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Holding Institution American Folklife Center

1. Collection Occupational Folklife Project

Description:
American Folklife Center project to document the culture of contemporary American workers during an era of economic and social transition through oral histories.
Date of Original:
2010/9999
Holding Institution:
American Folklife Center

2. Collection Quilts and quiltmaking in America, 1978 to 1996

Description:
Quilts created between 1978 and 1996 by Georgia quilt makers from the American Folklife Center's Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest Collection.
Date of Original:
1978/1996
Holding Institution:
American Folklife Center

3. Collection South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection

Description:
Recordings and photographs from an ethnographic field project conducted in the summer of 1977 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia of the center of the "Wiregrass" region of Georgia.
Date of Original:
1977
Holding Institution:
American Folklife Center
Sensitive Content:
The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people. Through its Web sites, the Library offers broad public access to a wide range of information, including historical materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes. Such materials must be viewed in the context of the relevant time period. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in such materials. The events documented here are the personal recollections and perspectives of participating individuals; they are recordings of people’s own stories and not necessarily truth.

4. Collection American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection

Description:
Speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches documenting Georgia dialects.
Date of Original:
1967/1972
Holding Institution:
American Folklife Center
Sensitive Content:
The American Folklife Center and the professional fieldworkers who carry out these projects feel a strong ethical responsibility to the people they have visited and who have consented to have their lives documented for the historical record. The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose lives, ideas, and creativity are documented here.

6. Collection Civil Rights History Project

Description:
Oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
Date of Original:
1940/1969
Holding Institution:
Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

8. Collection American memory

Description:
Date of Original:
1700/2099
Holding Institution:
Library of Congress
American Folklife Center