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Folklore and Folklife

 Subject
Subject Source: Nwda

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Grouse Creek (Utah) cultural survey collection

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 21
Abstract The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey was a field survey of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. It is the only survey housed off site from the LOC with a partner organization. The project was a joint effort of the American Folklife Center, the Folk Arts Program of the Utah Arts Council, National Park Service, the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Utah State University, and the Western Folklife Center. The survey was conducted in the Grouse Creek region of Utah...
Dates: 1973-2004

Wayland D. Hand collection of Superstition and Popular Belief

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 036
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1950-1996

Hansel and Gretel/Snow White collection

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_BOOK COLL 49
Abstract

This collection contains books, audio, and ephemeras all pertaining to fairy tales such as Snow White, Hansel and Gretal, and Mother Goose tales.

Dates: 1900-1999

The Intermountain West LGBTQ+ Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_Folk Coll 076
Abstract

Oral history interviews of individuals in the Salt Lake City and Cache Valley LGBTQ+ communities. Digital audio files, transcripts, and release forms.

Dates: 2021-2022

Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition: Triangle X collection

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_Folk Coll 64
Abstract This collection houses the products from the 2017 Library of Congress/Utah State Univeristy/University of Wyoming Field School for Cultural Documentation at the historic Triangle X fieldwork in the Grand Teton National Park. The collection includes 26 interviews (audio, full transcripts, release forms, and images) with members of the Turner family (third, fourth, and fifth generations), Triangle X employees, and dude ranch guests. Also included are photographs from events and buildings at...
Dates: 2017

Jay Anderson foodways research collection

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 17b
Abstract

Professor Jay Anderson's foodways research items: theses, books, and articles, correspondence with authors, etc.; most items are photocopies.

Dates: 1971-1999

Michael Owen Jones Folklorist photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_Folk Coll 084
Abstract

Photographic images of folklorists and folklore students, taken by Michael Owen Jones and/or colleagues.

Dates: 1929-1990

Latinx Voices Project

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 38
Abstract The Latinx Voices Project contains 54 oral history interviews with Cache Valley Utah Latinx community members. The collection was created in two phases. In 2007, 45 adults (46 interviews) were conducted. This first phase includes the original interview cassette tape(s), typed transcription, photo (if available), compact disc(s) of original cassette tapes, and translated transcripts (Spanish interviews translated into English and English interviews translated into Spanish). Also included in...
Dates: 2005-2013

David Rich Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_8.2:7 LEW
Abstract

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

Dates: 1973-2017

Little Red Riding Hood collection

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_BOOK COLL 50
Abstract

This collection contains books, audio, and ephemeras all pertaining to the folk tale Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales.

Dates: 1865-2018