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Kamawe
Shake your feet
Victor 18581. Matrix/Take: B-15098/1.
Contributor:
Toots Paka Hawaiian Troupe
Date:1914-07-30
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Patrick Palmer, Owner-operator Thornapple Farm and Draft Trash. New Haven, Vermont.
Patrick Palmer, the owner-operator of Thornapple Farm and Draft Trash in New Haven, Vermont, talks about his horse-based trash collecting business with documentarian Virgina Nickerson for the Occupational Folklife Project’s “Trash Talk: Workers in Vermont’s Waste Management Industry.”
CCG Year of Engagement: Returning to Our Roots
In the third episode of the Folklife Today subseries focusing on Community Collections Grantees, AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas interviews Laura Grant, the project leader for the CCG project “Returning to Our Roots: Documenting Traditional Nuwä Harvests.” Bringing together members of the diasporic Kawaiisu community in California, the project documented traditional gathering practices alongside the community’s efforts to develop language revitalization resources centered around…
Fewkes demonstrates "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy
Jesse Walter Fewkes collection of Passamaquoddy cylinder recordings SR01
Recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes possibly in Boston in 1891. Digital preservation copy, MAVIS no. 2031732-2-1, from original cylinder on Archeophone #27. Library of Congress, 2015 December 04. 32.32 MB BWF. Digital restoration copy, MAVIS no. 2031732-4-1, from preservation master file (from original cylinder) using Izotope RX4, Cedar Cambridge v.10 and Izotope Ozone 7. Library of Congress, 2016 October 31. 29.64 Mbytes BWF. Digital…
Service Unit/Ship: 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
Location of Service: Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Iowa; Santa Ana Air Base, California; Stockton, California; Twentynine Palms, California; Dyersburg, Tennessee; Las Vegas, Nevada; Lincoln, Nebraska; Manchester, New Hampshire; Thorpe Abbott, England
Audio RecordingKamawe
Audio RecordingPatrick Palmer, Owner-operator Thornapple Farm and Draft Trash. New Haven, Vermont. Patrick Palmer, the owner-operator of Thornapple Farm and Draft Trash in New Haven, Vermont, talks about his horse-based trash collecting business with documentarian Virgina Nickerson for the Occupational Folklife Project’s “Trash Talk: Workers in Vermont’s Waste Management Industry.”
personal narrativeDonald R. Dunlap Collection
Audio RecordingCCG Year of Engagement: Returning to Our Roots In the third episode of the Folklife Today subseries focusing on Community Collections Grantees, AFC Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas interviews Laura Grant, the project leader for the CCG project “Returning to Our Roots: Documenting Traditional Nuwä Harvests.” Bringing together members of the diasporic Kawaiisu community in California, the project documented traditional gathering practices alongside the community’s efforts to develop language revitalization resources centered around…
Audio RecordingFewkes demonstrates "Mr. Phonograph" to a visiting Passamaquoddy
Audio RecordingButterfly
personal narrativeJohn Alden Clark Collection
Audio RecordingClosing time in a country grocery
Audio RecordingSweet kisses
Audio RecordingBrindisi