in the early 2000s, we actually purchased from them allen lomax's later collections, allen was onlyion and serve in the army. he never came back to the library, he was kind of a victim of the red scare. in england for 10 years in the 1950s and then, and did moree back collecting after that. all of those collections he made here after he returned became part of his rivate collection and part of the collection of the association for cultural equity when he founded that organization. in the early 2000s, we bought those collections bringing allen the ones heections, made for the library and the ones he made later together under one roof. foundation continued to do its own work and the archive archivist and s other sorts of people and do reporting, for example, they are very involved in managing the rights for the people ons, so that if o make popular recordings, the original folks who were recorded, their families get that is good , work that the association for cultural equity does. another thing that they're doing is continuing allen's work of putting together the global juke box, whi

letters, for of example from woody guthrie, letters and drawings he sent to allen lomax.dmade birth announcement for arlo guthrie that woody guthrie made. we have tons of interviews about traditional culture, we have thousands and thousands of traditional folk stories, we get the collection of the natural -- the national storytelling festival. we have the veterans history project, which gives us stories and diaries from wartime veterans, we have personal stories. we will see some of these collections as we go on, accounts of the civil rights movement. quilts,documentation of rubs, and other folk arts. usually we do not have the items itself. ,e do have about 10 folk rugs usually we have photos of those items. we do not collect items the way the smithsonian does. we have tons of historical photos and manuscripts. those 3 million items we said were in the archives, probably a couple million are manuscript pages. that is a huge majority of what is in the archive. transcriptions of songs to field notes from field workers out there doing collections. a lot of photos as well. g