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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