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The Baker and Johnston photograph colleciton consists of 14 cabinet card images mainly of Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians, some in tribal dress, probably taken in their Evanston, Wyoming studio in the 1880s. Included are images of Arapahoe Chief Sharp Nose, Painting Horse, Oiti, Pappagoit and the Shoshone Chief Washakie.

Abstract Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll...

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The Utah State University Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice records contain promotional materials and office files created by professors, deans, staff, and personnel between 1997 and 2011.

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A large-scale compilation of approximately 600,000 categorized folk belief entries, recorded on index cards by Wayland D. Hand, his colleagues, and students at UCLA. Drawn from books, interviews, and ephemeral sources, the collection spans the 19th and 20th centuries and is housed in ten file cabinets.

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Items in this seventeen-box collection fall into three main categories: Cache Valley history, material produced by the Jensen Farm, and reports done for the Jensen Farm.

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The collection consists of research notes, teaching files, correspondence and publications of History professor David Rich Lewis during his tenure at Utah State University.

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Archives of the Montpelier Historical Society include miscellaneous parts of organizational and personal records. Includes a ledger of the Montpelier Athletic Club (1926-1937); a school supply financial ledger (1909-1911); exhibit notes from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers; Montpelier Pavilion Corporation record (1906); journal and genealogy of Edward Burgoyne (photocopy, ca. 1880s); receipts of T.L. Glenn, attorney (1898-1906); and some examples of early Salt Lake Valley money, etc.

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182 portrait photographs; consisting of cartes-de-visite (6.5 cm. x 10.5 cm.) and cabinet cards (16.5 cm. x 11 cm.), plus a few postcards. Most of the immigrants pictured are Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian converts to the LDS Church, while others were taken in Utah, and may be members of the LDS missions to those countries. Some of the portraits are unidentified and are listed by photographer. Several studio portraits in the collection were taken by H. Maartmann (Christiania, Norway).

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This collection contains materials pertaining to U.S. public folklore programs within their respective states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. The collection materials include pamphlets, brochures, programs, newsletters, correspondence, etc.

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The R. Welling Roskelley Photograph Collection contains family and professional photographs Dr. Roskelley's long service as a professor of rural sociology and as an active participant in agricultural extension and international rural development.