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1. Frans August Larson family papers, 1864-2021

   6,700 items. 19 containers plus 2 oversize. 7.7 linear feet. 21 digital files (322.95 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Frans August Larson, Swedish-born missionary, expedition guide, entrepreneur, and diplomatic advisor in Mongolia; his wife, Mary Rodgers Larson, American missionary in northern China; their children, especially Mary Larson Walker and her husband, writer C. Lester Walker. Correspondence, photographs, writings, and other records relating to family life and activities during their time in Mongolia and Kalgan (now known as Zhangjiakou), China, 1893-1939, and subsequent years in the United States, primarily in Alabama, California, and Connecticut, and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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2. Joel Martin Halpern collection, 1870-2000

   approximately 3,100 items. 21 containers. 12 linear feet. approximately 720 documents (approximately 4,750 sheets). 16 sound cassettes : analog. 28 sound tape reels : analog ; 5 in. and 7 in.. approximately 2,005 photocopies of photographs : black and white ; various sizes. 126 photographs : prints, black and white ; 5 x 7 in.. 57 photographs : prints, color ; 3.5 x 5 and 4 x 6 in.. 54 photographs : negatives, color ; 35 mm. 37 photographs : transparencies, color ; 35 mm. 26 plates : color. 20 drawings : ink, black and white. 1 drawing : ink and paint, color. 8 videocassettes (VHS) : analog ; 1/2 in.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Joel Martin Halpern Collection consists of various types of materials, both published and unpublished, related to the Halpern's ethnographic fieldwork and documentation of folk cultures in Eastern Europe, as well as their work with South Slavs in Ontario, Canada (Series 1) and Southeast Asia (Series 2). In addition, the collection includes Joel Martin Halpern's work in Alaska and Arctic Canada among the Inuit (Series 3), and miscellaneous manuscripts (Series 4).