The Italian-Americans in the West Project collection, 1988-1993 / Taylor, David Alan, 1951- Williams, John Alexander, 1938- Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) American Folklife Center. collectionmanuscriptmixed material Field recordings West (U.S.) lcsh Interviews West (U.S.) lcsh Oral history West (U.S.) lcsh Ethnography. aat Traveling exhibitions. aat Manuscripts. aat Sound recordings. aat Photographs. 2aat Videocassettes. aat engThe 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. 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."Italian Americans in the West Project Collection (AFC 1989/022), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.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.Italian AmericansItalian AmericansItalian AmericansOccupationsColumbus Quincentenary, 1992-1993http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af007003Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.