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The cabinet has 73 drawers of differing sizes that are filled with papers measuring 3 cm × 11 cm (1.2 in × 4.3 in). The cabinet's three large drawers at the bottom store archive materials. The
Cabinet of Folksongs houses 268,815 pages with 4-line to 8-line folksongs, as
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Barons started acquiring folksongs in 1868 (or 1878) with the purpose of demonstrating "that
Latvian culture in its oldest part is of equal value as the culture of other nations". The cabinet was built in Moscow in 1880 and was based on Barons' draft. Due to the number of folksongs that were sent to
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Barons, the cabinet was deemed necessary. Prior to the completion of the cabinet, the folksongs were stored in cigarette-paper boxes. When the amount of texts approached 150,000 in 1893, Barons and his work returned to Latvia from Moscow.
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After the author's death, the cabinet was kept in a bank vault. It was moved to the
Archives of Latvian Folklore in 1940, to the Literature, Folklore, and Art Institute of
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National Library and it being placed on public display, the Cabinet of Folksongs was insured for one million euros.
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Stankevich manor in Russia, where Barons started working with dainas. In 1998, the contents of the Cabinet began to be
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