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Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: Voices from the Dust Bowl is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
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Subject: Farm Security Administration, California, Folklife Archives
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: Working in Paterson presents 470 excerpts from original sound recordings and 3,882 photographs that document the occupational culture of Paterson, New Jersey in 1994. Selected from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project conducted by the American Folklife Center, the collection explores how the industrial heritage of the city expresses itself in its work sites, work processes, and memories of workers.
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Subject: New Jersey, Watson Machine International, Work, Cultural Studies
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: Tending the Commons incorporates 718 excerpts from original sound recordings, 1,256 photographs, and 10 manuscripts from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley.
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Subject: Folklife Archives, Virginia, Big Coal River Valley
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: A collection of letters that highlights the correspondence between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center). The material provides a unique perspective on Woody Guthrie's past, his art, his life in New York City, and his feelings about WWII.
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Subject: Folksongs, Woody Guthrie, Manuscripts, Collection Guides
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: The collections of the American Folklife Center include Native American song and dance; ancient English ballads; the tales of "Bruh Rabbit," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in the minds of those who endured one of the most harrowing periods of American history; an Appalachian fiddle tune that has been heard on concert stages around the world; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the United States; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world.
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Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore Legacy Web Archive
Description: The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
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Subject: Veterans, Personal Experience Narratives
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
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