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Utah State University student fieldwork collection, 1981-1983

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Wilson, William A.
Title
Utah State University student fieldwork collection
Dates
1981-1983 (inclusive)
Quantity
5 boxes, (2.5 linear foot)
Collection Number
UUS_FOLK COLL 8: Fieldwork
Summary
Early fieldwork projects conducted by Utah State University students in fulfillment of graded credit requirements for coursework in graduate folklore classes (1981-1983).
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions
Restrictions

Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, box number, folder number and item number. The materials do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives. Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s).

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Historical Note

The Utah State University Student Fieldwork Collection consists of 18 USU student fieldwork projects from William A. Wilson's Folklore Colloquium Course: 1981 and 1983. The collection is closed.

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Content Description

The Utah State University Student Fieldwork Collection: FIELDWORK consists of 18 projects collected by USU students in fulfillment of graded credit requirements for Folklore Colloquium course. Most items include accession sheet, release form, essay, journal, cassette-taped oral interview, tape transcription/log, and some contain photographs and/or slides. The projects are oral histories. Items are numbered by the year of the course (1981 or 1983) and an number for each student project. For example, FOLK COLL 8a: FIELDWORK 81-02, means that the item was submitted in 1981 and it is item 2 in that year. The items are stored in archival boxes. The materials do NOT circulate. Click for information on folklore collecting assignments for folklore classes, including examples.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Utah State University student fieldwork collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

USU Student Fieldwork collection, 1981-1983. (FOLK COLL 8: Fieldwork, box, no.). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Each fieldwork collection is arranged chronologically. Collections include:

  • Utah State University undergraduate student collections (FOLK COLL 8: USU)
  • Utah State University graduate student fieldwork collection (FOLK COLL 8: GRAD)
  • Utah State University student fieldwork collection (FOLK COLL 8: Fieldwork)
  • Utah State University Fife Conference student collections (FOLK COLL 8: FFC)

Acquisition Information

The Utah State University Student Fieldwork Collection: FIELDWORK is comprised of fieldwork conducted by USU students enrolled in the folklore courses taught by Professor William A. Wilson. The projects were deposited in the Fife Folklore Archives by the Professor Wilson.

Processing Note

Originally processed by Barbara [Garrett] [Walker] Lloyd and updated by Maria Walters and Randy Williams. Finding aid created by Tricia Harrison and Randy Williams, February 2006; updated by Randy Williams, May 2012.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Folklore (interview with Elaine Thatcher)
    4 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Owens, Doris

    Folk Music: Revivalist folk singing

    Dates: 1982 January 5
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-01
  • Description: A Change of Heart (inteivew with anonymous)
    4 cassette tapes. Release forms included: RESTRICTIONS

    Blake, Nikki

    Oral History: Adolescent Rebellion: Drug Culture; LDS Conversion

    Dates: 1981 May 20
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-02
  • Description: Interview with Melvin R. Ballard, Sr.
    3 cassette tapes: 1 photograph. Release forms included

    Ballard, Clark

    Oral History: M. R. Ballard, Sr.: Family

    Dates: 1981 May 25
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-03
  • Description: No Item
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-04
  • Description: Dad, Granddad and Me: Personal Experience and Family Narratives Told by Lloyd Walker
    4 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Abrams, James

    Family Folklore: Southern Utah, Cock Fighting, LDS

    Dates: 1981 June 3
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-05
  • Description: No Item
    Container: Box 1, Book 81-06
  • Description: The Hospice Movement: Interview with Carol Martinez
    2 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Olsen, Marie F.

    Hospice Program in Cache Valley, UT; Personal Narrative: Cancer

    See also FOLK COLL 50 Box 3 Folder 3; Box 4 Folder 3

    Dates: 981 April 30
    Container: Box 2, Book 81-07
  • Description: No Item
    Container: Box 2, Book 81-08
  • Description: Rosamond Hurst Melartin: Keeper of Tradition
    6 cassette tapes: 24 slides. Release forms included

    Thatcher, Elaine

    Oral History: Rosamond H. Melartin; Teaching, Childhood--Blanding, UT; Music: Songs; Customs: Games; Material Culture: Textiles

    Dates: 1981 June 3
    Container: Box 2, Book 81-09
  • Description: Biography of Venetta King Gilgen
    5 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Cannon, Marty

    Oral History: Venetta K. Gilgen: Childhood [early 1900s] and life in Cache Valley, UT

    Dates: 1981 May 8
    Container: Box 2, Book 81-10
  • Description: Bill Cunningham: Buckskinner (interview with William A. Cunningham)
    4 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Compton, John A.

    Custom: Buckskinning; Rendezvous: 18th-19th Century Weaponry, Fur Trapper

    Dates: 1981 June 1
    Container: Box 3, Book 81-11
  • Description: Iver LaVon Larsen and The Homesteading of Pocatello Valley, ID
    4 cassette tapes: 10 Pphotographs. Release forms included

    Larsen, Gregory A.

    Oral History: Iver LaVon Larsen and Garnel E. Larsen

    Dates: 1981 June 1
    Container: Box 3, Book 81-12
  • Description: Interview with Valerie Evans Atkins
    4 cassette tapes: 2 photographs. Release forms included

    Garrett, Barbara

    Oral History: Valerie E. Atkins: Childhood in Blackfoot, ID; Mormonism

    Dates: 1981 May 1
    Container: Box 3, Book 81-13
  • Description: Biography of Newel E. Munk D.D.S.: A Sketch of his Professional Life
    4 cassette tapes: 14 slides. Release forms included

    Malan, Timothy B., D.D.S.

    Occupational Folklore: Dentistry/Work Experiences in the Early 1900s

    Dates: 1981 June 2
    Container: Box 3, Book 81-14
  • Description: The Depression: An Era of Lost Innocence (intervew with Charles E. Brubaker)
    4 cassette tapes. No release forms included

    Brubaker, Robert Mike

    Oral History: Charles E. Brubaker: Childhood and School Days, Boise, ID; Depression Era: Selling Newspapers; Grandparents Ranch

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 4, Book 83-01
  • Description: What Makes the Job Interesting is Success: The Story of J. Calvert Gridley, U.S. Postal Inspector
    3 cassette tapes: 16 photographs. No release forms included

    Plucinik, Bonnie G.

    Oral History: J. Calvert "Cal" Gridley: Occupational Folklore: U.S.P.S.

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 4, Book 83-02
  • Description: Gus Ekstrom: A Man for All Ages
    4 cassette tapes. No release forms included

    Suddreth, Diana

    Oral History: Gosta Ekstrom; Depression-Era Chicago, IL; Swedish-American

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 4, Book 83-03
  • Description: Karen Matsumoto Grah: The Japanese Identity
    4 cassette tapes. Release forms included

    Eastmond, Daniel V.

    Oral History: Karen M. Grah; Family Folklore: Japanese and Japanese-American; Racism

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 4, Book 83-04
  • Description: Milo Dewey Gardner: A Celebration of the Ordinary Man
    3 cassette tapes and 2 CD duplicates of cassettes. Release forms included

    Macfarlane-Johnson, Annette R.

    Oral History: Milo Dewey Gardner: Childhood (born 1898) and life in the first 40 years of 20th Century: Deweyville, UT: Work: Farming, Cannery; Customs: Holiday and Pranks

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 5, Book 83-05
  • Description: Interview with Reed Bullen
    4 cassette tapes. No release forms included

    Taylor, Matthew J.

    Oral History: Reed Bullen: Family Life: Cache Valley, UT; Occupational Folklore: Utah State Senator, Radio Station Manager, Cable Company

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 5, Book 83-06
  • Description: Interview with Catherine Rogers
    3 cassette tapes. No release forms included

    Kathy Miller

    Oral History: Catherine Rogers: Resistance and Analysis of Culture in Cache Valley, UT; Return to and Celebration of Southern (US) Childhood

    Dates: 1983 May
    Container: Box 5, Book 83-07

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Subject Terms

  • Folklore archives--Utah.
  • Folklore--Utah.
  • Folklore--West (U.S.)

Geographical Names

  • Utah--Folklore.
  • West (U.S.)--Folklore.

Finding aid created by Tricia Harrison and Randy Williams, February 2006.
2008

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