Participant Files 2013-present
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-2017
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of the administrative files associated with particpants from each year of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (formerly the Festival of American Folklife). Over the years, particpant files were organized in two different ways. The first arrangement schema was alphabetical order by the particpant's last name, regardless of the the year or the program. The second arrangement schema is in chronological order by Festival year, followed by program, document type, and then the particpant's last name. Because of the breadth of these files, it is currently not feasible to reconcile the first arrangement type (alphabetical order) with the more hierarchically arranged second schema.