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2 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) African Americans--Virginia.
1983 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection, 1983
9 folders. 13 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, double track, mono. ; 10 in.. 233 photographs : black and white, negatives. 130 slides : color. 20 photographic prints : black and white, color; various sizes. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of blues music, Cambodian classical dance, bluegrass music, country-western music, Armenian music, cowboy songs, Piedmont country blues music and buck (step) dance, and country blues music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library of Congress.
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Nelson W. Jordan family papers, circa 1864-2003
1,100 items. 15 containers plus 15 oversize. 9.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Freedman, soldier, and clergyman. Photographs, correspondence, personal and family Bibles, family trees and other genealogical information, scrapbooks, diaries, speeches and writings, sermons, notebooks, school work, school publications, diplomas, posters, printed matter, and personal objects documenting Jordan family members and in-laws in Virgina and New Jersey in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries.