Custodial History
Since November 1997, Joel Martin Halpern has donated a substantial amount of materials related to his and his wife's ethnographic fieldwork to the American Folklife Center. Prior to arriving at the Library of Congress, a portion of this collection (33 audio recordings) was stored at The Amherst College Library. Upon Professor Halpern's request, these materials were deaccessioned in 1997, and he donated them to the American Folklife Center. Furthermore, 126 black-and-white photographs (see Box 13) were given to Joel Martin Halpern by the Ethnographic Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria in exchange for anthropology textbooks. Some of the unprocessed accruals to this collection will become part of other collections.