Italian Americans in the West Project collection, 1988-1993

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Title	Italian Americans in the West Project collection, 1988-1993
Collection Number	AFC 1989/022
Inclusive Dates	1988-1993
Bulk Dates	1989-1991
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Extent	104 boxes
Extent	43 linear feet
Extent	16,875 number of items in collection (16,476 manuscript pages, 298 original sound recordings, 31,416 graphic materials, 22 original moving images, 140 electronic media, and 12 artifacts).
Creator	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Languages	English, Italian
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af007003
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2004695184
Summary	The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, graphic materials (including color slides, black-and-white negatives, and photographic prints), and moving images collected during a field research project documenting Italian American occupational, cultural, and religious traditions in several locations in the western United States. Fieldwork was conducted in Gilroy, California; San Pedro, California; Pueblo, Colorado; Carbon County, Utah; Walla Walla, Washington; and several mining and ranching communities in Nevada by staff of the American Folklife Center. The project was part of the Quincentenary Celebration of Christopher Columbus sponsored by the Library of Congress in 1992. It produced a traveling exhibition and book of essays, both titled, "Old Ties, New Attachments : Italian-American Folklife in the West."