Italian Americans in the West Project collection
By: collected by the American Folklife Center
Contributors: Williams, John Alexander, 1938-; Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress); American Folklife Center
Published: 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25000
Subjects: Social life and customs; Columbus Quincentenary, 1992-1993; Occupations; Field recordings; Religion; Italian American families; Italian Americans; Folklore
Other titles: Old ties, new attachments.; Italian-American folklife in the West.
Description: The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, graphic materials (including color slides, black-and-white negatives, and photographic prints), and moving images collected during a field research project documenting Italian American occupational, cultural, and religious traditions in several locations in the western United States. Fieldwork was conducted in Gilroy, California; San Pedro, California; Pueblo, Colorado; Carbon County, Utah; Walla Walla, Washington; and several mining and ranching communities in Nevada by staff of the American Folklife Center. The project was part of the Quincentenary Celebration of Christopher Columbus sponsored by the Library of Congress in 1992. It produced a traveling exhibition and book of essays, both titled, "Old Ties, New Attachments :  Italian-American Folklife in the West."
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Italian Americans in the West Project Collection (AFC 1989/022), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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In English and Italian.

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Taylor, David A. and John Alexander Williams, eds. Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in the West,  Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992.