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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.
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.
USU Student Fieldwork collection, 1981-1983. (FOLK COLL 8: Fieldwork, box, no.). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Each fieldwork collection is arranged chronologically. Collections include:
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.
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.
Owens, Doris
Folk Music: Revivalist folk singing
Blake, Nikki
Oral History: Adolescent Rebellion: Drug Culture; LDS Conversion
Ballard, Clark
Oral History: M. R. Ballard, Sr.: Family
Abrams, James
Family Folklore: Southern Utah, Cock Fighting, LDS
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
Thatcher, Elaine
Oral History: Rosamond H. Melartin; Teaching, Childhood--Blanding, UT; Music: Songs; Customs: Games; Material Culture: Textiles
Cannon, Marty
Oral History: Venetta K. Gilgen: Childhood [early 1900s] and life in Cache Valley, UT
Compton, John A.
Custom: Buckskinning; Rendezvous: 18th-19th Century Weaponry, Fur Trapper
Larsen, Gregory A.
Oral History: Iver LaVon Larsen and Garnel E. Larsen
Garrett, Barbara
Oral History: Valerie E. Atkins: Childhood in Blackfoot, ID; Mormonism
Malan, Timothy B., D.D.S.
Occupational Folklore: Dentistry/Work Experiences in the Early 1900s
Brubaker, Robert Mike
Oral History: Charles E. Brubaker: Childhood and School Days, Boise, ID; Depression Era: Selling Newspapers; Grandparents Ranch
Plucinik, Bonnie G.
Oral History: J. Calvert "Cal" Gridley: Occupational Folklore: U.S.P.S.
Suddreth, Diana
Oral History: Gosta Ekstrom; Depression-Era Chicago, IL; Swedish-American
Eastmond, Daniel V.
Oral History: Karen M. Grah; Family Folklore: Japanese and Japanese-American; Racism
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
Taylor, Matthew J.
Oral History: Reed Bullen: Family Life: Cache Valley, UT; Occupational Folklore: Utah State Senator, Radio Station Manager, Cable Company
Kathy Miller
Oral History: Catherine Rogers: Resistance and Analysis of Culture in Cache Valley, UT; Return to and Celebration of Southern (US) Childhood