The collection includes five pages of concordances and notes.
Inclusive Years: c.1950
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17999

Title: Ed McGandy / Morris Dance Program and Northumbrian Bagpipes
Description: Morris Dance Program and Northumbrian Bagpipes recorded in northern England by Ed
McGandy, summer 1967.
Inclusive Years: 1967
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13716-13717

Title: Fay McGinnis / Burgess Hall String Band Collection
Description: One cassette of an interview with Burgess Hall concerning his involvement with the WWVA
Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia, and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
Recorded by Fay McGinnis, 1979. The collection includes eight pages of correspondence
and lists, and eleven promotional black-and-white photographs of Burgess Hall and the
Cumberland Boys taken by the Wheeling Steel Corporation for the WWVA Jamboree, ca.
1937.
Inclusive Years: c.1937; 1979
Duration: 45 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22184

Title: Hugh McGraw / Shape-Note Singing
Description: Performance titled "Shape-Note Singing" by Hugh McGraw and members of the Sacred Harp
Singers from Georgia and Alabama. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center and other
divisions within the Library of Congress. July 24, 1998.
Inclusive Years: 1998
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1998/032
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Martin McHugh / Irish Accordion Music
Description: Two 7-inch tapes of traditional Irish airs, jigs, and reels played on accordion by Martin
McHugh. Recorded at radio station KSJN, St. Paul, Minnesota, January 3, 1975.
Inclusive Years: 1975
Duration: 55 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17539-17540

Title: Angus McIntosh / Gaelic Folk Songs Sung by Calum and Annie Johnston
Description: Gaelic folk songs sung by Calum and Annie Johnston. Gift of Professor Angus McIntosh.
Includes: Brath brath bleith, Co leis an crodh druimionn ud thall; An tarbh breac dearg;
Banais Fhuideidh; Di Sathuirne ghabh mi mulad.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9783

Title: David S. McIntosh / Some Representative Southern Illinois Folk-songs
Description: M.A. Thesis, State University of Iowa, 1935. Microfilm Number: 97/1120
Inclusive Years: 1935
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Mac McKeever / 1994 Contra Dance Survey
Description: In 1994, Mac McKeever, president of the Childgrove Country Dancers of St. Louis, Missouri,
surveyed contra dance groups around the U.S. regarding their organizational structure,
income and expense patterns, frequency of meeting, and so on. With McKeever's
permission, Owen Kelley made a photocopy of the materials which he has donated to the
Archive. Cf. contradance
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 2000/004
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Robert Emmet McLean MA Thesis, "Cotton Carnival and Cotton Makers Jubilee: Memphis
Society in Black and White"
Description: This thesis discusses the two Cotton Carnivals in Memphis, Tennessee, one created by
whites for whites, and the other created by blacks for blacks, who were excluded from the
white festival. Compared are the events leading up to the carnival, selection of carnival
king and queen, private and public events surrounding the Carnival, beauty contests, art
exhibits, sporting events, motor boat races, and the decline of the Carnival. Appendices
document the Cotton Carnival Parades, Cotton Carnival Secret Societies, and NBC Radio
Broadcasts of the Cotton Carnival and Maid of Cotton.
Inclusive Years: c.1931-1970
AFC Number: AFC 1996/007
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Bruce A. McLeod / Role of the Flute in Afro-American Music of the U.S.: An Historical
Survey and Analysis
Description: M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1976. Microfilm Number: 97/1117.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Vincent McMullen Duplication Project
Description: Pawnee, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Comanche songs recorded in Oklahoma, 1940.
Inclusive Years: 1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13735

Title: Norman Laird McNeil / Corridos de asuntos vulgares corresponding to the romances
vulgares of the Spanish
Description: M.A. Thesis, University of Texas, 1944. Microfilm Number: 97/1122
Inclusive Years: 1944
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Norman Laird McNeil / British Ballad West of the Appalachian Mountains
Description: Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas, 1956. Microfilm Number: 97/1121.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Guthrie Meade and John Harrod Duplication Project
Description: Kentucky fiddlers recorded by Guthrie T. Meade and John Harrod, 1977-1978. Performers
include Darley Fulks, Bill Livers, Kelly Gilbert, Everett Kays, Jarvis Hall, the Kinney family,
Brooks, Mineer, John Masters, and Columbus Williams.
Inclusive Years: 1977-1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19624-19631

Title: Guthrie T. Meade Duplication Project
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of songs and instrumental music from Indiana and Kentucky.
Recorded in Bloomington, Indiana, and various locations in Kentucky by Guthrie T. Meade,
1958-60. Copies of the original tapes are held at the Indiana University Archives of
Traditional Music. The collection includes ten pages of correspondence and lists.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1960
Duration: 4 hrs. 50 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14201-14203

Title: Ralph Joe Meadows Fiddler's Convention Collection
Description: One 7-inch tape of bluegrass, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin contests recorded at the Ralph
Joe Meadows Fiddlers' Convention and Band Contest in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, July
22, 1978. Donated by Beverley V. Underwood. The collection includes six pages of logs
and a photocopy of the tape box.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1989/029
AFS Number: AFS 27064

Title: Lanie Melamed / Folkdance Manuscript Collection
Description: The folk dances described are from a very wide variety of countries. The handwriting is
clear; the dances are in alphabetical order, sometimes by title and sometimes by country.
Inclusive Years: 1920s
AFC Number: AFC 1996/006
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Herminia Menez / Philippine Komposo Collection
Description: West Bisayan komposos (similar to corridos or British broadside ballads) by various
performers; each komposo is prefaced with a summary and remarks in English. Recorded
by Herminia Menez in Kalibo, Aklan, The Philippines, in the fall of 1978.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22558-22560

Title: Men's Lives Collection by Adelaide de Menil
Description: This collection was produced as part of the "Men's Lives" project, sponsored by Adelaide
de Menil and The Rock Foundation, to document the history and occupational culture of a
small fishing community of surfmen and baymen on the East End of Long Island, New York.
Other products of this project include the book "Men's Lives" by Peter Matthiessen (New
York: Random House, 1986; LC Call # HD8039.F66U5 1986; plus two other editions),
extensive documentary photography of Long Island fishermen and their families by a team
of prominent documentary photographers, and a photographic exhibition derived from the
documentary coverage. Prints of the documentary images have been donated to the Library
of Congress's Prints & Photographs Division. The collection consists of 122
audiocassettes of interviews conducted on Long Island between 1981 and 1985 by
folklorist John Eilertsen and unnamed others. 3,025 file cards are enclosed, on which are
typed subject indices, interview excerpts, and addresses of informants. In an
accompanying file folder are housed the following publications: "Marine Educational Leaflet
No. 11," which discusses the Gulf menhaden fish; one copy of the January/February 1988
issue of "Clearwater Navigator" magazine; thirteen issues of the East Hampton Baymen's
Association newsletter (which changes its title several times), spanning the period 1974 to
1978; and one copy of "The Suffolk Historian," volume 7, number 1. These are all trade
periodicals of no more than sixteen pages in length. The interviews contained on the
cassettes range from discussions of home movies, net mending, and swordfishing, to a
town council meeting on bass fishing. Three short typescript articles by Rick Rofihe, which
report on the Long Island community this project documents, are included in the file
containing the correspondence with the donor. 6 manuscript boxes of transcripts of the
interviews.
Inclusive Years: 1981-1985
Duration: 183 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1998/015
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Metropolitan Atlanta Folklife Project Collection
Description: Caribbean, Columbian, Gospel, Hmong, Mexical, Middle Eastern, Venezuelan, and
Vietnamese performers documented in August-September 1988, for the Georgia Folklife
Program's project.
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1991/016
AFS Number:

Title: Henry Edwin Meyer / Southern Spirituals from White Singers
Description: Thesis: Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Inclusive Years: 1942
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Pavlova Mezaquida / Puerto Rico Tiple Collection
Description: These tapes document the "tiple" mountain music apprenticeship program which was part
of the Apprenticeship Program in Traditional Arts, sponsored by the Economic
Development Administration of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The tiple is a small soprano-string
guitar indigenous to Puerto Rico. Ten sessions between master-artisan Julio Negron
Rivera and his apprentice, Alexis Morales Cales are documented on audiotape. Also
included is a 2-hour radio program broadcast on Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico on
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1997/008
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Marian Michael / Texas Baptist Collection
Description: Spirituals and religious songs from Texas by Hiram and Emma Brooks and family of King's
Village (Bastrop County), Oran Winn of Dale, and Jennie Franklin of Houston; also Baptist
church services in Austin, Bartlett, Cedar Creek, Dale, DeVilla, Granger, Killeen, King's
Village, and Temple. Recorded by Marian Michael in Texas, 1958-1976.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20114-20165

Title: Walter M. Michael / Songs and Banjo Tunes by William Christian Bailey
Description: One 10-inch tape of instrumentals and songs performed with banjo by William Christian
Bailey. Recorded in Bull Creek, West Virginia, by Walter M. Michael, January 30, 1968. The
collection includes twenty-two pages of fieldnotes and a one-page list.
Inclusive Years: 1968
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13719

Title: Truman Michelson Collection of Fox, Sauk, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Piegan and Cheyenne
Indian Music on Cylinders
Description: Seven 10-inch tapes of linguistic material and songs of the Fox (Mesquakie) Indians.
Originally recorded on cylinders in Tama, Iowa, by Truman Michelson, July 1912, for the
Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, and transferred from the National
Archives in 1948. Performers include: Yellow Calf, Eagle Child, David C. Duvall, White Elk,
Horn, Big Moon, Little Young Man, and unidentified others.
Duration: 5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 20508-20520

Title: Andriy Milavsky / Cheres Collection
Description: One videocassette entitled Cheres: A Carpathian Folk Ensemble, featuring the group
Cheres performing folk music of the Carpathian region, specifically Ukraine, Romania,
Hungary, and Moldova, as well as Gypsy and Jewish tunes. Cheres was founded by Andriy
Milavsky in 1990 and performs primarily in the New York City area. Produced in New York
City with some clips from the Ukraine. The collection includes two publicity photos and five
pages of correspondence, a biography of the group, a log, and a concert flier. See also:
AFC 1996/035.
Duration: 25 min.
AFC Number: AFC 2000/015
AFS Number: N/A

Title: William Miller / Indian Creek Delta Boys
Description: Dance music from southern Illinois, performed on fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and bass
by the Indian Creek Delta Boys (Gary Harrison, Terry Harrison, Lynn Smith, Dan Baird, David
Miller.) Recorded by the performers, March 1976.
Inclusive Years: 1976
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19181

Title: Joseph C. Miller Rajasthani Epic Collection
Description: Recitation of the epic of the _Bagaravat Brothers and Devanarayan_ in Rajasthani
language recorded in Ajmer Dist., Rajasthan, India, September 10, 1980 by J. Miller.
Inclusive Years: 1980
AFC Number: AFC 1981/001
AFS Number:

Title: Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner / Tales of Early Pioneer Life in California
Description: Tales of early pioneer life in California by Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner in the Recording
Laboratory of the Library of Congress, May 26, 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8966-8967

Title: D.C. & Selby Minner / Oklahoma Blues collection
Description: Documentation of the "Dusk til Dawn Blues Festival" in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, and of the
music of D.C. and Selby Minner.
Inclusive Years: c.1990s
AFC Number: AFC 2002/002
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Harry Minot, WPKN / Doc Watson Collection
Description: Sound recording of Doc Watson and others recorded in Deep Gap, North Carolina, on New
Year's Eve 1963 and New Year's Day 1964. Remastered and disseminated as a fundraising
premium by WPKN, Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1993.
Inclusive Years: 1963-1964
Duration: 60 min (appx)
AFC Number: AFC 2003/026
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Mike Mirarchi / Hammons Family Video Collection
Description: Eight videocassettes of instrumentals and songs performed with banjo, fiddle, and
fiddlesticks by the Hammons family, with interviews by Mike Mirarchi and Bobby Jo
Sharp-Estilow. Recorded in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, by WWVU-TV of West
Virginia University, ca. 1983. This footage was edited to produce The Hammons Family,
Vandalia Sampler #7, for West Virginia Public Television. The collection includes
three-sixteenths linear inch of correspondence, fieldnotes, and lists.
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1983/004
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Miscellaneous Publications of the Folk Dance Federation of California
Description: Publications by the Folk Dance Federation of California.
Inclusive Years: 1970s
AFC Number: AFC 1977/005
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Missouri Folklore Society / Tribute to R. P. Christeson.
Description: The photos are of R.P. Christeson taken from the 1950s - 1980s, and show him recording a
square dance, working at his typewriter, etc. The audiocassette contains a tribute to
Christeson which was presented at the 1992 annual meeting of the Missouri Folklore
Society in Hermann, Missouri, on 9/26/92. Speakers included Dolf Schroeder, Howard W.
Marshall, and Gordon McCann. Also includes musical performances by the Loonig Family
(German band), Tom Schroeder, Emily and Dennis Buckhannon, and Judy Domeny. The
MFS Newsletter contains an obituary of R.P. Christeson.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1996/034
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Professor and Mrs. Roy Mitchell and Seamus Doyle / Minority Group Singers from New York
City
Description: Six 12-inch discs of four Armenian, one Mexican, and three Russian songs recorded in New
York City by Seamus Doyle and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mitchell, 1941. The collection includes
one-fourth linear inch of correspondence and textual transcriptions. See also AFC 2000/016.
Inclusive Years: 1941
Duration: 44 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 6496-6501

Title: Flora Molton / Vietnam War Protest Songs
Description: One 7-inch 45 rpm disc of "The Sun Will Shine in Vietnam" and "I Heard It Through the
True Vine" sung with guitar by Flora Molton, and accompanied by Ed Morris. Probably
recorded in Washington, D.C., ca. 1970. The collection includes a one-page description of
the contents. (Molten's Record 6661-6662)
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: 8 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14617

Title: Flora Molton Recording Project
Description: One 7-inch tape of eight songs sung with guitar by Flora Molton. Recorded in Washington,
D.C., by Joseph C. Hickerson, November 19, 1973. The collection includes a one-page log.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 16981

Title: Pat Monaco Collection
Description: Black-and-white photos of blues artists and venues, mostly from Oakland, California;
Chicago; Leland, Mississippi; and Indianola, Mississippi. Also typescripts and other
ephemeral material concerning blues.
AFC Number: AFC 1991/024
AFS Number:

Title: Will I. Monday / "The Allen Tragedy"
Description: Will I. Munday describing the Allen Tragedy of Hillsville, Virginia, 1913.
Inclusive Years: 1913
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14170

Title: Patsy Montana Interview Collection
Description: Interview with country and western singer Patsy Montana concerning her life, influences,
repertory, and the evolution of her style; conducted by Jay Orr with Cathy Fink. Recorded by
John E. Howell at the Library of Congress, March 29, 1983.
Inclusive Years: 1983
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22601-22602

Title: Montana Folklife Survey Collection, 1979
Description: One hundred forty-four 7-inch tapes, 2 audiocassettes, 4 ½ linear inches of contact sheets,
187 rolls of black and white negatives, 181 holders of color photographs, and 1 videotape of
traditional life in Montana, including conversations and interviews about agricultural
techniques and practices, American Indian traditions, foodways, Hutterite life, the Milk River
Wagon Train, music, rodeos, trade crafts, vernacular architecture, and other
reminiscences and stories about life in Montana. Recorded in Montana as part of the
Montana Folklife Survey under the direction of Barre Toelken, July 19-September 9, 1979.
The project was sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Montana Arts Council.
The collection includes four linear feet of fieldnotes and logs. Includes music played on
accordion, concertina, fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, mandolin, and Hutterite hymns.
Inclusive Years: 1979
Duration: 73 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1981/005
AFS Number: AFS 20358-20503

Title: Montana Heritage Project
Description: The materials in this collection document the administration of the Montana Heritage Project and include many samples of student projects along with documentation of annual visits to the Library of Congress by selected students and teachers participating in the project. This multi-year project was begun in 1995 and funded by a grant from the Liz Claiborne and Arthur Ortenberg Foundation via the Library of Congress’s Madison Council, and operated under the American Folklife Center’s “K-12 Folklife in Education Initiative.” The project developed a one-week accredited teacher-training institute during which time teachers were instructed on methods for developing student- and teacher-designed classroom projects involving documentation and research in their respective communities. It also supported the implementation of the projects during the school year, providing necessary financial and academic support.
Inclusive Years: 1995-(open)
AFC Number: AFC 1997/012
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Dominic Montecalvo / Vincenza Montecalvo Italian Songs Collection
Description: One cassette of Italian songs sung by Vincenza Montecalvo, recorded in 1959. Donated by
her son Dominic Montecalvo of Ravenna, Ohio. The collection includes eleven pages of
notes and a photo of the singer. [other notes refer to this recording being made in 1969
when Mrs. Montecalvo was 61 years old.]
Inclusive Years: 1959
Duration: 32 minutes
AFC Number: AFC 1996/061
AFS Number: N/A

Title: James Mooney / American Indian Ghost Dance Songs
Description: American Indian Ghost Dance songs, recorded by James Mooney, July 1894.
Inclusive Years: 1894
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14034-14045

Title: Gene Moore Interview of Elizabeth Barnicle-Cadle and Tilman Cadle
Description: Oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Cadle (Mary Elizabeth Barnicle) recorded by
Gene Moore in Townsend, Tennessee. Subjects include personal and family history, career
as folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston, Alan and John Lomax, Leadbelly, Aunt Molly Jackson,
and the Harlan County strike.
Duration: each reel ca. 100 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19536-19539

Title: "Mormon Epic in Song" Radio Program
Description: Two 16-inch discs of the radio program "Mormon Epic in Song," featuring recordings made
in various locations throughout Utah by Austin E. Fife. The program is narrated by Arthur
Gate and was recorded by radio station WOL, Washington, D.C., 1947.
Duration: 30 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9146-9147

Title: Alton C. Morris / WPA Recordings from Florida
Description: Records 1939-40. Includes Minorcan folksongs recorded in St. Augustine, Florida.
Keywords: WPA Florida Greek-American Slovak-American Czech-American
Inclusive Years: 1939-1940
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 3537-3550

Title: Alton Chester Morris / Folksongs of Florida and their Cultural Background
Description: Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1941. Microfilm Number: 97/1123.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Ed Morris Duplication Project
Description: Afro-American and folk music revival performers as Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis, Ed Green,
John Jackson, George Jazz, Skip James, Buddy Boy Jenkins, Raun MacKinnon, Bill
McCulloh, Randy Mason, Frank Mizell, Flora Molton, and Ed Morris. Made in 1963 and 1964
in Virginia and Washington, D.C. by Mr. Morris, Prof. Charles Perdue, and others.
Inclusive Years: 1963-1964
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19343-19354

Title: Ed Morris / Flora Molton
Description: Flora Molton singing and delivering sermon "The Rejected Stone" at Hagar's Universal
Spiritual Church, Washington, D.C. Also an interview with her by Josh Brooks.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19369

Title: Karen A. Morris / Niger Music Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes and sixty pages of corresponding fieldnotes, photocopies of
photographs, transcriptions, and translations of girls' clapping and other songs with
conversation collected in Niger, West Africa, by Karen A. Morris.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1997/010
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Larry Morrisey / "Songs from Home: An Exploration of Mississippi's Communities" Collection
Description: Sound recording titled "Songs from Home: An Exploration of Mississippi's Communities," a
radio series co-produced by the Mississippi Arts Commission and Public Radio in
Inclusive Years: 2001
AFC Number: AFC 2001/023
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Dorothy Morrison / Operation Crossroads Africa Collection
Description: Songs and dance music performed on flute and drums by Boy Scouts from the Ivory Coast;
also environmental sounds. Documentation includes 11 35 mm color slides. Recorded by
Dorothy Morrison in the Ivory Coast and Upper Volta while participating in a cultural and
work exchange program sponsored by Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) in the Summer of
1981.
Inclusive Years: 1981
Duration: 2 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22194-22195

Title: Helen & Virginia Moshang Recordings
Description: One 16-inch disc of Chinese instrumentals and songs played on the "moon harp" and sung
by Helen and Virginia Moshang of New York City. Recorded in Washington, D.C., at the
Library of Congress, by Benjamin A. Botkin, Rae Korson, John Langenegger, and Arthur
Semmig, August 26, 1943. The collection includes two pages of correspondence and a
song list. Accompaniment on chinese moon harp by Helen Moshang.
Inclusive Years: 1943
Duration: 15 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 7317

Title: John Moyer / Traditional culture of India, Tibet, Africa
Description: Documentation of traditional music of Tibet, India, and Africa, most recorded in 1953
(though a couple apparently date from 1970 while filming on location among the tribal
peoples of Assam State). Contents: 7-inch reel: Tibet, recorded in Dharmasala, Assam,
1953. 5-inch reels: Calcutta street sounds (December 1953); Naga songs from Mao village,
Naga Hills (1953); Manipuri dances and drumming from Imphul, Manipur (February 1953);
Pipe band, Alipore Zoo Singers on Calcutta street (1953); Nong Krem dance music from
Smit, Assam (June 26, 1953); Firewalking, Banki, Orissa (June 1953), Tibetan dances from
Darjeeling, Kanu Patel, etc. 3-inch reels: African music; India music for titles.
Inclusive Years: 1953, 1970?
AFC Number: AFC 1999/018
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Bill Moyers' Journal / Pete Seeger Videotape Collection
Description: Interview of Pete Seeger by Bill Moyers on the "Bill Moyers' Journal" TV program, May 20,
1994. They converse at Seeger's Beacon Hill, New York, home overlooking the Hudson
River. Interspliced is footage of Seeger performing around the Hudson Valley area and
archival footage from his performances from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Inclusive Years: 1940-1980
AFC Number: AFC 1996/076
AFS Number: N/A

Title: "From Shore to Shore" Video Collection
Description: Seventy-nine broadcast videocassettes of interviews and performances related to Irish
music in New York City for the documentary entitled From Shore to Shore (Truckee,
California: Cherry Lane Productions, 1993). Recorded by Patrick Mullen and others. The
collection includes one-half linear inch of correspondence, ephemera, notes, photos, and a
VHS videocassette of the finished documentary. This project examines both the continuity
and the changes that have affected Irish traditional music since the turn of the century.
Using New York City as the focus, this documentary mixes historic photographs and film
footage with contemporary interviews and performances. It traces the influence of family
and community, Irish immigration, and American popular culture on the traditional music
played in New York today. Features performances and interviews with: Maureen Glynn
Connolly, Brian Conway, Tom Doherty, Eileen Ivers, Maureen Doherty Macken, Andy
McGann, Jerry O'Sullivan, Paddy Reynolds, John Whelan, Martin Wynne. Interviews with:
Mary Coleman Hannon, Mary Coleman O'Beirne and James O'Beirne about Michael
Coleman and Lad O'Beirne.
Inclusive Years: 1890s-1990s
Duration: 76 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1995/009
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Music and Dances of the African Gold Coast
Description: Music and dances of African Gold Coast. Also Dahomey and Togo. Commercial 78s,
Phillips (France) label. Keyword: Africa
AFC Number: AFC 1953/012
AFS Number: AFS 10766-10776

Title: "Music from Crete" Performance
Description: Performance sponsored by the American Folklife Center titled "Music from Crete," November
22, 1993. Musicians include George Koukakis (Laouto), Soula Daskalomarkaki (Laouto),
and Markos Daskalomarkakis (Lyra).
Inclusive Years: 1993
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1993/006
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Music from North India
Description: Classical music of India, primarily ragas from North India. Prepared by Pan Orient Arts
Foundation of Boston and New York State Education Dept.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14242-14247

Title: Musical Characteristics of Tanana Athabascan Dance Song Manuscript Collection
Description: Master of Arts thesis, [Dept. of Music?], University of Alaska, May, 1985.
AFC Number: AFC 1987/017
AFS Number: N/A

Title: "Musical Conversation with Antonio Zepeda"
Description: Videotape of the October 15, 1992, concert [ James Madison Memorial Hall, Library of
Congress] by Antonio Zepeda, an ethnomusicologist born in Mexico City. Using a variety of
instruments, he demonstrates Meso-American, pre-Columbian musical sounds.
Inclusive Years: 1992
AFC Number: AFC 1992/009
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Musicantica Audition Tape Collection
Description: Musicantica is a group consisting of Luciano Miele, Enzo Fina, and Roberto Catalano,
which performs Southern Italian music and songs from oral tradition, dating from the 16th to
the 19th centuries. Instrumentation includes the native Italian Tamburello (frame drum),
the Chitarra Battente (a type of medieval ten-string guitar), the Scacciapensieri (jew's harp),
the Bena (a Sardinian cane clarinet), castanets and jingle collars. They also play classical
and accoustic guitars, mandolin, mandocello, the Greek Bouzouki, various recorders,
flutes, and assorted percussion. The two pices on the tape are entitled 1) Tarantella del
'600, and 2) Pizzica.
Inclusive Years: 1995
AFC Number: AFC 1995/025
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Rear Admiral L. M. Mustin / Christmas Island Recordings
Description: Rear Admiral Mustin's Visit to Gilbertese Village, Christmas Island, September 14, 1963.
Includes recording of a Batare, a native celebration.
Inclusive Years: 1963
Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12064-12065

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Title: Na Mele Paniolo: Songs of Hawaiian Cowboys Collection
Description: Twenty-two 7-inch tapes and two commercial audiocassettes entitled “Na Mele Paniolo:
Songs of Hawaiian Cowboys,” of Hawaiian chants and music from ranching areas,
including music played on Hawaiian slack key guitar and paniolo music. Recorded in the
field and in the studio on the islands of Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Oahu by Lynn
Martin and Ric Trimillos, 1986-1987. Sponsored by the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture
and the Arts, Folk Arts Program. The collection includes three-eighths linear inch of six
black-and-white photographs of Hawaiian musicians during recording sessions by the State
Foundation on Culture and the Arts, release forms, tape logs, and two 50-page booklets
accompanying “Na Mele Paniolo” containing background information, English translations,
liner notes, and song lyrics.
Inclusive Years: 1986-1987
Duration: 13 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1991/028
AFS Number: N/A

Title: National Directory of U.S. Radio Stations Broadcasting Folk and Traditional Music
Description: Includes surveys that were sent out to radio stations playing traditional music. Compiled in
1986. Directed by Mike Licht.
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/040
AFS Number: N/A

Title: National Federation of Music Clubs Archivists / Folk Music Materials
Description: Eighteen 7-inch, three 5-inch, and nine 3-inch tapes of folk music from Florida, Idaho,
Kentucky, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Recorded by regional National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) archivists and
contributors, 1931-63. Donated by Annabel M. Buchanan for the NFMC Folk Music Archive.
The collection includes five linear inches of articles, correspondence, logs, and musical
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 13992-14021

Title: National Folk Festival, 1938
Description: One 12-inch and thirty-nine 16-inch discs of instrumentals, radio programs, and songs.
Recorded primarily at the National Folk Festival in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Recording
Company, May 6-8, 1938. The collection includes three-fourths linear inch of song lists,
newspaper articles, and programs. Sarah Gertrude Knott makes some introductions. [AFS
9833:B3-B7 consists of recordings of Fred Colby's Tennessee Mountain Group, including
the Albert Gore band. B7 is "Soldier's Joy" performed by the Gore band, Albert Gore, Sr., on
fiddle.]
Inclusive Years: 1938
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9829-9868

Title: National Folk Festival, 1952
Description: Excerpts from the 18th Annual National Folk Festival, May 19, 1952, recorded by Voice of
America in St. Louis, Missouri.
Inclusive Years: 1952
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17507

Title: National Folk Festival, 1954
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of the 20th National Folk Festival, including dances, instrumentals, and
songs from Anglo-, Cuban-, German-, Hungarian-, Jewish-, Mexican-, Native, and
Philippine-American traditions. Recorded by the Voice of America in St. Louis, Missouri,
April 8, 1954. The National Folk Festival sponsored by St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Inclusive Years: 1954
Duration: 1.75 hr., .5 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17508-17509

Title: National Folk Festival, 1960
Description: National Folk Festival, Washington, D.C., June 1 and 4, 1960, recorded by Voice of
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14420-14426

Title: National Folk Festival, 1972
Description: National Folk Festival, July 27-30, 1972, at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, Virginia.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19844-19873

Title: National Public Radio / _Folk Music in America_ Interviews Collection
Description: Four radio broadcasts by Maury Bernstein and Richard Spottswood on station KSJN-FM, St.
Paul, Minnesota, distributed by National Public Radio. Library of Congress/Bicentennial
Recording Project, religious songs and love songs. Part II (programs 3 & 4) features vocal
and instrumental (fiddle) music from Swedish, Irish and other ethnic traditions recorded in
Minnesota during December 1975 and January 1975 by Richard Spottswood and Maury
Bernstein.
Inclusive Years: 1974-1975
Duration: 4 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17643-17646

Title: National Public Radio Concert of Mother Maybelle Carter with Family and Friends
Description: Country music performed by Maybelle Carter, Helen Carter Jones and David Carter Jones
accompanied by Mike Seeger and Ralph Rinzler. Recorded May 18, 1975 at the
Smithsonian's Baird Auditorium by National Public Radio's "Folk Festival USA" as part of
the Smithsonian's "Women in Country Music."
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18089-18090

Title: National Public Radio / "Seasonings" Collection
Description: The collection consists of two identical audiocassettes of the Decenber 1994
" Seasonings" program, an NPR series written and narrated by Gullah folklorist and
commentator Verta Mae Grovesnor, which focuses on the foodways associated with the
winter holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza. The African-American Christmas
customs among slaves are discussed. Master chef Natalie Dupree and food historian Joan
Nathan are interviewed, and recipes are discussed.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1997/003
AFS Number: N/A

Title: National Public Radio / American Dialect Society Broadcast Collection
Description: Portion of a National Public Radio "All Things Considered" broadcast, featuring an
interview with Joseph C. Hickerson of the Archive of Folk Culture and Fred Cassidy of the
American Dialect Society, conducted by Susan Stamberg, concerning the donation of the
American Dialect Society's Linguistic Atlas of North America discs to the Library of
Congress. Recorded off the air by Kathryn W. Hickerson, December 27, 1984.
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1985/007
AFS Number: N/A

Title: National Society of Colonial Dames, South Carolina / Mary Chevillette Sims Oliphant
Biographical Collection
Description: A sketch of the life of Mary Chevillette Sims Oliphant, which was presented by The
Greenville Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of South
Carolina. Oliphant was the committee's organizer and has been a Dame for more than 50
years.
Inclusive Years: 20th century
AFC Number: AFC 1996/037
AFS Number: N/A

Title: National Visionary Leadership Project interviews and conference collection.
Description: Videorecordings and accompanying transcriptions from the National Visionary Leadership
Project Summit on the State of Black America, Oct. 17, 2003, held at the Library of
Congress.
Interviews, with transcripts, of Edward Brooke, Cardiss Collins, David N. Dinkins, John
Hope Franklin, and Dorothy I. Height, 1997-2003.
Plus one CD-ROM of short excerpts of interviews from the above and interviews with a
number of other African American leaders.
Inclusive Years: 1997-2003
AFC Number: AFC 2004/007
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Arminta Neal Recordings
Description: One 3-inch tape of two songs sung with guitar by Arminta Neal, recorded in Denver,
Colorado, by Neal. The collection includes one page of notes.
Inclusive Years: 1965
Duration: 10 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12320

Title: Darka Lassowsky Nebesh / Ukranian Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
Description: Lecture in American Folklife Center's _Notes from the Field_ series titled "Ukranian
Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture" presented by Darka Lassowsky Nebesh, August
7, 1996.
Inclusive Years: 1996
AFC Number: AFC 1996/083
AFS Number: N/A

Title: 1985 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 18: John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Maryland (Blues);
May 23: Tahuantinsuyo, Washington, DC (Inca music of the Andes);
June 20: Dry Branch Fire Squad, Ohio (Bluegrass);
July 18: Alison Kinnaird and Christine Primrose, Scotland (Scottish);
August 15: Omaha Indians Hethu'shka Society, NE (Native American)*;
Sept. 19: Ana Martinez, Washington, DC (Flamenco)*;
Oct. 15: The Gospel Music Workshop of America, Washington, DC (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1985
AFC Number: AFC 1985/015
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune85.html

Title: 1977 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 25: Bluegrass Cardinal (Virginia) bluegrass;
May 23: John Jackson (Virginia) blues;
June 8: Southern Mountain Boys (Delaware) bluegrass;
June 29: Los Rumi Songos (Washington, DC) Andean;
July 27: Balfa Brothers and Joe Polite (Louisiana) Cajun and Missouri French;
September 14: Bob Goff, Jr. and the Hobbs Sisters (Virginia) bluegrass;
October 19 : Ola Belle Reed (Maryland) country
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: AFC 1977/003
AFS Number: AFS 18983-18987
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune77.html

Title: 1978 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 28: Joe and Antoinette McKenna, Scotland (Irish/Scottish);
May 11: Graham Townsend and Maple Sugar, Canada (French-Canadian);
May 25: Arabic Dancers, Virginia (Middle Eastern);
June 29: Buck White and the Down Home Boys, Tennessee (Bluegrass);
July 27: The Lawtell Playboys, Louisiana (Zydeco);
August 31: John Ashby and the Old Time Virginia String Band, Virginia (Country);
September 28: Mentrotone Baptist Church Singers, Washington, DC (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: AFC 1978/004
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune78.html

Title: 1979 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 27: Don Stover, Maryland (Country)
May 31: Eugene O'Donnell and Mick Moloney, Pennsylvania (Irish)
June 28: Hazel Dickens and Don Stover, Washington, DC (Country)
July 26: Louisiana Aces, Louisiana (Cajun)
August 30: Melecio Martinez, Illinois (Mexican)
September 27: Burke Family, Maryland (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1979
AFC Number: AFC 1979/006
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune79.html

Title: 1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: May 8: Leo Sarkisian and group, Virginia (Armenian);
June 12: Don Stover, Maryland (Country);
July 10: Sam Brothers Five, Louisiana (Zydeco);
August 14: Blema Bii (Children of the Ancient), Washington, DC (Ghanaian);
September 11: Las Estrellas Del Son, Roberto Borrell and Kubata, Washington, DC
(Cuban);
October 9: Music of Southeast Asia, Washington, DC
AFC Number: AFC 1980/012
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune80.html

Title: 1981 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: May 7: The Johnson Mountain Boys, Maryland (Bluegrass);
June : John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Washington, DC (Blues);
July 2: Kubata, Washington, DC (Afro-Cuban);
August 6: J.C. Burris and "Piano" Red, California and Georgia (Rhythm and Blues);
Sept. 3: Khmer Classical Ballet, Maryland (Cambodian);
Oct. 1: Mick Moloney and Billie McComiskey, Maryland (Irish)
AFC Number: AFC 1981/006
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune81.html

Title: 1982 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 15: The Irish Tradition, Maryland;
May 20: Oboade Drumming and Dance Company, Washington, DC (Ghanaian);
June 17: The Washington Toho Koto Society, Washington, DC (Japanese);
July 15: Los Pregoneros del Puerto, California (Mexican);
August 19: Djimo Kouyate, Washington, DC (Senegalese);
Sept. 16: Dave Morris, West Virginia (Old-time Country);
Oct. 19: The Washington Toho Koto Society, Washington, DC (Japanese)
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: AFC 1982/011
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune82.html

Title: 1983 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 21: John Jackson & James Jackson -- Virginia blues
May 13: Khmer Classical Ballet -- Maryland Cambodian
May 19: Grass Reflections -- Virginia bluegrass
June 3: Deseret String Band -- Maryland Western
June 16: Leo Sarkisian -- Washington, DC Armenian
July 21: Glenn Ohrlin -- Arkansas cowboy
August 18: "Fris" Holloway and John Dee Holeman -- North Carolina country blues and buck
dancing
Sept. 15: Country Edd Michael and group -- Virginia blues fiddling
Inclusive Years: 1983
AFC Number: AFC 1983/009
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune83.html

Title: 1984 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: May 4: Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver -- Ohio bluegrass
June 14: Flora Molton and Archie Edwards -- DC blues
July 12: Ganga -- Washington, DC East Indian
August 9: Veltones -- Washington, DC urban black doo-wop
August 16: Sankyoku, The Washington Toho Koto Society -- Washington, DC Japanese
September 13 : Yomo Toro -- DC Puerto Rican
Inclusive Years: 1984
AFC Number: AFC 1984/007
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune84.html

Title: 1986 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 24: Berline, Crary, and Hickman (bluegrass);
May 1: John and James Jackson (blues);
May 22: 10th anniversary concert: Leo Sarkisian and group (Armenian) and Johnson
Mountain Boys (bluegrass);
June 5: Djimo Kouyate, Africa Griot (Senegalese);
June 19: The Irish Tradition (Irish);
July 17: Blue Ridge Mountain Boys String Band (Old time);
August 8: Pearl Williams-Jones and the Kings of Harmony;
August 21: Chinese Traditional and Folk Music;
Sept. 18: Maria y sus Magnificos (Caribbean);
Sept. 25: Dawne Tance and Tom Brzostowski (Polish).
Inclusive Years: 1986
AFC Number: AFC 1986/037
AFS Number: AFS 24234-24238; AFS 24289-24298; AFS 24253-24258; 24286-24288
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune86.html

Title: 1987 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 23: Hobbs and Partners, Washington, DC (Old Time);
May 21: Cape Breton Fiddlers and Dancers, Canada (Cape Breton);
June 18: Afghan and Iranian Traditional Music, Washington, DC;
July 16: The Original Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band of Washington, DC;
August 20: Mattie Johnson and the Stars of Faith, Washington, DC (Gospel);
September 17: Ollantay, Washington, DC (Pan-Andean)
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: AFC 1987/016
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune87.html

Title: 1988 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 21: The Cumberland Music Tour, Kentucky/Tennessee (Old Time);
May 19: Egan, Moloney, and Harney, Maryland (Irish);
June 16: The Grant Street Band, California (Bluegrass);
July 21: John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Maryland (Piedmont Blues);
August 18: Nguyen Family, Washington, DC (Vietnamese);
September 15: Mariachi San Cristobal, Mexico (Mariachi);
October 20: The Four Echoes, Linda Gore and the Spirituallettes, Washington, DC (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1988
AFC Number: AFC 1988/009
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune88.html

Title: 1989 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 20: Quebec Traditional Music and Dance, Canada (French-Canadian);
May 18: Eddie Blazonczyk and the Versatones, Illinois (Polish-style Polka);
June 15: Greg Hooven and the Backstep Band, Virginia (Old-time);
July 20: Ganga, Washington, DC (Bengali);
August 17: The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Tennessee (Bluegrass);
September 21: Ivan Cuesta y sus Vallenatos Autenticos, Maryland (Colombian);
October 19: The Gospel Pearls and The King's Men, Washington, DC (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1989/009
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune89.html

Title: 1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 19: The Lynn Morris Band, Virginia (Bluegrass);
May 17: Henry Sapoznik and Klezmer Plus, New York (Klezmer);
June 21: Eletfa, New Jersey (Hungarian);
July 19: John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Maryland (Piedmont Blues);
August 16: The True Tone Gospel Singers, Washington, DC (Gospel);
September 20: Otonowa, Washington, DC (Afro-Cuban)
Inclusive Years: 1990
AFC Number: AFC 1990/012
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune90.html

Title: 1991 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 18: Han Sheng Chinese Opera, Washington, DC (China);
May 16: The Alder Family, Switzerland (Swiss Mountain Music);
June 20: Seldom Scene, Virginia (Bluegrass);
July 18: Bulgari, Bulgaria (Bulgarian);
August 15: Ensemble of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Washington, DC
(Javanese Gamelan);
September 19: Prophecy Cops for Christ, Washington, DC (Gospel)
Inclusive Years: 1991
AFC Number: AFC 1991/012
AFS Number:
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune91.html

Title: 1994 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection
Description: April 21: Monks of Deprung Loseling Monastery, Tibet;
May 19: Sviraj;
June 2: Six Nations Longhouse Women Singers;
June 16: Legendary Orioles;
July 21: Kings of Harmony;
August 18: Dave McLaughlin and Josh Crowe;
September 15: Cachao and His Latin All Stars.
Inclusive Years: 1994
AFC Number: AFC 1994/001
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/neptune94.html

Title: Eddie Nesbit and Carlie Tartt Recordings
Description: Sung and played by Eddie Nesbitt on the steel guitar and Carlie Tart on the Hawaiian guitar
at Washington, D.C., November 20, 1943, recorded by B. A. Botkin, John Langenegger, and
Arthur Semmig. List. Tart is from North Carolina
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/010
AFS Number: AFS 7066-7067

Title: The New England Fifes and Drums Music Collection
Description: Sound recordings and sheet music documenting the New England fife and drum
community. Performers include the Middlesex County Volunteers, John Ciaglia, John
Benoit, Xenia Funfschilling, and Scott Mitchell.
Inclusive Years: 1992-2003
AFC Number: AFC 2003/015
AFS Number: N/A

Title: New Jersey Folk Festival Collection
Description: Eight brochures, one bumper sticker, one calendar, two postcards, five posters, ten
programs, and seven T-shirts from the annual New Jersey Folk Festival, New Brunswick,
New Jersey, 1975-88. Gift of Angus K. Gillespie, Douglass College, Rutgers The State
University.
Inclusive Years: 1975-1989
AFC Number: AFC 1989/028
AFS Number: N/A

Title: New York Public Library Duplication Project
Description: Twenty-three 12-inch discs of instrumentals and songs recorded in New York City by Chris
Bonet and Charles Hofmann, May 30-October 28, 1947, for the Library of Congress and the
New York Public Library. Included are thirty allegedly "Comanche Indian songs,"
twenty-eight songs in the English language (including fourteen from Scotland and eight
African American songs and street cries), five songs in French, seventeen in Spanish, and
thirty in Yiddish. Performers include Tom Glazer and Ruth Rubin. The collection includes
one-eighth linear inch of correspondence, logs, notes, reports, and song texts.
Duration: 3 hrs. 18 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 9076-9098

Title: New Zealand Oral History Archive Demonstration Tape Collection
Description: Excerpts from recorded collections of the New Zealand Oral History Archive, with
commentary on their content and significance. Produced for the Archive by Radio New
Zealand. Fiddle & piano by Phil & Kitty Knox. Interviews recorded since 1981: 1) woman
describing ancestor Jemima brought to New Zealand in 1840s to be married off; 2) man
describing Wellington in 1902; 3) former customs officer (1917); 4) School Dental Service
nurse; 5) woman recalls her nanny's Maori cure for boils; 6) woman remembers fumigation
chamgers during 1918 flu epidemic; 7) earthquake of 1942; 8) post-football match
festivities; 9) "sly grog" shops during [ Prohibition]; 10) memories of escaped convicts.
AFC Number: AFC 1987/020
AFS Number:

Title: Newport Folk Festival 1963 and 1966
Description: 54 cassettes documenting performances at the 1963 and 1966 Newport Folk Festivals.
Major performers of the period are represented, including Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Phil
Ochs, Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Sam Hinton, Jean Ritchie, Judy Collins, Doc
Watson, Joan Baez, Jean Redpath, Bess Hawes, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, John Lee
Hooker, Mike Seeger, Maybelle Carter, Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers,
Theo Bikel, Freedom Singers, Ed McCurdy, Paul Clayton, Bernice Johnson (Reagon), Dave
Van Ronk, John Hammond, New Lost City Ramblers, Tony Saletan, John Cohen, Bill
Monroe, David McAllester, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jimmy
Driftwood, Bukka White, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Son House, Skip James, Howlin'
Wolf, Buffy Ste. Marie, Fannie Lou Hamer, Carolyn Hester, Ali Akbar Khan, Cape Breton
Singers, and many others. Also a banjo workshop and a performance by an intertribal
Indian group from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Inclusive Years: 1963-1966
AFC Number: AFC 1999/001
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Newport Jazz Festival, 1954
Description: Newport Jazz Festival held July 27, 1954.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10900

Title: Nightline / "Found Voices" Ex-Slave Narratives Collection
Description: ABC News "Nightline with Ted Koppel" broadcast of _Found Voices_, concerning the
ex-slave narratives in the Archive of Folk Culture, on January 12, 1999.
Inclusive Years: 1999
AFC Number: AFC 1999/027
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Swedish Music by Olga Lindgren Nilsen
Description: One 7-inch tape of Swedish vocal music [by Olga Lindgren Nilsen], recorded live and from
commercial 78s [from the 1920s by Ollie I. Skratthult] at radio station KSJN, St. Paul,
Minnesota, March 30, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1920s; 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17584

Title: North Carolina Department of Archives and History Duplication Project
Description: North Carolina's oldest inhabitants. [Folklore & local history]. Norman Larson, interviewer.
Interviews with Dillard Bellamy, Frederick Penny's daughter, Elvira White, John Smathers,
Narcissa Rickman, Margaret Tucker, Harriet Parker, Allen Wanyneetha [Cherokee ], Mrs.
Sterling Gary, B.W. "Billy" Lowery [Lumbee ], Robert Thompson, W.R. Baskerville, Mary
Davis Allen, Dr. Marion Millender. Most interviewees over 90 years old.
Inclusive Years: 1958-1959
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11834-11846

Title: North Dakota Council on the Arts / "Faces of Identity, Hands of Skill" Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of ethnic folk music and dance of North Dakota for use in an exhibition
entitled "Faces of Identity, Hands of Skill: Folk Arts in North Dakota," assembled by the
North Dakota Council on the Arts. Performers include Bryan Akipa playing the Sisseton
Sioux "Siyo Tanka" flute, John Gross Jr. singing German-Russian "Volkslieder," James
LaRoque playing "Metis" ("mixed") French/Chippewa/Cree fiddle tunes, Luqman Maii playing
Kurdish music on the tambour (a form of lute), and Sokhom and Bun Sun You playing and
singing Khmer dance music of Cambodia. Recorded in Bismarck, Fargo, Napoleon,
Sisseton, and Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, by Troyd Geist, 1994. The
collection includes twenty-six pages of descriptions, information about performers, and
sections of newsletters.

Contents of audiocassette #1: "Where Ever You Go" and "First Hate Song" by Bryan Akipa;
" Road to Batosh," "Bray Owl," and "Saint Anne's Reel" by James LaRocque; "Kleiner Man
und grosse Frau," Die Konigskinder," "O Strassburg, O Strassburg," and "Wir sitzen so
frolich beisammen" by John Gross, Jr.; "coconut Dance Song" and "Bird Dance Song" by
Bun Sun You; tambour playing in Ajam style and short-necked tambour playing in Hujaz
style by Luqman Maii. Contents of audiocassette #2: "My Heart is Sad" and "Grandmother's
Song" by Bryan Akipa; "Big John McNeil," "Cotton-eyed Joe," and "Orange Blossom Special"
by James LaRocque; "Ich bin ein Farmer bu," "Du, du liegst mir im berzen," "In die Schweiz,
in die Schweiz, in der Ruh," and "Im Fruhjahr" by John Gross, Jr.; "Bock Lack Dance Song"
and "Prayer Dance Song" by Bun Sun You; Gazella Min" played in Bayat style and lute
playing in Rast style by Luqman Maii. German language Flute music Metis fiddling Khmer
dance and singing Kurdish music
Duration: 2 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1995/031
AFS Number: N/A

Title: James A. Notopoulos / Greek Heroic Poetry, Folk Tales, and Folk Songs
Description: Greek heroic poetry, folk tales, and folk songs collected by James A. Notopoulos.
Inclusive Years: 1952-53
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10943-10967

Title: Mack Novak / "Oyster Man Blues" Collection
Description: Side 1: "Oyster Man Blues" by Mack Novak. Side 2: "I Wish." St. George Sound Records.
" Oyster Man Blues" transcribed by David Taylor.
AFC Number: AFC 1988/004
AFS Number:

Title: Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta / Wycinanki: Polish Papercutting Collection
Description: 1 videotape documenting wycinanki (Polish papercutting) technique. In September 2000,
the artist added 21 prints showing her work, 3 original designs showing how the work is
created (used in the video), wrapping paper designed by her for the Library of Congress
based on her wycinanki. Also included are her vita and publicity material.
Inclusive Years: 2000
AFC Number: AFC 2000/005
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Mary Nussbaum / African Music Collection
Description: The recordings were made in Africa primarily in the countries of Liberia and the former
Belgian Congo between the years of 1954 and 1964. The recordings feature the music of
the Chisaj, Kapanga, and Kpelle tribes. Key words and phrases: Rhodesia, Misa Luba,
Swahili, Lunda, Urundi, Tshobmbe, Banjo, Elephant, Harp, ELWA.
Inclusive Years: 1954-1964
AFC Number: AFC 1998/007
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Captain Pearl R. Nye Collection
Description: Nine discs containing songs with commentary, sung and spoken by Captain Pearl R. Nye.
Recorded in Akron, Ohio, by John A. Lomax, June 26-28, 1937. The collection shares with
AFS 1603-1615 five linear inches of correspondence, notes, and textual transcriptions;
seven photos; and one reel of microfilm (MUSIC-12) containing photos and transcriptions.
Portions of this collection, and of AFS 1603-1615, have been published by the Library of
Congress on recording number AFS L51, _The Ballad Hunter: John A. Lomax: Parts V & VI_.
Inclusive Years: 1937
Duration: 1 hr. 45 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: 1001-1009

Title: Colonel Elwood L. Nye "Custer's Last Stand" Collection
Description: Two 7-inch tapes of a discussion of the Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand)
spoken by Col. Elwood L. Nye, a cavalryman who investigated the battle and interviewed the
last survivors. Possibly recorded at Colorado A & M College, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Accessioned June 1962.
Duration: 1 hour
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11917-11918

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Title: Ernest C. Oberholtzer / Ojibwa Collection
Description: Five 5-inch tapes and fourteen 7-inch tapes containing Ojibwa legends and songs, with
interviews, recorded in Mine Center, Ontario, and oral history interviews recorded in
Davenport, Iowa, by Ernest C. Oberholtzer, 1948-51. Interviews including Ojibwa songs and
legends, with Maggie Jackpot, Mrs. Notoway, and Johnnie Whitefish; also reminiscences of
Davenport, Iowa, by Grace and Lillie Parkhurst.
Inclusive Years: 1946, 1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 23185-23203

Title: Jay O'Callahan / Storytelling Collection
Description: Performance of American and international folktales by storyteller Jay O'Callahan,
sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Center for the Book, and the Library of
Congress Professional Association. Recorded in the Madison Assembly Room of the
Library of Congress, January 12, 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22497

Title: Bill Ochs / Micho Russell Irish Pennywhistle Collection
Description: Twenty 10-inch tapes of interviews and field and studio recordings of Micho Russell (native
of Doolin, County Clare), Irish tin whistle player. Recorded by Bill Ochs and several others
in New York during the last several years of Russell's life, 1990-1993. Russell was
" discovered" during the folk music revival of the 1960s.
Inclusive Years: 1990-1993
Duration: 20 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1996/040
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Scott Odell / Instrumental Music from Virginia and North Carolina
Description: Instrumental folk music of Virginia and North Carolina recorded 1964 and 1965 by J. Scott
Odell.
Inclusive Years: 1964-1965
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12396-12397

Title: Ohio Valley Folk Research Project Publications
Description: Tales, stories, folklore, etc. from Ross County, Ohio. Self published materials by the Ohio
Valley Folk Research Project Publications of the Ross County Historical Society.
Inclusive Years: 1950s
AFC Number: AFC 1983/021
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Frans Olbrechts / Cherokee Music and Spoken Word
Description: Duplicated from 15 cylinders of Cherokee music and lore recorded in 1927 by Frans M.
Olbrechts
Inclusive Years: 1927
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 15098-15099

Title: Lawrence Older Songs
Description: One audiocassette of fourteen songs sung with guitar by Lawrence Older of Middle Grove,
New York. Recorded on an unknown date. The collection includes a one-page song list.
Duration: 30 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19364

Title: Eric Olson / Fiddle Tunes
Description: Fiddle tunes and other folk music recorded 1968-1969 in North Carolina and Virginia by Eric
Olson. Also copy of fiddlin' Bill Hensley recorded 1940 in North Carolina by David P.
Bennett, and a copy of early hillbilly recordings.
Inclusive Years: 1940; 1968-1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14155-14160

Title: Theresa Olson / Vedic Chants from India
Description: Vedic chants recorded April 3, 1966, at Academy of Meditation, Shankaracharya Nagar,
Rishikesh U.P., India. Sung by tow Sama Vedic Pundits from Benaras, India. Recorded by
Roland O. Olson.
Inclusive Years: 1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14176

Title: Bengt Olsson and Karl Gert Zur Heide / Memphis Boogie Woogie
Description: Negro boogie woogie and other folk music recorded 1968-1969 in Memphis, Tennessee, by
Bengt Olsson and Karl Gert Zur Heide.
Inclusive Years: 1968-1969
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14168

Title: Bengt Olsson / Arab, Lapp, Gypsy, and Blues Music
Description: Music of Saudi Arabia, Lapland, Gypsy music in Europe, and Negro blues. Music from
Arabia (on Swedish radio); music from Jojkard (Lapland), also on Swedish radio. Music as
performed at a gypsy celebration in late May in memory of Black Sarah (live at
St.-Maries-de-la-Mer); also Manitas de Plata and family recording for Swedish TV.
Flamenco from Malaga. Guitar Nubbit (Boston, Massachusetts); Rosa Lee Hill (daughter of
Sid Hemphill); Furry Lewis, Charlie Burse, Will Shade, Sleepy John Estes, Abe McNeil --
George Mitchell and Roger Brown recordings in Memphis 1962-63; Joe Callicott (Nesbit,
Mississippi); Jim Bunkley (Geniver, Georgia).
Inclusive Years: 1960s
Duration: 3.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14514-14515

Title: Michael O'Malley / Joseph Sears Interview Collection
Description: Two audiocassettes of an interview with Joseph Sears, a program and social director from
the Catskill resort area (the "Borscht Belt") in the 1940s. Recorded by Michael O'Malley in
Brooklyn, New York, May 19, 1986. The collection includes one-quarter linear inch of
correspondence and a transcript.
Inclusive Years: 1940s
Duration: 90 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: AFC 1986/010
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Don O'Meara / Army Songs
Description: One 16-inch disc of songs sung by Don O'Meara, recorded at the Library of Congress.
Includes two renditions of "Gee Mom, I Wanna Go Home."
AFC Number: AFC 1948/032
AFS Number: AFS 8764

Title: Oregon Old Style Fiddling Music and Songs Collection
Description: 4 videotapes containing music by members of the Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Association:
1 VHS labeled "Gospel, 19 Sept 98, Oregon Old Time Fiddlers, Thousand Trails, La Pine,
Oregon"; 1 VHS labeled "Country, 19 Sept 98, Oregon Old Time Fiddlers, Thousand Trails,
La Pine, Oregon"; 1 8mm videocassette labeled "Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Music Memoirs
1998" and "#2 Original Music 6 Nov 98" (28 tunes); 1 8mm videocassette labeled
" 1997-1998 O.O.T.F.A." and "#1 Original Music 6 Nov 98" (31 tunes). The composers and
performers are listed on the videocassettes. There is no list of contents for the VHS tapes.
Inclusive Years: 1997-1998
AFC Number: AFC 1998/021
AFS Number: N/A

Title: "Origens" Brazilian Radio Program Collection
Description: Examples of Afro-Brazilian musical traditions as explored in segments 83 and 109 of the
radio series "Origens," with commentary by Helena Theodoro Lopes. Produced by Radio
MEC, Centro de Radio Educativo Roquete Pinto. Recorded in Rio de Janiero, Brazil,
October and December 1982.
Inclusive Years: 1982
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22605-22606

Title: Lisa Oshins / Quilt Survey
Description: Quilt survey leading to the Oshins' publication _Quilt Collections: A Directory for the United
States and Canada_, Acropolis Books, Ltd., Washington, D.C., 1987.
Inclusive Years: 1985-1988
AFC Number: AFC 1988/033
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Harry Oster / Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa
Description: Twenty-two 7-inch tapes of dances, festivals, instrumentals, religious services, songs, and
stories recorded in Iowa, Louisiana, and Mississippi by Harry Oster, March 11,
1957-November 12, 1966. The collection includes twelve pages of lists. Negro and
Negro-French folksongs from Louisiana. Negro folksongs and religious services from
Mississippi. Negro folk tales told by Son House. Hammered dulcimer tunes, folksongs, and
German festival music from Iowa. Recorded 1957-1955 by Harry Oster of the University of
Iowa on Archive tapes.
Inclusive Years: 1957-1966
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12575-12596

Title: Our State magazine / "Down Home in North Carolina" CD
Description: "A collection of bluegrass and traditional North Carolina songs performed by North Carolina
artists," compiled by "Live at Leatherwood's" (a weekly bluegrass and gospel music show in
downtown Shelby NC) exclusively for _Our State_ magazine.
AFC Number: AFC 2001/004
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Gail and Deborah Owen Singing Children's Songs
Description: 1 record of children's songs made by Gail and Deborah Owen in the Recording Laboratory of
the Library of Congress, January 7, 1947.
Inclusive Years: 1947
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 8944

Title: Blanton Owen Duplication Project
Description: Three 10-inch tapes of instrumentals and songs recorded in Virginia and West Virginia
primarily by Blanton and Malcolm Owen, June 29 September 14, 1969. The collection
includes eleven black-and-white photographs and six pages of fieldnotes and lists.
Performers include John Hilt, Arthur Hilt, Taylor Kimball, Frank Austin, Oscar Wright.
Inclusive Years: 1969...
Duration: 5.5 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14091-14093

Title: Blanton Owen Fiddle Recordings
Description: Twelve 7-inch tapes of instrumentals performed on banjo, fiddle, and guitar, and religious
songs recorded in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia by
Blanton Owen, summer-fall 1970. The collection includes a nine-page list. Includes
religious songs from a Primitive Baptist church in North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14303-14314

Title: Blanton Owen and Tom Carter Appalachian Music and Interviews
Description: Country music: instrumental (autoharp, banjo, dulcimer, fife, guitar, hammered dulcimer,
Hawaiian guitar, Jew's harp, mandolin, piano) and vocal music (including ballads and
whistling) and interviews recorded in Virginia and North Carolina by Blanton Owen and Tom
Carter, 1973-74. Several items dubbed from earlier commercial broadcasts and home
recordings.
Inclusive Years: 1973-1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18474-18706

Title: William A. Owens / _Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song_ Collection
Description: 29 songs collected from ethnic groups in Texas during 1937-1942 by William A. Owens.
The cassette is a sampler from the book by Owens, with the title _Tell Me A Story, Sing Me
A Song: A Texas Chronicle_ (call number: ML429.O85 A3 1983).
Inclusive Years: 1937-1942
AFC Number: AFC 1986/015
AFS Number: AFS 24285

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Title: Vlajko Palavestra / "Historijska usmena predanja" (Historical Oral Legends)
Description: Photocopy of published book, most copies of which were destroyed during the 1990s war in
Serbia. The author also died during this conflict.
AFC Number: AFC 1991/047
AFS Number:

Title: Rik Palieri / Pete Seeger interview and Palieri CD
Description: Interview with Pete Seeger, April 21, 1999, plus CD titled "Panning for Gold" by Rik Palieri.
Inclusive Years: 1999
AFC Number: AFC 1999/010
AFS Number: N/A

Title: John Panamarkoff Alaskan Promyshlenniki Recordings
Description: One 3-inch tape of a twenty-five verse song written at the behest of the Promyshleniki, a
Russian settlement administrative unit in Sitka, 1808. Sung by John Panamarkoff. Received
June 1958.
Duration: 40 minutes
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11919

Title: Papago Indian Songs
Description: Papago Indian vocal music with percussion accompaniment by Danny Lopez Singers.
Recorded April 26, 1975 by Richard Spottswood in Tucson, Arizona.
Inclusive Years: 1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17979

Title: Americo Paredes / Ballads of the Lower Border
Description: Thesis: University of Texas
Inclusive Years: 1953
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Catherine Parnell / The Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress: A Source of Songs for
Use with the Kodaly Concept of Music Education
Description: Thesis: Holy Names College
Inclusive Years: 1977
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. / Floyd Salisbury Duplication Project
Description: Nineteen 10-inch tapes of stories and oral histories spoken by Floyd Salisbury. Recorded in
and around Deposit, New York, by Gerald E. Parsons, 1969-73. The collection includes
one-eighth linear inch of indexes and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1973
Duration: 76 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17032-17050

Title: Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. / Riddling Session
Description: Riddling session recorded by Gerald E. Parsons, Jr., Wilmington, Delaware, ca. 1971.
Inclusive Years: c.1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17031

Title: Gerald E. and Margaret Parsons / Maryland Waterman Interviews
Description: Interviews with Newton Downey (waterman, netmaker, storyteller) and Bob Tucker
(waterfowler, info about decoymaker). Recorded at Rock Hall, Maryland, June 15, 1974, by
Gerald E. and Margaret B. Parsons.
Inclusive Years: 1974
Duration: 1.25 hrs.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17441-17442

Title: Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. / Interview with Capt. and Mrs. Harry Jobes
Description: Capt. Harry Jobes, decoy maker and waterfowling guide, recorded at Aberdeen, Maryland, by
Margaret B. and Gerald E. Parsons, June 18, 1974.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17440

Title: Gerald Parsons and Edward Tittel / Wayson's Corners, Maryland, Tobacco Auction
Description: Tobacco auction recorded May 24, 1975 at Wayson's Corners, Maryland, by Gerald Parsons
and Edward Tittel. Keyword: Bob Cage
Inclusive Years: 1976
Duration: 1 hr.......
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18874-18875

Title: Gerald E. Parsons, Jr. Duplication Project
Description: One 10-inch tape of herblore and nursery rhymes recorded in Lonaconing, Maryland, and
Keyser, West Virginia, by Gerald E. and Margaret Parsons, June 24, 1973. The collection
includes three pages of fieldnotes. Nursery rhymes by Mrs. E. R. Parsons, Keyser, West
Virginia (age 90) and her great grandchildren; Herb-Lore from G. Crawford.
Inclusive Years: 1973
Duration: 1 hr.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17601

Title: Gerald E. and Margaret Parsons Interview with Annie Weir
Description: Interview with Annie Weir of Lonaconing, Maryland by Gerald E. and Margaret B. Parsons,
October 7, 1978. Topics include religious experience, rug hooking, and recipes.
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19385

Title: J.D. Pate and Chesapeake Broadcasting Corporation / Alex and Ola Belle Reed Recordings
Description: 1950 Chesapeake recording by Alex Campbell and Ola Belle Reed of Oxford, Pennsylvania,
formerly of North Carolina.
Inclusive Years: 1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14604

Title: Dan Patterson / North Carolina Archive of Folk Lore and Music Recordings
Description: Recordings in the North Carolina Archive of Folk Lore and Music. Includes folksongs from
North Carolina sung by Bessie Watkins, Nellie Atwater Patterson, and Lula Atwater
Womble; the Second Annual Hollering Contest (June 20, 1970), Spivey's Corner, North
Carolina; and instructions for playing the Northumbrian smallpipes by Jack Armstrong, Newcastle, England.
Inclusive Years: 1970
Duration: 2 hrs. 10 min. (ca.)
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14232-14233

Title: Don Patterson / Mountain Music Video Collection (parts 1 and 2)
Description: Part 1 consists of 2 videotapes entitled Highlights of Clifftop: The Fifth Appalachian String
Band Music Festival, and Hinton, West Virginia Railroad Days, and were produced in 1994.
Part 2 contains 2 more videotapes produced in 1995. These are entitled Highlights of
Clifftop: The Sixth Appalachian String Band Music Festival, and The Old Drake: Traditional
Music from the Mountains of East Central West Virginia Played on the Banjo and Fiddle:
Visiting Dwight Diller with Jimmy Triplett. All were produced for commercial sale, and all
focus on folk music performance in West Virginia: three regional festivals and the
Diller-Triplett concert.
Inclusive Years: 1994-1995
AFC Number: AFC 1996/041
AFS Number: N/A

Title: John Patterson / Edmond Seymour Collection, Part 2
Description: One 10-inch tape of five songs and a story sung and spoken by Edmund Seymour. Originally
recorded on discs in New York City by Tony Kraber, March 1941, and loaned by Mr.
Seymour's grandson, John S. Patterson. The collection includes four pages of a song list
and articles.
Inclusive Years: 1941
Duration: 15 min.
AFC Number: AFC 1974/001
AFS Number: AFS 19361

Title: Alice A. Paulson / Freda and Hugo Wolf Square Dance Collection
Description: One handwritten square dance notebook of Freda Montgomery Wolf, written in the 1940s,
plus copies of two photos of Wolf's Orchestra, and a memoir by Paulson of the orchestra
and of her experiences as a square dance caller in the DeKalb, Sycamore, Genoa,
Marengo, Illinois, area.
Inclusive Years: 1940s-present
AFC Number: AFC 1999/028
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Everett Peach, Jr. / The Gospel Song: Its Influences on Christian Hymnody
Description: Thesis: Wayne State University
Inclusive Years: 1960
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Barry Lee Pearson Collection of Reverend O.C. Matthews Recordings
Description: Religious music, sermons, and few demo discs for commerical groups, primarily African
American, apparently recorded by Rev. O.C. Matthews. Some may have been intended for
radio broadcast.
Inclusive Years: 1941-1955
AFC Number: AFC 1980/005
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Wanda Pedigo / Children's Play Party and Game Songs of Texas
Description: One tape of traditional children's play-party and game songs of Texas. Recorded by Wanda
Pedigo.
AFC Number: AFC 1953/005
AFS Number: AFS 10750

Title: Miles L. Peelle Recordings of Stewart Jones
Description: Religious songs performed by Stewart Jones, black gospel singer. Recorded by Miles L.
Peelle in Babson Park, Florida, April 1971 and April 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18091

Title: Penn Community Services / Religious Songs and Services
Description: Two 10-inch tapes of Gullah dialect religious songs and services recorded by Penn
Community Services in Frogmore, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, ca. 1957.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 11303-11304

Title: Charles Perdue Duplication Project
Description: Negro folktales and church services recorded in Rappahannock County, Virginia, by Charles
Perdue, 1969-1970. Includes religious songs and sermons.
Inclusive Years: 1969-1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14234-14240

Title: Charles Perdue Duplication Project
Description: Folk music and folklore from Rappahannock County, Virginia, consisting mainly of Negro
church services and family of John Jackson. Recorded by Charles Perdue, 1970-1971.
Inclusive Years: 1970-1971
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14590-14600

Title: Charles Perdue / Recordings of John Jackson
Description: Negro songs, stories, religious music and oral history from Virginia focusing on the family
of John Jackson, recorded 1965-75 by Charles L. Perdue, Jr.
Inclusive Years: 1965-1975
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17610-17620

Title: Charles Perdue / Eva Mae Samples Perdue Recordings
Description: Songs sung by Eva Mae Samples Perdue, of Decatur, Georgia.
Inclusive Years: 1962
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 12308

Title: Ronald Petersen / Tennessee Sacred Harp Sing
Description: Old Harp Singing, August 1955; recorded at Dulaney Church by Dr. Dougherty of Knoxville,
Tennessee.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19387

Title: Harold Daniel Peterson / A Syllabus of the Ballad Collection of Edwin Ford Piper
Description: Thesis: State University of Iowa
Inclusive Years: 1934
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Faith Petric Recording Project
Description: Faith Craig Petric from Idaho and California recorded at the Library of Congress July 9, 1974
by Joseph C. Hickerson and Ed Tittel. Includes experiences with the migratory labor
camps and the San Francisco Folk Music Club.
Inclusive Years: 1974
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 17105

Title: Marc and Susan Pevar / Gambia Duplication Project
Description: Traditional music of Gambia (Africa) performed by Bai Konte and others, with kora and talking drums. Recorded by Marc and Susan Pevar, 1972.
Inclusive Years: 1972
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19826-19843

Title: Philadelphia Ceili Group Collection
Description: Programs, brochures, fliers, newsletters, articles and ephemera relating to the Philadelphia
Ceili Group and its annual Irish traditional music and dance festival.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/003
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/ceili.html

Title: George and Jean Ritchie Pickow Recordings
Description: Folk music and Old Regular Baptist Church service from Kentucky, folk music from
Tennessee, and fiddle and vocal folk music from harkers Island, North Carolina, recorded
ca. 1950-1951 by Jean Ritchie Pickow and George Pickow. List on tape boxes.
Inclusive Years: c.1950-1951
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10491-10493

Title: Pine Mountain Record Company / A.P. Carter, and other performers recordings
Description: Side 1: Master tape of "It Will Aggravate Your Soul, by A. P. Carter with A. L. and Kathleen
Phipps playing guitars, May 1, 1954. Side 2: "Long Lonesome Road," performers unknown.
Inclusive Years: 1954
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18880

Title: Pinelands Folklife Project
Description: Two hundred forty-one 7-inch tapes, six 5-inch tapes, one hundred nineteen cassettes,
twelve linear feet of ephemera, field notes, photograph contact sheets, and photograph and
sound recording documentation from the Pinelands Folklife Project, a field project
documenting traditional culture within and around the Pinelands Folklife Reserve, to
facilitate land-use planning in the Pinelands and along the coast, and to develop products
to assist in public education about the relationship between the region and its cultural
resources. Documented at various locations in New Jersey by Bonnie Blair, Tom Carroll,
Christine Cartwright, Carl Fleischhauer, Mary Hufford, Eugene Hunn, Jens Lund, Rita
Moonsammy, Malachi O'Connor, Gerald E. Parsons, Nora Rubenstein, Sue Samuelson, and
Elaine Thatcher, August 15, 1983-March 31, 1984. Cosponsored by the American Folklife
Center, National Park Service, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New
Jersey Department of Human Resources, New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey
State Council on the Arts, and Pinelands Commission. The project's findings are
published in Mary Huffords's one hundred forty-four-page report, _One Space, Many Places:
Folklife and Land Use in New Jersey's Pinelands National Reserve_ (Washington, D.C.:
American Folklife Center, 1986).
Inclusive Years: 1983-1984
Duration: 241 hours
AFC Number: AFC 1991/023
AFS Number: AFS 23725-24090

Title: Alfred Pinkston African American Religious Expression Recordings
Description: Interviews of Afro-American religious observances in Florida, especially: lined hymns,
gospel songs, spirituals, sermons and theology. Originally recorded on cassette by Alfred
Adolphus Pinkston in connection with his 1975 dissertation at the University of Miami.
Inclusive Years: 1970s (?)
Duration: 5 hrs, 15 min.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 19123-19129

Title: Jane T. Pippart / "Pennsylvania Folk Song: An Addition to an Old Heritage" Collection
Description: Thesis. Holy Names College, 1979. Cassettes contain music sung by school children in
German language.
AFC Number: AFC 1995/027
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Ann W. Pittman / "Imitations of Mother" Collection
Description: Singer and composer Ann W. Pittman performs religious and secular songs, and relates
family history, tales, and poems learned as a child in Mississippi. Interviewed by members
of the Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, 1978. Original tapes held by the
Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Keywords: African American folklore
Inclusive Years: 1978
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 24210-24213

Title: Dimitri Pokrovsky / Russian Folk Song
Description: Lecture on collecting Russian folk song by Dimitri Pokrovsky with demonstration/concert by
members of the Pokrovsky Ensemble. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center,
December 2, 1991.
Inclusive Years: 1991
Duration: 1 hr, 20 min
AFC Number: AFC 1991/048
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Dimitri Pokrovsky / Russian Ethnographic Expeditions
Description: Lecture by Dimitri Pokrovsky titled "Russian Ethnographic Expeditions." Includes film
footage made during expeditions to rural areas of Russia to collect traditional folksongs.
Sponsored by the American Folklife Center, December 3, 1991.
Inclusive Years: 1991
Duration: 1 hr
AFC Number: AFC 1991/049
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Gheorghe and Eugenia Popescu-Judetz Collection
Description: Manuscript materials, audio recordings, graphic materials, and moving images that
document primarily Romanian folk dance and music. Materials span 1938-1974, and 1995.
Bulk of fieldwork materials covers Romanian dance tunes, songs, and ballads performed
by singers, musicians, and ensembles from all regions of Romania and from Yugoslavian
Banat. Also includes Turkish music from Dobrudja and dervish ceremonies from Anatolia,
as well as folk and classical music recorded in India. This is a collection of traditional folk
dance music which serves as a basis for the choreographies of their
government-sponsored performance ensembles. Materials documenting Romanian
costume, rituals, and customs areincluded. Music arrangements, choreographic diagrams,
photographs, and show programs document activities of the Ciocirlia and Perinitza
Ensembles. The collection also provides insight into the lives of the Popescu-Judetzes
through manuscript and photographic documentation of their work as ethnographers,
dancers, choreographers, and teachers.
Inclusive Years: 1954-1972
AFC Number: AFC 1990/022
AFS Number: N/A
Finding Aid: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/pop-jud.html

Title: Marjorie Lansing Porter Collection
Description: Thirty-three 10-inch tapes of conversations, instrumentals, songs, and stories recorded in
the Adirondack region of New York by Marjorie Lansing Porter, 1943-67. Obtained through
loan from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. The collection includes one and
one-half linear inches of recording logs, correspondence, concordances, and notes.
Inclusive Years: 1943-1967
Duration: 66 hours
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 22104-22136

Title: The Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention Collection
Description: Sound recording of the 1998 Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention. Recorded
March 27 and 28, 1998 at the Parish Hall of the Pohick Episcopal Church, Lorton, Virginia,
and March 29, 1998 at Hearst Hall, National Cathedral School, Washington, DC. CD
produced in 1999 by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington.
Inclusive Years: 1998
AFC Number: AFC 1999/026
AFS Number: N/A

Title: BBC / American Cowboy Exhibition Collection
Description: Radio documentary program "Round Up on Capitol Hill" concerning American Cowboy
exhibit. Produced by John Powell, presented by Christopher Frayling, with Nolan Porterfield,
Bryon Dippie and Lonn Taylor (curator American Cowboy exhibit). "Cowboys" Leon Coffee,
J. Erickson, D. Jeakins, and Les Stewart; Newsman Boris Weintraub and President Ronald
Reagan; and Carl Fleischhauer.
AFC Number: AFC 1985/013
AFS Number: AFS 24207

Title: Reuben R. Powell / Renfro Valley Tape Club
Description: Tape No. 9 of Renfro Valley Tape Club, consisting of Homecoming show at Renfro Valley,
Kentucky, June 20, 1970, and excerpts of American Folk Song Festival, Kentucky, 1968.
Inclusive Years: 1970
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 14428

Title: A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book Collection
Description: Approximately 4.5 linear feet of manuscript materials, containing files generated during the
production of the book "A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book," by Marcia and Jon
Pankake. The materials include lyrics and transcriptions sent in from various sources. The
book was published in 1988.
Inclusive Years: ca. 1980s
AFC Number: AFC 1997/030
AFS Number: N/A

Title: A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book Presentation Collection
Description: This program consisted of a concert of folksongs taken from a _Prairie Home Companion
Folk Song Book_, performed by Marcia and Jon Pankake, and a presentation of the book to
the Library of Congress by Michael Jacobs of Viking Penguin, Inc. Recorded in the Whittall
Pavilion of the Library of Congress by Mike Donaldson, Beverly Palau, and Laura Ammons
on January 10, 1989.
Inclusive Years: 1989
AFC Number: AFC 1989/001
AFS Number: N/A

Title: Prince Peter of Greece / South India and West Bengal
Description: Duplicated from seven wire recordings (AFS 10,508-10,514) of Nestorian Church Service
(India) and Tibetan music recorded by Prince Peter of Greece in 1949 and 1950.
Inclusive Years: 1949-1950
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 10859-10861

Title: Bill Prindle / Dordan Collection of Traditional Irish Music
Description: Dordan is a group of musicians from Galway, Ireland, who play traditional Irish music. The
members are Mary Bergin (whistle and wooden flute), Kathleen Loughnane (harp), and
Dearbhaill Standun (violin). There is no log for the tape.
Inclusive Years: early 1990s
AFC Number: AFC 1992/003
AFS Number:

Title: David B. Pruett / Preserving Cultural Identity: WPAQ Radio and the Dissemination of
Bluegrass and Old-Time Music
Description: Thesis: Florida State University
Inclusive Years: 2000
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

Title: David Pryor Singing Bahaman Spirituals
Description: Bahaman spirituals by David Pryor, recorded in Washington, D.C., in the Recording
Laboratory of the Library of Congress by B.A. Botkin and Arthur Semmig, September 25,
1943. Singer from Bahama Islands. List.
Inclusive Years: 1943
AFC Number: AFC 1944/006
AFS Number: AFS 7057-7059

Title: Margaret Sermons Purser / Community and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century Paradise
Valley, Nevada
Description: Dissertation: University of California, Berkeley
Inclusive Years: 1987
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: N/A

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Title: Edwin Quist / Irish Contemporary Folk Music
Description: One 10-inch tape of discussion and songs recorded in Kinsale, County Cork, by Edwin A.
Quist, September 1975. The collection includes eighteen pages of correspondence, a
curriculum vitae, logs, and text and tune transcriptions.
Inclusive Years: 1975 (?)
Duration: 1 hr. 20 mins.
AFC Number: Unassigned
AFS Number: AFS 18881

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