Contents of Inventory

Introduction

Summary

Biographical/Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

List of Series and Subseries

Series and Subseries Descriptions

Index Terms

Container List

Container List for video and films

Folklife Audio Tapes Database

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Proper acknowledgment of LLMVC materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections are welcomed.

Summary

Size. 33 linear feet of manuscript materials, 28 linear feet of sound recordings (14 linear feet of originals and 14 linear feet of copies.), 3 linear feet of video tapes.

Geographic

locations. Louisiana.

Inclusive

dates. 1973‑2001.

Bulk dates. 1979‑1996.

Languages. English.

Summary. Records of the Louisiana Folklife Program include correspondence, field recordings and oral histories, and project files of its various programming efforts, publications, and projects designed to document and promote the folk ways of Louisiana. Included are the records of projects funded by the Program and for which the Program received funding, including the Louisiana Folklife Festival, folklife surveys of the state’s regions and parishes, participation in the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, and others. Early materials relate to the establishment of the Folklife Program and include correspondence, legislation. Records of the Folklife Commission are also present. The records also include files of correspondence, printed items, reports, grant applications, clippings, and articles about or from agencies also within the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; other state agencies; various cultural institutions, programs, and festivals in the state; and out of state, national, and federal folklife-related agencies and organizations.

Source. Received from the Folklife Program, Division of the Arts, 1999.

Access. Archival copies of sound and videocassettes are restricted for public access.

Copyright. Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright of the original materials is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Citation. Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Stack

designations. 63:1-35 and 33:9-13; OS:L (17 folders in 2 boxes); oral history tapes L:45-49 (copies), L:50-54 (originals); L:2a-4a (video cassettes and films).

Biographical/Historical Note

The Louisiana Division of the Arts is an agency within the Office of Cultural Development in the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. The Division of the Arts was created in 1977 to support established and individual artists and to stimulate public participation in the arts in Louisiana. The Division administers state and federal funds appropriated for arts grants in Louisiana through three principal mechanisms: the Statewide Arts Grants Program, the Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program and Special Initiatives. The Division awards approximately $4 million in grants each year to Louisiana artists and non-profit organizations. Its programs encourage the expansion of audiences and stimulate public participation in the arts in Louisiana. The Louisiana Folklife Program is one of the programs of the Division of the Arts.

The mandate of the Louisiana Folklife Program is to identify, document, preserve, and present Louisiana’s traditional cultures. Over the past 20 years, the Program has developed numerous projects and programs to implement this mandate. Its history can be highlighted by taking note of the accomplishments of the three individuals who have held the position of Director since 1979.

The first director of the Program, Nicholas Spitzer (1979-1985) compiled the baseline research presented in Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State, assisted with four albums in the Louisiana Folklife Recording Series, had The Creole State: An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife permanently installed in the State Capitol, and initiated the Louisiana Folklife Festival at the 1984 World’s Fair. He also started the statewide Louisiana Folklife Survey grew out of the Florida Parishes Folklife Project. The Florida Parishes Folklife Project, an ambitious seven-year project included a conference, survey, exhibit, festival, and publication.

Robert Gates, the second director (1986-1988), expanded the Apprenticeship Program, initiated the Delta Parishes Survey (northeast Louisiana), and coordinated the folklife component of the temporary exhibit, 1988 Annual Made in the Shade Exhibit in conjunction with the Louisiana Crafts Council. He also moved the Louisiana Folklife Festival from Baton Rouge to Eunice in 1988 when the city of Baton Rouge was no longer able to support it.

Maida Owens (Bergeron), the third and current director of the Louisiana Folklife Program, was appointed as the director in 1989. One of her first tasks was to determine a way for the Louisiana Folklife Festival to survive. Increasingly, the Louisiana Folklife Program was less involved in the festival. The Program started to initiate fieldwork to be presented at the festival and to provide technical assistance regarding programming and the interpretive booklet. The community then became responsible for producing the festival and hiring a folklorist to program it. This created a new partnership each year between a community and the Folklife Program. After being held in New Orleans (1984), Baton Rouge (1985-87), Eunice (1988-89, 1991) and Kenner (1990), the City of Monroe now hosts the festival. While continuing the existing programs, Maida Owens (Bergeron) initiated several new ones: for example, the Open House Storytelling Program 1990 resulted in the publication of a book Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana (1997) where she was co-editor. Also Maida Owens served as co-producer/researcher of the book companion video program (1997). A website with the same title was also established. The Louisiana Folklife Survey became an ongoing project to document traditional artists and communities with special focus on regions not previously documented. Also a map, Louisiana Folk Regions, showing the major subregions and ethnic groups in Louisiana was compiled by Maida Owens based on Spitzer, Kniffen, Knipmeyer, Newton, Gregory, and Roach, with cartography by Greg Wirth. Louisiana Folklife Recording Series (LFRS) developed into a program that documents traditional musicians and storytellers otherwise unlikely to be recorded by commercial labels such as African-American work songs, old time Cajun and country music. Maida Owens was a curator for the renovation of The Creole State: An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife (1995) permanently located in the State Capitol, edited the publication Fait a la Main: A Sourcebook of Louisiana Crafts (1988), co-edited Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship, A Review of the Louisiana Apprenticeship Program (1993). She also served as assistant producer and researcher for the video documentary Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras (1993).

While these projects represent the highlights of the initiatives undertaken in the past 20 years, the attached “History of the Louisiana Folklife Program 1977-1991" provides a more detailed description. This description is based on the Minutes of the Louisiana Folklife Commission Meetings and other collection documents.

Scope and Content Note

Louisiana Folklife Program Project files collection includes correspondence, financial documents and papers, grant drafts and completed applications, minutes and other materials of the Folklife Commission and Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, correspondence, documentation, and related oral history recordings of various folklife projects and festivals (the latter primarily related to the Louisiana Folklife Festival), correspondence related to and drafts of Folklife Program publications (Louisiana Folklife Guide, Swapping Stories files), printed materials, newspaper clippings, posters, photographs, videos spanning 1979 to 1996 documenting the creation, development and work on different projects of the Louisiana Folklife Program, Division of the Arts.

The correspondence discusses development of the Folklife Program; initiation and development of different folklife projects and folklife festivals; grant applications; financial and personnel matters. There is correspondence with the Governor and Senators and National Endowment for the Arts; and reading files. The bulk of the correspondence is that of the three Folklife Program directors: Nick Spitzer, Bob Gates, and Maida Owens Bergeron.

Included is Folklife Commission correspondence, minutes of meetings, bylaws spanning 1982-1991. Folklife Program, Division of the Arts official correspondence, goals of the Division, folklife plan of the State of Louisiana, proposal for Louisiana Folklife Program 1984-1985. Materials on Louisiana Folklife Festivals include detailed description of organization of Louisiana Folklife Pavilion at Louisiana World Exposition 1984, and Louisiana Folklife Festivals from 1985 to 2000 (Festival Board/Advisory Committee minutes of meetings and correspondence, financial records, NEA, DOA, and LEH grants materials and applications, contracts, correspondence, festival evaluations, press releases and publicity plans, materials on sponsorship and volunteers, posters, photographs, videos).

Different projects and programs of the Louisiana Folklife Program include materials on Louisiana Folklife Guide publication (1980-1985), Florida Parishes project (1981-1989), Folklife Recording Series (1981-1984), Delta Parishes Folklife Survey (1987-1998), Crafts marketing and support (1979-1998), Louisiana Open House (regional coordinators selection, appointment and work materials, correspondence, Storytelling Pavilion materials, oral history tape recordings) and Storytelling Book Project (1989-1991) (NEA grant application, correspondence, applications for the Director of the Project, book manuscript development materials) that resulted in the publication of Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana book. Materials on book publication include co-publishing contract and copyright materials, permission forms received from contributors and storytellers, revisions materials. Also there are materials on the Louisiana Folklife Apprenticeship Program and other projects of the Folklife Program, Division of the Arts.

The records also include files of correspondence, printed items, reports, grant applications, clippings, and articles about or from agencies also within the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; other state agencies; various cultural institutions, programs, and festivals in the state; and out of state, national, and federal folklife-related agencies and organizations.

List of Series and Subseries

Series I. Correspondence, 1979‑2001 (boxes 1-3C)

Series II. Folklife Commission, 1982-1999 (box 3C-4A)

Series III. Folklife Program/Division of the Arts, 1979-2000 (box 4A-4B)

Series IV. Louisiana Folklife (LF) Guide, 1980-1985 (box 5)

Series V. Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF)/Site Selection, 1990-1993 (box 5)

Series VI. Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission (LMDDC), 1989-1990 (box 5)

Series VII. Crafts, 1979-1998 (box 6a-6c)

Series VIII. Florida Parishes Folklife, 1981-1989 (box 6d)

Series IX. Folklife Recording Series, 1981-1984 (box 6d)

Series X. Institute of Texan Cultures of the University of Texas at San Antonio (Inst. of Texan Cultures, UTSA), 1977, 1981 (box 6d)

Series XI. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, 1979-1985,1995/96 (box 6d)

Series XII. Music, 1980-1982, 1987, 1990-1998 (box 7a and boxes 34-37)

Series XIII. National Council for Traditional Arts (NCTA), 1979-2001 (box 7b)

Series XIV. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1975-1999 (box 7b-7c)

Series XV. National Public Radio (NPR), 1978-1980, 1982, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997 (box 7c)

Series XVI. Perique Tobacco, 1987, 1989 (box 7c)

Series XVII. Smithsonian Institution, 1976-1999 (box 7c-8)

Series XVIII. Miscellaneous, c.a. 1950, 1973/74, 1978-1998 (box 8)

Series XIX. Louisiana Folklife Festival Pavilion (LFFP)/Louisiana World Exposition (LWE) 1984, 1982-1984 (boxes 9-10)

Series XX. Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF), 1983-2001 (boxes 11-15b)

Series XXI. LA Open House, 1989-1991 (box 16)

Series XXII. Storytelling Book Project, 1989-1991 (box 16)

Series XXIII. Swapping Stories Files, 1994-1999 (box 16-17)

Series XXIV. Oral History, 1973-1999 [includes recordings from projects from other series] (boxes 18-21 and 1-26 at L: 45-L: 46)

Series XXV. Videotapes and Films, 1982-1996 (L:2a-L:4a)

Series XXVI. Posters, ca. 1973-1999 (oversize folders 1-9)

Series XXVII. Originals (Artist’s Copies) (oversize folders 10-17)

Series XXVIII. Delta Parishes Folklife Project, 1987-1998 (box 22)

Series XXIX. Folk Arts in Education, 1983-1998 (box 22-23)

Series XXX. Piney Woods Folklife Survey, 1996-1999 (box 23)

Series XXXI. Miscellaneous Louisiana Folklife Program Projects (box 23)

Subseries 1. Louisiana Folk Regions Map, n.d. (and OS:L)

Subseries 2. Tri-Parish Folklife Survey, 1992

Subseries 3. Imperial Calcasieu Folklife Survey, 1987-1991

Subseries 4. West Baton Rouge Parish Folklife Survey , 1987

Series XXXII. Program and Agency Files, 1941, 1977-2001 (box 23-32)

Subseries 1. Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism Agencies, 1977-1999

Subseries 2. Non-Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism State Agencies, 1979-2000

Subseries 3. Louisiana Folklife Projects and Programs, date?

Subseries 4. Out-of-State Folklife Programs and Projects, 1941, 1979-1999

Subseries 5. Federal and National Folklife Programs and Projects, 1979-2001

Series XXXIII. Fellowship and Apprenticeship Records, 1981-1996 (box 33)

Series XXXIV. Topics (box 34)

Series Descriptions

I. Correspondence, 1979‑2001, [Go to Container List]

4.5 linear feet, chronological arrangement

Summary: Incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Louisiana Folklife Program, Division of the Arts, bulk of correspondence is of Nicholas Spitzer, Bob Gates, Maida Owens (Bergeron). Arranged by date and personal names.

Correspondence discusses the development of the Folklife Program, initiation and development of different folklife projects and folklife festivals, grant applications, financial and personnel matters and includes correspondence with the Governor, Senators, National Endowment for the Arts, folk artists, craftsmen, and the general public. The bulk of the correspondence is of Nicholas Spitzer (1979-1985), Robert Gates (1987-1988), Maida Owens (1985-2001).

II. Folklife Commission, 1982-1999, [Go to Container List]

0.8 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder

Summary: House bill on Folklife Commission, bylaws, correspondence, minutes of the

meetings, Indian tribes description, member’s lists and correspondence on newly appointed members, press releases, printed materials, and lobbying campaigns.

House bill no. 1397 (House Regular Session, 1982; act no. 850) describes the Folklife Commission purpose and functions; its creation, membership, confirmation, and reconfirmation; terms; officers; vacancies; compensation; meetings; quorum. Correspondence (1982-1990) in connection with Commission work and meetings, new member appointments and re-appointments, Folklife Program projects, folklife representation during 1984 World’s Fair and other folklife festivals and cultural tourism promotion, discussion of the creation of Louisiana Folklife Center. Minutes of Commission Meetings provide information on Folklife Program projects design and development, Folklife Program updates, discussion on folklife festivals site selection and preparations.

III. Folklife Program/Division of the Arts, 1979-2000, [Go to Container List]

1 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder

Summary: Official correspondence (1982-1992) and papers on development of proposed Folklife Program (Division of Folklife), on approval of Folklife Funds and Folklife legislation and amendment; goals of the Division; folklife plan of the State of Louisiana; proposal for Louisiana Folklife Program, 1984-1985; expenditures drafts and notes; NEA grants applications; press releases; selection of an archives; the Folklife Database Project; and the Louisiana Folklife Updates newsletter.

Correspondence and narrative papers relate to a proposal to set up a new Division of Folklife in the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Office of Program Development in the fall of 1981. Also there are letters and materials on the proposed funding and development of the Folklife Program in 1983,1984-1985. Letters represent correspondence between members of the Louisiana State Administration, Louisiana State Legislation, State Folklife Commission and Louisiana Folklife Program, Division of the Arts. Draft materials on budgeting include expenditures in 1994 and different sources of funding. There are materials on two NEA Grant Applications that include an application on creating a position of Folk Arts Coordinator from 1979 and an application requesting support for the development and implementation of a computerized folklife database system for 1986. Press Releases include one on a preview of Joie de Cajun, a film on contemporary Cajun culture (1987), one on arts workshops scheduled for rural areas (1994), and one on an opening of the exhibit The Creole State: An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife in State Capitol (1994).

IV. Louisiana Folklife (LF) Guide, 1980-1985, [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: The Louisiana State Guide was published in 1985 and is an important

resource for anyone researching Louisiana folklife. Correspondence 1980-1985, draft

outlines, table of contents, prints, publication expenses, printing drafts.

Correspondence relates to publication development and preparation of articles, photographs, and research connected with folklife in Louisiana and publishing aspects of the Guide. It includes Information Sheets and survey questions in connection with research of different aspects of folk culture for the Guide, letters to Spitzer with comments on different aspects of drafts of the articles for the Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to Sources and Resources, editing notes, correspondence with description of the work progress, requests of photographs for the Guide, financial aspects of publication, graphics for the Guide, letters of Spitzer to publishers, letters that include a plan for completion of the work on the Guide, etc. Manuscript development materials include built-in expenses, grant agreement between the State of Louisiana through the Division of the Arts and The Center for Gulf History and Culture on developmental and administrative services related to the Louisiana Folklife Guide and distribution of the responsibilities, drafts of outlines, table of contents, introduction and thanks of the Guide. There are drafts for printing, publication expenses sheets, and photograph expenses.

V. Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF)/Site Selection, 1990-1993, [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear foot, chronological arrangement by year of the Festival and by format or topic for each year.

Summary: Letters of responses on hosting the Louisiana Folklife Festival, applications to host the 1990/1991/1992/1993 Louisiana Folklife Festival, materials on Lake Charles as a possible host of the Festival in 1991, procedures of site selection for the Festival through 1990-1993, general correspondence on site selection aspects.

Applications to host the 1990 Louisiana Folklife Festival include applications from the cities of Eunice, Kenner, Lake Charles, and Ferriday; applications to host the 1991 Louisiana Folklife Festival include the Lake Charles and Natchitoches application; applications to host the 1992 Louisiana Folklife Festival include application of the City of Eunice. Procedures for site selection materials consist of the Letter to the Mayors and lists of Mayors as possible hosts of the Festival with description of the population in each city, description of the different aspects of the Festival and hosting the Festival, application procedures and festival site selection criteria. There is also correspondence on the development and improvement of the site selection procedure during the 1990-92 period. Materials on Lake Charles’ application for hosting the 1991 Louisiana Folklife Festival provide complete information on the development of the situation with Lake Charles as possible host of the 1991 Louisiana Folklife Festival and correspondence and newspaper clippings on why and how Lake Charles was finally unable to do so.

VI. Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission (LMDDC), 1989-1990, [Go to Container List]

0.2 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Correspondence on cultural tourism and conference on Cultural Tourism materials, draft of the Commission report to the Congress, Commission Hearings (1990) on tourism development, printed interim report of the Commission.

Correspondence includes a letter to Owens (Bergeron) from Governor Buddy Roemer on the 100^th Session of Congress decision to create and to mandate the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission to identify, study, and report on the problems and needs of selected counties/ parishes within a seven state region; and on the need to organize special public hearings and the participation of the Folklife Program in this hearing. Correspondence of Owens (Bergeron) with Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission provides background information on the Commission that was created in 1988 by Public Law 100-460, the Delta Development Act, a bipartisan bill that was introduced in the House by Congressmen Mike Espy and Jamie Whitten and in the Senate by Senators Dale Bumpers and Thad Cochran and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. Materials on cultural tourism and “Preserving and Promoting Our Heritage: A Conference on Cultural Tourism in the Lower Mississippi Delta” include letters from the Commission to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; Arts Council and the Louisiana Folklife Program with the description of the conference agenda, steering committee schedule, and invitation to participate in the Conference. It also includes News Releases on the Conference, letters from Owens (Bergeron) to Leslie Tassin, assistant secretary with the reports after she attended the Conference, letters on the progress of the Delta

Commission cultural tourism database and resource book. Correspondence of Owens (Bergeron) with Susan Jones (LMDDC) on various aspects of the Conference, and a survey of the Lower Mississippi Delta Region - the purpose of which was to document the traditions found within the specified area, and review conference participant goals and strategies from the preservation/ tourism conference, etc. 1990 Hearings materials contain a news release with information on the hearings and the issues of the hearings; materials include list of representatives for the tourism aspects in Louisiana on the Hearings, lists of invited members to the Advisory Task Force for Louisiana’s Public Hearings for The Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission. The Interim Report of the LMDDC from October 16, 1989 represents the Commission printed materials.

VII. Crafts, 1979-1998, [Go to Container List]

3.0 linear feet, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: American Craft Association Newsletter. Catalogs. Craft Administrators Journal. CraftED Seminar Worksheet. Directories. Materials for producing A La Main, the Eunice Museum, Foundation for Historical Louisiana Shops, Galleries, Legislature Subcommittee on Recreational and Cultural Affairs, Louisiana Artists Guild, Louisiana Crafts Alliance, Louisiana Crafts Council, Louisiana Crafts Program, Louisiana Furnishing Industry Association, Louisiana Handicrafts Exposition, Louisiana Tech Art Gallery, North Central Louisiana Arts Council, and the Year of the American Craft. Louisiana Crafts Marketeer. NAAC. Newspaper clippings. Ozark Region materials. Provincial and state publications. Samples of craft organizations structures from other states. Southern Arts and Crafts newsletter (1988). Year of the American Craft materials.

A La Main materials include an agenda, brochure, cooperative information, correspondence, flyer, grant application to the Division of the Arts (DOA), Jo-Ann Lutz's coordinator's reports, marketing agreement, minutes, standards for jurying, Catalogs are Art Quest '87, The Buyer's Book of American Crafts (1984), National Lifestyle Crafts (1994) and a brochure for the crafts book, By Southern Hands. Spitzer's correspondence is letters on crafts he received and wrote and newspaper clippings sent to him as the Folk Arts Coordinator (1979-1981). Directories are the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers' Crafts Directory (1979-1980), International Directory of Resources for Artisans, and Yellow Pages of American Crafts (1988). Eunice museum materials include brochures, correspondence, development report, flyers, grant agreement with the DOA, marketing workshop printed materials, Nancy Gher's contract, and planning guidelines. Foundation for Historical Louisiana Shops materials are addresses of craftspeople and sources for folklife posters, correspondence, and excerpt from "The Creole State: An Exhibit of Louisiana Folklife: A Teacher's Guide." Galleries materials are brochures and flyers from these Louisiana galleries: Galerie Melançon, Handcrafted, Inc., New Orleans Weavers Guild, RHINO, Stoner Arts Center, and Weavers Workshop. Exhibitions materials are brochures from Dixie Frets: Luthiers of the Southeast and Southern Regional Crafts Exhibition.

Legislature Subcommittee on Recreational and Cultural Affairs materials include correspondence of Theresa Harper Ray, Research Analyst for the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs, magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, report on artist employment and unemployment from the NEA, and reports on the economic impact of art on tourism.

Louisiana Artists Guild materials are a general brochure, correspondence, and a flyer, both on the online catalog. Louisiana Crafts Council materials include correspondence, Crafts South, Robert Gray's contract, Holiday Crafts Market materials, The Louisiana Crafts Report, Louisiana Craftsmen show materials, "Made in the Shade" exhibition materials and newspaper clippings.

Louisiana Crafts Program materials include addresses and mailout lists, applications, contracts, correspondence, economic impact survey, Fait à la Main, job description of program manager, marketing workshop sign-in sheet and instructional materials, Louisiana tourist information center brochure access policy, agendas, House Bill No. 2150 creating the program (1986), invoices and tear sheets from magazines and newspapers, logo competition entries, newspaper clippings, notes, grant agreements, budgets, order forms, surveys, participant information handbook, photographs, "Louisiana Celebration" map and souvenir program (1988), report to the legislature (1987), participant questionnaires, press releases, jury judging sheets, and a report on the Folklife, Crafts, and DOA activities (1995).

Louisiana Furnishing Industry Association brochure, catalog, letter, notes, and order form. Louisiana Handicrafts Exposition brochure, correspondence, marketing plan, meeting minutes form, and press releases. Louisiana Tech Arts Gallery correspondence, inventory list, newspaper clippings, and promotional materials.

National Crafts Planning Project materials are correspondence from the director of the Florida Folklife Program and John McLean, project coordinator, press releases, Report on the Project and Congress, and Visual Arts Program/Crafts.

Newspaper clippings include articles about the crafts industry and various Louisiana craftspeople (1981-1995). North Central Louisiana Arts Council brochures, consignment sales contract, correspondence, daily sales summary sheet, flyer, grant agreement, inventory sheet, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, recommendations by Dan Overley and workshop forms. Ozark Region marketing project proposal and reports. Photograph of man hammering wood. Provincial publications include crafts booklets and pamphlets from Nova Scotia. State publications materials include catalogs, pamphlets and booklets from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The Year of the American Craft materials include AFS notes, a Congressional proclamation, correspondence, Craft News, a fact sheet, form, logo design, Louisiana committee materials, Louisiana mailing list, participation guide, press packet, press release, state coordinators list, summary statement, and Y.O.A.C News.

VIII. Florida Parishes Folklife, 1981-1992, [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Chronology of the project; LCH (Louisiana Committee for the Humanities)/Minigrant 1982 materials for conducting extensive field surveys and presentations in the Florida Parishes; agreements for the items on display in the exhibit Louisiana Folklife in Florida Parishes; loan agreements; correspondence on book publication; correspondence on the project development; the Florida Parishes bookessays, drafts and notes; NEA grant application (1984) for book publication; book press releases; newspaper clippings on the Florida Parishes Folklife Conference in 1983, folklife seminar, Florida Parishes Folk Music and Dance Concert, folk crafts display of the people of the Florida Parishes; correspondence, list of exhibit crafts people, exhibit collection list, news release for the Florida Parishes Folklife Exhibition in 1984, contract agreement with Gordon Linge and Jill Jeskin (Jeskin & Linge); printed materials; NEA grant application (1983) and materials on “Piney Woods People” exhibit; survey of Florida Parishes materials.

The chronology of the Florida Folklife Project provides a detailed timeline of the project’s initiation and development starting from Fall 1982 through 1989. Materials on initial project planning include correspondence on minigrant and minigrant applications from 1982, proposal for a Humanist/Scholar in Residence to bring historian/folklife specialist Stephen Tucker into the Louisiana Folklife Program to carry out work and advise the Program on its interest in cultural conservation in the Florida Parishes and the Delta of northeast Louisiana, expenditures forms and records.

Preliminary proposal to NEA on Florida Parishes Folklife Project from January 1, 1983. Newspaper clippings describe project development from 1981 through 1984, and the selection of the book by the ALA for inclusion on its Notable Books list. Draft of the initial NEA grant application (1983) and final application in order to carry out a Florida Parishes Folklife Project in the eight parishes of the Louisiana “panhandle”. The Piney Woods People exhibit materials consist of project sample pages and a couple of photographs, a report on a survey of log buildings in the Florida Parishes submitted to Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, Division of the Arts by the Museum of Geoscience and School of Geoscience, LSU. There is also an article on Choctaw and other Indian tribes in Washington Parish, and an additional narrative on the Florida Parishes Folklife Project. Original retyped copies consist of different authors articles on different aspects of Florida Parishes folklife.

Survey materials include correspondence (1983-1985), survey form, Division of the Arts grant agreements with field workers for the Florida Parishes Folklife Survey and field workers’ resumes, and expenditures, press releases and printed materials. Contract with Hammond Cultural Foundation and consultants Jill Jeskin and Gordon Linge for an installation of an exhibition entitled “Louisiana Folklife of the Florida Parishes”, correspondence, notes, and a collection list for the exhibition. Agreements for displaying crafts items during the exhibition. Materials on the Florida Parishes Folklife Conference (1983) consist of correspondence, NEA grant application, LCH minigrant application, public service announcements and releases, press guide materials, conference program and notes. Materials on the Florida Parishes folklife publication include correspondence on different aspects of its development and printing, NEA grant application for its publishing, drafts, notes, and press releases.

IX. Folklife Recording Series, 1981-1985, 1990 [Go to Container List]

0.1 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Correspondence, materials on Brownie Ford: Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky Tonks album, Hezekiah and the HouseRockers album, Octa Clark and the Dixie Ramblers recording, and “The Country Three”.

Correspondence on production, editing, financial aspects, and distribution of folklife recordings, correspondence with Louisiana Folklife Center, grant agreement for distribution of folklife recording albums, labels specifications, newspaper clippings, reports on released albums, descriptions of the record collection, cover specifications for Louisiana Folklife Recording Series reissues. Press release and note on Folklife Recording Series, Brownie Ford: Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky Tonks. Materials on Hezekiah and the House Rockers include correspondence, grant agreement on production LP of traditional blues by Hezekiah and the House Rockers of Ferriday, transcripts of the interviews from 1981 with Hezekiah Early, Pee Wee Whittaker, James Baker; revised re-mastering instruction for Hezekiah and the Houserockers, notes by David Evans with band history and music description, labels, cover credits and back cover specifications. Materials on Octa Clark recordings include rough transcription for the LP Octa Clark and the Dixie Ramblers from 1978, correspondence, grant agreement, music notes and transcriptions the photos and revised cover information for the recoding, notes and transcripts. Materials on “The Country Three” album consist of correspondence, press release and band music overview. Letters of appreciation from libraries and archives where Louisiana Recording Series were distributed. Newspaper clippings.

X. Institute of Texan Culture of the University of Texas at San Antonio, 1977, 1981, [Go to Container List]

0.05 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Materials on the conference Folk Culture in Texas (1977) include greetings and welcoming letters to members of the Conference, list of program participants and performers, printed brochure on the Texas Folklife Festival from August, 1977, correspondence with Spitzer and grant application with budget description and narrative for organization of a public forum and production of a videotape documentary on traditional Texas music.

Series XI. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, 1979-1985,1995/96, [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, General Management Plan/Development Plan draft (1982) .Correspondence mostly between Spitzer and James Isenogle (Superintendent of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park). Materials on the African American Heritage Tourism Conference (1995). Delta Region Preservation Commission Minutes (1980,1982-1984). Update and revision of the Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview 11978) and request for quotations. Printed materials. Requests for proposals (1980). Schedule of facilities for the 1984 World Exposition. Revision of the signage consists of Instructions for Revamping Current Jean Lafitte Park French Quarter Contact Station Exhibit Signage for Use at Folklife Pavilion at Louisiana World Exposition 1984.

Materials on General Management Plan for Jean Lafitte National Historical Park include letter from James Isenogle (1980); letter to planning participants and handout for Initial Public Meeting (January, 1980); description on Barataria Unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park; letter to Mr. Robert De Blieux, State Historic Preservation Officer, from Regional Director, Southwest Region, National Park Service, from March, 1982; draft of General Management Plan. Materials on African American Heritage Tourism-Conference, held in Baton Rouge in August 1995 consist of participant list and summary of Heritage Workshop Products. Correspondence (1979-1985) includes letters to and from Spitzer and letters to and from Isenogle on different programs developed by Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, and also jointly with the Folklife Program, and Delta Region Preservation Commission Resolution (1984). Delta Region Preservation Commission Minutes 1980,1982-1985. Materials on an evening of traditional music from the Lower Mississippi Delta (1980). Scope of work on update and revision of the Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview (1978) and Request for Quotations. Printed materials include brochures on Jeane Lafitte National Historical Park, the Lafitte Study Group Newsletter (Fall, 1980), newspaper clippings, a few issues of different bulletins and a magazine, Cultural Resource Management (Exploring Hispanic History and Culture-A Dynamic Field, 1997. Requests for Quotations (1984,1985,1994) to conduct a study of the Ethnohistory of the Irish of Southern Louisiana, to conduct a study of the Ethnohistory of the Filipinos of Southern Louisiana, to provide a history and analysis of Louisiana patterns of trade, migrations and cultural exchange with settlements in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to conduct a study of the sites associated with 1814-1815 New Orleans, and some others. Requests for proposal include a study of the contemporary culture of the Indians of Southern Louisiana, a study of the contemporary culture of the Islenos of Southern Louisiana, and a study to identify the Afro-American communities in Southern Louisiana. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park at the 1984 World Exposition materials contain schedule of facilities and documents of signage.

Series XII. Music, 1980-1982, 1987, 1990-1999 [Go to Container List]

0.2 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

The American Musical Atlas description (1997). Printed materials on different music conferences (1993-1996, 1998). Correspondence (1992, 1994, 1996-1998) on different folk music projects. Grant application on producing an ethnographic film on the Louisiana Creole dance music, zydeco (1980) and review of the film. Music Alive magazine, November, 1987 with a letter from its managing editor to Bob Gates. Newspaper clippings (1980-1999 n.d.) on the Louisiana music industry, radio, various musicians and types of music. Printed materials , brochures, booklets. Printed materials and project description on American Musicians a River of Songs, Smithsonian Series for Public Television and Radio. Documents on Music Alive program (1995) consist of correspondence, Memoranda from Owens on the project, drafts of Music Trail brochure and a printed brochure, Music Trail contact reports, notes, brochure on list of places to go, music festivals, music historic sites. Commercial recordings of gospel, blues, Cajun, and country music are also found in this series.

Series XIII. National Council for Traditional Arts (NCTA), 1979-2001, [Go to Container List]

0.1 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Board meetings materials include letter to members of the board on participants for the 42^nd National Folk Festival (1980), minutes of the meetings, NCTA Financial Statements 1980, letter to members on selection of participants for the 44^th National Folk Festival (1982), NCTA Financial Statement 1983, Statement for Financial Position 1983, correspondence on Board meetings and current issues 1984, 1985, NCTA Accountant’s Report and Financial Statements 1984. Letter and press release on Der Yidisher Caravan, bi-lingual performing troupe 1981. Correspondence, press releases, photographs, historical brochure for a national tour of French-American music 1980,1981. Executive Committee meetings 1982, 1983. Letter 1979, memorandum 1980, and brochure of selected original feature articles and editorials on Mountain Music Homecoming tour. Correspondence between Louisiana Folklife Program and NCTA 1979-1980, 1986, 1987, resume for Gates. General booklet on NCTA. Printed materials on National folk groups and folk tours. National Folk Festival announcements, booklets, correspondence, folders, pamphlets, and press releases. Correspondence and budget notes on Rural Blues Concert. Letter and newspaper clipping on Tour of Cowboy Arts.

XIV. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1975-1999 [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Letters on grants awards, grant notice and apprenticeships 1980-1984, 1986-1996. Letter on staff changes 1993. Miscellaneous correspondence on different folk arts programs and projects 1978, 1979, 1981. Letter and agenda for State Folk Arts coordinators 1979. List of Federal and State grants 1975-1981. NEA grant applications 1979-1982, 1985-1987, 1990-1991, as well as a final grant report. Brochures on Folk Arts Program, article with description of folk arts. 1987 NEA meeting on folk arts touring. Papers on funding of folk arts and a collection of position papers presented to the Folk/Ethnic Music Panel 1977. Correspondence on nominations for National Heritage Award (1983-1964) and magazine article Masters of Traditional Arts. Newspaper clipping on Louisiana folk artist National Heritage Fellowship recipient (1997). Press release (1988). National Heritage Fellowship booklets (1983-1984, 1986-1989, 1991,1994-1995. In Good Hands state apprenticeship program booklets and 1985 meeting. Newspaper clippings. Draft of a planning document for NEA (1980) by Bess Lomax Hawes, Director of Folk Arts Program. State Folk Arts grants and programs, state folk arts coordinator programs, state folk cultural programs, state folk arts coordinators questionnaire completed by Spitzer (1983). Summaries of the various state and regional folk cultural programs. Artists and Communities program application and booklet.

XV. National Public Radio (NPR), 1978-1980, 1982, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997 [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Materials on NPR special program, “Bon Cher Comarade”, include press releases, transcripts, tape logs, notes. Bulk of correspondence (1978-1980) is represented by letters on different radio programs between Spitzer and Deborah Lambertson, National Public Radio. Printed materials, brochures Folk Masters 1990, 1993, 1995. Newspaper clipping on New American Routes (1997). Materials on The Sunday Show (1982) include correspondence, newspaper clippings, guidelines for features submissions.

XVI. Perique Tobacco, 1987, 1989 [Go to Container List]

0.1 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings on Kentucky Museum Project and Perique tobacco farming. Photographs and photocopies of the tobacco planting in Louisiana from the Historic New Orleans Collection materials. Notes on tobacco planting in Louisiana. Booklets on tobacco in Louisiana.

XVII. Smithsonian Institution, 1976-1999 [Go to Container List]

0.9 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Correspondence. Directory of African-American Folklorists. Information on grants and fellowships. Folklife Fieldwork Guide. Folk and Folklife: Teacher's Manual. Descriptive report on Oil Folklore. Printed materials. Materials on Smithsonian Festival of American Folklore (SFAF). Folklife Fieldwork Guide - Regional America. Inventory of Audio Recordings from Festival of American Folklife. List of Participants in the Festival of American Folklife. Background Information on the Festival of American Folklife

Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies materials are a list of SFAF participants (1967-1993) and an inventory of audio recordings, folkways recordings, and special projects in the 1994 SFAF for Louisiana. Correspondence with the Smithsonian includes letters to and from Nicholas Spitzer (1980-1981, 1986). Directory of African-American Folklorists (1990). Information on grants and fellowships from the Smithsonian. Folklife Fieldwork Guide (Regional America) with Supplements, Policies and Procedural Information; Philosophical Guidelines for Regional America Program; Documentation Specification and Guidelines. Folklore and Folklife: Teacher's Manual. 1976 Festival of American Folklife Fieldwork Report for the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast by Nicholas Spitzer and interview reports forms. Louisiana materials are represented by couple of maps for folk arts in Louisiana, copies of the photographs and brochures. Booklet on National Heritage Fellowships. Descriptive report on Oil Folklore: Beaumont/ Port Arthur Area by Spitzer. Printed materials include different booklets on Smithsonian Institution, Report of the Office of Folklife Programs 1978-1979, Newsletter from the California Folklore Society 1975. Materials on Smithsonian Festival of American Folklore include correspondence and notes(1981, 1983, 1985, 1996), news releases (1983, 1985), newspaper clippings (1983, 1985), guidelines and participants info (1983, 1985), job announcement (1997) printed materials and programs (1983-1990, 1993-1994, 1998-1999), publicity report and photographs (1984) descriptive materials on Cultural Conservation in French Louisiana and The Creole State: An Introduction to Louisiana Traditional Culture by Spitzer. Series also includes audiocassette and tape inventories. Background information on participants involved in the SFAF. Field Reports (1985). Inventory and audio recordings. A list of participants in the SFAF (1994).

XVIII. Miscellaneous, c.a. 1950, 1973/74, 1978-1998, [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Materials on different folklife projects and organizations include correspondence on different projects, printed materials, photographs, notes, press releases, drafts, guidelines, minutes of meetings, lists of recordings and films, catalogs, conferences materials.

Materials on African-American folk arts include lists of Black Folk Craftsmen in Louisiana. Materials on American Gospel Arts Day (1987) include correspondence, guidelines for Proclamation Ceremony, joint resolution, biographical briefs, newspaper clippings and press releases.. Correspondence, press releases, and newspaper clippings and copies of the articles on Boogie Bill’s records (1986, 1987, 1989). Materials on Cajun Festival are represented by correspondence (1986-1987), draft of the overview, the proposal, a profile on Bayou Productions and the proposed Board of Advisors.

Materials on the Folklife Program participation in the celebration of the State Capitol’s 50^th Anniversary consist of correspondence between Nicholas Spitzer and Governor Jimmie Davis on the proposal to present at the celebration the folk music concert series “Capitol Folks: A Wednesday Noon Concert Series of Louisiana’s Finest Traditional Musicians”, newspaper clippings, notes (1982).

Papers on participation in Cultural Outreach Project (1986) that Louisiana Folklife Program and the Office of Tourism developed in order to increase tourism, specifically from Texas include correspondence, list of participants, participant agreements, tentative itinerary of the cultural outreach tour of Texas, itinerary for entertainers, explanatory notes on different participants, groups, bands and musicians, maps of the tour.

Materials on films and videos on folk culture include catalogs, brochures, booklets, flyers, notes on different films, materials on a new eleven-program series on traditional southern music broadcast on PBS 1981. Newspaper clippings on folk arts/folk crafts 1978-1994 and issues of St. Tammany Topics (1984). There are also printed materials on how to set up a folk patterns collection center and on the program “Future Homemakers of America,” listings of different festivals. Correspondence on publication “Gifts from the Hills.” Materials with description of craft courses in John C. Campbell Folk School (1986).

Materials on the Louisiana Folk Arts Conference 1979 include proposal for a conference, conference agenda, list of panel members and guest speakers, list of participants. Newspaper clippings on Native Americans include newspaper clippings on Choctaw Tribe (1986). There are also printed materials on Native Americans. Louisiana Heritage Foundation articles of incorporation (1984).

Materials on Oklahoma Arts Institute include minutes of the Folk Arts Advisory Panel of the Institute (1991), description of Folk Arts Program Planning for the Future: Self-Study, grant application to NEA on preserving the multi-cultural heritage of the Kiowa and Cherokee tribes (1991-1992), newspaper clippings. Materials on Old Farmer Day 1982 include notes. There are materials on the Olympic Arts Committee Meeting (1985) and a printed booklet on the 1984 Olympics program. Materials on the program “Portraits of America” include correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Materials on the Delta Folklife Festival (1991) include a letter from Gloria Powers, Festival Director, to the Delta Folklife Festival Advisory Board (Status Report on 1991 Festival), Festival Director’s Evaluation Notes for Attention of Advisory Board, press release on Delta Folklife Festival, stages schedules, bios of participants, and newspaper clippings.

Series XIX. Louisiana Folklife Festival Pavilion (LFFP)/Louisiana World Exposition (LWE) 1984, 1982-1984, [Go to Container List]

2.0 linear feet, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Board of Directors of LWE listings. Financial materials, materials on budget,

checks. Materials on consultants. Contracts. Correspondence 1982-1984. Creole State Exhibit materials. Entertainment master calendar and scheduling form. Florida folklife participants materials. A feasibility study. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park materials. NEA grant materials. Missouri Week and North Louisiana Week materials. Participants list, resources, packet materials, performers group confirmations. Personnel materials. Preliminary recommendations, outlines, proposals, draft resolutions. Press releases, publicity, publicity contacts. Printed materials and newspaper clippings. Materials on private funding. Reports on work. Rolodex of artists. Signage. Site development and constructions materials. Southern Development Foundation concession agreement. Staff cuts materials. Weekly Schedules.

Financial materials include budget notes and data, correspondence on budget, projected expenses, folklife close out-budget and other materials. Bios includes information on Patty Harrington, Ray Brassieur, Nina Solod, and Worth Long. Completed activity forms and application to participate. List of Louisiana World Exposition, Inc. Board of Directors from November 5, 1982. Materials on brochure include letter to Dark Designs to produce an informative and interpretive brochure for the Louisiana Folklife Pavilion and attached to it proposal for design specifics and expenses. List of checks received from the Festival.

Materials on consultant Gordon Linge include correspondence, labels, condition report on vitrine system for the exhibition The Creole State - An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife. Materials on consultant Van Mertz include correspondence, consultation agreement. Contracts consist of engagement agreements with performers. Correspondence (1982-1984) includes letters on site selection, a folklife exhibit development, folklife pavilion programming, and other different aspects of folklife development. Materials on crafts items include correspondence, list of labels, exhibit vitrine specifications, loan agreements. Crafts store materials include correspondence and projected sales materials.

Creole State Exhibit materials include correspondence with Alexandria Museum on loaning the collection assembled for the exhibit, correspondence on loan of panoramic quilt and an Ada Thomas basket, and on relocation the World’s Fair Folklife exhibition in Baton Rouge; general description of the exhibit; materials on loans; agreement with consultants; loans agreements; labels and items descriptions. Entertainment master calendar. Florida Folklife Week materials include correspondence between Florida Folk Life Program and Louisiana World Exposition folklife program coordinators, list of suggested performers and demonstrators, photographs, newspaper clippings. Notes and materials on food-ways.

Materials on generic industry exhibit and forest industry exhibit include correspondence, description of the exhibit, Greyhound Exhibit group brochure, xerox copy of Special Report Forest & People, 1979. Materials on Jean Lafitte National Historical Park include a copy of the Cooperative Agreement between Louisiana World Exposition and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, correspondence, invoices, receiving reports, instructions on signage for use at Folklife Pavilion Louisiana World Exposition 1984. Loan agreements for objects loaned for the Louisiana Folklife Pavilion exhibit, correspondence on loan. Folklife inventory. Missouri Week materials include correspondence, list of participants, description of Missouri cultural heritage, brochures.

Materials on National Council for Traditional Arts include a status report on LWE Folklife Festival, consultation agreement between Louisiana World Exposition and The National Council For The Traditional Arts. NEA grant materials include correspondence on grant (1983-1984), preliminary program budget, support materials for Folk Arts application, grant application, grant notes. North Louisiana Week materials include list of participants, notes. Newspaper clippings.

Materials on participants/presenters include list and notes on participants, participant packet materials with printed brochures, resource materials with lists of Louisiana performers and nationally based performers, lists of confirmed performers, lists of crafts, tent descriptions, notes, performer/group confirmation sheets.

Personnel materials include folklife budget information for filling 4 positions for the Fair; a letter of announcement for accepting the applications for the positions of Folklife Supervisor, Folklore Specialist (2), Craft & Foodways Coordinator, Secretary, Folklore Technician (3), and Multi-Purpose Staff (3); job descriptions for folklife positions; personnel requisition forms. There are materials on Lynn Abbot, Ray Brassieur, Lee Dishman, David Doucet, Patty Harrington, Allison Kaslow, Worth Long, Jeanette O’Rourke, Ulysses Richard, Jr., Nina Solod, John Vidrine.

Preliminary Recommendations for Louisiana Folklife Festival at LWE, Louisiana and Gulf South Folklife Festival at the 1984 LWE - A Proposal, newspaper clippings. Press Releases, standard press packet with weekly program description, press releases and schedules on Texas Week. Publicity contacts materials (public radio) include lists of people and organizations, notes. Printed materials includes magazine’s issues with original press releases, newspaper clippings, brochures.

Private funding materials include letter from Spitzer on soliciting support of Exxon Corporation, schedule of World’s Fair Folklife Pavilion, Forestry Industry Meeting, correspondence with sponsoring corporations, agreement between Louisiana World Exposition and Champion International Corporation, between LWE and Boise Southern Company, between LWE and Georgia-Pacific, between LWE and Owens-Illinois. Reports on work include correspondence (1983-1984) on Exposition’s Folklife Program development, updates on Folklife Festival, reports on consultants activities, progress and status reports. Rolodex of artists. Signage materials. Site development and construction materials include correspondence on possible location of the Festival, a preliminary physical plan, budget and construction schedule for the LWE Folklife Festival in the Federal Fiber Mills, street plan in front of the Federal Fibre Mills, news releases, notes. Concession agreement between Louisiana World Exposition and Southern Development Foundation. Correspondence on Folklife Staff Cuts. Weekly schedules, Folklife Festival theme weeks schedule.

Series XX, Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF), 1983-1998 [Go to Container List]

6.0 linear feet, arranged by year/festival, then alphabetical by format within each year; chronological within each folder.

Budget, financial records, contracts with performers, artists and craftspeople, fieldworkers, and demonstrators, correspondence, reports, press releases and publicity, brochures, programs, festival board minutes and agendas, festival booklets and booklet development, participant packets, newspaper clippings, crafts shop procedures, NEH and LEH mini-grant applications, stage schedules and lists of participants, permits and licenses, proposals, festival evaluations, reports, and other records related to planning, producing, and putting on the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Information about host cities and agreements with them are also present. Correspondence is among the directors of the Louisiana Folklife Program, host city officials, corporate sponsors, granting agencies, fieldworkers, performers and demonstrators, the festival board, and state officials. (Note that not all of these formats/types of records are available for every year/festival. Consult the container list for specifics for each.) Fieldwork conducted and recorded in preparation for each festival, as well as recordings made at the various festival stages, are found in the oral history series (Series XXIV).

Series XXI. LA Open House, 1989-1991, [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: Materials on LA Open House and LA Open House/Storytelling Program. Printed materials. Correspondence. Materials on Regional Coordinators selection, appointment and work. The Storytelling Pavilion materials include calendar, guidelines, materials on interviewing recommendations.

Materials on Louisiana Open House include general materials on whole program and different aspects of the program, a final report, and materials on Storytelling Program. Between materials on the whole program there are workshops materials, printed materials, manual on LA Tourism. LA Open House Workshops materials include workshops schedule, agenda, checklist, letters of invitation, booklet Getting Your Message on the Air, Louisiana Fairs and Festival Guide, Workshop Guidebook, lists of workshops participants. Printed materials include xerox of Folk Festivals: A Handbook for Organization and Management, Manual LA Tourism, brochures with programs description, newspaper clippings, general booklets and brochures about Louisiana. Materials on LA Open House, Storytelling Program include correspondence on program development, Storytelling Pavilion and on regional coordinators selection (1989-1991) and follow-up correspondence, printed materials, materials on regional coordinators (training sessions materials, lists of organizations to work with, notes, resources for coordinators, job announcements, applications, resumes, letters to hired coordinators), materials assigned to regional coordinators fairs and festivals, materials on work of one of the coordinators (Dede Cale), storytelling pavilion materials (12-month calendar listing all fairs, festival and events for the Storytelling Pavilion, pavilion guidelines, Suggested Guidelines to Planning and Staging Storytelling Sessions, Interviewing Storytellers, xerox materials on interviewing, couple of photographs) and activity reports, Storytelling Program/Site Selection Committee materials, materials on storytellers.

Series XXII. Storytelling Book Project, 1989-1991, [Go to Container List]

0.2 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological within each folder.

Summary: NEA grant application. Director of Storytelling Book Project position

announcements materials. Job applications for the position. Correspondence. Book

manuscript development materials (1991-1993). Notes.

NEA grant application (1989) on establishing a storytelling area at the Seventh Annual Louisiana Folklife Festival (1990, City of Kenner) and Memorandum from Owens (Bergeron) to Leslie Tassin, Office of Cultural Development on DOA matching to NEA grant travel expenses. Job announcements materials include newspaper copy of the job announcement, list of higher education programs in folklore and folklife, public folk cultural programs address list. Job applications for the Storytelling Project Director position include letters of application, resumes. Materials on Reneé Harvison include letter from Leslie Tassin, Assistant Secretary, to Henry Truxillo, Secretary, with updates on the Storytelling Book Project Director candidate for the position, job application from Harvison with attached resume, letter to Owens from Harvison with enclosed writing samples, newspaper clippings, contract with Harvison.

Correspondence (1990-1991) includes incoming and outgoing correspondence of C. Reneé Harvison, Director of Louisiana Storytelling Project, correspondence on film, video and audiotapes. Description of different types of folklore. Materials on Bel Abbey (Koasati Indian) include letters, biographical notes, brief resume and xerox of photographs, notes, transcripts of stories narrated by Bel Abbey.

Manuscript development materials describe 1991, 1992, 1993. Manuscript development materials 1991 include letter from Harvison to John Gallman, Indiana University Press, with description of the project and request to publish the book; comments on the project’s publication by Dr. Carl Lindahl; letter to University Press of Mississippi; correspondence between Carl Lindahl and Owens; edited stories. Manuscript development materials 1992 include correspondence of Owens with Lindahl, Harvison, Spitzer, University Press of Mississippi, list of storytellers in the book, edited stories. Manuscript development materials 1993 include letter from Owens to Harvison with book’s I’ll Tell You a Good One: Louisiana’s Narrative Traditions proposal 2 complete table of contents; an outline of collected stories, notes, list of books about American Folklore. Notes and working materials on storytellers. Notes on tapes.

Series XXIII. Swapping Stories Files, 1994-1999, [Go to Container List]

1.4 linear foot, alphabetical by format or topic; chronological or alphabetical (according to personal names) arrangement within each folder.

Summary: Announcement party. Book signing. Co-publishing contract, correspondence on the Contract. Copyright materials. Correspondence (1995-1999). Contributors materials and manuscript changes from storytellers materials. LEH awards. Mailing label printout. Newspaper and magazine articles (1997-1999). Permissions (received). Research materials. Revision 1 and revision 2 materials. Correspondence on revision (1995,1996). Invoice. Updates on publishing letters to contributors. Video documentary materials.

Announcement party materials include correspondence between Owens and the Louisiana Political Museum, correspondence between Owens and performers, invitations to the announcement party by Phillip Jones, a tentative and final agenda, and a guest list sign-in sheet.

Co-Publishing Agreement between the State of Louisiana, Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, and University Press of Mississippi for “Swapping Stories: Louisiana Folk Narratives.” Correspondence on the Contract, notes, copy of the page on “Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana” from University of Mississippi Press catalog, copy of a contract with Harvison.

Copyright materials include completed copyright form on the “Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana”, complete table of contents, acknowledgments, The Louisiana Storytelling Project article by Owens, Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures article by Owens, Bibliography, Map of Louisiana Folk Regions, map of Louisiana Parishes and Major Cities. Correspondence include correspondence between Owens and JoAnne Prichard, Executive Editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and Anne Stascavage, Assistant Editor; access market for Storytelling Book sheets; correspondence with Carl Lindahl (one of the editors of the Swapping Stories), Don Hatley (Louisiana Folklife Center), Barry Ancelet Nick Spitzer; general letter to storytellers with permission form; transcripts of two stories by Bel Abbey in Koasati and English translation (How A Man Lost His Breechcloth To a Bull, The First Meeting Of The Indians And The Europeans).

Contributors materials include stories of Evelia Boudreaux and materials, contributed by Ancelet; stories of Alfred Anderson and materials, contributed by Lindahl. Manuscript changes from storytellers. Manuscript development materials (1994-1995) include correspondence (with Prichard, Ancelet, Lindahl, Geoffrey Kimball (a linguist at Tulane University who recorded, transcribed, and translated a story by Bel Abbey). Manuscript development materials (1996) include correspondence on editing and corrections in the book.

LEH awards materials include an invitation and correspondence.

Permissions materials include list of contributors with phones and notes if permission form had been received; table of contents of the book; permission forms signed and returned by storytellers (with signed permission to include their story in the publication Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana), letter from Owens to storyteller and transcript of the story. Revision 1 and revision 2 materials include transcripts of different stories with notes and changes. Correspondence on revisions (1995) includes fax messages between Owens and Lindahl with changes and editorial notes on different stories and bibliography. Correspondence on revisions (1996) includes correspondence and fax messages on editing the book, and also letter to Prichard, University Press of Mississippi.

Research materials include articles and book excerpts on Afro-Americans, Czechs, Hispanics, Native Americans, folktales of north and south Louisiana, and legends.

University Press of Mississippi materials include a few letters of correspondence between Owens and Anne Stascavage, Assistant Editor, with attached to the letters blank of Author’s Questionnaire, completed author’s questionnaire, Access Market for Storytelling Book sheet, a press release, and two printed catalogs of University Press of Mississippi (March through August 1996, September 1996 through February 1997.) Updates on publishing materials include letters to contributors/storytellers (alphabetical arrangement) with attached transcripts of the stories, notes.

Video documentary materials include correspondence between Owens and Mire, grants, budgeting, logging sheets, newspaper clippings, Pat Mire's filmography, permissions received, printed and production materials.

Series XXIV. Oral History, 1973-1999 [Go to Container List]

4.0 linear feet, arrangement by project or festival and tape number.

Collection of approximately 1500 audio and reel-to-reel tapes pertaining to folklife and regional history of Louisiana. Transcripts or tape logs are present for some interviews. Topics include Acadian history, farming, hunting, fishing, oil industry, small town life, education, family life, music, ghost stories, politicians, military, religion, legendary characters, civil rights, crime, hurricanes, floods, transportation and riverways. Interviews represent people from most regions of Louisiana, including Baton Rouge, Breaux Bridge, Bogalusa, Kinder, Livingston Parish, Morgan City, Lake Charles, Lacombe, LaRose, Lecompte, Many, Sabine Parish, Mansfield, Colfax, Clinton, Covington, Cameron Parish, Crowley, Church Point, Delcambre, Eunice, Des Allemands, Fisher, Gillian, Donaldsonville, Forest Hill, Gonzales, Franklinton, Hammond, Independence, Port Allen, St. Francisville, Ruston, New Orleans, Napoleonville, Morgan City, New Iberia, Lafayette, Lake Providence, Jeanerette, Jonesboro, Mansfield, Minden, Monroe, Natchitoches, Madisonville, Washington Parish, Winnfield, St. Martinville. The Piney Woods region of Louisiana and the parishes of Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, Calcasieu, Beauregard, Allen, Jefferson Davis, Vernon, Acadia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Evangeline are also documented. See the Oral History Container List for specific places and topics.

Series XXV. Video Tapes, 1982-1996 [Go to Container List]

2.5 linear feet, arranged by film type and size

There are video materials on Folklife Festivals, documentaries (crafts, music, storytelling), news footage and news clips, work samples, oral history videotaped interviews. Video materials contain tapes of Louisiana Folklife Festivals (1985, 1987-1992), and some other festivals (Jazz Festival 1996, Caney Lake Festival 1989); video materials on Louisiana Open House and Storytelling Program/Pavilion during the Open House, on different storytellers during performing their stories, and different folk musicians; documentaries of Mardi Gras, Crafts Marketing Workshop, Cajun rowing skiff building, Seventh Annual Tribute to Cajun music etc. News footage includes French Tour NCTA, and footage from CBS series (Hezekia and the Houserockers, the Natchitoches Folk Festival). There are promotional videos on “Made in Louisiana,” the Library of Congress Bicentennial, and louisisanatravel.com. The 16mm reels contain “Mr. Hardin and the Swamp,” multiple copies of “Made in Louisiana” and footage of Artlook 1980 and of the 1985 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife There are 40 VHS tapes, 22 3/4 inch tapes, eight tapes of other sizes and seven 16mm reels.

Series XXVI. Posters, ca. 1973-1999 [Go to Container List]

Arranged by topic, then chronological.

Posters represent such topics as festivals, maps, exhibits & exhibitions, Fait à la Main.

Maps include French Mother Tongue: U.S.-Born Black Population, Southern Louisiana, 1970 (2 maps), French Mother Tongue: U.S.-Born White Population, Southern Louisiana, 1970 (2 maps), 1718 Map of Louisiana and Louisiana Folk Regions printed map.

Louisiana Folklife Program posters are of the Louisiana Folklife Festival and the Swapping Stories Video Project.

Festivals posters include Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival(1986 and 1988), Museum Days (1980) at the Cabildo in New Orleans, Third Annual Malaki Jubilee (1996), and First Annual River City Blues Festival (n.d.).

Miscellaneous posters consist of Welcome Back, America - Portrait of America (Turner broadcasting, Hal Holbrook), Mosquitoes and High Water (El Mosco y el Aqua Alta) (The Islenos of St. Bernard Parish, LA - a videotape by Andrew Kolker), A documentary about the way people talk in New Orleans, Baton Rouge Art League (W.P.A. Paintings).

Exhibits & Exhibitions for which posters are present include A La Mode De Cheznous (French American Musical Dance), an announcement about the Blue Goose, The Ends of the Earth, Dog Trots and Mud Cats: the Texas log house, La Vie Lafourchaise, Gifts from the Hills (North Central Louisiana, Folk Traditions Exhibition), The Piney Woods People (A photographic exhibition documenting life on the lumber frontier of Southeastern Louisiana at the turn of the century, printed from the original glass negatives of A. L. Blush), Do It Right and Passing It On: North Louisiana Folk Crafts, On My Way: Sarah Albrittion, an exhibit at Zigler Museum (Jennings) and the LSU Union Art Gallery, and exhibits from the Louisiana State Museum entitled Louisiana Focus, I Shall Save One Land Unvisited, and Southern Photography in Perspective.

Series XXVII. Originals (Artist’s Copies) [Go to Container List]

Originals (Artist’s Copies) include materials on Louisiana Crafts Program, Teacher’s Guide to “The Creole State: An Exhibit of Louisiana Folklife,” A Guide to Louisiana Folklife Program (Division of the Arts).

Maps’ Originals include negatives, photographs, paper copies. There are South Louisiana Folk Regions, North Louisiana Folk Regions, Louisiana French Creole: Subregion and Urban Centers of Use, Symbolic Interaction on the Landscape (Model Creole Mardi Gras House Visit on the Prairies, Duralde, Louisiana), Indians of Louisiana: Their Contemporary Locations and Linguistic Retention, Makers of Cajun Accordion in Louisiana, Traditional Wild Fowl Carvers, St. Helena Parish Modern Farm, Louisiana Folk Regions.

Originals also include materials on Contemporary and Revivalist Craftsmen Wildfowl Carving, Festivals, Louisiana Crafts Marketer. There are also collages on Crafts, Craftsmen and Musicians, and Foodways.

XXVIII Delta Parishes Folklife Project, 1987-1998 [Go to Container List]

0.75 linear feet, alphabetical by format, chronological arrangement within each folder.

Series contains records from the Delta Parishes Folklife Project, a project that documented Folklife in Morehouse, Ouachita, West Carroll, East Carroll, Caldwell, Tensas, Catahoula, Richland, Madison, Franklin, LaSalle, and Concordia parishes. The Delta Parishes Project focuses mainly on regional folklife traditions that have continued in the delta area of the state, but also includes folk traditions, of ethnic, occupational, and other groups as well. Assessments, printed materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, and photographs are included. Information about the 1997 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife Delta Parishes Folklife exhibit includes list of participants and essays. Field school records include evaluations, handouts, and reports. Fieldworker records include contracts, reimbursement requests, notes and essays. Recordings from the project are housed at the Louisiana Tech University Archives.

XXIX Folk Arts in Education, 1983-1998 [Go to Container List]

0.4 linear feet, alphabetical by format, chronological arrangement within each folder.

Contains records of efforts to bring folklife into the curriculum, including class curriculum guides, grant proposals, newspaper clippings, and an artist roster. The series also contains general folk arts information and folk arts program information from schools in Abita Springs, Calcasieu Parish and St. Tammany Parish.

XXX. Piney Woods Folklife Survey Project, 1996-1999 [Go to Container List]

0.25 linear ft., alphabetical by format, chronological arrangement within each folder.

Records of the Piney Woods Louisiana Folklife Program Project include contracts with fieldworkers, correspondence among participants, reports from field workers, grant applications and supporting materials, agendas, printed materials, proposals, reports, and background information compiled for project planning meetings. Transcripts and/or tape logs of recordings from this project are filed in Series 24, Oral History, Box 21.

XXXI. MISCELLANEOUS LFP PROJECT FILES, 1985-1994 [Go to Container List]

0.25 linear ft. alphabetical by format, chronological arrangement within each folder.

Series includes project files of the following miscellaneous Louisiana Folklife Program-sponsored projects: Louisiana Folk Regions Map, Tri-Parish Folklife Survey, Imperial Calcasieu Folklife Survey, and West Baton Rouge Parish Historical Association Folklife Survey. See sub-series descriptions below for specific projects' contents.

Sub-series 1. Louisiana Folk Regions Maps, n.d. [Go to Container List]

Maps showing the major subregions and ethnic groups in Louisiana. Specifically, they include maps of the regions in the state where Louisiana French Creole is spoken, location and linguistic retention of Louisiana Indians, Louisiana’s folk regions, and the dispersion of traditional craftsmen by craft. The data was compiled by Maida Owens

Sub-series 2. Tri-Parish Folklife Survey- 1992 [Go to Container List]

The Tri-Parish Folklife Survey entailed surveying the Acadia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Evangeline parishes. It is composed of a grant application and a report from a field worker. Tapes of interviews are found in the Oral History Series, Tapes 1439.1 to 1446.

Sub-series 3. The Imperial Calcasieu projects- 1987, 1990-1991 [Go to Container List]

The parishes of Cameron, Calcasieu, Beauregard, Allen, Jefferson Davis, and Vernon were included in this survey. Project files include a Final Report (1991), Grant application material (1990), a Mailing List Proof Report (1990), and field reports (1987). Tapes of interviews are found in the Oral History Series, Tapes 1168 through 1189.

Sub-series 4. The West Baton Rouge Historical Association-1987 [Go to Container List]

___ linear ft. alphabetically by format, chronological arrangement within each.

The Iberville, Point Coupee, and West Baton Rouge parishes were surveyed in this project. The series is comprised a grant application. Transcripts of interviews and releases are found in the Oral History Series, Box 21. There are no tapes.

XXXII. Program and Agency Files, 1941, 1977-2001 [Go to Container List]

8.5 linear feet, arranged alphabetically by agency or program within each sub-series

Series include agency and program files related to the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. These files include the Louisiana Office of Tourism, the Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, and the Louisiana State Parks and Historic Sites. There are also agency and program files that are not related to the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. These files include the State Library of Louisiana, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. See sub-series below for specific file contents.

Sub-series 1. Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism State Agencies-1977, 1979-1983,1987-1990,1991,1993,1997-1999

[Go to Container List]

0.5 linear ft. alphabetically by format, chronological arrangement within each.

The sub-series of the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism is composed of the records of four offices within the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism (CRT). These include the Office of Cultural Development, which is comprised of the Department of Archeology, the Department of Historic Preservation, and the Division of the Arts; the Office of Tourism, the Office of State Parks and Historic Sites, and the Louisiana State Museum. The Louisiana Folklife Program is a program of the Division of the Arts, and thus is a member agency of the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Toursim

The records contained in the Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation files include correspondence (1980-1982), proposals (1981), and general information about the department (1981,1982). The records contained in the Division of the Arts files include general information (1999), information on the Louisiana State Conference (1979), and a collaborative project involving the National Endowment for the Humanities (1993).

The records of the Louisiana Office of Tourism include correspondence (1982-1998), background information on African American and rural tourism (1985; 1997-1998), folklife and tourism (1998), general information on the department, the state-wide Open House program to promote cultural tourism (1989, 1990), and the Pilgrimage of Saints Projects (1999).

The records of the Office of Louisiana Parks and Historic Sites include correspondence (1981), information on the interpretive programs at Longfellow-Evangeline State Park (1981), the Louisiana State Fiddle Championship (1988), proposals (unknown date) for a country music museum at the Rebel State Commemorative Area and other records on the park (1983), information on salary schedules and state park facilities (1977), and a file of special events held at Louisiana State Parks (1989).

The records of the Louisiana State Museum include correspondence (1979-1986), records pertaining to the Folklife Center (1983), general information on the department (1980-1998), grant applications (1983-1984), Historical Perspectives newsletter, (1995,1997-1999), information on the Old State Capitol (1983), and four photographs (1980).

Subseries 2. Non-Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism state agency files, 1979-2000 [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear feet, alphabetically by agency or program, chronological arrangement within each

Materials from state agencies not affiliated with the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism include budgets, correspondence, flyers, meeting agendas, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, project narratives and reports. These state agencies are the Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Transportation and Development, the Rural Development Council of the Governor's Office, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Secretary of State.

Subseries 3. Louisiana Folklife Projects and Program files [Go to Container List]

5.6 linear feet, alphabetically by agency or program, chronological within each folder

Correspondence, printed items, grant applications, newspaper clippings, reports, and other records of various folklife and/or heritage programs and projects in the state, of all sizes. This subseries represents, in essence, a vertical file of information on Louisiana’s cultural institutions and activities. Arranged alphabetically by project or program name.

Subseries 4. Out-of-state folklife programs and project files, 1941, 1979-1999 [Go to Container List]

1.0 linear foot, alphabetically by agency or program, chronological arrangement within each

This subseries contains correspondence, curriculum guides, flyers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, reports, surveys, and programming materials from other folklife programs in the United States and Canada including those of state agencies, universities, and independent organizations. States included are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and West Virgina.

Subseries 5. Federal and national folklife programs and projects, 1979-2001 [Go to Container List]

1.0 linear foot, alphabetically by agency or program, chronological arrangement within each

This subseries contains correspondence, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, press releases, publications and reports from federal and national programs and projects involving folklife including the American Folklore Society, the Center for Applied Linguistics, the Center for Folk Arts in Education, the Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the Fund for Folk Culture, the Library of Congress, the Museum of American Folk Art, the National Black Arts Festival, the National Roundtable on Folk Arts in the Classroom, the Southern Arts Federation, the Textile Museum, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Information Agency.

XXXIII. Fellowship and Apprenticeship Records, 1981-1996 [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear feet, arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically within each folder

The fellowship and apprenticeship records contain apprenticeship applications, correspondence to and about applicants, lists of apprenticeships and site visits, newspaper clippings about apprenticeship monies available and announcing deadlines, photographs of apprentices and their work, printed materials, reports, summaries of grants and timelines. There are materials on individual apprentices, the apprenticeship booklet, Keeping it Alive, and the program itself.

XXXIV. Topics [Go to Container List]

0.3 linear feet, arranged alphabetically by topic

Vertical file of clippings, printed items, and articles on various Louisiana folklife topics, including Acadian weaving, Cajuns, duck decoys, the flood of 1927, gospel music, grave houses, Houma Indians, migration to Louisiana, perique tobacco, pirogues, religious folk healing, shrimping,

Index Terms

Note: Most every parish in the state is represented in Series XXXII.3—Program and Agency Files, Louisiana Programs and Projects, even if it is not listed here. See container list.

Alphabetical index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Numerical Index

I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | XIII | XIV | XV | XVI | XVII | XVIII | XIX | XX | XXI | XXII | XXIII | XXIV | XXV | XXVI | XXVII | XXVIII | XXIX | XXX | XXXI | XXXII | XXXIII | XXXIV

Abbey, Bel I, XX (1987, 1988, 1990, 1992), XXI-XXII

Acadia Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.2, XXXII.3

Acadiana Art Council I, XXXII.3

Afro-American folk art IV, XVIII, XX (1990)

Afro-Americans-Social life and customs I, XIV, XXXII.3

Alexandria Museum XIX

Allan, Johnnie XX (1989)

Allen Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.3

American Folklife Center,

The Library of Congress I-II, XXXII.5

American Folklore Society I, XVIII, XXXII.5

Ancelet, Barry Jean I-II, IV, IX, XIII-XIV, XVII, XX(1985-1990), XXII

Ardoin, Linton I, VI, XX (1990)

Arkansas VI, XXXII.4

Artisans I, IV, VII-VIII, XIV, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXVI-XXVIII, XXXII.4

Balfa, Dewey I-II, IV, XVII, XXII, XXIV [to Numerical Index]

Basket makers VII-VIII

Basket making I, VII-VIII

Basketwork I, VII-VIII

Baton Rouge, La. VII, XX (1985-1987), XXIV-XXV, XXXII.3

Baton Rouge Area Foundation XX (1985)

Battisse, Marjorie VII, XVIII, XX(1987, 1990)XXI-XXII

Beauregard Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.3

Bergeron, Maida Owens I-III, V-VI, VIII, XII, XVII-XXIV, XXXII (all)

Bergey, Barry I, XIX, XX (1986, 1987, 1989)

Bergey, Jane I, XVIII-XX (1985)

Biloxi Indians-Art I, VII

Blake, Clifford Sr. IX

Blues (Music)-Louisiana I, VIII-IX, XII-XIII, XX (1995), XXIV, XXXII.3

Blues musicians-Louisiana VIII-IX, XII-XIII, XIX-XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Boatbuilding-Louisiana I, XX (1989), XXIV, XXXIV

Bookhardt, Eric I, IV

Boudreaux, Evelia XXIII

Bozeman, Eck XXI

Brassieur, Ray XVII, XIX, XX (1986-1987, 1989-1990)

Broussard, Aaron I, V, XX (1990)

Burgess Brassieur, Amy XVII, XIX, XX (1987), XXXIV, XXXI.3

Burnett, Emma H. II, V

Cajuns-Louisiana I, IV, XVII, XX (1987, 1989), XXIV, XXVII, XXXII.3, XXXIV [to Numerical Index]

Calcasieu Arts and Humanities Council V

Calcasieu Parish (La.) XXIV, XXIX, XXXI.3

Caldwell Parish (La.) XXVIII

Cameron Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.3

Catahoula Parish (La.) XXVIII

Catalon, Inez I, XXI

Catholicism--Louisiana XXXII.3

Center for the Study of Southern Culture,

Mississippi University XVIII

Center for Gulf South History and Culture IV

Center for Applied Linguistics XVIII

Center for Regional Studies,

Southeastern Louisiana University I, VIII, XIX, XXVI, XXXII.3

Chicot State Park XX (1988-1989)

Chitimacha Indians I-II, XVIII, XXXII.3

Chitimacha Indians-Art I, VII

Chitimacha Indians-Basket making VII

Choctaw Indians I-II, XVIII, XXXII.3

Choctaw Indians-Art I, XX (1988)

Clark, Octa I, IX

Comeaux, Malcom IV

Concordia Parish (La.) XXVIII

Cookery, America-Louisiana style XIX-XX (all), XXIV

Council for the Development of French

In Louisiana (CODOFIL) XXXII.3

Corson, Charles I, XIX

Country music IX, XII, (1995-1998), XXXII.3

Cowboys-Songs and music XIII, XX (1987), XXXII.3

Craft festivals XIX

Creoles-Louisiana I, IV, XVII-XVIII, XX (1985), XXVII, XXXII.3

Dallas, (Tex.) XXXII.4 [to Numerical Index]

De Caro, F. A. I-IV, XX (1987-1989)

DeBlieux, Robert B. I-III, XIV, XVII, XIX, XX (1987)

Decoys (Hunting) VII

Delta Region Preservation Commission I, XI, XIX

DeRamus, Troy I-II, IX

Duhon, Hector I, IX

Early, Hezekiah IX, XVIII [to Numerical Index]

East Baton Rouge Parish (La.) VIII, XXXII.3

East Carroll Parish (La.) XXVIII, XXXII.3

East Feliciana Parish (La.) VIII

Edwards, Edwin W. I, IX

Ethnic art-Louisiana VIII, XI

Ethnic folklore-Louisiana VIII, XI, XXI-XXIV

Eunice, La. I, V, XX (1988-1989, 1991-1992, 1995)

Evangeline Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.2, XXXII.3

Farley, DeCinter XXI [to Numerical Index]

Ferriday, La. V

Festivals--Louisiana XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Fiddlers-Louisiana I, XIX, XX (all), XXXII.1

Fiddling XIX, XXIV, XXXII.1

Florida VII, XXXII.4

Florida Folklife Program I, VII, XXXII.4

Florida Parishes, La. I-II, VIII, XXXII.3

Folk art VII, XIV, XVII-XVIII, XXIX

Folk art-Louisiana I-V, XIV, XVII-XVIII, XIX, XX (all), XXIX, XXXII.3

Folk artists I, XIV-XV, XVII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Folk artists-Scholarships, fellowships, etc. I, XIV, XXIV, XXXIII

Folk dance music-Louisiana VIII, XII-XIII

Folk dancing I

Folk dancing-Louisiana I, VIII, XIII

Folk festivals-Louisiana I-II, V, XIII, XVIII-XX (all), XXIV-XXVII, XXXII.3

Folk festivals-Texas XI

Folk festivals-United States XIII, XV, XVII, XVIII, XX (1987), XXI, XXXII.4

Folk literature-Louisiana XXII

Folk music groups-Louisiana IX, XII, XVII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Folk music groups-United States XIII

Folk music-Louisiana I-III, IV, VIII-IX, XII-XIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Folk music-Texas XI

Folk music-United States XII-XIII, XV, XVIII

Folk singers-Louisiana IV, IX, XII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXVI

Folk songs-United States XVIII

Folk-songs IV

Folk-songs, Cajun French-Louisiana IV, IX, XII, XIX, XX (1991), XXIV

Folk-songs, Creole-Louisiana XII

Folk-songs-Louisiana IX, XII, XVIII-XX (all)

Folklore and Education-Louisiana I-II, XVIII, XX (1987), XXIX

Folklore-Louisiana I-II, XVII, XXIII, XX (1988, 1990-1998), XXIV, XXXII.3

Folklorists I-III

Food presentation I, XIX, XX (all), XXVII

Ford, Brownie I, IX, XIII, XVIII, xix, xx (1985-1987)

Fox, Lawrence H. I-III, XIX

Franklin Parish (La.) XXVIII

Freeman, Robert L. (Bobby) I, XX (1987)

Gardner, Joel I, IV, VIII, XVII [to Numerical Index]

Garrett Davis, Susan VIII, XX (1985)

Gates, Robert I-II, VII, VIII, XIII, XVI, XVIII, XX (1985-1986)

Gordon, Derek I-II, V, VI, VIII, XVIII, XX (1986, 1988-1989)

Gospel music-Louisiana VIII-IX, XII, XX (1991), XXIV, XXXII.3

Gospel music-United States XVIII

Gospel musicians-Louisiana VIII-IX, XII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXXII.3

Gregory, Hiram F. I-II, IV, VIII, XX (1987-1989, 1995), XXI

Greig, Max XXI

Grosby-Bergey, Jane I-II, XVII, XIX, XX (1985)

Hainkel, John III [to Numerical Index]

Hammond, La. VIII

Handicraft I, VII, XIX, XX (1985-1989)

Handicraft-Louisiana II, IV, VII-VIII, XVII, XIX, XX (all), XXIV, XXVI-XXVII, XXXIV

Hardy, Paul I-II, V, XX (1989-1991), XXI

Harrington, Patty XIX

Harvison, Reneé C. I, XX (1990), XXI-XXIII

Hatley, Donald W. I-II, V, IX, XX (1985, 1988-1989), XXII

Hawes, Bess Lomax I-II, XIV, XIX

Head, Al I-IV, XIII, XIX

Houma Indians I-II, XVIII, XXIV, XXXII.3

Houma Indians-Art I, VII, XX (1988)

Houma Indians-Boats VII, XX (1988)

Iberville Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.4 [to Numerical Index]

Illinois VI, XXXII.4

Immigrants--Louisiana XXIV, XXXII.3, XXXIV

Indian craft VII-VIII, XIX

Indians of North America-Art I-II, VI, VIII, XVIII-XX (all), XXII

Indians of North America-Folklore VII, XVIII, XX (1987, 1990, 1992)

Indians of North America-Basket making I, VII-VIII, XIX, XX (all)

Indians of North America-Louisiana I-II, VI, XVIII, XX (1987, 1995), XXVII, XXXII.3

Indians-Social life and customs VIII

Inter-Tribal Council of Louisiana XIX, XXXII.3

Isenogle, James L. XI, XIV, XIX

Islenos XXXII.3, XXXIV

Italians XXIV, XXXIV

Italy—Emigration and immigration XXXIV

Jackson, Joy VIII, XIX [to Numerical Index]

Jackson, Joyce M. I-II, VIII, XVII-XVIII, XX (1986-1990, 1997), XXXIII

Jazz music-Louisiana XII, XXIV, XXXII.3

Jazz musicians-Louisiana XII, XXIV, XXXII.3

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park

and Preserve (La.) II, XI, XIX, XX (1987-1991)

Jefferson Davis Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.3

Jeskin, Jill I, VIII, XIX, XXII

Joubert, Curtis I, V, XX (1988-1989, 1991-1992)

Kelly, Don II [to Numerical Index]

Kenner , (La.) I, V, XX (1990), XXXII.3

Kentucky VI, XXXII.4

Koasati Indians I-II, XVIII

Koasati Indians-Art VII, XX (1988), XXII

Koasati Indians-Basket making I, VII, XX (1988)

Lafayette (La.) V, XXIV, XXXII.3 [to Numerical Index]

Lake Charles (La.) V, XXIV, XXXI.3, XXXII.3

Laos—Emigration and immigration XXXIII.3, XXXIV

LaSalle Parish (La.) XXVIII

LeBlanc, Bob I, XXI-XXII

LeBlanc, Noelle I-II, XVII, XX (1985-1986)

Lewis, Margaret XII, XX (1985-1986)

Lindahl, Carl I, XX (1996), XXII-XXIII

Linge, Gordon I, VIII, XIX

Livingston Parish (La.) VIII, XXIV

Long, Jimmy D. I-II

Long, Russell B. I, XIX

Long, Worth XIX

Louisiana Committee for the Humanities I, VIII

Louisiana Crafts Council VII

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities I-II, XX (1987-1990), XXXII.3

Louisiana Folklife Commission I-II, XX (1985-1987), XXIV

Louisiana Folklife Center I-III, V, XXI, XXXII.3

Louisiana Folklore Society I, XXXII.3

Louisiana Heritage Foundation I, XVIII-XX (1985-1987, 1989), XXXII.3

Louisiana Intertribal Council I-II

Louisiana Preservation Alliance II, XXXII.1

Louisiana Public Broadcasting XXXII.2

Louisiana State University II, XXXII.3

Louisiana State Museum I-III, XIX, XXXII.1

Louisiana State Arts Council I, II, IV, VI, XX (1990)

Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers and

Collectors Guild I, XXXII.3

Louisiana World Exposition, 1984 I-II, XIX

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism I-XXVII, XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Office of Cultural Development I-IV, XVIII-XX (1998), XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Office of the State Library I, IV

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Office of State Parks I, IV, XX (1988-1990), XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Office of the State Museum I, IV, XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Office of Tourism IV, XVIII, XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Culture,

Recreation & Tourism,

Division of the Arts I-IV, VII, XXV, XXXII.1

Louisiana-Dept. of Commerce XXXII.2

Louisiana-Dept. of Education XXXII.2

Louisiana-Dept. of Transportation

and Development XXXII.2

Louisiana-Office of the

Lieutenant Governor I-II

Louisiana-Office of the Governor,

Rural Development Council XXXII.2

Louisiana-Office of the Secretary of State XXXII.2

Louisiana-Social life and customs XIX-XXI, XXIV-XXVII

Lower Mississippi Delta Development

Commission I, VI

Madison Parish (La.) XXVIII [to Numerical Index]

Manners and customs VIII

Menard, D. L. XI, XIII

Mertz, Van XIX

Mississippi VI, XXX, XXXII.4

Monroe, (La.) II, V, XX (1995-2001), XXXII.3

Morehouse Parish (La.) XXVIII

Montana, Allison XIV

Moore, Henson I

Museum of African-American

Life and Culture XXXII.4

Museums—Louisiana XXXII.3

Natchitoches, (La.) II, V, XXIV, XXXII.3 [to Numerical Index]

National Council for Traditional Arts I-II, XI, XIII, XIX

National Endowment for the Arts I-II, VII-VIII, XIV, XVIII-XIX, XX (1986-1987, 1989)

National Endowment for Humanities I, III, XIX-XX (1985, 1990, 1990), XXXIV

National Park Service XI

National Public Radio XV

Native American Center for the Living Arts XVIII

New Orleans, (La.) II, XI, XVI, XIX, XXIV-XXV, XXXII.3

New York XVIII, XXXII.4

Northwestern State

University (Natchitoches, La.) XXXII.3

Oklahoma Arts Council XXXII.4 [to Numerical Index]

Oklahoma Arts Institute XVIII

Opelousas (La.) XXIV, XXXI.2, XXXII.3

Oral history XXI-XXII, XIV, XXX, XXXI

Ouachita Parish (La.) XXVIII

Perez, Irvan I, IV, VII, XI, XIV, XXII, XIX-XX (1985-1991), XXI-XXIII [to Numerical Index]

Perry, Stephen II

Piney Woods (La.: Region) XXIV, XXX, XXXII.3

Piney Woods (Miss.: Region) VIII, XXIV, XXX

Plantations--Louisiana XXXII.3

Pointe Coupee Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.4

Popular music-Louisiana I, IX

Powell, Robert E. II, V

Public radio-Louisiana XV, XX (1989), XXXII.3

Quilting-Louisiana IV, VII, XIX, XX (1987,1992), XXIV [to Numerical Index]

Quiltmakers-Louisiana XIX, XX (1987, 1992), XXIV

Recreation areas-Interpretive programs VI , XXXI.1, XXXI.3 [to Numerical Index]

Richland Parish (La.) XXVIII

River City Festivals Association I-II, XX (1985-1987), XXXI.3

Roach-Lankford, Susan I-II, IV, XX (1986-1990, 1995-1998), XXII, XXIV

Roemer, Buddy I-II, VI, XIX, XXI

Sabino, Richard A. I-II, XX (1985-1987) [to Numerical Index]

Salt Lake City, (Utah) XX (1987)

Sandmel, Ben VIII, XVIII, XX (1987, 1989-1991, 1995), XXIV, XXXII.3

Sartisky, Michael I-II, XX (1989-1990)

Savoy, Ann XX (1988-1990)

Savoy, Marc VII, XX (1989)

Screen, Pat XX (1987)

Shreveport, (La.) I, XXXII.3

Smithsonian Institution I-II, VII, XII, XVII, XXVIII

Solod, Nina XIX

Southeastern Louisiana University XXXII.3

(Hammond, La.)

Southern Arts Federation I

Southern Development Foundation XIX

Spitzer, Nicholas R. I-IV, VI-IX, XI, XIII-XV, XVII-XX (1986, 1989-

1990, 1995-1996), XXII-XXIV, XXXII-XXXIII

St. Bernard Parish, (La.) XI, XXVI

St. Helena Parish, (La.) VIII, XXIV, XXVII, XXXII.3

St. James Parish, (La.) XVI

St. Landry Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.2

St. Martin Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.2

St. Tammany Parish, (La.) VIII, XXIX

Stahl, Judi VII

Storytellers-Louisiana I, XX (1989-1990), XXI, XXI-XXV

Storytelling-Louisiana I, XX (1989-1990), XXI, XXI-XXV

Tangipahoa Parish VIII, XXXII.3 [to Numerical Index]

Tassin, Leslie P. I-II, V, XX (1988-1990), XXI-XXII

Tennessee VI-VII, XXXII.4

Tensas Parish (La.) XXVIII

Tews, Mary-Kate XIX

Texas II, VII, XI, XVIII-XIX, XXXII.4

Thibodaux (La.) V

Tobacco-Louisiana XVI, XXXIV

Tourist trade VI, XXI, XXXII.1

Treen, David C. I-III

Truxillo, Henry A. I-II, V, VI, XX (1989-1990)

Tucker, Stephen I, VIII, XX (1987)

Tunica Indians-Art I, VII, XX (1987)

Tunica-Biloxi I-II, XXIV, XXXII.3

Union Pacific Foundation XX (1989) [to Numerical Index]

University of Texas Institute of Texan

Cultures at San Antonio I, XI

University Press of Mississippi XXII-XXIII

Van Kleeck, Richard XX (1985) [to Numerical Index]

Van Rheenen, Mary XX (1987), XXIV, XXXI.3

Vernon Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.3

Vidrine, Jane S. XX (1987-1989), XXXII.3

Vietnam—Emigration and immigration XXXII.3, XXXIV

Ware, Caroline I, V, XX (1989-1990), XXIV, XXXI.2, XXXII.3 [to Numerical Index]

Washington Parish VIII

Web, Bill (Boogie) XVIII

West Baton Rouge Parish (La.) XXIV, XXXI.4, XXXII.3

West Carroll Parish (La.) XXVIII

West Feliciana Parish (La.) VIII, XXXII.3

Zydeco music-Louisiana IX, XII-XIV, XVII, XXVII, XXXII.3 [to Numerical Index]

Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files

Container List

Stack Location	Box	Folder	Contents
			Series I. General Correspondence (1979-1991)
63:1	1	1-16	Nicholas Spitzer-1979-1985
		17	Nicholas Spitzer-Miscellaneous (newspaper clippings 1979-1982, copies book titles, draft of a guide)
63:2	2	1	Miscellaneous-1986
		2-4c	Robert (Bob) Gates-1987-1988
		5a-14	Maida Owens (Bergeron)-1985-July 1990
63:3	3a	1-15	Maida Owens (Bergeron)-August 1990-1993
63:4	3b	1-18	Maida Owens (Bergeron)-1994-1998
63:5	3c	1-7	Maida Owens (Bergeron)-1999-2001
		8	Maida Owens (Bergeron)-Thank You Notes-1991-November-1998-December, n.d.
			Series II. Folklife Commission, (1979-1999)
		9	Bylaws, n.d.
		10	Indian Tribes Materials
		11-33	Meetings-1982-1999
		34	Members Materials
		35	New Members Association
		36	Press Releases-1981-1986, n.d.
63:6	4a	1	Printed Materials
		2-3	Lobbying Campaigns-1979-1985
		4	Legislation-1981-1994
			Series III. Folklife Program/Division of the Arts (1968-2000)
		5-6	Correspondence-1968-1992
		7	Permission Requests
		8	Proposals-1981-1985, n.d.
		9	Budget Materials-1974-1983
		10	NEA Grant for Fall Arts Coordinator-Positions Descriptions
		11	Expenditures, Funding, Checks, Notes
		12-13	Goals, Folklife Plan, Folklife Center-1974-1986, n.d.
		14	Activity Reports-1986-1987, n.d.
		15	Original Logos
		16-18	Press Releases-1983-June-1988-October
		19	Job Descriptions
		20	Folk Arts Committee/Panel-1977-1984
		21	Newspaper Articles-1981-1994, n.d.
		22	Anne Price Columns-1981-1990, n.d.
		23	Selection of Archives-Printed Materials-1985-1993
		25	State Arts Conference-1981-1999
63:6	4a	26	NEH Collaborative Project
		27	Dissertation Database Project
		28	Photo/Slide Archives
63:6	4b	1	NEA Grant Application for Folklife Database System
		2-5	Folklife Database Project-1995-1996, n.d.
		6	Louisiana Folklife Updates Newsletter-1989-February-2000-September
			Series IV. LF Guide, (1980-1985)
63:7	5	1-2	Correspondence (1980-1985, n.d.
		3	Draft for Printing
		4	Final Outline and Table of Contents
		5	Manuscript Development
		6	Miscellaneous
		7	Printed Draft
		8	Publication Expenses, Photographs Expenses and some other expenses
			Series V. LFF/Site Selection (1990-1993)
		9	1990-Applications (Eunice, Kenner, Lake Charles, Town of Ferriday)
		10	1990-Procedures for Site Selection, Letter to Mayors
		11	1990-Responses
		12	1991-Lake Charles
		13	1991-Procedures for Site Selection, General Correspondence on Selection, Responses (Application from Lake Charles and Natchitoches)
		14	1992-Application-City of Eunice, Photographs of LFF in Eunice
		15	1992-Procedures for Site Selection, Correspondence on Selection
		16	1993-Applications (Eunice and Monroe)
		17	1993-Procedures for Site Selection and Letters to Mayors
		18	1993-General Correspondence
			Series VI. LMDDC (Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission), 1989-1990
		19	Correspondence & Miscellaneous
		20	Cultural Tourism & Conference on Cultural Tourism Materials
63:7	5	21	Final Report to the Congress & the White House-First Draft
		22	Hearings-1990
		23	Interim Report (Printed Materials)
			Series VII. Crafts, 1979-1990, 1992-1995, 1998
63:8	6a	1	A La Main
		2	American Craft Association Newsletter
		3	Catalogs-Art Quest 1987
		4a	Catalogs-The Buyer’s Book of American Crafts 1984
		4b	Catalogs-By Southern Hands
		5	Catalogs-National Lifestyle Crafts 1994
		6	Correspondence-Nicholas Spitzer
		7	Craft Administrators Journal
		8	CraftED Seminar Worksheet
		10	Directories-The International Directory of Resources for Artisans
		11	Directories-Yellow Pages of American Crafts 1988
		12	Eunice Museum
		13	Foundation for Historical Louisiana Shops
		14	Galleries and Exhibits
		15	Legislature Subcommittee on Recreational and Cultural Affairs
		16	La. Artists Alliance
		17	La. Crafts Guild
		18	La. Crafts Council
		19	Louisiana Crafts Marketer
		20	La. Crafts Program-Addresses and Mailout List
		21-23	La. Crafts Program-Advertising A-C
		24	La. Crafts Program-Boat Builders Project
		25	La. Crafts Program-Craft Fairs Booklet
		26-37a	La. Crafts Program-Fait a la Main
		37b	La. Crafts Program-Rough Draft
		38	La. Crafts Program-Job Description of Program Manager
		39	La. Crafts Program-Logo Competition
		40	La. Crafts Program-Logo Competition Photograph
63:9	6b	1	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Correspondence, Planning, Press Release and Printed Materials
		2	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Robert Gray

63:9	6b	3	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Paulette Hebert
		4	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Annalee Leonard and Maura Wood
		5	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Kathryn Pearson
		6	La. Crafts Program-Marketing Workshops-Libby Platus
		7	La. Crafts Program-Newspaper Clippings
		8	La. Crafts Program-Participant Information Handbook
		9	La. Crafts Program-Press Release and Publicity Plan
		10	La. Crafts Program-Welcome Center Demonstrations
		11	La. Crafts Program-1986-Correspondence
		12	La. Crafts Program-1986-House Bill No. 2150
		13	La. Crafts Program-1987-Application
		14	La. Crafts Program-1987-Application of Pam Parker
		15-18	La. Crafts Program-1987-Correspondence
		19	La. Crafts Program-Grant Agreements
		20	La. Crafts Program-Robert Gray’s Consultant Work
		21	La. Crafts Program-1987-Jury
		22	La. Crafts Program-Photographs of Sculptures
		23	La. Crafts Program-Photographic Negatives and Slide of Pam Parker
		24	La. Crafts Program-1987-Report to Legislature
		25	La. Crafts Program-1987-1988-Budget and Invoice
		26	La. Crafts Program-1987-1988-Economic Impact Survey
		27	La. Crafts Program-1988-Application
		28	La. Crafts Program-1988-Continuation of Program
		29-31	La. Crafts Program-Correspondence, 1988
		32	La. Crafts Program-1988-Jury
		33	La. Crafts Program-1988-Long Range Planning Meeting
		34	La. Crafts Program-1988-“Louisiana Celebration”
		35	La. Crafts Program-1988-Participant Survey from Louisiana Cultural Caucus
		36	La. Crafts Program-1989-Correspondence
		37	La. Crafts Program-1989-Jury
		38	La. Crafts Program-1990-Application
		39	La. Crafts Program-1990-Jury
		40	La. Crafts Program-1992-Application
		41	La. Crafts Program-1993-Jury
63:9	6b	42	La. Crafts Program-1993-1996, n.d.-Correspondence
		43	La. Crafts Program-1994-Jury
		44	La. Crafts Program-1995-Report
		45	La. Furnishing Industry Association
		46	La. Handcrafts Exposition
		47	La. Tech Art Gallery
		48	NAAC
63:10	6c	1	National Crafts Planning Project
		2	Newspaper Clippings
		3	North Central Louisiana Arts Council
		4	North Central Louisiana Arts Council-Brochure
		5	Ozark-Region-Marketing
		6-9	Ozark Region-Reports
		10	Photograph
		11	Province Publications-Nova Scotia
		12	Samples of Craft Organizations Structures
		13	Southern Arts and Crafts Newsletter-1988-February
		14-25	State Publications (organized alpha by state)
		26	The Year of American Craft-AFS Notes
		27	The Year of American Craft-Congressional Proclamation
		28	The Year of American Craft-Correspondence
		29	The Year of American Craft-Craft News
		30	The Year of American Craft-Fact Sheet
		31	The Year of American Craft-Forms
		32	The Year of American Craft-Logo
		33	The Year of American Craft-Louisiana Committee
		34	The Year of American Craft-Louisiana Mailing List
		35	The Year of American Craft-Participation Guide
		36	The Year of American Craft-Press Racket
		37	The Year of American Craft-Press Release
		38	The Year of American Craft-Project Ideas
		39	The Year of American Craft-State Coordinators
		40	The Year of American Craft-Summary Statement
		41	The Year of American Craft-Y.O.C.A. News
			Series VIII. Florida Parishes Folklife, 1981-1992
63:11	6d	1	Agreements (Returned to Owner), Lists of Crafts People, Collection List
		2	Book-Correspondence
		3	Book-Drafts-Notes
		4	Book-Essays-Harry P. Becnel
63:11	6d	5	Book-Essays-Maida Bergeron
		6	Book-Essays-Nancy K. Bernstein
		7	Book-Essays-Susan Garrett Davis
		8	Book-Essays-Janice Dee Gilbert
		9	Book-Essays-H.F. “Pete” Gregory
		10	Book-Essays-Joy Jackson
		11	Book-Essays-Joyce Jackson
		12	Book-Essays-M.B. Newton, Jr.
		13	Book-Essays-C. Howard Nichols
		14	Book-Essays-Virginia Romero
		15	Book-Essays-Ben Sandmel
		16	Book-Essays-Terry A. Seelinger
		17	Book-NEA Grant Application-1984-Materials and Correspondence
		18	Book-Press Release
		19	Chronology of the Project
		20	Flyer
		21	Loan Agreements-Donated Items
		22	Folklife Conference-March 5, 1983
		23	Folklife Conference-March 5, 1983-Newspaper Clippings
		24	Initiation, Planning (Grant/Minigrant Proposal)-1980/1981/1982, LCH/Minigrants, 1981-1982
		25	Jeskin & Linge-Exhibit
		26	Loan Agreement Form (Blank)
		27	Miscellaneous-Correspondence
		28	Miscellaneous-Printed Materials
		29	NEA Grant Application and Resumes-1983-(The Piney Woods People)
		30	Newspaper Clippings
		31	Preliminary Proposal-1983
		32	Publicity-Hammond Events
		33	Survey-Correspondence-Field Workers-Joy Jackson
		34	Survey-Form
		35	Survey-Grant Agreements-Resumes (Field Workers)-Lists-Budgeting
		36	Survey-Press Releases-Printed Materials
			Series IX. Folklife Recording Series, 1981-1985, 1990
		37	Brownie Ford Album
		38	Correspondence and Other Materials
		39	Hezekiah & The Houserockers
63:11	6d	40	Letter of Appreciation
		41	Newspaper Clippings-1984-1990
		42	Octa Clark LP
		43	The Country Three
			Series X. Institute of Texan Cultures of the University of Texas as San Antonio, 1977, 1981
		44	Conference on Folk Culture in Texas (1977)-Preservation and Presentation-September 30-October 1, 1977
		45	Printed Materials-Texas Folklife Festival (1977)
		46	Texas Music Grant Application & Correspondence-1981
			Series XI. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, 1979-1985, 1995-1996
		47	African American Heritage Tourism-Conference (Participant List, Newsletter)
		48	Correspondence
		49	Delta Region Preservation Commission Minutes
63:12	7a	1	Folk Music Evening-April, 1980
		2	General Management Plan & Materials
		3	Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview (Update & Revision)
		4	Printed Materials
		5	Requests for Quotations
		6	Requests for Proposal
		7	LFFP/LWE 1984-Facilities Schedule
		8	LFFP/LWE 1984-Signage
		9	Training & Presentation Materials
			Series XII. Music, 1980-1982, 1987, 1990-1999
		10	American Music Atlas
		10a	American Routes
		11	Conferences
		12	Correspondence
		13	Film about Zydeco Music
		13a	Folk Radio Program
		14	Music Alive
		15	Music Trail
		16	Newspaper Clippings-Artists, Jazz, Music Industry and Radio-1981-1999, n.d.
		17	Newspaper Clippings-Cajun Music-1980-1998, n.d.
63:12	7a	18	Newspaper Clippings-Zydeco-1982, n.d.
		19	Printed Materials (Music Festivals, Concerts, Performances, Musicians, etc.)
		20	Record & Tape Recording Catalogues
		21	Savoy Music Center
		22	Smithsonian Series for Public Television & Radio-A River of Songs
33:12	34-35		Commercial Recordings—LP’s
33:12	36		Commercial Recordings—45’s
33:12	37		Commercial Recordings-cassettes
			Series XIII. (National Council for Traditional Arts), 1979-2001
63:12	7a	23	Board of Directors Materials (Minutes of Meetings, Financial Statements, Grant Planning, Letters to Members)
		24	Der Yidisher Caravan
		25	French Tour
		26	Executive Committee Minutes
		27	Mountain Music Homecoming Tour
		28	Miscellaneous, Correspondence
		29-32	Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview
63:13	7b	1	Printed Materials-General on NCTA Booklets
		2	Printed Materials-National Folk Groups & Folk Tours (booklets, newspaper clippings)
		3	Rural Blues Concert
		4	Tour of Cowboy Arts
			Series XIV. NEA, 1975-1999
		5	Artists & Communities
		6-8	Correspondence-Grants and Apprenticeship-1980-1996
63:13	7b	9	Correspondence-Miscellaneous
		10	Correspondence-Staff Changes
		11	Correspondence-State Folk Arts Coordinators Meeting
		12	Federal & State Grants in Support of LA Folk Arts & Culture
		13	Folk Arts-Printed Materials (Program Description)
63:12	7b	14	Folk Arts Touring
		15	Funding of Folk Arts
63:13	7c	1	Heritage Awards
		2	Heritage Fellowship Booklets
63:13	7c	3	In Good Hands State Apprenticeship Program
		4	Newspaper Clippings 1992, 1994
		5	Planning Document Draft
		6	State FA Program Expenditures for each State, State Folk Culture Programs, State Folk Arts Coordinator Programs, State FA Coordinator Questionnaire Nick Spitzer
		7	State & Regional Folk Cultural Programs Summaries
			Series XV. NPR, 1978-1980, 1982, 1990, 1993, 1995
		8	Bon Chere Comarade
		9	Folk Festival/USA-Correspondence
		10	Folk Masters Program
		11	Margaret Lewis & RAM Records
		12	New American Routes
		13	Sunday Show
			Series XVI. Perique Tobacco, 1987, 1989
		14	Kentucky Museum Project
		15	Newspaper Clipping
		16	Photofile & Xerox
		17	Printed Materials
			Series XVII. Smithsonian Institution 1976, 1978-1981, 1983-1986, 1988, 1990, 1993-1994, 1996-1999
		18	British American Festival
		19	Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Booklet
		20	Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies LA. Archive Materials-1994
		21	Correspondence
		22	Directory of African American Folklorists-1990
		23	Fellowships & Grants Information
		24	Folklife Fieldwork Guide with Supplements, Documentation Specification & Guidelines, Instructions to Field Worker
		25	Folklore and Folklife: Teacher’s Manual
		26	Gulf Coast 1976 (Festival of American Folklore Report, Interview Report Forms)
		27	Louisiana Materials
		28	Magazine Article
		29	Museum of Natural History
		30	National Heritage Fellowships-1983
		31	Oil Folklore-Nick Spitzer Report
		32	Printed Materials
		33	SFAF (Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife)-1978-1981-Printed General Booklets, Programs and Newspaper Clippings
		34-38	SFAF-1983-Correspondence
		35	SFAF-1983-News Releases
		36	SFAF-1983-Newspaper Clippings
		37	SFAF-1983-Printed Materials
		38	SFAF-1983-Prgram Fragment, Guidelines, Participants Info.
		39-42	SFAF-1984-Photographs
		43	SFAF-1984-Program
		44	SFAF-1984-Publicity Report
		45	SFAF-1985-Audio Cassette and Tape Inventory
		46	SFAF-1985-Background Information
		47	SFAF-1985-Correspondence
		48	SFAF-1985-Cultural Conservation in French LA
		49	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Brassieur, Ray
		50	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Gardner, Joel
		51	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Jackson, Joyce M.
		52	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Kaslow, Allison
		53	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Roach-Lankford, Susan
		54	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Spitzer, Nicholas
		55	SFAF-1985-Field Worker-Ulysses, Richard
63:14	8	1	SFAF-1985-General Information, News Releases
		2	SFAF-1985-Newspaper Clippings
		3	SFAF-1985-Participants Materials
		4	SFAF-1985-Production Schedule, Smithsonian Preliminary Presentation
		5	SFAF-1985-Program
		6	SFAF-1985-Stages Schedule
63:14	8	7	SFAF-1986-Magazine Article
		8	SFAF-1986-Program
		9	SFAF-1987-Correspondence
		10	SFAF-1987-Program
		11	SFAF-1988-Program
		12	SFAF-1989-Fieldwork Inventory
		13	SFAF-1989-Printed Materials and Program
		14	SFAF-1990-Printed Materials and Program
		15	SFAF-1993-Program
		16	SFAF-1994-Inventory and Audio Recordings
		17	SFAF-1994-List of Participants
		18	SFAF-1994-Program
		19	SFAF-1996-Correspondence
63:14	8	20	SFAF-1997-Job Announcement
		21	SFAF-1998-Program
		22	SFAF-1999-Program
			Series XVIII. Miscellaneous, c.a. 1950, 1973/74, 1978-1998
		23	American Gospel Arts Day
		24	Bayou Cajun Folk Festival-Press Releases
		25	Boogie Bill’s Records
		26	Cajun Festival (New York City)
		27	Capitol Folks
		28	Census by Race-1990
		29	Films and Videos on Folk Culture
		29a	Folk Arts/Folk Crafts-Newspaper Clipping, 1950-1994, n.d.
		30	Folk Arts/Folk Crafts-Printed Materials-St. Tammany Topics (1984)
		31	Folkpatterns Collection Center (How to Set Up it)
		32	Free Listing for Festivals
		33	Future Homemakers of America
		34	General
		35	Gifts from the Hills
		36	John C. Campbell Folk School
		37	LA Folk Arts Conference-1979
		38	LA State Arts Council Members
		39	1988 (Governor’s Inauguration)
		40	Louisiana Heritage Foundation-Incorporation Materials
		41	Native Americans-Choctaw-Newspaper Clippings-1996, n.d.
		42-43	Native Americans-printed items
		44	Newspaper Clippings-1985, 1994, n.d.
63:14	8	45	Oklahoma Arts Institute
		46	Oklahoma Arts Institute-Newspaper Clippings
		47	Old Farmers Day (October 23, 1982)
		48	Olympic Arts Committee Meeting and Printed Booklet on Olympics
		49	River City Blues Festival-Criteria for Participant Selection
		50	Vietnam Veterans of America-National Convention
		51	West Baton Rouge Parish Project
		52	WTBS “Portraits of America”
			Series XIX. LFFP/LWE 1984, 1982-1984
63:15	9	1	Activity Forms
		2	Audio Visual
		3	Bios
		4	Board of Directors, LA Legislature
		5	Brochure
		6	Budget
		7	Check Request (Blank Form)
		8	Checks
		9	Confirmation Sheet (Blank Form)
		10	Consultants-Gordon Linge
		11	Consultants-Van Mertz
		12	Contracts (Engagement Agreements)
		13	Contracts (Engagement Agreements)-Sample Form
		14-18	Correspondence-1982-1984
		19	Crafts Items Loan for the Exhibit-LA State Museum etc.
		20	Crafts Store
		21	Creole State Exhibit-Correspondence-Loan/Alexandria Museum, Relocation
		22	Creole State Exhibit-General Description
		23	Creole State Exhibit-Materials, Loan/Alexandria Museum, Contract with Consultant
		24	Entertainment Master Calendar
		25	Entertainment Scheduling Form
		26a	Fairs and Festival Addresses
		26b	Feasibility Study
		27	Florida Folklife Week
		28	Florida Folklife Participants (September 24-30)-Photographs, Newspaper Clippings
		29-30	Foodways Demonstration & Craft Shop
		31	Forest Products Industry Exhibit
		32	Forms, Form Letters
		33	Gifts & Amenities
		34	Index to Files
		35	Inter Office Memos
		36	Jean Lafitte (National Historical) Park
		37	Jean Lafitte Park-French Quarter Signage
		38	Letters of Praise and Complaints
		39	Letter to Crafts Demonstrator
		40	Loan Agreements, Inventory
		41	Gulf South Folklife Festival-Feasibility Report-1983
		42	Meal Form
		43	Missouri Week (October 17-21)
63:15	9	44	Music Performances
		45	National Council for Traditional Arts
		46	NEA Grant
		47-48	Newspaper Clippings-September, 1982-December, 1984, n.d.
		49	North LA Week (Participants, etc.)
63:16	10	1	Participants (List)
		2	Participant Packet Materials
		3	Participants/Presenters-Resources
		4	Performer/Group Confirmation Sheet
		5	Personnel
		6	Personnel-Lynn Abbot
		7	Personnel-Ray Brassieur
		8	Personnel-Lee Dishman
		9	Personnel-David Doucet
		10	Personnel-Patty Harrington
		11	Personnel-Allison Kaslow
		12	Personnel-Worth Long
		13	Personnel-Jeanette O’Rourke
		14	Personnel-Ulysses Ricard, Jr.
		15	Personnel-Nina Solod
		16	Personnel-John Vidrine
		17	Preliminary Recommendations, Outlines, Proposal, Draft Resolution etc.
		18	Press Packet (Standard)
		19-21	Press Releases and publicity
		22-24	Printed Materials (Original Press Clippings, Press Releases)
		25	Private Funding
		26	Proposal, Promotion Materials
		27	Publicity
		28	Purchase Request Index
		29	Reports on Work
		30	Rolodex of Artists
		31	Signage
		32	Site Development and Construction
		33	Southern Development Foundation (Concession Agreement)
		34	Staff Cuts
		35	Statistics
		36	Steering Committee-Official Documents
		37	Student Internships
		38	Weekly Schedules
			Series XX. Louisiana Folklife Festival, 1983-2001
63:17	11	1	LFF 1985, 1983-1985 Alcoholic Beverage Permit and Materials
		2	Arts Council Payments; Letters and Invoices
		3	Assistant Director for Public Relations and Finance (Susan Garrett Davis)
		4	Baton Rouge City Court, Probation and Rehabilitation Division
		5	Billboards
		6	Brochure/Flyers
		7	Budgets and Worksheets
		8	Check Stubs: Grant Income, Revenue
		9	Concessionaire Materials
		10-14	Contracts (Arts/Crafts, Group/Performer, Concession)
		15	Correspondence
		16	Deposit and Concessionaire Forms (July 27, 28; August 3, 4)
		17	Deposit (to Date Report Forms) and Other Bank Forms and Materials
		18	Director Selection (Jane Grosby-Bergey)
		19	Directory
		20	Festival Board (Meeting, Notes, and Agendas)
		21	Final Report
		22	Financial Records, Checkbook
		23	Financial Records-Checks, Canceled Checks
		24	Food Booth Guidelines
		25	Fundraising/Sponsorship
		26	Fundraising/Printed Materials
		27	Grants-Financial Status
		28	Housing and Meals
		29-35	Invoices
		36	LA Heritage Foundation/Arts and Humanities Council Agreement and IRS information
		37	Letters Sent-Copies
		38	Letters to Festival Participants and Volunteers (Thank You)
		39	Letter to Volunteer
		40	Map of LA (parishes, ethnic group locales)
		41	Media Contacts
		42	Nametags, Parking Permits, Signs
		43	NEA Grant Applications
		44	NEA Grants
		45	Newspaper Clipping
63”17	11	46	Notes
		47	Participants/Presenters
		48	Participant Information Forms (Completed)
		49	Performers Forms/Bios
		50	Performers Packet Materials
		51	Permits (Building and Parking) and Lists
		52	Personnel-Susan Garrett Davis-Payment Invoices
		53	Personnel-Jane Grosby-Bergey-Payment, Invoices
		54	Personnel-J. Simio Vidrine-Salary Invoices
		55	Press Releases/Articles
		56	Printed Materials
		57	Programming (newspaper clippings)
		58	Rentals/Tents
		59	Request to Participate (includes letters and photographs)
		60	Schedule
		61	Signs
		62	Site Plans
		63	Street Closures/ABC Records
		64	Taxes-Materials on Application for Exemption
		65	Trademark
		66	Working Papers-Programming File; Festival Insurance; Confirmation Sheets
		67	Zip Codes and Mailing Labels
			LFF 1986
		68	Agreement for Services as a Performing Artist or Organization (blank)
		69	Balance Statement
		70	Budget
		71	Comments, Worker’s Evaluation, Suggestions
		72	Coordinator List and Information for Coordinators
		73	Correspondence
		74	Crafts Demonstrators-Agreement, Participants
		75	Evaluations (worker evaluations, etc.)
		76a	Evaluation Reports
		76b	Field Worker- Sandmel, Ben
		77	NEA Correspondence

Revised and added to, 2002

Contents of Inventory

Biographical/Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Series Descriptions

Series XX, Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF), 1983-1998 [Go to Container List]

Index Terms

Ancelet, Barry Jean I-II, IV, IX, XIII-XIV, XVII, XX(1985-1990), XXII

Burgess Brassieur, Amy XVII, XIX, XX (1987), XXXIV, XXXI.3

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Contents

A La Main

American Craft Association Newsletter

Margaret Lewis & RAM Records

New American Routes

Newspaper Clipping

Directory of African American Folklorists-1990

Folklore and Folklife: Teacher’s Manual

Magazine Article

SFAF-1985-Program

SFAF-1986-Magazine Article

SFAF-1986-Program

Feasibility Study