Since our inception, the Philadelphia Folklore Project has built a community archive of 75,000+ items related to the folk culture, histories, and experiences of diverse Philadelphians. Our Collections comprise primary ethnographic materials in all formats, including video and audio oral histories and interviews, photographs and slides, field research notes, artifacts, and printed ephemera. It is a significant, and sometimes a sole, record of important but ephemeral community events, festivals, family traditions, institutions and arts––including peoples’ own reflections on their experience, artistry, history and traditions, both in the native languages of immigrants (particularly in Khmer, Chinese, Lao, Vietnamese, and Spanish) and in English.

The Collections also preserve PFP’s administrative history, exhibits, programs, documentary projects and other initiatives, as well as documentation of other local grassroots folk cultural organizations and their histories, activities, resources, and collections.

If you are interested in accessing material in our Collections, you are welcome to contact us at pfp@folkloreproject.org.