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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.

Abstract Collection of field documentation, including photographs and field recordings made by Brenda E. F. Beck during her research in the Kongu area of Tamil Nadu, India from 1964-1966. Includes audio recordings of long epic stories and shorter tales, local legends, myths, proverbs, riddles, and songs, including chants, lullabies, devotional songs, wedding songs, and funeral songs. The collection is rich in documentation of oral narrative, especially tied to temple rituals and rites of passage....

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Sound recordings of interviews, speeches, memorandums, television news, and diaries of Zbigniew Brzezinski. The recorded interviews and speeches are accompanied in several instances by transcripts and other supplementary material. These materials are part of the Zbigniew Brzezinski papers, which are held by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.

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Collection of 145 filmed oral history interviews of 175 participants in the United States civil rights movement and their family members.

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The Fletcher Collins Jr. Collection is the result of the Anglo-American folksong collecting activities of Fletcher Collins Jr. from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, under the auspices of the WPA Joint Committee on Folk Arts and for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song.

Abstract The Sandy Gibson Rock and Roll Radio Collection Transcripts and Production Materials consists of interview transcriptions with figures from the world of rock, soul and pop, conducted by Sandy Gibson, for radio documentaries produced from 1969-1988, including the History of Rock and Roll, the Motown Story, Monterey Pop Festival: The Radio Concerts, The Doors: From the Inside, Follow the Music: The Elektra Story, and the Johnny River Story. Also included are scripts, clippings, associated...

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The Katharine Louise Heuisler Collection consists of civilian papers, clippings, correspondence, creative works, a memoir, printed matter, regimental histories, a transcript and photographs, documenting the work Heuisler did with the Red Cross in Europe and the Pacific during World War II.

Abstract The Maggie Holtzberg collection documents, through interviews and photographs, the occupational folklife and craft of hot metal typesetters, compositors, and printers. Holtzberg interviewed skilled craftsmen and women who experienced the disruptive technology and transition in the printing industry from mechanical typesetting, "hot metal," to computer-aided photocomposition or "cold type." She interviewed retired printers residing at the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and...

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The collection contains 39 transcripts from two 1950s Chicago radio news programs.

Abstract Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer. The collection contains materials relating to his life and career, and includes holograph and published scores, choreographic and dance technique notes, photographs, correspondence, marketing and fundraising materials, clippings, programs, teaching and administrative materials, production elements, articles by Nagrin and others, drafts of his books, business papers, and personal and biographical files. In...

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Alanna Nash is an American journalist and biographer. Articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs in this collection document Nash’s research of John Dillinger, D.W. Griffith, and Jean Muir.

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The National Visionary Leadership Project Interviews and Conference Collection consists primarily of master recordings of interviews by the National Visionary Leadership Project with significant figures in 20th century African American history. In addition, the collection includes transcripts (both printed and electronic) of a portion of the interviews, edited versions of the interviews and print and digital photographs.

Abstract Collection of field recordings of interviews and administrative files generated by and curated by Paula Morin and the Nevada Arts Council for an exhibition titled "Honest Horses: a portrait of the mustang in the Great Basin," circa 2002, and later as a traveling exhibition. Morin photographed wild horses in the Great Basin and interviewed Nevada residents and others about the complex issues regarding wild horses and ecology. Interviewees include ranchers, buckaroos, outfitters, horse...

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Photographs and audiotape transcripts used by John Peter in his books on 20th-century architects.

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Margaret Rupli Woodward's career as a war correspondent is documented through sound recordings, radio transcripts, and associated correspondence, newspaper articles and biographical material.

Abstract The Seeger Family Collection documents the lives and careers of pioneering musicologist Charles Louis Seeger; his second wife, modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger; their eldest daughter, folksinger and songwriter Peggy Seeger; and her husband, playwright, singer, and songwriter Ewan MacColl through their music manuscripts, personal and professional papers, and correspondence. The collection also includes papers relating to the Crawford family and materials associated with Pete Seeger,...

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The Frank Seeley collection consists of interviews, transcripts, and other documents that were created in conjunction with Frank Seeley's Master of Arts in Telecommunications thesis for California State University, San Diego.

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Oral history interviews conducted by recording industry executive Joe Smith with more than two hundred recording artists and executives from 1986 through 1988. Printed transcripts accompany most of the recorded interviews.

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Correspondence, field notes, reports, recording logs, transcripts of song texts, and sound recordings of African American music traditions and folkways, collected by Robert Sonkin, primarily in Gee's Bend, Alabama, in 1941.

Abstract Consists of transcripts for oral history interviews conducted by Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober for their books entitled "Let Us Begin Anew": An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency, Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency, and Reagan: The Man and His Presidency. Interviewees include senior administration officials, prominent political figures, world leaders, close acquaintances, family members, and other participants in the major events of the Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan...

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Collection consists of oral history interviews, sound and video recordings, photographs and manuscript materials documenting memories of the 20th century civil rights movements in the United States, collected by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) from 2003 to 2004 in 48 cities in the South, Midwest and western United States.

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Marianne Macy conducted interviews of former WOR employees and talent ca. 1980-1982 for the Columbia University Center for Oral History's WOR oral history project. The textual materials consists of transcripts from the interview, as well as schedules, publicity, and other materials related to the 30th anniversary celebration of WOR-TV.