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Finding Aids for Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

Guides to Individual Collections | Cross-Collection Topical Guides

The Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture holds approximately three thousand collections. At this time only a small portion of them have catalog records and finding aids. The currently available finding aids are listed below, with links to those available online. The first set provides descriptions and a list of contents for individual collections. The second set provides guides by specific topics across collections in the Archive, called the Library of Congress Folk Archive Finding Aid series (LCFAFA). The cross-collection guides that are listed without links (in black text) are not currently available in computer-readable format and may be requested by mail. Contact the Folklife Center for more information about holdings and available printed guides. Access to the collections is on site in the Folklife Reading Room, Library of Congress.

Some collections available online in part or in their entirety as Library of Congress American Memory presentations do not yet have related collection guides listed here. See the Collections Available Online page for a list of these online multi-media presentations from Archive of Culture collections. For more information about the American Folklife Center's services to particular states, see the Services to the States pages.

Unless otherwise noted, these guides are provided in ascii text format. Because the online versions for many of these finding aids were prepared for the early Internet, diacritics may be omitted. Updated versions will be added as they become available.

Guides to Individual Collections

Cross-Collection Topical Guides: Library of Congress Folk Archive Finding Aid Series

U.S. States | Countries and Cultural Groups | Instruments and Instrumentalists | Folksong Genres |
Collectors
| Spoken Word | Historical Eras and Wars | Material Culture | Media

U. S. States

Countries / Regional, Ethnic, and Cultural Groups

Musical Instruments / Instrumentalists

Song Genres

Folklore and Folksong Collectors

Spoken Word

Historical Eras and Wars

Material Culture

Folklife in the Media

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