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Steve Siporin's fieldwork from the Carbon County, Utah, section of the Italian-Americans in the West Project (U.S.) must
be obtained from the
The materials in this collection were donated by Professor Steve Siporin to the Fife Folklore Archives. Collection processed by Randy Williams in 2005. Finding aid created by Randy Williams in August 2005; updated March 2012.
Originally processed by Randy Williams. Register created by Randy Williams, August 2005.
Steve Siporin's fieldwork from the Carbon County, Utah, section of the Italian-Americans in the West Project (U.S.), 1990. (FOLK COLL 33). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Arranged according to genre as well as numeric sequence according to Box and Folder
Fieldwork for the Carbon County, Utah, section of the "Italian-American in the West," (IAW) project took place during the summer and early fall of 1990. Fieldworkers Tom Carter, Phil Notarianni, and Steve Siporin conducted the fieldwork. The Italian-American in the West" was a project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Carter was assisted by two graduate students from the School of Architecture at the University of Utah, Margaret (Bee) Bergold and Susan Anderson.
The materials in the Collection include the final report and biographical information forms by Steve Siporin, and Steve Siporin's contact sheets and log sheets, and Steve Siporin's slides and log sheets. NOTE: Although the slide log lists information for all the slides, they are not all in the collection. As well, all the items collected in the IAW fieldwork project are not in this collection. The complete collection is housed at the Library of Congress. For more information go to American Folklife Center: Utah. The collection is housed in an acid-free box and sorted into separate folders and stored in USU's Special Collections.
Tom Carter making phone calls; stone bunkhouse at Columbia; Guido Rachiele's Checkerboard Grocery Store, interview at John and Yolanda Bruno's; Stone masonry wall in Helper; documentation of stonework at Standardville.
Documentation of stonework at Standardville; Elegante house on Canyon Road; stone house on Canyon Road in Helper; coal car yard art in Helper.
Hiawatha.
Hiawatha; Price cemetery; landscape between Price and Wellington; Spring Glen cemetery; Kenilworth.
Kenilworth; "Yard Art," St. Anthony's Church, stone masonry, panoramas in Helper; Scofield cemetery.
Documentation of documentation of Menina House, Spring Glen.
Baking frazzini at the Bruno's, visiting in their kitchen, oregano drying in their shed.
Documentation of shed which served as main food for storage preparation area as well as storage area.
Gravemarkers, Price cemetery
Gravemarkers, Price cemetery
Gravemarkers in Castle Gate cemetery (north of Helper); stone house and outbuildings in Helper
Sausage-making at Rich Colombo's R and A Market
Sausage-making at Rich Colombo's R and A Market.
Train tracks north of Helper; Nick sisters cooking at Josephine Nick Copfer's for the Oktoberfest
Nick sisters cooking at Josephine Nick Copfer's for the Oktoberfest.
Visit to Rose Vea's (Spring Glen) [foodways and interior of home]
Visit to Rose Vea's (Spring Glen) [food storage cellar, outbuildings, yard]
Document Sunnyside cemetery
Document Sunnyside cemetery
Document coke-oven monument to miners, Sunnyside cemetery
Document Sunnyside cemetery; Sunnyside mine; Dominick Besso's shoe repair hammers and old photos
Document Dominick Besso's shoe repair shop, interior; Notre Dame quilting group.
Documentation of stone work in Helper
Dinner at Palmina Nick New's; interview at John and Yolanda Bruno's; documentation of stonework at Standardville.
Documentation of stonework at Standardville.
Documentation of stonework at Standardville; Elegante house and walls of Canyon Road.
Elegante house on Canyon Road; Hiawatha.
Hiawatha.
Hiawatha; Price cemetery.
Price cemetery; landscape between Price and Wellington; Spring Glen cemetery.
Spring Glen cemetery; Hiawatha cemetery, Kenilworth; stone masonry, St. Anthony's Church and gardens in Helper.
Stone masonry in Helper; yard art on Fabrizio Street and lawn of Helper City auditorium; Scofield cemetery; Bonacci House.
Visit with Vito Bonacci [including home decoration]
Visit with Vito Bonacci at his home
Visit with Vito and Filomena Bonacci [including table, set for meal].
Visit with the Bonaccis [zampone: American hoes refashioned into Italian hoes; garden and outbuildings and homemade irrigation system].
Visit with the Bonaccis; documentation of documentation of Menina house.
Documentation of documentation of Menina house and Bruno garden, outbuildings, house.
Documentation of documentation of Bruno garden, outbuildings, house, and landscape.
Documentation of documentation of Bruno garden, shed, outbuildings, house; gravemarkers in Price cemetery.
Gravemarkers in Price cemetery.
Gravemarkers in Price cemetery; interview with Ann Bonacci.
Gravemarkers in Castle Gate cemetery (north of Helper); stone house and outbuilding in Helper.
Gravemarkers in Castle Gate cemetery (north of Helper); stone house adn outbuilding in Helper; visit to Rich Colombo's R and A Market; "Blackie" Saccomano's farm (Spring Glen).
Visit to "Blackie" Saccomano's farm (Spring Glen)
Visit to "Blackie" Saccomano's farm (Spring Glen).
Visit to "Blackie" Saccomano's farm (Spring Glen) [stone bake oven and wagon]
Visit to "Blackie" Saccomano's farm (Spring Glen); visit to Kerry Nick Fister's (Price)
Visit to Kerry Nick Fister's (Price); Carbon County Fairgrounds; visit to Rose Vea's (Spring Glen).
Visit to Rose Vea's (Spring Glen) [storage shed]
Visit to Rose Vea's [storage shed, barn, potato cellar] (Spring Glen); Sunnyside cemetery.
Sunnyside cemetery: gravemarkers
Sunnyside cemetery: gravemarkers
Document Sunnyside cemetery, including coke-oven monument to miners; Dominick Besso's shoe repair shop (exterior) and other Italian-name shop fronts in Price.
Documentation of a sign in Price and stone work in Helper
Floor planas of Columbia Steel Company Bunkhouse, Carbon County Project, 5 pages