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Public Folklore: Resources in the American Folklife Center

Digital Collections

The Library of Congress has been digitizing unique primary source collection materials since the 1990's. The following digital collections focus on “public folklore” from the perspective of a single folklorist, as well as a regional collection, and a special presentation highlighting online collections stemming from the large scale ethnographic field surveys that the American Folklife Center undertook in the public interest between 1977 and 1998.

Selected Digital Collections

Special Presentation

Story Maps at the Library of Congress are immersive web presentations that tell the incredible stories of the Library’s collections through narrative, multimedia, and interactive maps. The American Folklife Center publishes Story Maps that provide curated access to our online collections.