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In 1991, the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society selected Utah State University as the official repository for its papers. The decision to place the AFS papers at USU was based in part on the university's central location to major U.S. folklore programs, the national reputation of the school's own folklore program, and the library's commitment to maintaining and providing access to the collection. The Society's collection, dating from 1890, continues to receive regular additions from current AFS officers and section heads. The AFS collection is divided into two parts: a manuscript collection (MSS COLL 206) and a published collection containing the Journal of American Folklore and the AFS book series (FOLK COLL 18).
American Folklore Society records, 1890-2011. (COLL MSS 206). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
by Shalom D. Staub
The American Folklore Society is a scholarly association that exists to further the discipline of folklore studies. The society was founded in Boston in 1888 by such luminaries as Francis James Child, William Wells Newell, Daniel Garrison Brinton, and Franz Boas, with its principal emphasis directed toward the publication of a scientific journal and the convening of an annual meeting.
Generations of scholarly theories and approaches are reflected in the society's publications, revealing the sometimes partisan leanings of its members toward folklore as literature or folklore as a subfield of anthropology. The Journal of American Folklore (JAF) has been published quarterly since 1888. It includes articles, notes, and commentaries; reviews of publications, films and videotapes, audio recordings, and exhibitions and events; and obituaries. The Centennial Index (1988; vol. 101, no 402 of JAF) provides a serial listing of all Journal entries from 1888 to 1988, with author, title, and subject indexes.
Additional publications of the society include a Memoir Series of book-length monographs (1894-1975), a Bibliographical and Special Series (1950-1978), and a New Series (1980-). Titles in the New Series, judged by a publications series editor and outside readers to be outstanding in the field, are issued with the imprimatur of the American Folklore Society through various university presses.
The American Folklore Society Newsletter has been published bimonthly since 1971. This publication carries official news and reports of the society's business, as well as a wide range of information relevant to the field generally. Regular features include listings of academic meetings, publication news, job notices, grant announcements, a cooperation column, prizes, and information on electronic media. Special features include columns on computer applications in folklore study, career opportunities, the status of funding for folklore in federal agencies, and folklore studies outside the United States. The preliminary program of each year's annual meeting is published in the August issue of the Newsletter.
In recent years, the society has moved beyond the early dichotomy between literary and anthropological folklorists working in academic settings and those working in the public sector, a term broadly applied to folklorists. It provides a common forum for folklorists working in nonacademic positions such as federal, state, and local government agencies (such as arts or humanities funding agencies) or private non-profit organizations (such as museums or historical organizations). The need to bridge the academic and public sectors has prompted the society to sponsor an annual public-sector internship for a graduate student to gain experience working in a public-sector agency and a public-folklorist-in-residence program, which places experienced public folklorists in an academic setting to pursue individual research and interact with faculty and students. The residency program was developed in cooperation with Indiana University's Folklore Institute. Subsequent partners for this residency program have been Utah State University and Western Kentucky University.
The society's annual meeting takes place in October in cities throughout the continental United States and occasionally Canada. The five-day gathering offers panels, forums and workshops, film and video screenings, book exhibitions, special events, and tours of folklorist interest. The society offers several prizes to honor outstanding work in African American folklore studies, public folklore, and Francophone folklore studies. Additionally, sections of the AFS, which are interest groups of society members, offer separate prizes. In 1995, there were approximately thirty such sections, addressing folklore genres (such as dance, folk arts, folk belief, folk narrative, foodways, and music), folklore of particular folk groups (such as African, American Indian, Baltic, British, Catholic, children, gay and lesbian, Italian, Jewish, Latino, occupational, and women), and professional issues (such as computer applications, graduate students, journals, social justice, and public programs). Sections meet at the annual meeting. Many of them sponsor sessions, offer prizes, and issue newsletters or journals of their own. Several sections maintain electronic bulletin boards, as does the society itself, available via a gopher at the University of Texas-Pan American.
The American Folklore Society is governed by an executive board composed of nine members plus the president and the president-elect, as set forth in the society's by-laws. An executive secretary-treasurer is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the society's business. The society's papers and records are archived at Utah State University's Library, Special Collections Division. These archives are indexed and are accessible for research.
Additional information about the society can be obtained by contacting the American Folklore Society, 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203.
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Correspondence, memorandums, financial records, membership records, meeting agendas, conferences, notes, questionnaires, surveys, election records, bylaws, applications, grants, committee records, and affiliate records generated by the administrative offices of the American Folklore Society. Records will be transferred continually to this archive from the AFS offices as they become inactive. The materials are divided into series according to function. The series within this archive include Historical Records, Secretary/Treasurer, Presidents Papers, Affiliates, Centennial Coordinating Committee, Philadelphia Folklore Project, Committees, Constitution, Executive Board, Meetings, Publications, Misc. Publications, and Sections. These series are further divided into sub-series. The archive spans the years 1890 to 2017.
Fife Folklore Archives (FOLK COLL 18).
Organized into the following series: I. Historical records; II. Secretary/Treasurer; III. President's papers; IV. Affiliates; V. Centennial Coordinating Committee; VI. Philadelphia Folklore Project; VII. Committees; VIII. Constitution; IX. Executive Board; X. Financial records; XI. Meetings; XII. Publications; XIII. Misc. Publications; XIV. Sections. These series are further divided into sub-series.
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General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list; notes and ballads collected by Charles Peabody
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; ballads collected by Anna David Richardson (Mrs. Hilary G. Richardson) in Clarksburg, West Virginia
Correspondence to Charles Peabody
General society business; correspondence; 2 sheets of music to ballads collected by Anna Davis Richardson
General society business; correspondence; information concerning The EmergencySociety in Aid of European Science and Art; German and Austrian subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; Report on the International Exchange Service
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence, Secretary's Report
General society business; correspondence; annual reports; annual meeting program
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence; Cambridge Branch members list
General society business; correspondence; Boston Branch members list; annual meeting; program and information; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence; Canadian members list; Cambridge Branch members list
General society business; correspondence; annual meeting information; annual AFS reports; Boston Branch members list
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list; Cambridge Branch members list
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list; annual AFS reports; list of names and addresses
General society business; correspondence; German subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; assorted information on Volume 44 of the AFS Journal; Missouri Branch members list
General society business; correspondence; copy of "Moro and Pagan Legends of Mindanao"; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Cambridge Branch members list; many subscription cancellations
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS reports; information on the demise of the Boston Branch
General society business; correspondence; German subscribers list; Canadian subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; AFS member list; Canadian subscribers list; Cambridge Branch subscribers list
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; list of AFS presidents; "Dividing the Cheese" manuscript
General society business; correspondence; Cambridge Branch subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; several membership applications
General society business; correspondence; Cambridge Branch subscribers list
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Canadian members list
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; notice of Cambridge Branch disbanding
General society business; correspondence; tentative AFS 50th anniversary program; Expense Report
General society business; correspondence; new honorary members list; new members list
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Expense Report
General society business; correspondence; bank statements
General society business; correspondence; Secretary's Report
General society business; correspondence; Expense Report; bank statements
General society business; correspondence; list of members in arrears; Treasurer's Report, digest of the annual meeting
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; AFS Council Meeting Report; book catalog
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Editor's Expense Report
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General society business; correspondence; Expense Report
General society business; correspondence; list of AFS members
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Hoosier Folklore Society information
General society business; correspondence; Canadian members list
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General society business; correspondence; annual meeting program; American Anthropological Association (AAA) constitution
General society business; correspondence; Elsie Clews Parsons' last will and testament notice of probate
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General society business; correspondence; information on Elsie Clews Parsons' estate
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General society business; correspondence; argumentative letters between Davidson and Voegelin and Reichard; letter reestablishing peace between Davidson and Reichard
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General society business; correspondence; comment on Boas' death; Treasurer's Report; Editor's Report; draft of an AFS announcement
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; information on Elsie Clews Parsons' estate; Michigan Folklore Society members list
General society business; correspondence; information on Elsie Clews Parsons' estate
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; information on Elsie Clews Parsons' estate
General society business; correspondence; references to paper shortages
General society business; correspondence; "Book Publisher's Report of Paper Use"
General society business; correspondence; notice concerning paper use restrictions; AFS Council meeting notes; Mexico members list
General society business; correspondence; Council meeting notes of 1943; Nominating Committee Report; copyright certification of Embree's Japanese Peasant Songs
General society business; correspondence; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) membership; paper consumption information from the War Dept; newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; information from the War Production Board
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; information on Elsie Clews Parsons' estate
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; S. Bayard's notes on Adams' "Gallows Songs"
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; proposal for a folk arts center
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; North Carolina Folklore Society information
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General society business; correspondence; New Jersey Folklore Society information
General society business; correspondence; New York Folklore Society information
General society business; correspondence; New York Folklore Society information
General society business; correspondence; tentative annual meeting program/schedule
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General society business; correspondence; Committee on Research in Folklore report; Hoosier Folklore Society information; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; ACLS meeting information; "Report of the Conference of Secretaries"
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; California Folklore Society information
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting notes--reprints; ACLS financial statement; pamphlet concerning the Folklore Institute of America meeting
General society business; correspondence; by-laws of the ACLS; AFS constitution
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General society business; correspondence; notes from a special ACLS meeting
General society business; correspondence; ACLS notes and information
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General society business; correspondence; information concerning the Russian Translation Project; ACLS meeting notes
General society business; correspondence; Report of the Nominating Committee, annual AFS meeting program
ACLS reports, annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; ACLS information; music to the "Choctaw Song"
General society business; correspondence; prospective members list
General society business; correspondence; new subscribers list; American Anthropological Association constitution and by-laws
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; "Constitution Island Annual Report and Yearbook"
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General society business; correspondence; International Commission on Folk Arts and Folklore information; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence; list of printed materials for Occupied Areas
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting agenda; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting programs
General society business; UNESCO Report; printing report
General society business; annual AFS reports
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Fulbright Act information; ACLS meeting notes
General society business; correspondence; ACLS meeting notes; Treasurer's and Secretary's Reports for 1947
General society business; correspondence; Conference Board of Associated Research Councils meeting notes; ACLS members list
General society business; correspondence; printing order; "National Commission News"; copyright claim for An Analysis of Coeur D'Alene Indian Myths
General society business; correspondence; ACLS meeting notes
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Fulbright Program information
General society business; correspondence; CIER Handbook supplement
General society business; correspondence; Department of the Army "Statement for Printed Materials in Occupied Areas"
General Society Business, correspondence, Dept. of Army Statement for printed materials in occupied areas
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; printing order; ARC meeting notes
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; "National Commission News"
General society business; correspondence; U.S. Book Exchange Plan information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; "National Commission News"
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General society business; correspondence; International Folk Music Conference report
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General society business; correspondence; music and lyrics to "The Cruel Mother," "Willie Taylor," and "The Farmer's Curst Wife"
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; printing order
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General society business; correspondence; list of proposed honorary AFS members
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting programs
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General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; American Documentation Institute information
General society business; correspondence; Canadian subscribers list
General society business; correspondence; list of potential honorary AFS members
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; Midcentury International Folklore Conference agenda and list of foreign scholars to be considered
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; tentative agenda for annual AFS meeting
General society business; correspondence; questionnaire concerning Folksongs; music and lyrics to "Holland Handkerchief"
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; annual meeting program for the AAA
General society business; correspondence; corrections list for the Laws manuscript; memo on book production cost
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting programs
General society business; correspondence; committee listings; drafts of annual AFS reports; printing order
General society business; correspondence; Library of Congress guide for publishers; advertisements; Indiana University Folklore Bulletin; Elsie Clews Parsons' estate information
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information; Library of Congress Information Bulletin; North Carolina members list
General society business; correspondence; mailing list for Russian Epic Studies
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Ohio College Association and Allied Societies; meeting program
General society business; correspondence; Indiana University Folklore Bulletin; list of AFS committees
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; ACLS memo concerning printing
General society business; correspondence; Midcentury International Folklore Conference tentative plan
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; Burl Ives music collection information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; ACLS meeting notes
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; AFS Policy Committee Report; list of Russian subscribers
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting program; catalog of rare books; Policy Committee Report; list of council members to be nominated
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; program for the National Folk Festival
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; African music catalog
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; music and lyrics to "I Can't Forget You Sweetheart"
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
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General society business; correspondence; AFS committees and appointments list
General society business; correspondence; printing order
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; reprint of annual AFS meeting notes; program for the Texas and New Mexico meeting
General society business; correspondence; music and lyrics to an anonymous song
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; lithoprinting guide
General society business; correspondence; remarks on committees
General society business; correspondence; AFS/Texas Folklore Society meeting program; American Historical Association information and report
General society business; correspondence; AFS history; International Union of Anthropological and Etiological Sciences information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; master order list
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; National Folk Festival information
General society business; correspondence; AFS/Mississippi Valley Historical Assn/Kentucky Folklore Society meeting program; master order list
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General society business; correspondence; information/programs - annual AFS meeting
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS reports; questionnaire concerning folklore courses
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Jo Stafford Fellowship information
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General society business; correspondence; ACLS information
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS meeting program
General society business; correspondence; "Problems of Periodical Storage in Libraries"; Inter-American Folklore Exhibition information
General society business; correspondence; annual AFS reports; AFS Council agenda; Jo Stafford Award information
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Executive Committee information
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; master order list
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General society business; correspondence; master order list
General society business; correspondence; AFS members list; review copy list for A Bibliography of Jazz
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; contents list vol 68, no 270, of the Journal of American Folklore
General society business; correspondence; California Folklore Society members list
General society business; correspondence; list additional California Folklore Soc. members
General society business; correspondence
General society business; correspondence; list additional California Folklore Soc. members
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; AFS letter to all members
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Subscriber/Agent listings
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General society business; correspondence; AFS regional meeting information
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General society business; correspondence; Nominating Committee election results
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship information
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General society business; correspondence; information concerning the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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General society business; correspondence; Eusebia Simpson Hunkins' manuscript and music for "Music as Source of Thematic Material in Composition"
General society business; correspondence
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General society business; correspondence; biography of Benjamin Botkin
General society business; correspondence; Canadian Folk Music Society information
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Purchase vouchers
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General society business; correspondence; discussion of Library of World Folktales
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General society business; correspondence; ballots for an amendment to AFS Constitution
General society business; correspondence; list of available AFS journal issues
invoices, bills
blank checks
Divided into 8+ sub-series, named for each of the secretary/treasurers of the organization. The series will be added to as each secretary/treasurer relinquishes his/her papers to the archive. [Note: Timothy Lloyd became Executive Director in 2001, replacing the position previously known as Secretary-Treasurer.]
brief resumes of nominees for office
correspondence NFFA minutes
correspondence about Goldstein's resignation
(Sam Henry collection)
Folklorist residence Indiana University
Drafts and correspondence
Correspondence and reports
Statements from SmithBarney
correspondence and balance sheets
correspondence
correspondence and reports
correspondence
Programs and abstracts
correspondence
correspondence and AFS Historical Records Index-draft
and archive agreement
Biographical sketches, ballot materials, and ballot count
Ballot materials and ballot count
correspondence and public law
Correspondence
correspondence
correspondence, bylaws, platform statements, and ballot
correspondence
project application
correspondence
questionnaires and correspondence
AFS-USU Public Folklorist Residency: correspondence
correspondence
Correspondence and minutes
Correspondence, minutes, agendas, budget information, and bylaws
Correspondence and minutes
Divided into sub-series under each president.
Bulk of letters to/from Richard M. Dorson and Tristram P. Coffin
(includes complaints over appointment of Skip Gates)
This series is divided into thirty-one individual affiliate sub-series. These records were separated from the Secretary/Treasurers files.
This box contains the following for AAA: correspondence 1974-1976, 1982-1986, 1988-1993; report of the Executive Board, 1974; Constitution and by-laws of AAA; reports on examination 1971,1974; Statement of Ethics, 1978; Articles of Incorporation, 1978; and correspondence with Lucille Horn 1980-1985 and Edward Lehman 1976-1981. The files listed were taken from the secretary/treasurer files of Richard Bauman, David Hufford, Charles Camp, Timothy Lloyd, and Shalom Staub.
This box includes the following for AAUP: 1940 "Statement of Principles"; reprint 1974; correspondence; and a list of censured administrators. The files cover the terms of Richard Bauman, David Hufford, Charles Camp, and Timothy Lloyd.
Included in this box is one folder that includes correspondence between David J. Hufford and AAAH dated May 1979.
This box contains correspondence, reports 1961-1972, a handbook 1976-1980, and a guide for officers. These files cover the Secretary/Treasurer terms of Tristram Coffin, Kenneth Goldstein, Richard Bauman, David Hufford, and Charles Camp.
This sub-series is divided according to the files taken from terms of Secretary/Treasurers serving between 1963 and 1993.
This box contains correspondence regarding the Canada Folk Music Society and the United States Folk Music Council taken from the files of MacEdward Leach. (Fld. 1)
Included in this sub-series is correspondence taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein (Fld 2).
This sub-series includes the records of Richard Bauman and David Hufford. The files include the Statement for proposed American Folklife Preservation Act, H.R. 8770, senator statements on 8770, Congressional Records, NEH correspondence, memorandums, correspondence, House bill 11188, Library of Congress correspondence, trustee nominations, and Re-authorization: correspondence and files. (Flds 3-8)
Contains correspondence taken from the files of David Hufford (Fld 9).
Includes correspondence and a list of scholars taken from the files of Richard Bauman (Fld 10).
Features correspondence taken from the files of Tristram Coffin (Fld 11).
Includes the by-laws of the affiliate taken from the files of David Hufford (Fld 12).
Comprises correspondence from the files of Kenneth Goldstein form 1970-1971 (Fld 13).
Consists of correspondence and programs taken from the files of Tristram Coffin, Kenneth Goldstein, and David Hufford (Flds 14-17).
Includes correspondence, bulletins, duties, grants, and information sheets. This information was taken from the files of the Executive Board.
Taken from the files of MacEdward Leach (Fld 1).
Taken from the files of Richard Bauman and David Hufford (Flds 2-5).
Taken from the files of Richard Bauman (Fld 6).
Taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein (Fld 7).
Information during the period of 1987-1991. Taken from the files of David Hufford and Timothy Lloyd and Shalom Staub (Flds 8-11).
Information covering the period of 1964-1965. Taken from the files of Tristram Coffin and Kenneth Goldstein (Flds 12-14).
Taken from the files of David Hufford (Fld 15).
Information covering the period 1976-1980. Taken from the files of David Hufford (Flds 16-17).
Information taken from the files of David Hufford and covering 1979 (Fld 18).
Includes information taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein and covers 1970 (Fld 1).
Consists of information from 1957 to 1959 and 1970 to 1972 taken from the files of MacEdward Leach and Kenneth Goldstein (Flds 2-3).
Information covering 1966-1967 and taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein (Fld 4).
Comprises information from the files of Kenneth Goldstein and covers 1967 (Fld 5).
Information taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein and Tristram Coffin (Flds 6-7)
Consists of information taken from the files of Tristram Coffin, Richard Bauman, and David Hufford (Flds 8-10).
Taken from the files of Kenneth Goldstein.
Divided into three sub-series according to the file source.
Included in this box is information dealing with the Centennial project.
Divided into nine sub-series according to file source.
Files relating to the formation and revision of the AFS constitution. Divided into four sub-series.
(Goldstein 1966-1972)
(Goldstein 1966-1972)
(Hufford 1977-1981)
(Hufford 1977-1981)
(Hufford 1977-1981)
(Coffin, Goldstein, Bauman).
(Bauman and Hufford).
(Hufford).
(Camp).
(Camp).
(Lloyd).
(Lloyd).
(Leach 1943-1960).
(Coffin).
(Coffin).
(Coffin).
(Coffin).
(Coffin 1962-1965, Goldstein 1966-1972).
Bell Telephone (Goldstein 1966-1972)
(Bauman 1973-1976 and Hufford 1977-1981).
petty cash account (Camp 1982-1986)
(Lloyd).
(files of Dan Ben-Amos)
Divided into four sub-series: JAF editors papers, JAF book review editors, names dropped from the mailing list, and Secretary/Treasurers.
Editors
Contains book review correspondence.
Contains book review correspondence and reviewer response cards.
Contains reviewer response cards and AFS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas materials
Correspondence, estimate, bibliographies, inventory records, reprints, abstracts, advertisements, folklore
Bids, orders, subscriptions, copyrights, folklore, correspondence
Correspondence, invoices, reprints, editor, orders, folklore
Abstracts, folklore, reprints, index, royalties, complaints, price changes, special issues, correspondence
Series, folklife, copyrights, correspondence
Copyright, correspondence, Folktales
Publication series, royalties, supplements, correspondence, press orders, press sales
Correspondence 1968-1971, University of Texas Press records
Correspondence, records, notes
Book list, proposals, correspondence, policies, supplements, committee files, questionnaires, folklore, University of Pennsylvania/ University of Texas correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence, editor search, folklore
Correspondence and files
Newsletter vols. 16 and 17, correspondence
Divided into six sub-series: Abstracts of Folklore Studies, American Folklore Society Annual Reports, Membership Directories, Publications, Bibliographies, and Email News Bulletins.
(donated by Rosan Jordan)
Divided into eleven sub-series including each subject section and secretary/treasurer files.
Folklore Feminists Communication [name changed from FFC to FWC (Folklore Women's Communication) in 1978, but changed back to FFC in 1994.]
(donated by Judith McCulloh-files gathered while editor)