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Song Transcriptions by Pearl R. Nye, 01, English folk song

Song Transcriptions by Pearl R. Nye, 01, English folk song

This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More

A "wetland drainage complex" on a contour mining reclamation site

A "wetland drainage complex" on a contour mining reclamation site

Event: Tour of Reclamation Sites in White Oak and Surrounding Area. "Stacy Edmunds conducted a tour of sites she'd been using in her field study for her master's thesis in ecology. As she went, she explained th... More

Offering Blessing. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Offering Blessing. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Thomas, Keith Delivering a half serious, half joking prayer, Saturday, June 17, 1978 The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American F... More

Candle Holder. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Candle Holder. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Used in bunkhouse; from Joe Boggio's basement museum Public domain reproduction of a teapot, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultur... More

Granite Quarry. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Granite Quarry. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Located up Lamance Creek behind Boggio 7Up Ranch, source of granite for stonemasons in the valley The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife C... More

Meal, Miller-Zatica Household. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Meal, Miller-Zatica Household. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collec...

Fixing schoolday lunch for great-grandchildren People in photograph: Zatica, Delfina; Babbs, Stephanie; Babbs, Frank The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the ... More

Monarch Malleable Iron Range. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Monarch Malleable Iron Range. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collect...

Chicken house warmer at right Maker: Malleable Iron Range Co. Beaver Dam, Wisconsin The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the L... More

Water Witch. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Water Witch. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Holding a green forked willow stick for water witching People in photograph: Schwartz, Rudolph The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Cent... More

Saddles and Saddletree. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Saddles and Saddletree. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Maker: Tipton, Ken Unfinished saddle, with underskirt, on right; saddletree on ground The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the... More

Butchering Tools. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Butchering Tools. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project... More

Motel Room of Fieldworker Richard Ahlborn

Motel Room of Fieldworker Richard Ahlborn

Public domain photograph of a cabin interior, small room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Hatchet. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Old Hatchet. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Belonged to Joe Boggio's father, Steve Boggio Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folkli... More

Nevada Wonderstone Fireplace. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Nevada Wonderstone Fireplace. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collect...

Builder: Ramasco, Antone Occupants: Schwartz, Lyman and Norma Fireplace in main residence built from Nevada wonderstone or wonder rock (rhyolite), 1954 The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural docum... More

Old Trowel. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Old Trowel. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Belonged to Joe Boggio's father, Steve Boggio Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folkli... More

Halloween Visitors. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Halloween Visitors. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Behind the basket of apples were a container of orange cupcakes The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress i... More

Trimming Deer Carcass. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Trimming Deer Carcass. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Cassinelli, Pete; Cassinelli, Danny Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise V... More

Living Room, 4R Ranch. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Living Room, 4R Ranch. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

In main residence Occupants: Klaumann, Stan and Janice Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project wa... More

Altar boy with cross and men with banners at the head of the procession; men in front of the St. Anthony's Catholic Men's Club (at Summer & 20th Avenue) watch procession.

Altar boy with cross and men with banners at the head of the processio...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual San Rocco procession, sponsored by the Montescaglioso Club of Paterson, as it passes through the People's Park neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey.

Assembly of God Church, Sundial, West Virginia

Assembly of God Church, Sundial, West Virginia

She preached that night at the Sundial Assembly Church of God. Event: Prayer Service at the Assembly of God Church.

The case holding cassette tapes of recorded Italian music.

The case holding cassette tapes of recorded Italian music.

Forms part of a group of images documenting Sanremo Italian Imports, owned and operated by Ralph Venezia, an Italian American from Montescaglioso in the Basilicata region of Italy. Ralph says that he has a bett... More

Manuel Cintron repairing the yoke on a Watson buncher.

Manuel Cintron repairing the yoke on a Watson buncher.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Engineer Pete McComiskey looking through blueprints in the engineering department at Watson.

Engineer Pete McComiskey looking through blueprints in the engineering...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 10, 1994.

Barber Louis McDowell demonstrates stropping his razor.

Barber Louis McDowell demonstrates stropping his razor.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Joe Kachler drilling holes in small shafts using the drill press.

Joe Kachler drilling holes in small shafts using the drill press.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 9, 1994.

Photos, haircut names and fees, and other materials on the wall of McDowell's Barber Shop.

Photos, haircut names and fees, and other materials on the wall of McD...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More

"Aunt" Eva Burnside with her grandson, Dean Bradford

"Aunt" Eva Burnside with her grandson, Dean Bradford

Event: Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek (an annual event).

Dogwoods (Cornus florida) and redbuds (Cercis canadensis) a.k.a. "Judas Tree" in bloom.

Dogwoods (Cornus florida) and redbuds (Cercis canadensis) a.k.a. "Juda...

Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of a square from a  sampler quilt made by Margie Miller

Detail of a square from a sampler quilt made by Margie Miller

Event: Quilting Bee. "Each Tuesday morning from September through May, a number of women on Drews Creek get together to quilt. Sometimes they quilt at the Ramp House, a community center at the head of Drews Cre... More

Dave Bailey, guitar, and Homer Pettry, banjo, playing in Dave's living room

Dave Bailey, guitar, and Homer Pettry, banjo, playing in Dave's living...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-5, at the Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival: unidentified da... More

African American craft makers: Katy Gregory and daughter, Ethel Lois Jackson, Mary Ellen Bowens, Lee Ora Crowder, and Elwillie Baylark, Chicago, Illinois

African American craft makers: Katy Gregory and daughter, Ethel Lois J...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, interior of Mrs. Katy Gregory's home, 335 W. 114th, Chicago; 3-7... More

Christmas manger, Lowell City Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Little Canada monument, Lowell, Massachusetts; Phnom Penh market, Lowell, Massachusetts

Christmas manger, Lowell City Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts; Little Cana...

Index data: 1-4, Christmas manger, Lowell City Hall. Close-up of statues of Virgin Mary and Christ child; 5-6, Long view of manger; 7, Long view of manger, with City Hall visible in background; 8-9, Medium view... More

Hellenic American School, Lowell, Massachusetts documentary photographs

Hellenic American School, Lowell, Massachusetts documentary photograph...

Index data: HELLENIC AMERICAN SCHOOL. 1-2, Kindergarten age children seated at desks; 3, Kindergarten teacher with class; 4, Close-up of girl in kindergarten class; 5, Same as 4, different girl; 6-10, Views of ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Cantometrics, coding, Coding Sheets, Early Areal Profiles, compiled from 1963 data

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Cantometrics, c...

Public domain scan of American Folklife Center performance studies, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, wall mural at Inn; located over the traditional Stammtisch, the... More

Miles City; Quilts - Montana folklife collection

Miles City; Quilts - Montana folklife collection

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, photos of dolls made by Irma Sieb (3816 N. Hermitage, Chicago), secretary of the Donauschwaben Club of Chicago. These dolls show some of the traditional women's costumes of Da... More

Shape Note Singing Convention, Stranger Home Baptist Church, 1451 W 63rd, Chicago, Illinois; Mary Young, craftswoman, Chicago, Illinois

Shape Note Singing Convention, Stranger Home Baptist Church, 1451 W 63...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-33, a cappella (shape note) singing convention, Stranger Home Bapti... More

St. Joseph Athletic Association's 51st Annual Parade, Chicago, Illinois

St. Joseph Athletic Association's 51st Annual Parade, Chicago, Illinoi...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-8, readying the statue of St. Joseph for the St. Joseph Athletic As... More

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, General shots while Buddy is working on Bill McLaughlin

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Calendars and address books

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Calendars and address books

1985 Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1955 Nov-Dec receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Performances at Theresa's Lounge, 4801 South Indiana Ave., Chicago, Illinois, including Junior Wells

Performances at Theresa's Lounge, 4801 South Indiana Ave., Chicago, Il...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-2, 9-13, unidentified dancers at Theresa's Lounge, 46th and Indiana... More

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (deer), Coventry, Rhode Island

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (deer), Coventry, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-4, Particular care in cutting around the eyes; 5-7, Particular care where the skin is very thin around the nose and mouth; 8-11, The skin, head and neck portions after skinning; 12-20, Removing an... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937

6/9; Correspondence from Zora Neale Hurston to Alan Lomax, 1936-06-07 and 1936-11-25;Correspondence from Mary Elizabeth Barnicle to JAL and AL postmarked NYC 5/15/35; AFC to AL 1994; Herskovits to AL 1937-07-20... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1957 July-Aug receipts Public domain image of a banknote, paper money, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgia Fishing, South Georgia. ethnographic collection

Georgia Fishing, South Georgia. ethnographic collection

See field notes: 157-176 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Photographs of the South Georgia ... More

Buildings, houses of Butte, Montana - Montana folklife collection

Buildings, houses of Butte, Montana - Montana folklife collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Irish music competion at Bogan high school; 11a-31, Siegfried S... More

John Hemonas, bouzouki player, Chicago, Illinois

John Hemonas, bouzouki player, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-5, John Hemonas, bouzouki player, 4450 N. Kedzie, Chicago; 6-7, John's wife, Chrisoula, holding Easter basket in knitted cover - note icon corner at upper right of slide - a fuste... More

Europe at Night nightclub, 2986 Elston, Chicago, Illinois; Los Amantes at El Romance Club, 3575 W. Armitage, Chicago, Illinois

Europe at Night nightclub, 2986 Elston, Chicago, Illinois; Los Amantes...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-5, musicians at Europe at Night, 2986 N. Elston, Chicago (Yugoslav ... More

C.E.T.A. workshop for National Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET) at the "old Navy Y," 50 Washington Square; Dinner at Leslie Elston's; Larry Sanders building solar greenhouse , Newport, Rhode Island

C.E.T.A. workshop for National Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET) at the "o...

Index data: 1-3, Tracy Anderson; 4-6, Wynetta Johnson (technical assistant for NBET productions); 7, Dayle Harden (technical assistant for NBET productions); 8, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 9, ... More

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09

Shahzad Hafeez is from Pakistan. He discusses being trained as an engineer and becoming a hairdresser in the United States. He talks about the difference of Indian hair compared to European hair and how Indian ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1953 May, receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Calendars and address books

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Calendars and address books

1960 Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Choreometrics, coding, Early Coding and Consensus, Area I, Ayamara I, Venez

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Choreometrics, ...

Public domain scan of American Folklife Center performance studies, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Saturday morning bread baking at Al's Bakery, Loomis and Taylor Streets, Chicago, Illinois

Saturday morning bread baking at Al's Bakery, Loomis and Taylor Street...

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-2, Saturday morning bread baking at Al's Bakery, Taylor and Loomis Streets, Chicago, Al Davino removing loaves from oven; 3-5, finished loaves of bread, not wrapped until sold; 6-... More

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (deer), Coventry, Rhode Island

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (deer), Coventry, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-4, Particular care in cutting around the eyes; 5-7, Particular care where the skin is very thin around the nose and mouth; 8-11, The skin, head and neck portions after skinning; 12-20, Removing an... More

Home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, Chicago, Illinois

Home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-9, examples of lacquered wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl, brought from Korea, at the home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, 6225 N. Claremont, Chicago; 10-14, lacquered box inlaid wit... More

Jimmy Walker, piano player, Chicago, Illinois

Jimmy Walker, piano player, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, rehearsal with Jimmie Walker (750 E. 46th St.,Chicago) and his ... More

Franco-American picnic, Westford, Massachusetts documentary photographs

Franco-American picnic, Westford, Massachusetts documentary photograph...

Index data: FRANCO-AMERICAN PICNIC AT MRS. FRAN MILOT FOREST'S, 17 MILOT RD., WESTFORD, Massachusetts. 1-2, Man reciting "Pack of Cards."; 3, Audience listening; 4, Table with Fran Forest's mother, Mr. and Mrs.... More

Pig roast at home of Felix Luna, Chapel St., Lowell, Massachusetts

Pig roast at home of Felix Luna, Chapel St., Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: PIG ROAST, HOME OF FELIX LUNA. 2, Boy looking at roasting pig; 3, Mario Montano sitting in corner of plastic shelter, pig in foreground; 4-6, Same as 3, with two boys; 7-8, Woman standing outside of... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Bridson, Geoffrey

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Bridson, Geoffrey

1967-1977 Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript correspondence, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Southeast Asian grocery store, Lowell, Massachusetts

Southeast Asian grocery store, Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: The following photographs were made at the Southeast Asian Restaurant and grocery store., 1; Female cook or kitchen worker inside restaurant; 2, Bulk food in back of restaurant; 3-4, Posed portrait ... More

Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, Illinois ethnic arts project

Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, Illinois ethnic arts project

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-17a, at the Maxwell Street market, faces in the Sunday market; 3-4,... More

Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago, Illinois

Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, street scenes at Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago

Southeast Asian grocery store, Lowell, Massachusetts

Southeast Asian grocery store, Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: The following photographs were made at the Southeast Asian Restaurant and grocery store., 1; Female cook or kitchen worker inside restaurant; 2, Bulk food in back of restaurant; 3-4, Posed portrait ... More

Mother Key's Memorial Church of God in Christ congregation, Newport, Rhode Island

Mother Key's Memorial Church of God in Christ congregation, Newport, R...

Index data: 2-37, Mother Key church congregation, including 3, 25-28, Mother Key

Franco-American Day School, Lowell, Massachusetts

Franco-American Day School, Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: FRANCO-AMERICAN DAY SCHOOL, FEBRUARY 10, 1988. 1-3, Altar in school chapel; 4-5, Long view of altar, with rows of pews and chapel windows visible; 6-12, Multicultural education class in Sr. Jane Hol... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1955 Nov-Dec receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Norwegian rosemaling at Norway Center, 2350 N. Kedzie Blvd., Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois

Norwegian rosemaling at Norway Center, 2350 N. Kedzie Blvd., Logan Squ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, student practicing; 2a-7, students practicing; 7a, students pra... More

Eddie Gerspacher's sheep wagon - Montana folklife collection

Eddie Gerspacher's sheep wagon - Montana folklife collection

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Europe at Night nightclub, 2986 Elston, Chicago, Illinois; Los Amantes at El Romance Club, 3575 W. Armitage, Chicago, Illinois

Europe at Night nightclub, 2986 Elston, Chicago, Illinois; Los Amantes...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-5, musicians at Europe at Night, 2986 N. Elston, Chicago (Yugoslav ... More

Easter midnight service, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Lowell, Massachusetts

Easter midnight service, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Lowell, M...

Index data: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Easter Midnight Service. 1-36, Views of candle-lighting ceremony taken from choir balcony. Various time exposures.

Shape Note Singing Convention, Stranger Home Baptist Church, 1451 W 63rd, Chicago, Illinois; Mary Young, craftswoman, Chicago, Illinois

Shape Note Singing Convention, Stranger Home Baptist Church, 1451 W 63...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-33, a cappella (shape note) singing convention, Stranger Home Bapti... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1952 undated, receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1950 receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1957 July-Aug receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Los Compadres Market, Lowell, Massachusetts documentary photographs

Los Compadres Market, Lowell, Massachusetts documentary photographs

Index data: 1-3, Door with Christmas decoration: Feliz Navidad; 4-5, View of Middle St.; 6, Close-up of architectural detail; 7-9, Portraits of Paul Marion in Commission office; 10-11, Exterior views of the Tra... More

Sunday morning services at Northside United Pentecostal Church, 1527 W. Edgewater Ave, Chicago, Illinois

Sunday morning services at Northside United Pentecostal Church, 1527 W...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-2, interior of Northside United Pentecostal church, 1527 W. Edgewat... More

Easter midnight service, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Lowell, Massachusetts

Easter midnight service, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Lowell, M...

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Easter Midnight Service. 1-36, Views of candle-lighting ceremony taken from choir balcony. Various time exposures.

Baking camas bulbs in earthen oven by Agnes Vanderburg at her summer camp

Baking camas bulbs in earthen oven by Agnes Vanderburg at her summer c...

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago; M.C. Barrett, astrologer, Chicago, Illinois

Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago; M.C. Barrett, astrologer, Chica...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-19, neighborhoods around Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago; 20-... More

St. Ann's Church service, baptisms, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

St. Ann's Church service, baptisms, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Index data: 2-37, General shots of Catholic service; Congregation mostly French-Canadian; 17-37, Baptism of several babies

Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd St., Chicago; Muddy Waters, Jr., Chicago, Illinois

Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd St., Chicago; Muddy Waters, Jr., Chic...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, unidentified band at the Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd St., ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Cantometrics, teaching, Training tapes, #2, Classroom use, Wenner Gren tape donations

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, Cantometrics, t...

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts studies collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1950 receipts Public domain scan of American Folklife Center document, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. Nykolaiszyn, 2011-07-01

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1947 Sept-Dec Amalgamated Bank of New York

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Alan Lomax, 1936, 1941-1997

1947 Sept-Dec Amalgamated Bank of New York

Conversation with 17 year old white male, White Pine, Tennessee (Transcript)

Conversation with 17 year old white male, White Pine, Tennessee (Trans...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC 17 year old white male. Talks about encountering Bigfoot; a typical day; animals; and school.

[Roger Mathews (harmonica), Willie Flowers (guitar), and Booker T. Sapps (harmonica), Belle Glade, Florida]

[Roger Mathews (harmonica), Willie Flowers (guitar), and Booker T. Sap...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "82-62... More

Postcard of Funicular at Oropa Santuario, Italy, ca. 1938

Postcard of Funicular at Oropa Santuario, Italy, ca. 1938

Inscription: "Funivia Oropa, Lago Mucrone;" from near Biella, Italy, the Recanzone family home

Bunkhouse Side Chair. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Bunkhouse Side Chair. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Stewart, Leslie and Marie Made ca. 1940 for the Bradshaw line camp cabin, the plank construction of this chair is a modern, western variation of a traditional European type The Paradise Valley Folklife... More

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