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1. Caffè Lena collection, 1960-2013

   7767 items. 28 containers. 12 linear feet. 42 sound tape reels : analog ; 10 in.. 46 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.. 5 sound tape reels : analog ; 5 in.. 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 3 in.. 381 sound cassettes : analog and digital.. 13 videocassettes (VHS) : sound only ; 1/2 in.. 1 sound microcassette : analog.. 36 sound discs : digital.. 1942 audio files : digital, aiff, mp3, wav. 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound, color.. 14 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color.. 2 videodiscs (DVD-R): digital.. 1 film reel (1100 feet) : analog.. 12 video files : digital, mov, mp4. approximately 1540 photographs : black and white, color ; various sizes.. 3504 pages.. 261 files : digital, pdf, doc. 3 objects.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of more than 500 audio recordings, plus digital audio files, video recordings, film, photographs, papers, and ephemera documenting the history of the Caffè Lena coffeehouse, a folk music club and theater in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Lena Spencer and Bill Spencer in 1960. The collection includes a large number of live concert performance recordings by folk musicians and singer-songwriters, as well as some theater, storytelling, and poetry performances. The collection also includes folk music radio programs produced from Caffè Lena concerts by Robert Durand and others. Some materials were gathered by Jocelyn Arem while conducting research on the history of Caffè Lena, and the collection includes drafts and page proofs of Arem's book, Caffè Lena: Inside America's Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse (2013).

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2. Maine Acadian cultural survey collection, 1991

   8,016 items.. 8 containers : 2,800 manuscript materials.. 32 sound cassettes : analog.. 7 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.. ca. 5,080 photographs : color, black and white. ca. 50 drawings.. 5 videocassettes of 5 (VHS).. 42 disks.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Collection consists of sound and video recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, printed materials, correspondence, field notes, and administrative files documenting folklife--including architecture, music, dance, storytelling, material culture, and occupational culture--in the Upper Saint John River Valley on the Maine and New Brunswick border.

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3. K.C. Emerson papers, 1937-1994

   900 items. 10 containers plus 2 oversize. 4 linear feet. 4 digital files (55.08 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Army officer, entomologist, prisoner of war. Correspondence, notebooks, military papers, writings, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers as well as digital files of sound recordings pertaining to Emerson's life and career in the United States Army, both as an officer and as a civilian, with a particular emphasis on his experience as a prisoner of war in World War II. The papers also document his work as an entomologist focusing on lice.

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4. Manuscript holdings from the Library of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : a finding aid to the collection in the Library of Congress, ca. 1450-1935

   3 linear feet. 29 items. 28 boxes. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Manuscripts from the Library of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) were a part of the larger Holmes Family Library gift to the Library of Congress in 1935. The collection contains correspondence, sermon notes, recipe books, household account books, notebooks, travel journals, tributes, diaries, an address book, a medical account book, photograph album, book of quotations, Latin vocabulary, medieval medical recipe book, and a ship's log.