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Archival materials (117) Collection descriptions (117) Audiotapes (47) Manuscripts (42) Clippings (38) Sound recordings (33) Correspondence (32) Photographs (29) Videotapes (28) Business records (27) Brochures (26) Video recordings (24) Black-and-white photographs (21) Photographic prints (21) Audiocassettes (20) Contracts (20) Color photographs (19) Notes (18) Slides (photographs) (18) Digital images (17) Negatives (17) Plans (drawings) (17) Memorandums (16) Posters (15) Compact discs (12) Awards (10) Electronic records (10) Floor plans (10) Color transparencies (9) Floppy disks (9) Scrapbooks (9)

Folk music (24) Jazz (22) World music (18) Folk festivals (17) Music (17) Radio programs (17) Folk art (16) Folklore (16) Food habits (16) arts and crafts (16) Museums (15) Radio (15) Jazz musicians (14) Contracts (13) African Americans (12) Documentary television programs (11) Television (11) Documentary films (9) Motion pictures (9) Musicians (9) Documentary videos (8) Intellectual property (8) Popular music (8) Video recordings (8) Art (6) Marketing (6) African American entertainers (5) African American musicians (5) Concerts (5) Educators (5) Historical museums (5)

Smithsonian Folklife Festival (17) Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (16) Ellington, Duke (10) Armstrong, Louis (4) Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David) (3) Howard University (3) Seeger, Pete (3) Anacostia Community Museum (2) Betts, Keter, 1928- (2) Carter, Jimmy, 1924- (2) Conyers, John, 1929- (2) Custom Craft (2) Davis, Miles (2) Davison, Bill (2) Decca (recording company). (2) DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) (2) Fitzgerald, Ella (2) Folkways Records (2) Gaskin, Leonard, 1920- (2) Gillespie, Dizzy (2) Grant, Felix (2) Granz, Norman (2) Lawrence, Jacob (2) Mulligan, Gerry (2) National Museum of American History. Program in African American Culture (2) Ramsey, Frederic (2) Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- (2) Robinson, Jackie (2) Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (2) Scurlock, Addison N. (2) Scurlock, George H. (Hardison) (2)

Afro-Caribbean cults (2) 10th Naval District Steel Band (1) Almerico, Tony, 1905- (1) American Indian (1) American Indians (1) Areyto (1) Ast, Anita (1) Audio Engineering Society (1) Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (1) Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 (1) Big Shell Band (1) Bomba (Dance) (1) Boston Chorale (1) Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 (1) Brokenshire, Norman, 1898-1965 (1) Brundage, Al (Alfred) (1) Brute Force Band (1) Camp, Red (1) Carroll, Jimmy (1) Cree (1) Crowley, Daniel J., 1921- (1) Eskimo/Inuit (1) Indians of North America (1) Kaska Dena (1) Moko Jumbie Dance (1) Slave (1) bomba (music) (1)

Caribbean Area (10) Puerto Rico (6) Haiti (3) Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (3) United States (3) Virgin Islands (3) Washington (D.C.) (3) Cuba (2) Jamaica (2) Latin America (2) New York (N.Y.) (2) Shaw (Washington, D.C.) (2) Trinidad and Tobago (2) Africa (1) Amazon River Region (1) Anacostia (Washington, D.C.) (1) Antigua (1) Attawapisdat, Ontario (1) Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) (1) Barbuda (1) Benin (1) Benítez (Venezuela) (1) Brazil (1) Burkina Faso (1) Cameroon (1) Canada (1) Central African Republic (1) Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) (1) Churchill, Manitoba (1) Congo (Democratic Republic) (1) Connecticut (1)

Smithsonian Institution Archives (44) Archives Center, National Museum of American History (30) Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (25) Archives of American Art (10) Anacostia Community Museum Archives (2) National Anthropological Archives (2) Archives of American Gardens (1) Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art (1) National Museum of African American History and Culture (1) National Museum of the American Indian (1)