The collection consists of sound recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, video recordings, publications, ephemera, administrative files, and field notes produced and collected during the 1977 Chicago Ethnic Arts Project field survey from 1976-1981; but primarily during fieldwork conducted by fourteen folklorists directed by the American Folklife Center in 1977. The final project report presented to the Illinois Arts Council summarized the current conditions and folk arts needs in a number of Chicago’s ethnic communities.
Description adapted from the holding repository’s finding aid; it may describe the larger collection that contains the AOH/LAOH material.
