Abstract Fieldwork for the Brooklyn Rediscovery Folklife Study Project undertaken and coordinated by Sheldon Posen and Maxine Miska, 1980-1983. The project surveyed and recorded traditions in Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance (BECA) documenting ethnic foodways, neighborhood events, private celebrations, street life and play, store fronts, music, folk theater, religious events, urban sports and pastimes. Ethnic groups include African Americans, diasporic...

Abstract The Liberia map collection consists of 121 maps depicting Liberia at the whole country, region, and city level, covering a variety of subjects and uses, primarily in French. These maps make up a small part of the Geography and Map Division's holdings of maps that were acquired before the advent of digital cataloging in the 1970s. The collection's strengths are in maps of administrative and tribal boundaries, locations of natural resources and animals, population density, mines, plantations,...

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Aeronautical charts and aerial photographs produced during World War II for bombing targets in Parma and Genoa, Italy, Tokyo, Japan, and the island of Martinique. Also includes navigation charts for areas in Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the United States.

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This collection consists of photographs, recordings, and field notes documenting diverse culture, traditions, and communities in Nevada. Sponsored by the Nevada Arts Council Folklife Program, collection materials were collected by staff folklorists beginning in 1985.

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The collection consists of ethnographic materials gathered by a team of fieldworkers in the mid-1980s to document the cultural traditions of the people inhabiting the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center.

Abstract Collection of documentary materials resulting from an ethnographic field research project conducted by the American Folklife Center in eight counties of south central Georgia, and at Mt. Zion, Georgia, in July and August 1977 in cooperation with the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Topics of research were hymn singing, vernacular architecture, foodways, jokes, and stories from the region. Includes documentation of the exhibition "Folk Art and Folk Life," at...