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Great Britain. Board of Trade records, 1682-1786
13 items. 6 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Government agency. Reports, correspondence, orders, instructions, commissions, and other material relating to British overseas trade.
Joseph Pulitzer papers, 1897-1958
67,500 items. 193 containers. 77.2 linear feet. 163 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Newspaper editor and publisher. Family and general correspondence, subject material, business files, and personal financial papers relating primarily to Pulitzer's editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection, 1976-1981
approximately 14,756 items.. 20.75 linear feet.. 269 folders in 14 containers. . 99 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. and stereo. ; 7 in. . 245 sound cassettes : analog. . 3,757 slides : color ; 35 mm. . 10,182 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 35 mm. . 202 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. . 2 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in. . -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of sound recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, videorecordings, publications, ephemera, administrative files, and field notes produced and collected during the 1977 Chicago Ethnic Arts Project field survey from 1976-1981; but primarily during fieldwork conducted by fourteen folklorists directed by the American Folklife Center in 1977. The final project report presented to the Illinois Arts Council summarized the current conditions and folk arts needs in a number of Chicago's ethnic communities. Materials from post-project activities such as workshops in the ethnic communities and a traveling photographic exhibit by Jonas Dovydenas are also included.
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South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982
24,855 items.. 13 containers.. 6.5 linear feet.. 152 folders.. 179 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.. 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 5 in.. 196 sound cassettes : analog.. 8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.. circa 14,000 film negatives : black-and-white ; 35 mm and 2 1/4 in.. circa 7400 slides and transparencies : color ; 35 mm and 2 1/4 in.. 31 drawings : pen-and-ink ; various sizes.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of documentary materials resulting from an ethnographic field research project conducted by the American Folklife Center in eight counties of south central Georgia, and at Mt. Zion, Georgia, in July and August 1977 in cooperation with the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Topics of research were hymn singing, vernacular architecture, foodways, jokes, and stories from the region. Includes documentation of the exhibition "Folk Art and Folk Life," at the Library of Congress, and proposed publication projects to 1982.
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Vannevar Bush papers, 1901-1974
60,000 items. 186 containers. 74.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. The collection relates primarily to Vannevar Bush's role as coordinator of the scientific community for defense efforts during and after World War II when he served as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and director of its successor, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, where he supervised the Manhattan Project and other programs.
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Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979
17,309 items.. manuscripts and photographs: 13 containers, linear feet.. color slides: 38 containers.. 128 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.. 10 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips; 7 in.. 60 sound cassettes : analog.. approximately 7542 slides : color ; 35 mm. approximately 24 transparancies : color ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.. approximately 9289 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 35 mm. approximately 256 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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American Folklife Center field project which documented ethnic, regional, and occupational traditions of Rhode Island, especially ethnic arts (African American, French-Canadian, Greek, Irish, Jamaican, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Italian, Lithuanian, Narragansett, and others), maritime activities, material culture, and local history. Documentation was created by fieldworkers Peter Bartis, Michael E. Bell, Thomas A. Burns, Carl Fleischhauer, Henry Horenstein, Geraldine Niva Johnson, and Kenneth S. Goldstein, project director, from July 15 to December 31, 1979. Sound recordings include interviews and documentation of a play, church services, music and dance, and other events. Subjects of photographs include Rhode Island houses, barns, beaches, yards, gardens, orchards, churches, cemeteries, street scenes, landscapes, sea scapes; religious processions; recreation, including baseball, horseshoes, sailing; restaurants and foodways; picnics; textile mills, sawmills; businesses; markets; Jamaican migrant workers; woodworking; boatbuilding; fishing, clamming; gunsmithing; taxidermy; arts and crafts; sand sculptures; musicians and dancing; and other subjects.
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American Dialect Society collection, 1931-1937
28 boxes. 24 linear feet. 2,662 items (includes 893 recordings, 1,766 pages of manuscript materials, 2 graphic images, and 1 zip disk). -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The American Dialect Society Collection contains field recordings of samples of regional American speech recorded between 1931-1937 for the Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE) and the Dictonary of American Regional English (DARE), as well as related materials.
Glenn L. Martin papers, 1909-1956
55,000 items. 175 containers items plus 11 oversize. 72 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Pioneer aviator, airplane manufacturer, and businessman. Correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating primarily to Martin's business and real estate interests, to airplane manufacturing, and to his recreational pursuits.
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Pinelands Folklife Project collection, 1983-1991
approximately 31,303 items. 26 containers. 13 linear feet. approximately 9,500 sheets ; 8.5 x 14 in. or smaller. approximately 75 sheets ; oversize documents. 113 floppy disks : single-sided and double sided ; 5 1/4 in.. 5 floppy disks ; 3 1/2 in.. 3 computer tape cartridges (DC 300XL). 247 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 5 in., 7 in.. 118 sound cassettes : analog. 11,793 film negatives : black-and-white ; 35 mm. 9,205 film transparencies : color ; 35 mm. 222 film transparencies : color ; 2 x 2 in.. 11 photographic prints : color ; 3.5 x 3.5 in.; 3.5 x 5 in.. 4 photographic prints : black-and-white ; 3.5 x 5 in.. 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. 3 videocassettes (U-Matic) (150 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.. 2 film reels : silent, color ; 16 mm. 1 t-shirt. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of ethnographic materials gathered by a team of fieldworkers in the mid-1980s to document the cultural traditions of the people inhabiting the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
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Markham Starr collection, 2005-2019
1751 items. 18 documents : digital, pdf, doc, xls, and txt. 1665 photographs : digital, tif, jpg, black-and-white. 8 audio files : digital, wav. 56 video files : digital, mov, mp4, m2t, m2ts, avi. 4 volumes (.3 linear feet). -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of 1747 digital files of graphic, moving image, sound recording, and manuscript format documentary works created by Markham Starr and four of his published monographs. The collection primarily documents northeastern fishermen and the fishing industry. Some records also document farming and dairy production. A majority of the works are part of larger themed documentary projects, and others are independent works.