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New Hampshire
The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive
of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.
Collections
The collections of the American Folklife Center include a wide variety
of materials from New Hampshire and the New England region. Among its unique
recordings are folksongs, fiddle tunes, oral histories, and traditional
dance music; ballads and folksongs collected by Phillips Barry in the 1930s;
maritime stories and sea shanties collected in the 1960s; and the Helen
Hartness Flanders and Eloise Hubbard Linscott collections of the folk music
of New England.
New Hampshire participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies
project, which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations
for the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.
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