This collection contains over 1,100 photographic images (negatives as well as framed and unframed prints) of folklorists taken by UCLA folklorist Michael Owen Jones and/or his students and colleagues. Also includes conference materials, where most of the photographs were taken.
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These materials were donated to USU Special Collections and Archives in 2022 by Michael Owen Jones.
Michael Owen Jones is an American folklorist recognized for his influential work on material culture, folk art, and vernacular creativity. He earned his Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University and in 1968 joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Folklore and Mythology program, where he spent the entirety of his career. Jones's research focused on how individuals and communities express identity and values through craftsmanship, ritual, and everyday creativity. His publications include notable studies on folk artisans, the cultural significance of handmade objects, and the nature of creativity in daily life. Jones has authored more than 200 academic works related to his study and interpretation of folk traditions and material expression.
Contains images of Melville Jacobs, Doris Marrant, David Evans, Edwin Wade, Anya Peterson Royce?, Alan Dundes and, Richard Reuss
Contains images of Marilyn White, Elsie Dunin, Karen Jabbour, Alan Jabbour, Walyland D. Hand, Linda Degh, Robert A. Georges, William Hugh Jansen, Patrik Mullen, Joyce B. Lethin, Frances Cattermole-Tally, Philip Parker, William A. Wilson, Robert D. Bethke, Richard Bauman, Bruce A. Rosenberg, and Rober D. Abrahams
Contains images of Їlhan Başgӧz, S.A. Hanna?/Nadia Atif?, Alan Dundes, Warren S. Walker?, William Divale?, Carole Henderson, Helen Weiss?, Herminia Q Menez, Elsie Dunin, and Nathan Hurwitz
Contains images of Roger D. Abrahams, Inkeri Rank, Sharon Sherman, Robert A. Georges, Albert B. Lord, Їlhan Başgӧz, Anthony Shay, J. Russel Reaver, Agnes Hostettler, Betty Forgette, Warren E. Roberts, Michael Own Jones, and W.F.H. Nicholaisen
Contains images of Robin Evanchuk, Eleanor Long, Walter L. Robbins, Vilma Matchette, Alan Dundes, Robert, A Georges, Lew Girdler, Byrd Howell Granger, and Lew Girdler, Dorothy Howard
Contains images of D.K. Wilgus, Daniel J. Crowely, Don Yoder, Kenneth Goldstein, Sharon Sherman, B.A. Botkin, Elliott Oring, William Ferris, Carol Bell, Jane D. Jones, Michael Owen Jones, Nathan Hurwitz, Michael E. Bell, J. Barre Toelken, William Koch, M. Carole Henderson, Ruth M. Boyer, D. Anita Brown, Aland Jabbour, D.K. Wilgus, Frank Hoffman, and Albert Friedman
Contains images of Kenneth Goldstein, Dan Ben-Amos, Richard M. Dorson, Frank deCaro, Alan Dundes, Albert B. Lord, Joan Rayfield, Kenneth L. Ketner, Fellix J. Oina, and Michael Own Jones
Contains images of Linda Degh, Ellen Stekert, Richard Bauman, Donald M. Hines, ronald L. Baker, Wayland D. Hand, Francis Utley, William R. Ferris, Robert Toll, James Tidwell, Donald M. Hines, Joseph Arpad, and Charles E. Welch Jr.
Contains images of Richard M. Dorson, Robert A. Georges, Linda Degh, Katherine Briggs?, Wayland D. Hand, D.K. Wilgus, Paula Ben-Amos?, Robert A. Georges, Roger Renwick, Wolfram Eberhard, Їlhan Başgӧz, Wdarren E. Roberts, Rayna Green, W.F.H. Nicholaisen, and Bill Byington
Contains images of D.K. Wilgus, Alan Jabbour, Rober Renwick, Ebby Wilgus, wife of James Porter, James Porter, J. Barre Toelken, Albert Friedman, Rayna Green, Ralph Rinzler?, Archie Green, Neil Rosenberg, Francis Lee Utley, Eleanor Long, Ellen Stekert, Anne Cohen, Frances Cattermole-Tally, and Schott Hambley
Contains images of Scott Hambley, Neil Rosenberg, Family of Robert B. Klymasz (Shirley Klymasz, Andrea Klymasz, Lara Klymsz) and Jane Jones (Wife of M.O. Jones)
Contains images of Robert J. Smith, Edna Garrido Boggs?, Paulo de Carvalho-Neto, D.K. Wilgus, Eugene E. Earle?, Norman Cohen, Archie Green, and Gurthie T. Meade?
Contains images of Frank deCaro, Kenneth Goldstein, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Robert A. Georges, Richard M. Dorson, Vilma Matchette, Warren E. Roberts, Michael Owen Jones, Ronald L. Baker, Joan Perkal, Roger D. Abrahams, Daniel J. Crowley, Alan Dundes, J. Barre Toelken, Archie Green, and Lynwood Montell
Contains images of Lynwood Montell, Katherine M. Briggs, Jane Beck, Betty Messenger, Venetia Newall, James Porter, Albert Friedman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Kennteth Goldstein, Henry Glassie, Ventia Newell, William R. Ferris, Warren E. Roberts, and Frances Lee Utley
Contains images of Daniel J. Crowley, W. Edson Richmond, Francis Lee Utley, Butler Waugh, Charles G. Zug, Bruce R. Buckley?, Warren E. Roberts, W.F.H. Nicholaisen, Rayna Green, and Richard M. Dorson
Contains images of Friends and family of Michael Owen Jones, Yvonne Lockwood, Jay Anderson, and Angie Berry?
Contains images of Jay Anderson, Roger L. Welsch, Marjorie Sackett, Jon Yoder, Lynwood Montell, Lydia Fish, Charles W. Joyner, Benjamin A. Botkin, Charles W. Joyner, Richard Reuss, Gladys-Marie Fry, and Richard A. Dorson
Contains images of D.K. Wilgus, Felix J. Oinas, Ebby Wilgus, Roger D. Abrahams, Katharine Briggs, Anne B. Cohen, Robert B. Klymasz, Antoinette Botsford, William Koch, Goria Dorson, Elli Kӧngäs-Maranda, J. Barre Toelken, Anne B. Cohen, Anthony Shay, Robert A. Georges, Yvonne Milspaw?, Roberta Evanchuk, Їlhan Başgӧz, and Frank deCaro
Contains images of Paulo de Carvalho-Neto, Vilma Matchett, Bill Byinton, Richard M. Dorson, Daniel J. Crowley, Horace P. Beck, Elsie Dunin, Robert A. Georges, Charles W. Joyner, Benjamin A. Botkin, Lynwood Montell, Warren E. Roberts, Horace P. Beck, and Jane Beck
Contains images of Alan Dundes, Richard M. Dorson, Felix Oinas, Alan Dundes, Roger Abrahams, Kenneth Goldstein, Robert A. Georges, Bruce R. Buckley?, Robert B. Klymasz, Daniel Crowley, and Paulo de Carvalho-Neto
Contains images of Ellen Stekert, Robert D. Bethke, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Richard Reuss, John Burrison, Richard M. Dorson, Shirley Klymasz, Bruce Rosenberg, Henry Glassie, Jane D. Jones, Don Yoder, Gloria Dorson, David Hufford, Robert E. Klymasz and daughter Andrea
Contains images of David Hufford, Richard Reuss, Lydia Fish, Charles W. Joyner, Benjamin A. Botkin, Lynwood Montell, Gladys-Marie Fry, Jane Beck, Horace Beck, Richard M. Dorson, Shirley Klymasz, Neil Rosenberg, John Burrison, Henry Glassie, Warren E. Roberts, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and Ellen Stekert
Contains images of Frances Gillmor?, Vilma Matchett, Peter T. Furst?, Gary Gossen, Roger Welsch, Jay Anderson, Yvonne Lockwood, Kenneth Goldstein, Jorace P. Beck, Robert A. Georges, and Gladys-Marie Fry
Contains images of David Evans, Roger Renwick, Paulo de Carvalho-Neto, D.K. Wilgus, Albert Friedman, Їlhan Başgӧz, Archie Green, Wayland D. Hand, Francis Lee Utley, Albert B. Lord, Wolfram Eberhard, Nai-Tung Ting, Hiroko Ikeda, Kenneth Goldstein, Gladys-Marie Fry, Richard M. Dorson, Vilma Matchett, Antoinette Botsford, David Evans, and Melville Jacobs
Contains images of Michael Own Jones, Robert A. Georges, Linda Degh, Wayland D. Hand, W.F.H. Nicholaisen, Sam Hinton, David Hufford, Bess Lomax Hawes, Hentry Glassie, and Frances Cattermole-Tally
Contains images of Herbert Halpert, Joan Perkal, Їlhan Başgӧz, Dan Ben-Amos, William A. Wilson, Elliott Oring, Stanley Robe, Daniel Crowley, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Robert B. Klymasz, Nathan Hurwitz, Neil V. Rosenberg, Kenneth Goldstein, Michael Own Jones, David Hufford, and William Hugh Jansen
Contains images of Alan Jabbour, Richard Bauman, Alan Dundes, Otto Sadovsky, Joseph Fontenrose, Pierre Maranda, C. Scott Littleton, Michael Own Jones, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Archie Green, James Dow, Venetia Newall, Francis Lee Utley, Stanley Robe, Dan Ben-Amos, Robert B. Klymasz, Rayna Green, Robert A. Georges, Ebby wilgus, D.K. Wilgus, Frances Cattermole-Tally, James Porter, Sharon Sherman, David Evans, Carol Bell, Karen Jabbour, William A. Georges, James Porter's wife
Contains images of Inkeri Rank, Robert A. Georges, Daniel Crowley, Paula Ben-Amos, Linda Degh, Dan Ben-Amos, Wayland D. Hand, and Richard M. Dorson
Contains images of Wayland D. Hand, Frank A. Hoffman, David Hufford, Gregory Gizelis, Don Yoder, Katharine M. Briggs, Antoinette Botsford, Betty Forgette, and Roger D. Abrahams
Contains images of Dell Skeels?, Elli Kӧngäs-Maranda, Alan Dundes, Ellen Stekert, Roger Renwick, Robert A. Georges, Michael Owen Jones, William R. Ferris, John Burrison, and Donald Smetzer
Sorted by envelope (A-P, Q-DD)
Contains images of Jo Stafford, MacEdward Leach, Wayland D. Hand, Bess Lomax Hawes, Franklin D. Murphy, Archer Taylor, DK Wilgus, Stith Thompson, Robert A. Georges, Richard A. Waterman, Sam Hinton, Charles Seeger, Ed Cray, Herbert halpert, Paul G. Brewster, Richard Dorson, Felix Oinas, W. Edson, Carl-Herman Tillhagen, Michael Owen Jones, Dr. med. Ingjald Reichborn-Kjennerud, Henrie Glassie
Contains images of Mary Lou Ward, Magda Ferl, Eleanor Long, Donald J. Ward, Judith Haut, Elliott Oring, Barre Toelken, Tom Johnson, William A. (Bert) Wilson, Steve Stern, Jay Mechling, Arthur Gribben, Shelley Adler, Lin C. Humphrey, George W. Rich, Theodore C. Humphrey, Steven Swann Jones, Norine Dresser, Sarah E. Newton, Daniel J. Crowley, Frances Cattermole-Tally, Genevieve Giuliano, Mary Georges, Sue Samuelson, Hector Lee, Savid Scofield Wilson, Pack Carnes, Donna Reid
The majority of these materials relate to Dr. D.K. Wilgus.