Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979

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Collection Summary

Title	Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979
Inclusive Dates	1979
Call No.	AFC 1991/022
Creator	Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress), collector.
Extent	17,309 items.
Extent	manuscripts and photographs: 13 containers, linear feet.
Extent (still images)	color slides: 38 containers.
Extent (sound recordings)	128 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Extent (sound recordings)	10 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips; 7 in.
Extent (sound recordings)	60 sound cassettes : analog.
Extent (still images)	approximately 7542 slides : color ; 35 mm
Extent (still images)	approximately 24 transparancies : color ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Extent (still images)	approximately 9289 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 35 mm
Extent (still images)	approximately 256 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Language	Collection materials in English.
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af016004
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2010655341
Summary	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.