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Buttered Fresh Frozen Lima Beans: Commemorative Holiday Menus in the Veterans...
Front cover of Thanksgiving menu, Pusan, Korea, 1954. Eban Fisher Collection (AFC2001/001/43215), Veterans History Project. Chow, c-rations, MREs—no matter the form it takes or the name given to it,...
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Symposium sparks broad discussion of ethnographic archives
Elmira Köchümkulova of the University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic (left) presented a poster on “Documenting Kyrgyz Cultural Heritage.” She also brought donations of many books about...
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The Life and Times of Boll Weevil
Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils he has picked off the cotton plants. He is holding infected cotton “squares” (buds) and young bolls in his hand. Macon Georgia. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1937....
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Einstein’s Folklore
Albert Einstein, photographed by Orren Jack Turner in about 1947.Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-60242 (b&w film copy neg.) Albert Einstein, the...
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Songs of the Winter Season Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Sidney Robertson Cowell, copying California Folk Music Project recordings for the Library of Congress. Photo taken in the project office on Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California in early 1939. AFC...
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Mumming at the American Folklife Center
The 2013 American Folklife Center Mummers. Front Row, L-R: Nancy Groce, Eric Eldritch, Maggie Kruesi, Christy Chason Lavelle. Middle Row, L-R: Stephanie Hall, Hope O’Keeffe, Hannah Santino, Ann Hoog,...
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St. George and the Data Dragon: A Digital Assets Mumming
St. George and the Data Dragon: A Digital Assets Mumming Performed by American Folklife Center Staff with Guests Script drawn from multiple plays in the James Madison Carpenter Collection. Compiled by...
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Auld Acquaintance for the New Year: Burns’s Auld Lang Syne
Portrait of Robert Burns, Ayr, ScotlandL. C. Prints and Photographs DivisionReproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-07528 As the Old Year turns to the New Year, thousands of people around the world will sing...
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